ABC News: Experts are homing in on an influenza vaccine that could last a lifetime (Afrahimi, 12/7). Al Jazeera: Bangladesh moves Rohingya to remote island (Ghani, 12/7). AP: Yemen ‘on edge of precipice’ as UNICEF launches aid appeal (Federman, 12/7). AP: ‘Nobody knows’: Experts baffled by mystery illness in India…

Global Health NOW: Medical Oxygen: Key to Fighting COVID-19 — and the Next Respiratory Pandemic Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention “…Medical oxygen is often a critical intervention for both pneumonia…

U.N. News: ‘Bring life to those fighting for breath,’ UNICEF urges on World Pneumonia Day “Pneumonia is not a new emergency; it takes the lives of some 800,000 children each year. But this year’s COVID-19 pandemic makes it even more critical to stop the deadly infection, the U.N. Children’s Fund…

CIDRAP News: Global COVID total passes 48 million; Greece locks down “As the global total topped 48 million, Greece became the latest country in Europe to announce a lockdown and cases surged to new single-day highs in a number of other countries in the region…” (Schnirring, 11/5). CNBC: Doctors share…

AP: Asia Today: India’s virus cases jump on New Delhi resurgence (11/5). AP: In Spain, coronavirus puts the poor at the back of the line (Parra, 11/5). AP: Coronavirus cause of Algeria president’s hospitalization (11/4). AP: Asia Today: South Korea OKs single test for COVID-19 and flu (11/4). Borgen Magazine:…

Al Jazeera: ‘Critical moment’ as Europe, N. Africa see COVID-19 surge: WHO “Governments face another ‘critical moment for action’ as coronavirus cases surge in parts of Europe and North Africa, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said in his latest briefing on the pandemic…”…

Bloomberg: Covid-Vaccine Developer in India Plans to Boost Capacity by 70% (Kay, 10/26). CNBC: AstraZeneca says its coronavirus vaccine triggers immune response among adults (Meredith, 10/26). CNN: CNN interviews chief of institute developing Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine (Pleitgen, 10/26). Financial Times: Mexico uses human trials as path to secure future…

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…

AFRICA AP: As rich nations struggle, Africa’s virus response is praised (Anna, 9/22). Thomson Reuters Foundation: Coronavirus rumors and regulations mar Burkina Faso’s malaria fight (Mednick, 9/21). ASIA Financial Times: India and Pakistan ramp up remdesivir production under Gilead deal (Findlay, 9/21). Reuters: Philippines’ Duterte eases overseas travel ban on…

Borgen Magazine: Eradicating Polio Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (Marabito, 9/20). Borgen Magazine: Pneumonia Vaccine Price Drops by 43%, Saving Millions Worldwide (Mui, 9/20). Borgen Magazine: Contact Tracing: What Developing Countries Have Shown (Daniel, 9/19). Borgen Magazine: The Rise of Midwifery in Developing Countries Amid COVID-19 (Marabito, 9/19). Thomson Reuters Foundation:…