AP: Argentina hits 1 million cases as virus slams Latin America (Deluca et al., 10/20). AP: South Africa’s health minister gets COVID-19, as cases rise (Magome/Meldrum, 10/19). AP: Belgium fears virus ‘tsunami’ as COVID-19 cases keep soaring (Petrequin, 10/19). Borgen Magazine: The Philippines’ Birth Practices Facilitate Maternal and Infant Mortality…

Reuters: Pandemic Puts Global Progress Against Tuberculosis at Risk: WHO “The COVID-19 pandemic is derailing global efforts to tackle tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease, with cases likely to rise without urgent action and investment, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. The WHO’s annual TB report found…

Devex: 1.8M people could die from tuberculosis in 2020: WHO “Last month, global deaths from the coronavirus pandemic reached over 1 million. Disruptions caused by the pandemic could also lead to more deaths from other diseases, such as tuberculosis. An estimated 1.8 million people could die from tuberculosis in 2020…

Africa Centers for Disease Control: US$100 million Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative to boost disease surveillance and emergency response capacity in Africa “[On Monday], a group of public, private, and non-profit organizations, led by the African Union Commission through the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), launched the…

AP: Trump official says vaccine expected starting in January (Mendoza/Linderman, 10/9). BBC News: BCG: Can a vaccine from 1921 save lives from Covid-19? (Gallagher, 10/11). CNN: China is doubling down in the global push for a coronavirus vaccine (Gan, 10/9). The Guardian: U.S. won’t rely on U.K. for Covid vaccine…

BMJ Opinion: Tuberculosis patients need better mental health support, especially in the time of covid-19 Debshree Lokhande, architect and XXDR-TB survivor and fellow at Survivors Against TB, and Diptendu Bhattacharya, educationist and MDR-TB survivor and fellow at Survivors Against TB (10/9). PLOS Medicine’s “Speaking of Medicine”: Mental health for all:…

AP: U.K. hit by new virus test failing, finds 16,000 extra cases (Pylas, 10/5). Borgen Magazine: 10 Need to Know Facts About TB in Developing Countries (Carter, 10/5). CNN: Nigerian scientists develop cheaper and faster Covid-19 test kits (Busari/Sunday, 10/3). CNN: The race inside Russia’s coronavirus vaccine laboratory (Ullah/Chance, 10/5).…

Al Jazeera: ‘Humanity waging war on nature’: U.N. chief (9/30). AP: Auditor general: Kenya to lose millions in COVID-19 response (Odula, 9/30). The Atlantic: This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic (Tufekci, 9/30). Devex: Partnering for health: Advancing resilient health systems (10/1). Devex: Q&A: The need for flexibility…

Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: How COVID-19 is affecting the global response to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (9/30). Global Citizen: The U.K. Is Set to Become the Largest State Donor to the WHO to Help Fight COVID-19 Helen Lock, content writer at Global Citizen (9/30).…

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has published Issue 387 of the ‘Global Fund Observer.’ The newsletter includes an article on two recently released reports by the Global Fund and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation addressing the HIV,…