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Financial Times: Africa’s scientists learn from past epidemics to fight Covid-19 (Munshi, 4/15). New York Times: Coronavirus Tests Science’s Need for Speed Limits (Yan, 4/14). STAT: Why a decades-old TB vaccine is getting attention in the fight against Covid-19 (Branswell, 4/14).
Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has published Issue 383 of the ‘Global Fund Observer.’ The newsletter includes a commentary on the complexities of COVID-19 and the potential lasting impacts, as well as articles examining the fund’s ranking…
Forbes Africa: Attacking WHO is Unhelpful — Let’s Focus on Defeating The Virus Siddharth Chatterjee, U.N. resident coordinator in Kenya (7/23). Foreign Affairs: A Foreign Policy for the Post-Pandemic World Michael Fuchs, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (7/24). The Guardian: The world needs a ‘people’s vaccine’ for…
Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: The Fatal Consequences of COVID-19 on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Roopa Darwar, contributor to Friends of the Global Fight (7/27). PAHO: PAHO Director featured in new COVID-19 Exemplars in Global Health program (7/27). UNAIDS: Virtual meeting on the impact of…
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…
Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has published Issue 391 of the ‘Global Fund Observer.’ The newsletter includes an article on how COVAX has boosted hope for developing countries to access the COVID-19 vaccine; an article on progress…
