Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues
Agence France-Presse: Hand-in-hand, Macron and Elton John join forces on AIDS “French President Emmanuel Macron presented rock legend Elton John with France’s highest civilian honor on Friday, and urged international mobilization for one of the showman’s dearest causes: combating AIDS. … Macron called for a mass mobilization so that the…
BBC News: Overseas aid: Stewart says funding may be shifted ‘away from humans’ “Overseas aid funding may need to be shifted away from humans to the natural environment to protect the planet and reduce poverty, Rory Stewart has said. The international development secretary told MPs hard decisions would be needed…
Associated Press: German lawmakers approve compulsory measles vaccine plan “Germany’s parliament has passed a law requiring that children who attend school or daycare must be vaccinated for measles. Lawmakers approved the government’s bill Thursday with a majority of 459 in favor, 89 against, and 105 abstentions…” (11/14). New York Times:…
BBC: Dutch doctor dies after contracting Lassa fever in Sierra Leone “A Dutch doctor who was evacuated from Sierra Leone after contracting Lassa fever has died in hospital. The medic was flown home on Tuesday after being infected in the northern town of Masanga, an area not previously known to…
Center for Global Development: U.K. Elections: What’s News on Global Health So Far? Amanda Glassman, executive vice president and senior fellow; Kalipso Chalkidou, director of global health policy and senior fellow; and Nurilign Ahmed, senior policy analyst, all with the Center for Global Development, examine U.K. political party manifestos for…
Devex: Germany to push China, Gulf states on humanitarian assistance “Germany wants China and the Gulf states to shoulder more of the burden in tackling the world’s humanitarian crises, according to a top government official. ‘In order to meet the ever-increasing humanitarian needs it is necessary to widen the donor…
AFRICA Markets Insider: South Africa’s GDP plunges over 50% as COVID-19’s ‘punch in the gut’ triggers the steepest decline since 1960 (Nagarajan, 9/8). ASIA AP: ASEAN talks tackle pandemic, sea feud amid U.S.-China rivalry (Dinh et al., 9/9). UPI: North Korea’s silence on pandemic arouses skepticism in South (Shim, 9/9).…
ASIA AP: Volunteers feed COVID-19 patients, doctors in Nepal hospital (Gurubacharya, 9/10). AP: Asia Today: India has record spike of 95K new virus cases (9/10). EUROPE Financial Times: U.K. considering new rapid-result Covid tests for up to 10m people a day (Pickard et al., 9/10). LATIN AMERICA Devex: Returning Venezuelans…
The Telegraph: Call for more U.K. aid to go on basic health services in world’s poorest countries “The U.K. government is being urged to spend more aid money on basic health services in the world’s poorest countries as charities fear that vital goals such as reducing child and maternal mortality…
AFRICA Al Jazeera: TV replaces teachers for African children amid coronavirus curbs (9/15). BBC News: Coronavirus in Africa: Explaining the bogus ‘viral blockers’ worn by some politicians (Adegoke, 9/15). Borgen Magazine: COVID-19 in Liberia: Learning From the Ebola Virus (Wallace, 9/16). Xinhua: WHO’s COVID-19 health supplies reach Libya (9/16). ASIA…
