Al Jazeera: There are coronavirus solutions for resource-poor countries, too Fawzia Rasheed, program and policy analyst, board member of BRAC, and senior adviser to the director of health of the Aga Khan Development Network; Mushtaque Chowdhury, professor of population and family health at Columbia University and founding Dean of the BRAC…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: World leaders warn coronavirus could roll back progress for women “Coronavirus is threatening to undo recent gains made toward gender equality as millions of women and girls are predicted to have unwanted pregnancies and fall into poverty, world leaders said on Thursday. A ‘wake-up call’ is needed…

Bloomberg: Global Leaders Call on U.N., Governments to Thwart Health-Care Hackers (Sebenius, 5/26). BMJ: Covid-19: Public health must be ‘at the core’ of global recovery plans, say doctors (Iacobucci, 5/25). Devex: Q&A: WFP redesigns programs for ‘marathon’ COVID-19 response (Lieberman, 5/26). Devex: How COVID-19 and climate are encouraging islands to…

Bloomberg: The More Covid-19 Vaccines, the Merrier Faye Flam, Bloomberg Opinion columnist (5/26). Bloomberg: The Pandemic Is Exposing the Limits of Science Ferdinando Giugliano, columnist at Bloomberg View and economics columnist for La Repubblica (5/25). The Conversation: Lockdown and flooding raise the risk of a spike in mosquito-borne diseases in…

POLITICO: How coronavirus is changing access to abortion “As the coronavirus steamrolls the global order, reproductive health care practitioners and advocates are struggling to maintain access to contraception and abortions. Lockdowns and disrupted supply chains have prompted a flurry of action in the sector as governments, practitioners, and advocates react…

BMJ: Ethical road map through the covid-19 pandemic Zoe Fritz, Wellcome fellow in society and ethics, and colleagues (5/21). CNN: Is China the new leader on the world health stage? Michael Bociurkiw, global affairs analyst and host of the Global Impact podcast (5/20). The Conversation: The World Health Organization must…

The Guardian: U.S. demands removal of sexual health reference in U.N.’s Covid-19 response “Civil society groups have condemned calls by the Trump administration to remove references to sexual and reproductive health from the U.N. Covid-19 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). In a letter to the U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday,…

CNN: U.S. asks for abortion references to be removed from U.N. pandemic response plan “The Trump administration is urging the United Nations secretary general to remove any references to reproductive health, including abortions, from the U.N.’s humanitarian response plan to the coronavirus pandemic to ‘avoid creating controversy.’ ‘The United States…

UPI: USAID accuses U.N. of using pandemic to promote abortion “The Trump administration on Monday urged the United Nations to stop ‘promoting abortion,’ accusing it of using the coronavirus pandemic to advance access to the medical practice. In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, the U.S. Agency for International…

USAID: Acting Administrator John Barsa Letter to U.N. Secretary General Guterres In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, USAID Acting Administrator John Barsa urges the U.N. to remove references to sexual and reproductive health from the U.N. Global Humanitarian Response Plan for COVID-19 (5/18).