Devex: Q&A: Reimagining development for the next era (Root, 12/15). The Guardian: Global first responders: 5 things to know about Doctors Without Borders’ Covid-19 strategy (12/14). The Guardian: ‘We could have lost her’: Zimbabwe’s children go hungry as crisis deepens (Chingono, 12/15). Homeland Preparedness News: CEPI to provide up to…

AP: Families marry off daughters to ease finances amid COVID-19 (Larson, 12/14). AP: Eswatini leader dies of virus amid new wave in South Africa (Magome, 12/14). AP: Italy surpasses U.K. for worst COVID-19 death toll in Europe (D’Emilio, 12/13). AP: COVID-19 runs unchecked in Pakistan’s overcrowded prisons (Gannon, 12/13). AP:…

UNAIDS: Fund to help key populations during COVID-19 launched “UNAIDS announces the launch of its Solidarity Fund, which will support social entrepreneurs and micro-business owned by key populations facing special hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. … To be piloted initially in five countries — Brazil, Ghana, India, Madagascar, and Uganda…

Borgen Magazine: Lack of Resources in Yemen Due to COVID-19 and Violence (Padmaraj, 11/8). Borgen Magazine: Destigmatize COVID-19 in Africa: From Nurses to Zindzi Mandela (Webb, 11/7). Borgen Magazine: The Global Oxygen Shortage During COVID-19 (Weir, 11/9). The Guardian: HIV: new diagnoses among gay and bisexual men at lowest level…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: U.S. Christian groups spent $280m fighting LGBT+ rights, abortion overseas “Right-wing U.S. groups have put more than $280 million into campaigns against LGBT+ rights and abortion worldwide since 2007, almost $90 million of which focused on Europe, according to a report on Tuesday. Many of the 28…

Human Rights Watch: Foreigners Living with HIV in Jordan Face an Impossible Choice Rasha Younes, researcher with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch (10/26). UNAIDS: COVID-19’s impact on HIV vertical transmission services reversed (10/27). UNAIDS: Key populations have suboptimal knowledge of their HIV status…

The Guardian: U.S. signs anti-abortion declaration with group of largely authoritarian governments “The U.S. has today signed an anti-abortion declaration with a group of about 30 largely illiberal or authoritarian governments, after the failure of an effort to expand the conservative coalition. The ‘Geneva Consensus Declaration’ calls on states to…

AP: Francis becomes 1st pope to endorse same-sex civil unions (Winfield, 10/21). Devex: Delivering on the promise of UHC for mothers in the COVID-19 era and beyond (10/22). Devex: Experts call for ‘deeper data’ on women’s realities at U.N. World Data Forum (Cornish, 10/22). Devex: When the price of water…

The Telegraph: Funding for HIV prevention within the world’s most marginalized communities ‘woefully inadequate’ “Funding to help prevent new HIV infections within the world’s most marginalized communities is ‘way off track,’ a landmark study has found. Key populations — which include gay and bisexual men, transgender people, sex workers, and…

Foreign Policy: Trump Officials Seek to Push Social Conservative Values in International Agreements “In the past four years, the Trump administration has taken this battle to international organizations on an unprecedented scale, going further than past Republican administrations to try to stamp out references to sexual and reproductive health, family…