Bloomberg: The Vaccines That Could Use a Shot in the Arm Clara Ferreira Marques, Bloomberg Opinion columnist (12/12). Devex: Opinion: How investments in health can help defeat malaria and COVID-19 Kevin Murphy, president of ExxonMobil Foundation and manager of corporate citizenship and global community investments for Exxon Mobil Corporation (12/11)…

AP: Siberians fight the pandemic by giving weary doctors a lift (Alexeyeva, 12/8). AP: Merkel backs tougher virus curbs as German deaths hit record (Moulson et al., 12/9). Borgen Magazine: COVID-19 Showing the Importance of Agricultural Market Resiliency (Friborg, 12/6). Devex: The man behind Africa’s COVID-19 response (Jerving, 12/9). Devex:…

ABC News: Experts are homing in on an influenza vaccine that could last a lifetime (Afrahimi, 12/7). Al Jazeera: Bangladesh moves Rohingya to remote island (Ghani, 12/7). AP: Yemen ‘on edge of precipice’ as UNICEF launches aid appeal (Federman, 12/7). AP: ‘Nobody knows’: Experts baffled by mystery illness in India…

WHO: Bulletin of the World Health Organization The December 2020 WHO Bulletin features articles on various global health topics, including an editorial on the social, cultural, and economic aspects of antimicrobial resistance; a news article on ensuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines; and a research article on lessons from a…

BMJ Opinion: Strengthening pandemic preparedness and response begins with answering the question: where are the women? Clare Wenham, assistant professor of global health policy at the London School of Economics (LSE), and colleagues (11/20). Think Global Health: Tackling the World’s Most Vexing Diseases Through Data Lauren A. Do, research assistant…

CIDRAP News: Wellcome calls for more focused antimicrobial resistance agenda “…[W]hile there’s been a lot of talk about AMR in the ensuing years [since the United Nations (U.N.) high-level meeting on AMR in 2016], there hasn’t been as much action. And even before the COVID-19 pandemic became the biggest public…

The Conversation: Millions of people are on treatment for HIV: why are so many still dying? Gilles van Cutsem, honorary research associate with the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research at the University of Cape Town (11/17). Devex: Opinion: Demonstrating leadership for racial equality in development Victoria Cooper, senior…

Pew Charitable Trust: New Bill Aims to Jump-Start Development of Urgently Needed Antibiotics Wes Kim, senior officer for the Antibiotic Resistance Project, discusses the Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions to End Up Surging Resistance Act of 2020, also known as the PASTEUR Act, which was introduced in the Senate at the end…

AP: North Denmark in lockdown over mutated virus in mink farms “More than a quarter million Danes went into lockdown Friday in a northern region of the country where a mutated variation of the coronavirus has infected minks being farmed for their fur, leading to an order to kill millions…

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: The NTD Supply Chain Forum — Strengthening the backbone of NTD programs Ashley Souza, logistics coordinator for the NTD Support Center at the Task Force for Global Health, and colleagues “describe a unique public-private partnership that was formed to bring together supply chain expertise to overcome…