CBS News: Medical group warns family separation policy may lead to lifetime of harm to children “As hundreds of children are being separated from their parents at the border between the United States and Mexico, pediatricians are sounding the alarm on the potential health effects and developmental damage this can…

Miami Herald: U.S. Congress to U.N.: What are you doing to compensate Haiti’s cholera victims? “More than 100 members of Congress are sounding the alarm over Haiti’s deadly cholera epidemic and the victims of the waterborne disease who are still awaiting compensation from the United Nations. … ‘We are concerned…

Agence France-Presse: After tests, WHO rules out return of polio to Venezuela “Tests carried out by the World Health Organization following a suspected case of polio in Venezuela have ruled out any return of the crippling childhood disease, the U.N. agency has said…” (6/16). CNN: Polio has not returned to…

Financial Times: Argentina’s lower house of Congress approves abortion bill “Argentina’s lower house of Congress narrowly approved a bill to decriminalize abortion on Thursday, in a move that could put the home of Pope Francis at the vanguard of a region that has some of the world’s most restrictive abortion…

Human Rights Watch: Argentina: Decriminalize Abortion “The Argentine Congress should put an end to the country’s criminalization of abortion, which undermines the fundamental rights of women and girls, Human Rights Watch said … The House of Representatives will vote on a proposal to ease abortion rules on June 13, 2018.…

Devex: Paraguay is officially malaria free “On Monday, the World Health Organization certified Paraguay as malaria free. Paraguay, which has had no reported cases of indigenous malaria since 2012, is the first country in the Americas to be granted this status in 45 years…” (Cheney, 6/11). Thomson Reuters Foundation: Paraguay…

CNN: Polio re-emerges in Venezuela nearly 30 years after eradication “A child has been diagnosed with polio in Venezuela, where the infectious viral disease has been eradicated since 1989, according to the Pan American Health Organization, a regional apparatus of the World Health Organization. The Western Hemisphere has been certified…

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s “VOICES”: Paraguay Eliminates Malaria, Sets Example for the Region Carlos Ignacio Morínigo Aguilera, Paraguay’s minister of health, discusses the nation’s elimination of malaria, writing, “[Paraguay] serves as an example for its neighboring countries. The integrated management model, which involves all actors in…

WHO: Bulletin of the World Health Organization The June 2018 WHO Bulletin includes articles on various issues, including an editorial on the role of WASH in ending cholera; a news article on using local efforts to prevent yellow fever outbreaks in Nigeria, Brazil, and globally; and a research article on…

Wellcome: Three pioneering ways to stop superbugs Ahead of a second global conference co-hosted by Wellcome “to galvanize pioneering action to stop the rise and spread of superbugs,” this post highlights efforts in Tanzania, South Africa, and Colombia to reduce antibiotic-resistant bacteria (5/30).