Bloomberg: Ebola Eludes Drug Testing Once More as Outbreak Tapers Off (Fourcade/Kresge, 7/19). Devex: In South Africa, ATM pharmacies help fill a massive shortfall (Fallon, 7/20). The Lancet: Changes to dolutegravir policy in several African countries (Nakkazi, 7/21). SciDev.Net: Brazil suspects leprosy spreads through armadillos (de Oliveira Andrade, 7/19). Science:…

CIDRAP News: Uganda reports Rift Valley fever outbreak (Schnirring, 7/17). Health24: Motsoaledi blames lack of sex ed in schools after latest HIV figures (Sehoai, 7/18). HuffPost: Where Shoes Are A Luxury, A Nightmarish Disease May Be Lurking (Gardner, 7/17). IRIN: In Conversation With: George Okoth-Obbo, head of operations at the…

Los Angeles Times: Health emergency declared in northern Brazil after measles outbreak (Langlois, 7/16). New York Times: Now in Sight: Success Against an Infection That Blinds (McNeil, 7/16). Reuters: Mass radio campaign saves thousands of child lives in Africa (Kelland, 7/16). Science: ‘Frightening’ drug-resistant strain of typhoid spreads in Pakistan…

SciDev.Net: Global science body promises to reach poor regions (Tatalović, 7/6). STAT: A case study in the fast-rising threat of antibiotic resistance (Branswell, 7/6). Xinhua News: More than 1,000 Filipinos infected with leptospirosis this year: health secretary (7/7). Xinhua News: Kenya pledges new investments to eradicate micro-nutrients deficiency (7/6).

Task Force for Global Health: New Treatment Strategy May Accelerate Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis “A promising new treatment strategy to accelerate elimination of the disfiguring neglected tropical disease lymphatic filariasis (LF) is expected to roll out later this year in Kenya — and possibly, three other countries — due to…

Chicago Council on Global Affairs: Guest Commentary — Hidden Infections Deplete Girls’ Education Momentum and Undercut Economic Growth for All Madeleine Nicholson, intern at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, discusses the importance of access to quality education for girls and the role of poor health in preventing girls and…

Devex: In the Kasai crisis response, a priority on local health services (Jerving, 6/22). The Economist: How Sierra Leone is beating tropical diseases (6/23). The Guardian: China: new rules to prevent sex-selective abortions raise fears (Kuo, 6/22). The Guardian: Médecins Sans Frontières staff accused of using sex workers in Africa…

The Lancet Global Health: New global strategic plan to eliminate dog-mediated rabies by 2030 Ren Minghui of the WHO, Matthew Stone of the World Organisation for Animal Health, Maria Helena Semedo of the FAO, and Louis Nel of the Global Alliance for Rabies Control “…Until recently, the global response to…

New York Times: The Man Who (Almost) Wiped Out the Guinea Worms “Dr. Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben’s days on the front lines of the guinea-worm wars often end with a dinner of what he calls ‘poulet à la bicyclette’ — chicken so lean and muscular that it could ride in the Tour…

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…