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CNN: Yemen at risk of third cholera epidemic, health officials warn “War-ravaged Yemen is teetering on the brink of a third cholera epidemic, the World Health Organization warned Friday. Cholera cases are increasing near the capital, Sanaa, and the major port city of Hodeidah, where recent conflict has hindered WHO’s…

New York Times: Brazil’s Supreme Court Considers Decriminalizing Abortion “…[T]he high stakes of the fight over reproductive rights … is playing out before Brazil’s Supreme Court during a rare two-day public hearing that started Friday. The court will consider whether Brazil’s abortion laws — which forbid terminating pregnancies with few…

ABC News: Inside Pakistan’s fight for zero polio cases, where women are on the frontlines “…Poor public infrastructure, hard-to-reach communities, high population movement, cultural barriers, and armed conflict have made it difficult for Pakistan to eliminate the potentially fatal virus, according to health experts. But Pakistan has undertaken nationwide, government-backed…

Agence France-Presse: How blogger helped bring breastfeeding back to Serbia (Subasic, 8/4). Borgen Magazine: Helping Farmers Fight Food Insecurity in Haiti (Eppenauer, 8/4). The Guardian: Flame fades for Rohingya families amid mud and monsoons in Bangladesh (Ahmed, 8/6). NPR: It’s ‘Shark Tank’ For Global Health Inventions (Hallett, 8/4). U.N. News:…

Office of Congresswoman Barbara Lee: Congresswoman Lee: PEPFAR Reauthorization is “Testament to Bipartisan Cooperation” On Friday, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), along with House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chair Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), Ranking Member Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member Karen Bass (D-Calif.), and Rep.…

Agence France-Presse: Ebola outbreak in DR Congo believed to have killed 33: health ministry “A new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo is believed to have killed 33 people in the east of the country, the health ministry said Saturday. Thirteen Ebola cases have been…

U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: Lending a Helping Hand: Assessing Humanitarian Assistance Efforts in Uganda Zachary Blackburn, foreign affairs officer at the State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs’ Office of Agriculture Policy, discusses U.S. humanitarian assistance efforts in Uganda and the U.S. government’s participation in the Foreign Assistance…

Devex: Opinion: Reaching universal health coverage means tackling malnutrition Adelheid Onyango, adviser for nutrition at the WHO Regional Office for Africa, and Bibi Giyose, senior nutrition and food systems officer, and special advisor to the NEPAD CEO “…UHC is ultimately about achieving health and wellbeing for all by 2030, a…

The Lancet: Vaccine scandal and confidence crisis in China Editorial Board “…[The latest vaccine scandal in China involving the country’s vaccine regulatory system and the administration of substandard vaccines] follows on from a series of fake and substandard food and drugs issues in China. As a result, many parents have…