Agence France-Presse: 1,800 dead as malaria ‘epidemic’ rages in Burundi — U.N. (8/6). Devex: Leveraging the private sector to fill the global health funding gap (8/6). NPR: War Is The Enemy Of Breastfeeding (Brink, 8/6). Xinhua News: Confirmed dengue death toll rises to 23 in Bangladesh (8/7).

Reuters: GSK ends development of Ebola vaccine, hands work to U.S. institute “British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline is giving up its work on developing three potential vaccines against the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses, despite an ongoing Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo. … U.S. drugmakers Merck and Johnson & Johnson…

Center for Strategic & International Studies: Navigating the Labyrinth of Public-Private Engagements for Global Nutrition Amy R. Beaudreault, research fellow at CSIS’s Global Food Security Project and Global Health Policy Center, highlights her experience attending Together for Nutrition, an executive short course held last month by the Global Alliance for…

USAID: Innovation and Impact Newsletter — July 2019 The latest issue of USAID’s Innovation and Impact Newsletter features a report on attracting private capital for global health innovation; highlights a stakeholder meeting hosted by the Nigerian government to validate the country’s integrated pneumonia control strategy and action plan; and discusses…

Devex: To support global priorities, USAID doubles down on Silicon Valley ties “Bonnie Glick, deputy administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development, is no stranger to Silicon Valley. … As the agency’s private sector engagement strategy takes shape, Glick said technology will be a focus for her. It’s also…

The Guardian: Battle against tobacco epidemic is far from won, WHO report finds “The battle against the global tobacco epidemic is far from won, even as more countries adopt measures such as smoke-free environments and warnings on packaging to curb its use, a new report has revealed. The report from…

CapX: We cannot achieve universal health coverage without the private sector Jeffrey L. Sturchio, CEO at Rabin Martin and co-editor of The Road to Universal Health Coverage: Innovation, Equity and the New Health Economy, and Harald Nusser, head of Novartis Social Business and contributor to The Road to Universal Health…

CIDRAP News: Beni Ebola activity tops first wave as outbreak grows by 8 cases “A second wave of Ebola activity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Beni has now topped its first wave, and the area has become a source of spread to other areas, the…

Bloomberg: Climate Change May Draw $200 Billion Vaccine Boom, Analyst Says (Flanagan, 7/24). Financial Times: GSK market hopes boosted by two-drug HIV trial (Neville/Kuchler, 7/24). The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Highlights from the RCOG World Congress (McIntosh, August 2019). New Humanitarian: Drugs and hunger: What awaits Colombia’s newly displaced families (Sherriff,…

Reuters: Private capital as important as aid to poor countries, study says “Private capital inflows are, on average, as important now to the economies of the world’s low-income countries as foreign development assistance, according to a study published on Wednesday by the Center for Global Development. In Africa, where most…