ABC News: All 5 first ladies speak out against family-separation immigration policy “All five living first ladies have weighed in on the Trump administration’s immigration policy this week, an unusual move even as Melania Trump had her spokeswoman issue a statement on it. The policy of separating children from their…

Agence France-Presse: Ultra-secure lab in Gabon equipped for Ebola studies (6/19). The Guardian: These Guatemalan women save mothers and babies. Why are they treated so badly? (Johnson, 6/20). The Guardian: The doctor from Myanmar faced with 1 million patients and a plague of rats — podcast (Lamble/Stephens, 6/20). Homeland Preparedness…

CNN: Protecting refugee children is a test of our humanity Filippo Grandi, U.N. high commissioner for refugees, and Henrietta H. Fore, executive director of UNICEF “…More than half of the world’s refugees are children. Over 173,800 refugee and asylum-seeking children are separated from their families or have been forced to…

USAID: Acting on the Call 2018: A Focus on the Journey to Self-Reliance for Preventing Child and Maternal Deaths “…The 2018 Acting on the Call report focuses on 25 countries’ journeys to self-reliance for preventing child and maternal deaths. Self-reliance is a country’s ability to finance and implement solutions to…

Intellectual Property Watch: The Myth Behind Health And Trade Agreements — Q&A With Othoman Mellouk (6/18). News Deeply: Doctors Without Borders: Undernutrition Is a Community Health Issue (Green, 6/18). Newsweek: What is Disease X? Deadly bird flu virus could be next pandemic (Andrew, 6/15). NPR: As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise,…

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…

CNN: Would-be Indian child bride fights back and helps others (Ahuja, 6/18). Devex: How family planning can help save cheetahs (Edwards, 6/18). Devex: Alarm bells sounded over new E.U. aid instrument proposals (Chadwick, 6/15). Devex: DRC bordering countries begin Ebola preparedness training (Roby, 6/15). New York Times: Video Game Addiction…

NPR: Which Countries Guarantee That New Dads Get Paid Paternity Leave? “What do China, India, South Sudan, and the United States have in common? They are among the 92 countries where there is no national policy that allow dads to take paid time off work to care for their newborns…”…

Devex: Opinion: Eliminating trachoma means more than an end to blindness Caroline Roan, vice president of corporate responsibility at Pfizer and president of the Pfizer Foundation, and Edridah Muheki Tukahebwa, assistant commissioner of health services for vector control tropical diseases and national coordinator of the NTD control program for the…

Reuters: Study confirms higher risk of dengue in kids who got Sanofi vaccine “An analysis of data on Sanofi’s dengue vaccine, which has been given to more than 800,000 school children in the Philippines, confirms it increases the risk of hospitalization and severe dengue in those who had never previously…