The Guardian: Girls at risk of child marriage as half of local authorities fail to keep records (Summers, 5/18). Science: Long-acting injectable drug prevents HIV infections (Cohen, 5/18). The Telegraph: Health workers under attack: 200 incidents globally linked to pandemic (Rigby/Smith, 5/15). U.S. News & World Report: WHO Releases Brief…

U.S. Embassy in Nepal: U.S. Government Delivers Emergency Shipment of Anti-retroviral (ARV) Medicine “On Wednesday, May 13, Nepal received a shipment of much needed Anti-retroviral (ARV) medicine that has been in short supply since March. These medicines will ensure continuity of care for 18,628 people living with HIV (PLHIV) in…

Brookings: In developing countries, communities and primary care providers — not hospitals — hold the key to successful pandemic response Nachiket Mor, visiting scientist with the Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (5/14). Center for Global Development: The IMF’s Growth Forecasts for Poor Countries Don’t Match Its COVID Narrative…

Devex: Opinion: Now is the time to prioritize mental health Kirsten Gelsdorf, professor of practice and director of global humanitarian policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and colleagues (5/15). Financial Times: Health systems worldwide receive wake-up call Brooke Masters, opinion and analysis editor at the Financial…

U.N. News: COVID-19 threatens to undo global health progress “While more people are living longer and healthier lives, the rate of progress is too slow to realize global efforts to stamp out poverty and inequality by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. WHO’s latest World Health Statistics…

Der Spiegel: Other Diseases Are Spreading in the Shadow of COVID-19 (Backhaus et al., 5/13). DW: Coronavirus: COVID-19 shouldn’t make us forget other major infectious diseases (Schmidt, 5/13). The Guardian: Covid-19 crisis raises hopes of end to U.K. transmission of HIV (Segalov, 5/14). IPS: Former Child Bride Holds Pakistan to…

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…

U.N. News: U.N. issues ‘wake-up call’: Don’t sideline AIDS response during COVID-19 crisis “… ‘There is a risk that the hard-earned gains of the AIDS response will be sacrificed to the fight against COVID-19, but the right to health means that no one disease should be fought at the expense…

Devex: Data around COVID-19 is a mess and here’s why that matters (Cornish et al., 5/11). Devex: How aid implementers can avoid a post-coronavirus accounting fiasco (Igoe, 5/11). New York Times: How Pandemics End (Kolata, 5/10). Science: Lethal levels of heat and humidity are gripping global ‘hot spots’ sooner than…

Science Speaks: Make adolescent and youth reproductive health programs responsive to needs with better data Bridgit Adamou, technical adviser for family planning with MEASURE Evaluation (5/5). Treatment Action Group: TAGline May 2020: Realizing the Right to Science (Multiple Authors, May 2020). World Economic Forum: Here’s how cancer can be tackled through…