AP: Brazil’s poor squeezed by less virus aid, surging food costs (Biller/Pollastri, 10/9).

AP: India cases cross 7 million as experts warn of complacency (Sharma/Ghosal, 10/11).

Bloomberg: Philippines Considers Relaxing Curfew, Readies Vaccine Trials (Jiao/Calonzo, 10/12).

Borgen Magazine: The (RED) Campaign: Fighting HIV/AIDS Amid COVID-19 (Davis, 10/10).

The Guardian: Aid cuts and Covid force Uganda refugees to brink of starvation (Okiror, 10/9).

New York Times: White House Blocked CDC From Requiring Masks on Public Transportation (Kaplan, 10/9).

NPR: Portraits Of Resilience: How 19 Women Around The Globe Face The Pandemic (Multiple authors, 10/9).

Reuters: Nurses suffer burn-out, psychological distress in COVID fight — association (Mantovani/Nebehay, 10/10).

Reuters: Malnutrition stalks Congo’s overcrowded prisons (Kambale/Holland, 10/12).

U.N. News: U.N. in Myanmar comes together to protect people from COVID-19 (10/11).

U.N. News: International Day of the Girl: ‘Be bold in your demands,’ urges U.N. deputy chief (10/9).

Xihnua: Interview: IFAD’s president says rural areas are key to fighting global hunger and poverty (10/10).