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Devex: Q&A: Reimagining development for the next era (Root, 12/15). The Guardian: Global first responders: 5 things to know about Doctors Without Borders’ Covid-19 strategy (12/14). The Guardian: ‘We could have lost her’: Zimbabwe’s children go hungry as crisis deepens (Chingono, 12/15). Homeland Preparedness News: CEPI to provide up to…

Reuters: Sanofi renews deal with WHO to fight tropical diseases, sleeping sickness “French healthcare company Sanofi announced on Tuesday a renewal of its partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) to fight neglected tropical diseases and to eliminate sleeping sickness before 2030. Sanofi said its new five-year commitment with the…

KFF: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker — Updated as of December 15, 2020 Data on country government actions in response to COVID-19 are included in the tracker (12/15). A KFF-curated recap of pandemic-related news from last week is available here. Additional KFF COVID-19 resources on the global situation, as well as those focused on…

Nature: COVID and 2020: An extraordinary year for science “One event dominated in 2020: a deadly and previously unknown virus wreaked havoc across the globe, killing more than 1.5 million people, infecting many more, and causing economic devastation. And although there were other newsworthy research developments in 2020, the pandemic…

Global Health NOW: A 2-Front Battle: COVID-19 Must Reinvigorate the Fight Against TB Ersin Topcuoglu, director of the USAID-funded Health Systems for Tuberculosis Project at Management Sciences for Health (12/11). IPS: Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access Anis Chowdhury, adjunct professor at Western Sydney University & University of New South…

Devex: Opinion: Revitalizing USAID is essential to reestablishing U.S. global leadership Susan Reichle, president and chief executive officer at the International Youth Foundation, and Patrick Fine, chief executive officer of FHI 360 (12/15). The Hill: Executive order to rebrand U.S. assistance: Right question, likely wrong answer Daniel F. Runde, senior…

WHO: World’s largest youth organizations, representing 250 million members, and WHO launch global mobilization to respond to disruptive impacts of COVID-19 on young people “A new ground-breaking global youth mobilization was launched [Monday] to invest in and scale up youth-led solutions and engagements in response to COVID-19. The initiative was…

The Global Fund: Canada Contributes CAD 65 million to Global Fund’s COVID-19 Response “The Global Fund applauds the government of Canada for allocating CAD 65 million to the Global Fund’s efforts to support low- and middle-income countries to fight COVID-19, including procuring and deploying millions of COVID-19 rapid diagnostics tests…

WHO: The Decade of Healthy Ageing: a new U.N.-wide initiative “The United Nations General Assembly [Monday] declared 2021-2030 the Decade of Healthy Ageing. ‘Today’s announcement of the U.N. Decade of Healthy Aging sends a clear signal that it is only by working as one, within the United Nations system and…

World Economic Forum: The silent epidemic that is three times as deadly as COVID Douglas Broom, senior writer for Formative Content, discusses the global burden of diabetes, highlighting findings from the International Diabetes Federation. Broom notes, “It’s the silent epidemic that claims 4.2 million lives around the world every year…