AFP/YouTube: Virus hunters delve into Gabon forest in search for next threat | AFP (12/16).

Devex: Q&A: The woman tasked with bringing gender to the center of the Gates Foundation (Cheney, 12/17).

Devex: Q&A: Addressing polio through a gender lens (12/17).

Devex: How a new data portal aims to accelerate insights for the Pacific (Cornish, 12/16).

Devex: U.K. aid watchdog ICAI ‘must continue’ its work, says foreign secretary (Worley, 12/16).

Devex: Finding the money to keep social safety nets afloat in Africa (Jerving, 12/16).

The Economist: How malaria has shaped humanity (12/19).

Global Health NOW: New Dashboard Aims to Democratize COVID-19 Data (Winney, 12/16).

The Guardian: Wear masks when you see family for Christmas, WHO urges Europeans (Beaumont, 12/16).

Health-e News: High rates of gender-based violence linked to high rates of HIV infection among women, study shows (Lefafa, 12/17).

New Humanitarian: A quiet crisis: As the economy fractures, violence soars for Afghan women (Cousins, 12/16).

New York Times: The Virus Trains: How Lockdown Chaos Spread COVID-19 Across India (Gettleman et al., 12/15).

Science: COVID-19 is 10 times deadlier for people with Down syndrome, raising calls for early vaccination (Wadman, 12/15).

Science: Messenger RNA gave us a COVID-19 vaccine. Will it treat diseases, too? (Servick, 12/16).

STAT: After experts criticized its approach, Facebook overhauls its Covid-19 misinformation policy (Brodwin, 12/16).

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Why Ebola survivors like me can help fight COVID-19 (Moloney, 12/16).

U.N. News: Syria: Millions displaced, impoverished and traumatized, Security Council hears (12/16).

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