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Political Insights: One Belt, One Road, One Health Ana Zhelyazkova, masters student at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, public information officer for the Association for U.N. Interns, student employee at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, and volunteer for the German branch of Médecins du Monde, discusses the…

Associated Press: Response to Congo’s new Ebola outbreak ‘highly complex’ “The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says the response to the new Ebola virus outbreak in Congo’s North Kivu province will be ‘highly complex’ given the armed unrest in the region…” (8/2). New York Times: The…

Global Health NOW: Global Health Leadership: The Urgent Need Claire Bayntun, director of global leadership programs at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine “The consensus for the need for strong leadership within global health has been growing over a number of years. … Leaders who lack the required…

Reuters: WHO warns of new Yemen cholera surge, asks for ceasefire to vaccinate “Yemen may be on the brink of a new cholera epidemic, with a heightened death rate due to widespread malnutrition, and the United Nations is hoping for a ceasefire in the north to allow for vaccinations, the…

Agence France-Presse: U.N. moves to unblock humanitarian aid to North Korea (Landry, 8/2). Devex: How can we address violence against women and girls with disability? (Cornish, 8/3). Devex: Q&A: What could cheaper satellite imagery do for the SDGs? (Cheney, 8/3). New York Times: Saudis Escalate Siege of Port in Yemen,…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: Former patients aid search for missing TB cases in DRC province Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer at “Science Speaks,” discusses results from a report published in the WHO Bulletin on patient-led active tuberculosis case-finding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Barton writes, “[E]nlisting former tuberculosis patients and…

Council on Foreign Relations’ “Africa in Transition”: The Humanitarian Crisis You Haven’t Heard About In this guest post, Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and author, discusses the political, social, and psychological challenges related to internally displaced persons (IDPs). Einhorn writes, “But the real problem is the…

FHI 360’s “Research for Evidence”: From innovation-to-scale: Identifying innovative health interventions to better understand factors influencing their adoption and scale-up Lauren Bader, regional program manager for the USAID Control and Prevention of Tuberculosis Project and the USAID Challenge TB project at FHI 360, discusses a research project that aims to…

Pan American Health Organization/WHO: Putting the brakes on hepatitis A in Argentina This post discusses a single-dose hepatitis A vaccination strategy for infants, implemented in Argentina in 2005, which “dramatically reduces cases and has eradicated the need for transplants due to acute liver failure in children” (8/1).

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: Use of Xpert TB diagnostic tool linked to lower death rates from all causes among HIV patients entering care in Malawi study Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discusses results from a study on the use of the Xpert TB diagnostic tool versus fluorescent…