U.N. News: U.N. chief highlights need for decent jobs to fuel COVID-19 recovery “More than 50 Heads of State and government, alongside global employers’ and trade union leaders, have been taking part in an online discussion on Wednesday looking at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world of…

AFRICA AP: COVID-19 pandemic in Africa is now reaching ‘full speed’ (Anna, 7/9). CNN: Africa’s battle against Covid-19 will be won or lost here (McKenzie/Swails, 7/6). Pulitzer Center: COVID’s Darkest Effects: How the Pandemic May Fuel Child Trafficking in Ghana (Leadholm, 7/8). ASIA AP: Philippines virus cases soar past 50,000…

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: AIDS-Free Generation Z This new report from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) urges action for improving youth-focused HIV programming (7/8).

Brookings Institution’s “Future Development”: The next transparency challenge for U.S. aid agencies: Moving from publication to engagement George Ingram, senior fellow for Global Economy and Development at Brookings, and Sally Paxton, U.S. representative for Publish What You Fund (7/7). Health Affairs: Increases In Women’s Political Representation Associated With Reductions In…

American Academy of Pediatrics: COVID-19 Planning Considerations: Guidance for School Re-entry (6/25). Global Polio Eradication Initiative: Polio eradication expertise backs Africa’s COVID-19 response (7/6). Think Global Health: Mothers, Children, and the Terrible Choice Between COVID-19 and Other Infections Chip Lyons, president and CEO of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation,…

Devex: Confronting missed targets, HIV/AIDS experts emphasize drug delivery “The conversation at AIDS 2020 is focusing not just on developing new technologies to fight HIV/AIDS — but also ensuring the tools that already exist realize their potential for impact. As the world falls short of 2020 targets for progress on…

AFRICA AP: Africa’s confirmed COVID-19 cases now above a half-million (Anna, 7/8). AP: Zimbabwe’s health minister fired over COVID-19 graft scandal (Mutsaka, 7/7). BBC News: Coronavirus: Kenyan schools to remain closed until 2021 (7/7). New Humanitarian: In Burkina Faso, violence and COVID-19 push children out of school and into harm’s…

The Telegraph: Aftershock of Covid-19 forces millions of children into begging, child labor and early marriages “As incomes plummet and jobs are lost en masse in the wake of coronavirus, millions of children are being forced into begging, child labour and early marriages, a report has found. World Vision, a…

AFRICA AP: Egypt arrests doctors, silences critics over virus outbreak (7/6). AP: Zimbabwe nurses protest; South Africa reopens some classes (Mutsaka/Magome, 7/6). The BMJ: Covid-19: No large hidden outbreak in Africa but health worker shortage worsens (Dyer, 7/3). ASIA AP: Australia to shut state border as Melbourne infections surge (Brownbill/McGuirk,…

Bloomberg: Green Investing Tool Launched by Funds With $1 Trillion of Assets (Munsterman, 7/6). Devex: African Union needs more country support to launch the African Medicines Agency (Jerving, 7/7). New York Times: Can an Algorithm Predict the Pandemic’s Next Moves? (Carey, 7/2). NPR: Aerosols, Droplets, Fomites: What We Know About…