UNAIDS: UNAIDS is hopeful that a new long-acting HIV prevention option will soon become available for women in sub-Saharan Africa (7/28). UNICEF: A third of the world’s children poisoned by lead, new groundbreaking analysis says (7/29). Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: At the Intersection of…

AFRICA Reuters: Gambia VP tests positive for coronavirus, president self-isolating (Saine, 7/29). Xinhua: Roundup: COVID-19, desert locust exacerbate food insecurity in E. Africa: U.N. (7/29). ASIA AP: Asia Today: Masks mandatory as cases rise in Australia state (7/19). AP: U.N. urges SE Asia to build back better from COVID-19 crisis…

AFRICA Wall Street Journal: Coronavirus and Ebola Together Test a Beleaguered Congo (Bariyo, 7/29). Washington Post: With drastically smaller hajj, Somalia’s livestock industry goes from ‘boom to doom’ (Faruk/Bearak, 7/28). Xinhua: Ethiopia’s COVID-19 cases pass 15,000 mark (7/29). ASIA Financial Times: Over half of Mumbai slum dwellers have had Covid-19,…

Bloomberg Law: Democrats Seek GAO Probe of Gilead’s Covid Treatment Remdesivir “U.S. House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney and Sen. Debbie Stabenow ask the Government Accountability Office to investigate the discovery and development of Gilead’s remdesivir…” (Chipman, 7/28). STAT: Lawmakers urge congressional watchdog to probe U.S. government’s role in discovering…

Financial Times: U.K. strikes deal for 60m Covid-19 vaccine doses with Sanofi and GSK “The U.K. has agreed to buy up to 60m doses of a vaccine being developed by Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline if the companies are able to prove its efficacy against Covid-19 in clinical trials to start in…

Reuters: WHO says COVID-19 pandemic is ‘one big wave,’ not seasonal “A World Health Organization official on Tuesday described the COVID-19 pandemic as ‘one big wave’ and warned against complacency in the northern hemisphere summer since the infection does not share influenza’s tendency to follow seasons…” (Farge, 7/28). U.N. News:…

The Guardian: Measles vaccination disruptions due to coronavirus put 80 million children at risk “Tens of millions of children around the world have been denied life-saving vaccines against measles in both rich and poor countries due to Covid-19 disruptions, with fears of further outbreaks this year. Since March, routine childhood…

Devex: How to reach children with disabilities during school closures Guy le Fanu, global technical lead for education at Sightsavers (7/28). Newsweek: Global Health Security Needs New Thinking David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former U.K. Foreign Secretary, and Jonas Gahr Store, leader of the Norwegian Labour…

CSIS: Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Anthony Fauci on America’s Runaway Crisis During an online event hosted by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, spoke with Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy…

U.N. News: We must all accept hard choices if we’re to beat COVID-19, urges WHO “Governments everywhere should adopt a much more focused approach to stopping coronavirus transmission if they want to avoid having to impose sweeping lockdowns once again. That’s the message on Monday from the World Health Organization,…