Scientific American: Social and Environmental Change Drives a World of Newly Emerged Infections ” ‘In an unchanging world, you don’t see a lot of emerging disease,’ epidemiologist William Karesh told Scientific American contributor Lois Parshley during her reporting for this special section, The Future of Medicine 2018. The world, of…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: Modeling tool tells when pairing responses to “big three” and neglected diseases is a win-win Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” highlights a report published April 12 in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases examining a web-based platform to help predict the success of integrated disease…

Reuters: Malawi can eradicate HIV infections says U.S. doctor who discovered AIDS virus “Malawi … is on course to eradicate the virus, Jay Levy who co-discovered the AIDS virus 35 years ago said. … [In a lecture at College of Medicine in Blantyre,] Levy cited the Malawian government’s efforts in…

EURACTIV: Whose aid is it anyway? (Fox, 4/18). Financial Times: How close are we to defeating malaria? (Symon/Jack, 4/18). Global Health NOW: Opiophobia and High Costs: Untangling the Barriers to Palliative Care (Sutherland, 4/17). The Guardian: From cattle herder to big pharma expert: one man’s fight to end malaria –…

U.S. News & World Report: In South Africa, Charity Begins at Home “…[There are] deepening fears here [in South Africa] that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will follow through on its goals to cut back U.S. financial support … [for] PEPFAR — the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief…

Devex: Commonwealth Summit launches in London amid concerns over LGBTQ rights, jobs “Leaders from the 53 countries that make up the British Commonwealth arrived in London Monday for the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, where they convened 5,000 participants from a range of sectors, including government officials, members of…

Financial Times: FT Health: Combating Malaria “The extraordinary biological complexity of malaria may be a scientific challenge but it presents medical researchers with many potential opportunities to stop the disease in its tracks. But will they do so in time?” This special report includes 12 articles on various aspects of…

ABC’s RN Breakfast: Flesh-eating ulcer found in Africa is spreading rapidly in Australia, and reaching epidemic proportions in regions of Victoria “…The Buruli ulcer is a rare tropical disease caused by bacteria related to leprosy and tuberculosis. This flesh-eating ulcer is commonly found in Africa but it’s rapidly spreading in…

Agence France-Presse/Medical Xpress: Novartis to inject $100 mn into malaria drug research (4/17). Associated Press: Nobel laureate blasts East Timor’s failure against poverty (Raimundos, 4/17). BBC News: ‘Malaria killed my daughter, I’m protecting others now’ (Smith, 4/17). CNN: Malaria parasites present in 23% of donor blood in some African countries,…

Brookings Institution’s “TechTank”: How profitable are HIV drugs? Jake Schneider, research assistant, and Darrell West, vice president and director of governance studies and founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation, both at the Brookings Institution, discuss findings from their newly released report examining the estimated potential returns to private investors in…