CIDRAP News: Maternal Zika infection tied to poor development in 32% of tots (Roos, 7/9). CIDRAP News: Data show MERS cases, deaths on decline since 2016 (Soucheray, 7/9). Devex: What does the commitment to green U.K. aid mean in practice? (Root, 7/10). The Guardian: Device could bring both solar power…

Borgen Magazine: The Pneumococcal Vaccine Price Drop (Halliburton, 7/1). Financial Times: Brazil reports burst of dengue fever cases (Harris, 7/2). The Guardian: Fifty years of HIV: how close are we to a cure? (Siddons/Graham, 7/2). The Lancet HIV: Russia considers legislation to tackle rising AIDS denialism (Holt, July 2019).

Al Jazeera: In Honduras, women fight for access to the morning-after pill (Brigida, 6/30). CIDRAP News: Study: Viruses cause most global pediatric pneumonia (Soucheray, 6/28). Devex: Tackling vision impairment within displaced communities (Ravelo, 6/26). Forbes: North Korea Has Two Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Nukes And Tuberculosis (Fisher, 6/30). Health Policy…

The Guardian: Sierra Leone faces legal challenge over ban on pregnant schoolgirls (Maclean, 6/27). The Guardian: Congo abuses drive global rise in sexual violence against women (Austin, 6/28). Healio: RSV leading cause of pediatric pneumonia cases in Africa, Asia (Bortz, 6/27). The Lancet: New scorecard reveals Africa’s hepatitis cost (Makoni,…

Bloomberg: China’s Increasing Wealth Is Changing the Way People Die “Chronic illnesses like stroke, heart problems, and lung cancer became the top causes of premature death in China over the last three decades, according to a new study showing health trends that increasingly resemble the U.S. and other advanced nations.…

ABC: ‘We need more money’: Fight to eradicate AIDS, malaria, and TB rages on (Kelly, 6/20). Associated Press: U.N. health agency to remove controversial opioid guidelines (Galofaro, 6/19). BBC News: Why are women declining this surgery? (Bryce/Udobang, 6/19). CIDRAP News: Urban wildlife may add to antibiotic resistance threat (Soucheray, 6/19).…

STAT: The last pandemic was a ‘quiet killer.’ Ten years after swine flu, no one can predict the next one “…[A] decade onward, the experience of H1N1 is a reminder that it’s impossible to know from the get-go how a pandemic will play out. Science currently has no way to…

Health Affairs Blog: Seasonal Influenza Vaccination: A Tool To Advance Epidemic And Pandemic Preparedness In Low- and Middle-Income Countries Joseph Bresee, associate director of global health affairs at the CDC’s Influenza Division, director of the Partnership for Influenza Vaccine Introduction (PIVI), and lead for the Global Funders Consortium for Universal…

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Secretary Azar Meets with the Pasteur Institute “[On] May 18, 2019, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar participated in a meeting with the Pasteur Institute. … [Officials] discussed the history of the Pasteur Institute and the continued collaboration between the Institute and…

Bloomberg Businessweek: How Booming Population Is Challenging Africa (Cohen et al., 5/17). Cour d’Alene Press: Advocates Hope for Idaho Support for Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Coles, 5/16). Devex: Q&A: How to change isolationist attitudes for SDG progress (Root, 5/16). The Guardian: Wellcome Trust investing £80m in…