Bloomberg Technology: Gates Sees Vaccine Technology Promise as Drug Resistance Rises (Patton, 4/18). Devex: Q&A: Gates experts on how to beat malaria with data (Cheney, 4/20). The Lancet Infectious Diseases: North Korea and the Global Fund (Burki, May 2018). The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Neglected tropical diseases: securing sustainability (Sansom, May…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: Modeling tool tells when pairing responses to “big three” and neglected diseases is a win-win Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” highlights a report published April 12 in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases examining a web-based platform to help predict the success of integrated disease…

The Guardian: Drones help fight surge in deadly malaria spread by monkeys in Malaysia “Drones are being used to track monkeys deep in the Malaysian forests to understand better how the primates are passing a rare strain of malaria to humans. Malaysian Borneo has seen a surge in cases of…

California Healthline: Applying Silicon Valley Smarts To Age-Old Diseases “…The gadgets [used to detect infection with Loa loa worms], called LoaScopes, are part of a broader effort to harness technology and innovation in the U.S., including California’s Silicon Valley, to fight age-old diseases in the developing world. Over the years,…

U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: Arming Citizen Scientists With an App to Identify Zika Carriers Avery Waite, program analyst at USAID’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact, discusses an app developed to identify breeding sites for mosquitoes potentially carrying the Zika virus. Waite writes, “Funded by NASA, the app, called…

Boston Globe: BU study raises prospect of earlier diagnosis of deadly Ebola virus (Finucane, 3/28). Devex: Ending FGM/C requires individualized approaches, says Population Council (Lieberman, 3/29). Devex: Long Story Short #7: Inside the Commission on the Status of Women (Lieberman, 3/28). EURACTIV: Africa takes steps to make medicine more affordable…

Associated Press: WHO says tainted food outbreak threatens 16 African nations (3/21). The Atlantic: The Blesser’s Curse (Khazan, 3/22). CNN: Anemia doubles risk of death for pregnant women, study finds (Wu, 3/20). Deutsche Welle: International development: Poor data hold back human progress (Niranjan, 3/22). Devex: Why governments tiptoe around the…

Devex: These new maps point to the power of ‘precision public health’ “Last week, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation published two studies revealing health and education disparities on the African continent. … In an email interview, Devex asked Simon Hay, director of the Local Burden of Disease Study…

The Atlantic: Why is Nigeria Experiencing a Record-High Outbreak of Lassa Fever? (Yong, 2/28). Devex: Humanitarians struggle to deliver aid as violence spreads in CAR (Roby, 3/5). Devex: What’s the problem with WASH innovation? (Rogers, 3/5). Devex: UNICEF starts 2018 with its largest appeal yet for humanitarian action (Lieberman, 3/2).…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: How big data analytics can fuel positive societal change and development Joakim Reiter, external affairs director at Vodafone Group “…At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, the Vodafone Foundation announced a pioneering program in Ghana to use aggregated anonymized data to help the government track and…