AFRICA Bloomberg Quint: Old Scourges Revived in Africa as the Pandemic Drains Resources (Bax/Sguazzin, 6/2). New Humanitarian: Return pressure builds as COVID-19 hits South Sudan displacement camps (Craze/Pendle, 6/1). Quartz: Africa After Covid-19 (Multiple authors, 6/1). Reuters: South Africa loosens lockdown in economic recovery effort (Cox et al., 6/1). VOA:…

BBC: Tropical Storm Amanda: At least 14 dead in El Salvador (6/1). Devex: Q&A: Combating stigma of needle stick injuries among health care workers in Kenya (Politzer, 6/2). Devex: Q&A: New U.N. guidelines target ‘out of whack’ food systems (Welsh, 6/2). The Guardian: Risk of infection could double if 2-meter…

White House: Joint Statement From the United States of America and the Federative Republic of Brazil Regarding Health Cooperation This joint statement from the U.S. and Brazil discusses health cooperation between the two countries and notes, “The American and Brazilian people stand in solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus.…

AFRICA Global Press Journal: Defying Uganda’s Ban, Motorcycle Taxis Remain Lifeline for Patients (Segawa/Agiresaasi, 5/31). The Guardian: African nations fail to find coronavirus quarantine escapees (Burke/Chingono, 5/31). PRI: Coronavirus exposes Sudan’s broken health care system (Gikandi, 5/29). Reuters: Some medics say they are muzzled in Egypt’s coronavirus response (5/29). ASIA…

Bloomberg Law: After Finding a Virus Vaccine, the Challenge Is Making Enough (Bauman, 5/28). Devex: Q&A: How innovation can help end hunger (Welsh, 5/29). Financial Times: WHO reviews China-based news anchor’s global ambassador role (Nilsson/Yang, 5/28). Foreign Affairs: The Next Pandemic: Why the World Was Not Prepared for COVID-19 (5/28).…

Brookings: What makes the World Bank so influential — its money or its ideas? Bradley Parks, executive director of AidData and nonresident fellow with the Center for Global Development, and colleagues (5/19). Devpolicy Blog: Collaborating for menstrual health rights in the Pacific Chelsea Huggett, technical lead for equality and inclusion…

AFRICA The Guardian: Surge in deaths in North Darfur raises fears of disastrous Covid-19 outbreak (Ahmed, 5/29). New Humanitarian: Six ways COVID-19 is changing South Africa (Oliver, 5/28). ASIA Al Jazeera: Hundreds of children in Pakistan’s Sindh infected with COVID-19 (5/29). New York Times: ‘It’s Too Late’: In Sprawling Indonesia,…

AFRICA Devex: Strengthening Africa’s ability to ‘decode’ the coronavirus (Jerving, 5/28). DW: Coronavirus hampers Africa’s fight against malaria, TB (Cascais, 5/27). The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Obstacles to COVID-19 control in east Africa (Nakkazi, 6/1). Reuters: Africa hit by sustained community spread of coronavirus: disease centre (Paravicini, 5/28). Reuters: ‘No masks,…

Devex: Senate bill latest in efforts to revamp U.S. global health security “…[Sen. James Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee], a Republican from Idaho, on Friday introduced the Global Health Security and Diplomacy Act of 2020, which is co-sponsored by Democrats Sen. Chris Murphy and Sen. Ben Cardin.…

CNN: Latin America is now the ‘epicenter of the outbreak,’ says health official “Latin America has surpassed Europe and the United States in the daily number of reported Covid-19 infections, the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Tuesday, putting the region at the center of the global…