FT Health: Foreign aid and the threat to multilateralism The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses an analysis from the Center for Global Development on the effectiveness of U.K. aid, features a chart on worldwide measles cases, and provides a round-up of global health-related news…

New Humanitarian: What Brexit means for U.K. NGOs and foreign aid “Brexit throws up a lot of questions for the U.K.’s role in international relief. Will British NGOs have to shrink once cut off from E.U. funding? How might the U.K. pool its aid funding with the E.U. if it’s…

The Telegraph: World watches as U.K. announces it will drop key childhood vaccine to two doses “The U.K. is set to become the first country in the world to cut a key childhood vaccine from three to two doses in a move that experts hope will encourage poorer countries to…

Center for Global Development: How Effective Is U.K. Aid? Assessing the Last 8 Years of Spending Ian Mitchell, co-director of Development Cooperation in Europe and senior policy fellow at CGD, and Arthur Baker, research assistant at CGD, highlight their new policy paper analyzing the Independent Commission on Aid Impact’s (ICAI)…

The Guardian: Europe at risk from spread of tropical insect-borne diseases “Insect-borne diseases such as dengue fever, leishmaniasis, and encephalitis are on the rise and are now threatening to spread into many areas of Europe, scientists have warned. Outbreaks of these illnesses are increasing because of climate change and the…

Devex: Opinion: New approaches needed for new health threats Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, and Peter Eriksson, Swedish minister for international development cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs “…This week in Stockholm, the Swedish government and WHO are convening the first WHO Partners Forum, to foster…

The Guardian: Penny Mordaunt says U.K. will defend abortion rights amid global pushback “Britain’s international development secretary has promised to stand firm in her support for abortion rights in the face of growing opposition. Speaking at an event hosted by the Canadian embassy on Monday, Penny Mordaunt said: ‘Leadership means…

Devex: DFID’s share of U.K. aid rises — but it’s not all good news “Aid groups have welcomed the news that the U.K. Department for International Development increased its share of the aid budget for the first time in five years in 2018, as new figures were released Thursday –…

USAID: The United States Pre-Positions Humanitarian Assistance in Curaçao to Help Venezuelans in Need “[On Wednesday], the United States is pre-positioning humanitarian relief supplies in Curaçao, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to help people affected by the political and economic crisis in Venezuela. The collapse of…

Newsweek: Juan Guaidó: This is Not About Trump, Maduro or Me — This is About the People of Venezuela Juan Guaidó, interim president of Venezuela and president of the National Assembly of Venezuela “…Maduro’s dictatorship has been a tragedy for Venezuela. … Over the last several years, Venezuela has also…