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SciDev.Net: New malaria mosquito threatens mass outbreaks in Africa “Africa has just months to react to an invasive malaria mosquito that thrives in cities, before the situation escalates beyond control, experts warn. Scientists predict that more than 125 million city dwellers across Africa will face a higher malaria risk from…
Al Jazeera: ‘Humanity waging war on nature’: U.N. chief (9/30). AP: Auditor general: Kenya to lose millions in COVID-19 response (Odula, 9/30). The Atlantic: This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic (Tufekci, 9/30). Devex: Partnering for health: Advancing resilient health systems (10/1). Devex: Q&A: The need for flexibility…
Devex: Opinion: How to simultaneously tackle malaria and COVID-19 Sean Callahan, president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services (4/28). Forbes: The Great Lockdown Is Saving Lives While Increasing Poverty And Hunger Globally Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, chief economics commentator at Forbes Asia and visiting scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of…
AP: First COVID-19, now mosquitoes: Bracing for bug-borne ills (Marcelo, 7/20). Cancer Health: Cancer and HIV Groups Urge Trump Not to Remove U.S. From the WHO (Straube, 7/20). Devex: U.N. forum offers ‘sobering’ vision of SDGs progress and new virtual reality (Lieberman, 7/21). Scientific American: Genes May Influence COVID-19 Risk,…
New York Times: Why Some Mosquitoes Prefer Humans “…Out of thousands of [mosquito] species, only a few like to bite humans — and even within the same species, mosquitoes from different places can have different preferences. Why do some find us irresistible, while others remain unimpressed? To answer that question,…
AP: Ethiopia returns refugees who fled Tigray fighting, to alarm (Anna, 12/11). AP: India’s pandemic recovery plan could cost air quality goals (Ghosal, 12/11). Devex: U.S. election marks return to ‘climate responsibility,’ says Paris Agreement architect (Abrahams, 12/10). Devex: Q&A: Investing now in preparation for COVID-19’s successor (12/11). Forbes: A…
African Arguments: How can countries continue to combat malaria during a pandemic? Ciku Kimeria, communication consultant at Speak up Africa (11/11). BMJ Opinion: Pharma companies must open their books on the funding agreements for covid-19 vaccines Manuel Martin, medical innovation and access policy adviser for the Médecins Sans Frontières Access…
Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Faith Leaders & Philanthropists Address COVID-19’s Threat to Malaria “Friends of the Global Fight and the J.C. Flowers Foundation held a webinar focused on how faith leaders and philanthropists are partnering with national- and community-level health authorities in sub-Saharan Africa…
