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Reuters: Zimbabwe seeks $35 million to fight cholera outbreak “Zimbabwe is appealing to individual citizens and local companies for $35 million to help fight a cholera outbreak that has killed 31 and infected more than 5,000, the finance minister said…” (9/19). VOA News: Zimbabwe Government Pledges Funds to Fight Cholera…

Xinhua News: WHO rolls out investment case to save up to 30 mln lives in 5 years “The World Health Organization (WHO) rolled out its first investment case on Wednesday, which requires an investment of 14.1 billion U.S. dollars from 2019 to 2023 to save up to 30 million lives…

Devex: Global health community steps up climate action “The impacts of climate change, from air pollution to extreme weather events, to disruptions to food and water systems, will pose the greatest threats to global health in this century, and health leaders say it’s time for the sector to be a…

NIH: NIH funds study to prevent, treat HIV among adolescents in poor countries “The National Institutes of Health has awarded $7.5 million for an international research program to prevent and treat HIV infection among adolescents and young adults in seven African countries and Brazil. The study, called Prevention and Treatment…

Washington Post: Our lack of pandemic preparedness could prove deadly Tom Inglesby, director, and Eric Toner, senior scholar, both at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security “…Nature continues to create serious biological threats, with the possibility of a deadly new pandemic influenza perhaps the most worrying. Far less recognized,…

STAT: Don’t let HIV ravage a generation poised to transform Africa Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “…[W]e must find new and better ways to dramatically accelerate progress on HIV/AIDS and start to turn ideas into solutions more quickly. That demands aggressive, sustained investment in global…

Quartz India: More infants died in India last year than in Pakistan, China, and Ethiopia put together “The world’s fastest growing major economy recorded the highest number of infant and neonatal deaths in 2017, according to the annual report of the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME),…

Washington Post: Tuberculosis is curable. So why are so many people still dying of the disease? Editorial Board “…[Millions of people infected with TB] remain undetected and untreated. … The effort has been neglected for too long. On Sept. 26, world leaders at the United Nations will hold the first…