CIDRAP News: WHO: Insecure Ebola hot spots pose resurgence risk elsewhere “In its weekly detailed analysis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) said another week of low case numbers is promising, but it worries that the remaining hot spots are in…

ABC: Predicting — and preventing — future pandemics (Swan/Bullen, 10/7). AFP: Edible sensor helps TB patients take their meds: study (10/4). Al Jazeera: WHO to hold Philippines summit after polio outbreak (Alindoga, 10/7). Bloomberg: Female Leadership in Global Health (10/4). CNN: Half of India couldn’t access a toilet 5 years…

Associated Press: India’s PM says villages are open-defecation free now “India’s prime minister said Wednesday the country’s villages now all have access to toilets as his government announced another ambitious campaign aimed at eliminating single-use plastics within three years…” (Varagur, 10/2). Al Jazeera: Modi declares India open defecation free, claim…

USAID: USAID Announces Nearly $257 Million in New Humanitarian Assistance for the People of Somalia “On October 2, 2019, Diana Putman, a Deputy Assistant Administrator for Africa for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced that the U.S. Government is providing nearly $257 million in additional humanitarian assistance in…

The Telegraph: Experts cast doubt on Modi’s claims over success of sanitation mission “Experts have urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to continue his focus on improving access to toilets as he prepares to make a speech claiming that the practice of open defecation has ended in India. On October…

Global Health NOW: Safe Surgery — and UHC — Hinge on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene James C. Cobey, orthopedic surgeon, epidemiologist, and founding board member of The G4 Alliance “…While performing surgery in many developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia, I have often had to boil water first.…

Quartz India: Clean India Mission shows that flexibility is key to even poo healthy Cristina Bicchieri, SJP Harvie professor and director of Master of Behavioral & Decision Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania “…Complementing infrastructure-led investments with sustained behavioral change interventions, India has had unprecedented progress towards eliminating open defecation.…

The Guardian: Narendra Modi to face down critics by hailing Clean India scheme a success “Narendra Modi is to declare that his flagship sanitation program has ended open defecation in India, amid accusations that the scheme has sparked violence and abuse. India’s prime minister will make the announcement on Wednesday…

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: New “game-changing” financing mechanism to end cholera launched at U.N. General Assembly “The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) [Thursday] unveiled a major new initiative to combat cholera and other diarrheal…

Associated Press: Zimbabwe’s capital runs dry as taps cut off for 2M people (Mutsaka, 9/24). BBC: Can baby boxes save lives in Kenya’s slums? (Wafula, 9/25). SciDev.Net: India and China top hot spots of antimicrobial resistance in animals (Devraj, 9/24). The Telegraph: Pakistan becomes latest country to suffer severe dengue…