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Associated Press: Congo says Ebola efforts can resume after deadly attack “Congo’s health ministry says efforts to contain the latest Ebola outbreak can resume Wednesday in a key community where a deadly rebel attack over the weekend caused work to be suspended…” (9/26). CIDRAP News: Ebola response faces ‘grave obstacles’…

Devex: TB gets rare moment of attention at U.N. meeting “…TB will have a rare moment in the global political spotlight on Wednesday, during the first high-level meeting at the United Nations focused on preventing and treating the infectious disease. The public recognition — however brief — of TB’s harm…

Devex: U.S. pledges additional $48M for Venezuela crisis “United States Vice President Mike Pence announced an additional $48 million in U.S. funding for the regional response to Venezuelan refugees and migrants on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York…” (Welsh, 9/26).

Devex: In Trump’s U.S. aid review, can development principles prevail? “In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump alluded to an effort his administration is pursuing that has raised concerns within the U.S. global development community. … ‘We are taking a hard…

The BMJ: Eradicating TB Michael J. A. Reid, assistant professor of medicine, and Eric Goosby, U.N. special envoy for tuberculosis and professor of medicine, both at the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco “…Global accountability is … necessary to secure the…

Inter Press Service: End Tuberculosis by Empowering Community Health Workers David Bryden, TB advocacy officer at RESULTS “…[I]n addition to appropriate medication [to treat TB], it is ‘human support’ that makes the difference between life and death. … By fully tapping the potential of community health workers, we can identify…

The Guardian: Calls for U.K. to overturn aid freeze to Zambia despite corruption claims “A leading charity has called for Zambia to be given the benefit of the doubt as allegations of corruption and uncontrolled spending threaten to plunge the country into crisis. Fraud allegations that led to the suspension…

BMJ Opinion: Why doctors should support regulated markets in illicit drugs Michel Kazatchkine, doctor and former executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis; Pavel Bém, doctor and former mayor of Prague and drug czar of the Czech Republic; Helen Clark, former minister of health and…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: TB High-Level Meeting: Leaders call for commitments, cash and innovation to end global impacts of tuberculosis (Aziz, 9/24). Médecins Sans Frontières: Global Leaders Must Make Tangible Commitments at U.N. High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (9/24). Avert: Fighting tuberculosis — the disease that doesn’t go away (9/21). UNICEF: New…