Apolitical: Women show their worth in the Covid-19 crisis. They deserve more than applause Roopa Dhatt, co-founder and executive director of Women in Global Health (5/12). BMJ Opinion: Covid-19: Pandemic exposes inequalities in global food systems Jacqui Wise, freelance medical journalist (5/12). Brookings: The coronavirus is a siren for the…

Devex: COVID-19 will push 130 million into poverty by 2030, U.N. report shows “Global economic losses will likely cause an estimated 34.3 million additional people to fall below the extreme poverty line in 2020, derailing shaky progress on the 2030 development agenda, a new U.N. report on the world economic…

KFF: Global Funding Across U.S. COVID-19 Supplemental Funding Bills The U.S. thus far has enacted four emergency supplemental funding bills to address the COVID-19 pandemic. While most of the funding in these bills has been for the domestic response, approximately $3.2 billion has been appropriated for global efforts, provided in…

AFRICA AP: Burundi kicks out top WHO official in country ahead of vote (Ssuuna/Anna, 5/14). AP: Lesotho becomes last African nation to confirm a virus case (Moyo, 5/13). The Guardian: Lesotho records first coronavirus case a week after lifting lockdown (Charumbira, 5/13). PRI: Coronavirus — and locusts — threaten Kenya’s…

The Observers/France 24: Peruvian hospitals hit by double crisis of Covid-19 and dengue fever “Hospitals in Iquitos, Peru, had already been locked in a months-long struggle against a dengue fever epidemic when Covid-19 hit. The hospitals have been in a dire state since mid-April — an estimated 80% of the…

BMJ Opinion: Patients in Pakistan are actively participating in relief activities during the covid-19 pandemic Hussain Jafri, vice chair of the Advisory Group of the WHO PFPS program (5/12). Center for Global Development: The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Disrupted and Suspended Health Services Lydia Regan, research assistant, and Y-Ling…

Devex: The effort to prioritize gender-based violence in U.N. pandemic response “…At the United Nations, gender has been mainstreamed within the COVID-19 response, [Åsa Regnér, deputy executive director at U.N. Women,] argued. The organization has been able to build on lessons from previous crises — especially the Ebola and Zika…

Newsweek: Exclusive: As China Hoarded Medical Supplies, The CIA Believes It Tried To Stop The WHO From Sounding The Alarm On The Pandemic “The CIA believes China tried to prevent the World Health Organization from sounding the alarm on the coronavirus outbreak in January — a time when Beijing was…

KFF: Global Funding Across U.S. COVID-19 Supplemental Funding Bills The U.S. thus far has enacted four emergency supplemental funding bills to address the COVID-19 pandemic. While most of the funding in these bills has been for the domestic response, approximately $3.2 billion has been appropriated for global efforts, provided in…

Borgen Magazine: Emergency Funding for COVID-19 Needed on a Global Scale Sara Olk, writer for the Borgen Project (5/11). Center for Global Development: Economic Perspectives in Latin America: Navigating the Great Lockdown Alejandro Fiorito, research assistant at CGD (5/11). Center for Global Development: The Economic Impact of COVID-19 around the…