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Agence France-Presse: Abortion exclusion to U.S. aid threatens HIV battle: conference hears “Scientists and activists warned Friday that anti-abortion conditions attached to U.S. [global health] aid under the Donald Trump administration threatened programs to halt the spread of HIV. [The conditions] deny U.S. aid to [foreign] organizations which provide abortion…

Devex: U.S. pressure could make U.N. TB declaration less forceful, MSF says “The United States’ amendments to a forthcoming ministerial document on preventing and treating tuberculosis will likely result in a text that is not ‘actionable,’ Médecins Sans Frontières is warning. Pressure from the United States on BRIC nations and…

Project Syndicate: Unlocking Private-Sector Funds for Sustainable Development Mahmoud Mohieldin, senior vice president for the 2030 Development Agenda, United Nations Relations, and Partnerships at the World Bank Group, and Svetlana Klimenko, lead financial management specialist at the World Bank Group “…The key to achieving the [Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)] is…

Devex: Record low funding from member states will alter U.N. work, Guterres says “U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has written to member states following what he described as record-low annual contributions, marking a ‘troubling financial situation facing the United Nations.’ … The United States — traditionally the largest single donor to…

Healio: PEPFAR funding directly reduces maternal HIV transmission, infant mortality “Researchers said that annual funding of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief decreased infant mortality related to mother-to-child HIV transmission in Kenya by more than 10 percent. They suggested that when funding was examined on a cumulative basis, infant…

Dallas Morning News: America cannot let up in the fight against AIDS — and that includes Dallas Editorial Board “…Keeping the [HIV/AIDS] epidemic at bay requires constant funding and public health interventions, and research revealed at the [22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam] has shown these systems are faltering. ……

The Hill: How world health officials stopped a potentially catastrophic outbreak “…Two months [after the Ebola outbreak was identified], in July, Congo formally declared an end to the outbreak, after 42 days in which no new cases were identified. An Ebola epidemic that once threatened to travel up and down…

WHO: WHO Director General: Republic of Congo can transform its primary health care into a model for other nations “The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has commended the Republic of Congo’s commitment to strengthening its health system through the primary health care approach, during a three-day visit…

Fox News: Does Donald Trump really hate breastfeeding? Another media ‘mis’-report Bethany Mandel, editor at Ricochet “…While fully acknowledging that ‘breast is best’ [U.S. HHS and USAID] officials also realize that even under the most optimal conditions, breastfeeding can be difficult. When you factor in malnutrition and stress in the…

The BMJ: Strategic review of child health “…Two decades ago, Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) was introduced by the World Health Organization and UNICEF as a global strategy to ‘reach all children’ with prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for common childhood illnesses, aiming at reducing child mortality and promoting child…