Treatment Action Group: Tuberculosis Research Funding Trends 2005-2019 “Global funding for tuberculosis (TB) research totaled over US$900 million in 2019, the second highest level on record, according to a report released [Monday] by Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the United Nations-hosted Stop TB Partnership. The report — Tuberculosis Research Funding…

The Telegraph: Review into DRC Ebola outbreak shared with senior officials only after outbreak ended “A review into the management of a long-running outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo was not seen by some senior members of the organizations involved in the response until several months after…

AP/TIME: Don’t Hug Anybody Over the Holiday Season, the World Health Organization Says “The World Health Organization has an unwelcome but potentially life-saving message for the holiday season: Don’t hug. To stop the spread of the coronavirus, WHO’s emergencies chief said Monday that the ‘shocking’ rate of COVID-19 cases and…

Reuters: A year into COVID-19, U.N. declares a day of ‘epidemic preparedness’ “A year into a global battle against the coronavirus, the United Nations General Assembly on Monday declared Dec. 27 will be the ‘International Day of Epidemic Preparedness’ in a bid to ensure lessons are learned for any future…

U.N. News: Scientists optimistic about COVID-19 vaccines for all “Scientists developing COVID-19 vaccines are optimistic that by the end of next year, all people everywhere will have access to safe and effective treatments against a disease which has disrupted the entire planet. Principals from BioNTech and Oxford University — both…

AP: Biden picks Calif. AG Becerra to lead HHS, pandemic response “President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration’s coronavirus response. Separately, Biden picked a Harvard infectious…

AP: Health officials warn Americans not to let their guard down “With a COVID-19 vaccine perhaps just days away in the U.S., most of California headed into another lockdown Sunday because of the surging outbreak and top health officials warned Americans that this is no time to let their guard…

The Hill: Personal freedoms should not trump public health James Alwine, virologist and fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Felicia Goodrum Sterling, 2018 Public Voices fellow of the OpEd Project, professor, and virologist (12/5). The Hill: The real threat…

Think Global Health: COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call to Africa for Investing in Responsive and Resilient Health-Care Systems Tom Achoki, co-founder of Mass Sciences and the Africa Institute for Health Policy Foundation (11/30). Think Global Health: An Aging World Requires More Support for Health Systems Joseph L. Dieleman, associate professor at…

AP: In southern Madagascar, ‘nothing to feed our children’ (Bezain, 12/4). BMJ: African malaria deaths set to dwarf covid-19 fatalities as pandemic hits control efforts, WHO warns (Dyer, 12/2). CNBC: Bill Gates says we need a new federal organization and five-fold spending increase to fight climate change (Novet, 12/3). Devex:…