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Washington Post: The tragic story of a dead baby shows the terrible toll of Yemen’s war “…This week marked the grim and largely unnoticed anniversary of the Saudi intervention into Yemen’s civil war. … ‘The infrastructure, the health structure, the education structure and, in many ways, more importantly, the social…

Devex: FAO: Against Zika virus, no one can fight alone “…Devex spoke to Food and Agriculture Organization Deputy Director-General Maria Helena Semedo about her personal experience with the [Zika] virus and FAO’s recommendations to minimize the threat by reducing the spread of the virus…” (Donelli, 3/30).

SciDev.Net: Megacities worsen climate-prone diseases “Crowded conditions in developing world megacities can dramatically increase the effect of climate on infectious diseases, say researchers. … [T]he study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week (28 March), found that a higher baseline of rotavirus infection in the…

Devex: Women’s equality and inclusive peace need to move beyond talk Simone Filippini, CEO of Cordaid “…[O]n the ground, that’s where the battle for women’s rights is being fought and where real progress is and needs to be made. It’s also where funding is needed most. … Instead of annually…

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: Cuba’s Headstart on Finding a Cure for AIDS “…In this project, reporter Rebecca Sananes shares a chapter of medical history in which Cuba chose a policy diametrically opposite to America’s…” In a piece that aired on NPR, Sananes, a reporter with Vermont Public Radio, examines…

News outlets report on statements from the WHO IHR Emergency Committee on Ebola and Director-General Margaret Chan declaring an end to Ebola as an international health emergency. Associated Press: WHO: Ebola no longer world health emergency “The World Health Organization said Tuesday that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa no…

NPR: The ‘Girl Boss’ Of USAID Has $22 Billion To Spend And A Tight Deadline “…When the newly installed USAID chief Gayle Smith was at a conference in Africa recently, the local leaders didn’t recognize the gender of her name. So they gave her a ‘Mr. Smith’ tag — which…

Global Health Technologies Coalition’s “Breakthroughs”: Research Roundup: Identifying people at-risk for TB, a device to aid IUD insertion, and vaccines against cancer Kat Kelley, GHTC’s senior program assistant, highlights recent news in global health research, including a study in which scientists identified 16 genes that can be used to predict…

The Guardian: Zika virus command center leads biggest military operation in Brazil’s history “It is the biggest military mobilization in Brazil’s history: 220,000 army, navy, and air force personnel have been called into action, as well as 315,000 public officials. Rapid reaction units have been deployed to take the fight…