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CDC’s “CDC Around the World”: World Malaria Day 2020 The latest issue of CDC’s “Around the World” newsletter recognizes World Malaria Day, which takes place annually on April 25 (April 2020). President’s Malaria Initiative: 2020 PMI Fourteenth Annual Report “The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative’s (PMI’s) Fourteenth Annual Report to Congress…
KFF: The President’s Malaria Initiative and Other U.S. Government Global Malaria Efforts This fact sheet provides a snapshot of global malaria efforts and examines the U.S. government’s role in addressing malaria worldwide, including current programs, funding, and key issues (4/24).
AFRICA Global Press Journal: As Coronavirus Bears Down, Zimbabwe’s HIV Crisis Worsens (Masiyiwa, 4/26). The Guardian: ‘It’s just beginning here’: Africa turns to testing as pandemic grips the continent (Burke, 4/26). VOA: COVID-19 Frightens Malaria Patients in Cameroon (Kindzeka, 4/25). VOA: As Militaries Enforce Coronavirus Quarantine, Experts Warn of Escalating…
The Guardian: Pandemic could ‘turn back the clock’ 20 years on malaria deaths, warns WHO “Deaths from malaria could double across sub-Saharan Africa this year if work to prevent the disease is disrupted by Covid-19, the World Health Organization has warned. The U.N.’s global health agency said that if countries…
STAT: Why was an obscure federal bureaucrat involved in Trump’s emergency hydroxychloroquine authorization? “Rick Bright, a bureaucrat at an obscure federal agency, burst onto the political stage this week with allegations that the Trump White House put politics ahead of science to advance an untested malaria drug as a coronavirus…
Financial Times: FT Health: Combating Malaria In this special report, the Financial Times examines “[h]ow the fight against coronavirus could set back malaria progress by 20 years; lockdown and drug ‘hijack’ fears in India; a childhood malaria sufferer turned medical scientist on why Africa needs treatments that fit,” and more…
Malaria No More: World Malaria Day: In the Face of COVID-19, Urgent Opportunity to Save Lives from Malaria and Protect Health Capacity (4/23). World Health Organization: WHO urges countries to move quickly to save lives from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa (4/23). World Health Organization: The potential impact of health service…
AFRICA The Guardian: Zimbabwe faces malaria outbreak as it locks down to counter coronavirus (Chingono, 4/21). Washington Post: South Africa is hunting down coronavirus with thousands of health workers (Mogotsi/Bearak, 4/21). ASIA Devex: COVID-19 halts Northern Triangle migration, but deportations continue (Welsh, 4/21). New Humanitarian: Bracing for the coronavirus in…
AP: Coronavirus could erode global fight against other diseases “…As the world focuses on the [novel coronavirus] pandemic, experts fear losing ground in the long fight against other infectious diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis, and cholera that kill millions every year. Also at risk are decadeslong efforts that allowed the World…
CIDRAP News: Study finds evidence of COVID-19 in air, on hospital surfaces (Beusekom, 4/13). Devex: How is COVID-19 affecting malaria programs? (Ravelo, 4/15). Devex: Australian NGOs start campaigning for international COVID-19 support (Cornish, 4/15). Devex: A virtual pledging conference? Venezuela could be first (Welsh, 4/15). The Guardian: Food rations to…