Bloomberg: The Swine Flu Virus in China That Has People Worried (7/3). Devex: ‘Where’s God?’: The role of faith in psychosocial support (Welsh, 7/6). Devex: Women and people with disabilities missing out on critical eye care (Root, 7/3). Financial Times: FT Series: Companies prospering in the pandemic (Multiple authors, June/July…

Devex: Opinion: Getting aid to people with disabilities in times of crisis Zacarias Zicai, Mozambique country director of global disability and development for Light for the World International (6/25). Financial Times: Fighting racism should be considered a public health issue Kwame McKenzie, chief executive of the Wellesley Institute and professor…

AP: Zimbabwe copes with diarrhea outbreak which has killed 9 (Mutsaka, 6/26). Borgen Magazine: Poor Sanitation in Kenya Leads to Water-Borne Diseases (Shusterman, 6/24). Devex: What data tells us about the state of human rights (Cornish, 6/25). Devex: Q&A: New CARE secretary-general on women and local leadership (Root, 6/25). The…

Washington Post: Bayer, maker of Roundup weedkiller, agrees to pay $10 billion in cancer settlements “German pharmaceutical and life sciences giant Bayer has agreed to pay more than $10 billion to settle tens of thousands of current and potential U.S. claims that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. The world’s largest…

Borgen Magazine: Global Vaccine Summit Unites Countries for Gavi’s Vaccination Work (Marabito, 6/23). CEO Magazine: Bill Gates: who will get a coronavirus vaccine first (Horswill, 6/24). Devex: Can women’s health clinics regain ground after ‘the most disruptive interruption’? (Lieberman, 6/24). Devex: Q&A: The role of faith-based organizations amid COVID-19 (Root,…

BBC: The virus hunter who got Covid (Mazumdar, 6/23). Devex: Q&A: How to protect health care workers from occupational exposure to hazardous drugs (6/23). Forbes: Bill And Melinda Gates Have Sharp Words For U.S.’ Lack Of Leadership Role In Fighting Pandemic (Wang, 6/23). The Guardian: ‘Divorce isn’t an option’: Afghan…

AP: LGBT refugees find a haven in Kenya despite persecution (Odula, 6/20). AP: Last batch of joint aid lands in Yemen amid U.N. funding cuts (Debre/Hyde, 6/19). Devex: COVID-19 puts a spotlight on the Medicines Patent Pool (Worley, 6/22). Devex: Q&A: U.N. envoy on building back a better food system…

BMJ Blogs: Let’s envisage a new, better normal for all non communicable diseases Jeffrey V. Lazarus, head of the health systems team at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, and vice chair of the EASL International Liver Foundation, and…

Bloomberg: HIV Boosts Coronavirus Death Risk Threefold, Data Show “People with HIV are almost three times more likely to die if they contract the coronavirus than those with no co-morbidities, irrespective of whether they are taking anti-AIDS drugs, an analysis of South African data shows…” (Sguazzin, 6/10). Devex: South Africa…

BMJ Opinion: Non-communicable diseases and covid-19: a perfect storm Nina Schwalbe, principal visiting fellow at the United Nations University International Institute of Global Health and adjunct professor in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and colleagues (6/10). Center for…