NK News: North Korea could face major tuberculosis medication shortage, NGO warns “North Korea could face a shortage of medication needed to treat drug-susceptible tuberculosis (TB) medication, the Eugene Bell Foundation NGO warned on Thursday, urging South Koreans to play a more active role in providing humanitarian aid to the…

CIDRAP News: WHO: Insecure Ebola hot spots pose resurgence risk elsewhere “In its weekly detailed analysis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) said another week of low case numbers is promising, but it worries that the remaining hot spots are in…

Borgen Magazine: A New XDR Medicine Could Save Lives (Hwang, 10/16). CNBC Africa: Improving health outcomes in Africa (Awoniyi, 10/16). The Guardian: Did a ‘white savior’s’ evangelical zeal take a deadly turn in Uganda? (Mwesigwa/Beaumont, 10/17). Homeland Preparedness News: Scientists decode immune response of Ebola vaccine (Galford, 10/16). Miami Herald:…

WHO: Hope restored in the Kingdom of Eswatini as tuberculosis incidence reduced by more than half “…Once labeled the country with the world’s highest TB incidence, the Kingdom [of Eswatini] has turned the tide and reduced the scourge by more than half. … In 2011, the Government of Eswatini declared…

CIDRAP News: Butembo treatment center cleared of Ebola patients in DRC “For the first time since September 2018, the Butembo Ebola treatment center is clear of the deadly virus, as the last two patients still being treated were just released, according to the Twitter feed of Ibrahima Soce Fall, MD,…

CNN: Climate crisis raises risk of more Ebola outbreaks “The climate crisis is going to raise the risk that Ebola will spread farther and reach areas previously unaffected by the virus, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The study found that the climate crisis will…

Foreign Policy: The Presidential Candidates Are Ignoring the World’s Biggest Looming Threat Matthew M. Kavanagh, visiting professor of law at Georgetown University and director of the Global Health Policy and Governance Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law “Whoever sits in the Oval Office come January…

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders: Ebola outbreak threatens fragile local health system in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo This post by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders addresses the impacts of Ebola and the outbreak response on the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) health care system. The post states, “[T]he health…

AFP: Second Ebola vaccine to be used in DR Congo next month “Doctors will use a second Ebola vaccine from November in three eastern provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo to fight the deadly virus, medical officials said Sunday…” (10/13). CIDRAP News: As Ebola cases climb, launch of 2nd…

U.N. News: Ebola on the run in DR Congo, ‘now we have to kill the virus’: U.N. health agency “Efforts to eradicate the deadly Ebola epidemic in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are proving successful but ‘now we have to kill the virus,’ the U.N. health agency said…