Guttmacher Institute: In Countering Zika, Women’s Right to Self-Determination Must Be Central Rebecca Wind, senior communications associate and divisional budget manager at the Guttmacher Institute, discusses findings from a new analysis examining women’s reproductive rights and health in light of the Zika epidemic, writing, “In Latin America and the Caribbean,…

The Hill: CDC chief to GOP: Zika funding ‘urgently needed’ “Top federal health officials want Congress to know they urgently need more money to fight the Zika virus — and that time is running out. In media interviews and briefings on Thursday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director…

CQ HealthBeat: Zika Supplemental Pressure; House Budget Waits “…House budget planners have developed a fiscal 2017 budget resolution but a vote on the measure has been deferred until next month (listen to CQ podcast on delay details). A separate fiscal 2016 supplemental spending bill seeking funds for a Zika virus…

The Hill: Clinton: Congress must approve Zika funding “Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is slamming Congress for ignoring a request from President Obama for $1.8 billion to fight the Zika virus. ‘The president asked for this funding over a month ago, but on Saturday, Congress will begin a two-week break…

Nature: Zika and birth defects: what we know and what we don’t “…Researchers are piling up evidence at record speed. But much of the epidemiological data from Brazil is poor, largely because a problem was only suspected months after the virus had spread through large parts of the country, and…

News outlets report on a WHO update on the Zika situation. The Guardian: WHO: Zika virus ‘implicated’ in large numbers of brain-damaged babies “Zika virus is now ‘implicated’ in the large numbers of brain-damaged babies in Brazil and the increase in the nerve disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome, according to experts at…

Devex: Zika response — a chance to address gaps in women’s rights Giselle Carino, regional director for the Western Hemisphere at the International Planned Parenthood Federation “…[T]he [Zika] epidemic has highlighted two key failures of governments in the [Latin America and the Caribbean] region: a lack of investment in sexuality…

PolitiFact: Clinton: U.S. Congress hasn’t ‘allocated one penny’ to fight Zika “Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stepped into the Zika funding debate and chastised Congress for failing to step up to the plate. … [T]o settle one piece of this fact-check, in terms of committing new dollars explicitly to combat…

New Scientist: Dear Google, please help us use our data to beat dengue and Zika “…[Steven Barnes, who lives in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur,] has created an app called Fight Dengue that tells users if anyone nearby has the disease. If so, they know they should take extra precautions…

NPR: A Starry-Eyed 4-Step Guide To Wiping Out A Mosquito “…Most scientists we interviewed, as it turns out, would be all right with saying goodbye to the species. Aedes aegypti carries other deadly diseases harmful to humans, like yellow fever and dengue. Animals don’t depend on this species as a…