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Friends of the Global Fight: Health as a Catalyst for Women’s Equality: An Agenda for Action “On June 16, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Friends), CARE International, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), and Global Health Council (GHC) hosted a web-based briefing aimed at…

KFF: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker — Updated as of June 18, 2020 Data on country government actions in response to COVID-19 are included in the tracker (6/18). Additional KFF COVID-19 resources on the global situation, as well as those focused on the response and impact within the U.S., are available here.…

AFRICA AP: South Africa says 2 pandemics now, virus and gender violence (Cana, 6/17). Bloomberg: China to Waive Some African Loan Payments Due This Year, Xi Says (Chen et al., 6/17). Financial Times: African business steps up in global scramble for virus test kits (Munshi, 6/18). Reuters: West African ministers…

BBC: International development and Foreign Office to merge “The government department responsible for overseas aid is to be merged with the Foreign Office (FCO), the PM has announced. Boris Johnson told MPs abolishing the separate Department for International Development (DfID) would mean aid spending better reflected U.K. aims. He said…

Reuters: Disagreement on WHO hindering U.N. Security Council conference: RIA “Russia said on Wednesday that differences between other nations over the role of the World Health Organization have delayed a video conference being organized between the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, the RIA news agency reported…” (Kiselyova/Tétrault-Farber, 6/17).…

New York Times: A Mad Scramble to Stock Millions of Malaria Pills, Likely for Nothing “The Food and Drug Administration’s abrupt decision this week to revoke an emergency waiver for two malaria drugs promoted by President Trump as potential ‘game changers’ against the coronavirus has left 66 million doses stranded…

AP: Australia accuses China and Russia of virus disinformation “China and Russia have used the anxiety around the coronavirus pandemic to undermine Western democracies by spreading disinformation online, Australia’s foreign minister said. The disinformation contributed to a ‘climate of fear and division’ when the world needed cooperation and understanding, Foreign…

Devex: World Bank has ‘stretched’ its capacity in coronavirus response, Malpass says “The World Bank has reached the limit of support it can provide to low- and middle-income countries recovering from the coronavirus pandemic, even while acknowledging those nations require more resources than are currently available, the institution’s president said…

Business Insider: Flushing the toilet could create a 3-foot vortex of airborne coronavirus poop particles, a new study shows “…A new study [published in] the American Institute of Physics [Physics of Fluids journal] evaluated how far these viral poop particles could spread when you flush a toilet. It found that…