AP: Iran announces its virus death toll passes 30,000 (Vahdat/Gambrell, 10/17). CIDRAP News: Global study shows deadly convergence of chronic disease, COVID-19 (Van Beusekom, 10/16). Devex: Q&A: Supporting health workers through the pandemic (Castell, 10/16). Devex: Q&A: Clinton Foundation on how to ‘sustain the work’ during the pandemic (Lieberman, 10/19).…

AP: U.N. aid chief: Funding shortage cuts aid to 4 million Yemenis (Lederer, 10/15). Devex: Which bilateral donors are supporting mental health? (Smith/Cordale, 10/14). Devex: $100M genomic sequencing initiative launches in Africa (Chakamba, 10/15). STAT: Thank this Ebola-fighting African doctor for monoclonal antibody treatments (Jenson, 10/15). U.N. News: Invest in…

AP: ‘It was so abrupt’: COVID-19 upends burial rites in Cameroon (Fonyuy, 10/14). AP: Iran virus death toll hits record high, 3rd time in a week (Vahdat et al., 10/14). CNBC: Bill Gates slams U.S. on Covid: Most governments listen to their scientists, not attack them (Belvedere, 10/14). CNBC: WHO…

Devex: Opinion: Yemen needs a rescue package — before it’s too late Ali Alhajori, rapid response coordinator for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Hajjah and Hodeidah, Yemen “This is a tale of three crises. The first is the man-made war and the second is the floods. The third is COVID-19.…

Al Jazeera: Q&A: ‘We can eradicate polio from the world’ (Aziz, 10/12). AP: Asia Today: China city says it’s tested 3 million for virus (10/13). AP: E.U. nations set to adopt common travel rules amid pandemic (Petrequin, 10/12). AP: Iran shatters its single-day record for virus deaths, cases (Vahdat/DeBre, 10/12).…

Washington Post: Trump administration imposes crushing sanctions on Iran in defiance of European humanitarian concerns “The Trump administration imposed new sanctions on Iran’s financial sector Thursday in defiance of European allies who warned that the move could have devastating humanitarian consequences on a country reeling from the novel coronavirus and…

AP: U.K. hit by new virus test failing, finds 16,000 extra cases (Pylas, 10/5). Borgen Magazine: 10 Need to Know Facts About TB in Developing Countries (Carter, 10/5). CNN: Nigerian scientists develop cheaper and faster Covid-19 test kits (Busari/Sunday, 10/3). CNN: The race inside Russia’s coronavirus vaccine laboratory (Ullah/Chance, 10/5).…

AP: Uganda reports blood shortages amid coronavirus pandemic (Muhumuza/Onen, 10/5). Bloomberg: J&J CEO Gorsky Says Covid Shows Need for Global Health Security (Griffin, 10/2). BMJ: Covid-19: 120 million rapid tests pledged to low and middle income countries (Mahase, 10/2). Financial Times: With 1m dead, are we any better at treating…

Foreign Policy: When the Coronavirus Reaches the Top “…Trump is now one of many world leaders and other top officials to be infected with COVID-19 since the World Health Organization declared the virus a pandemic more than six months ago. From Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to British Prime Minister Boris…

AP: Aid group warns that 700,000 children in Syria risk hunger (Mroue, 9/29). AP: Child poverty likely to increase in E.U. amid virus pandemic (Petrequin, 9/29). Devex: More new IDPs in first half of 2020 than all of 2019 (Root, 9/29). Devex: Markets play a role in food waste and…