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Bloomberg: Hydroxychloroquine Farce Has Tragic Consequences Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg Opinion columnist (6/8). CNBC Africa: As COVID-19 presents Africa with conflicting choices between relief for today and investing for tomorrow, here’s why it needs to consider digitization Eyob Tekalgn Tolina, state minister of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Finance, and Ruth Goodwin-Groen, managing…

CSIS: Online Event: AIDS 2020 Reimagined J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president and director at the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, moderated an online conversation with Anton Pozniak, president of IAS, and Jennifer Kates, senior vice president and director of Global Health & HIV Policy at KFF and a member…

BMJ Opinion: Contact tracing for covid-19 in low- and middle-income countries Nusrat Homaira, respiratory epidemiologist and senior lecturer with the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, and colleagues (6/5). BMJ Opinion: Richard Smith: How can we achieve a healthy recovery from the pandemic? Richard Smith, former editor of The…

USAID: Statement by Secretary Michael R. Pompeo In a statement on U.S. assistance for COVID-19, U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo notes, “In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have truly mobilized as a nation to combat the virus, both at home and abroad … Today, the United States…

Friends of the Global Fight: Statement On Global Vaccine Summit In this statement, Chris Collins, president of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, says, “Friends applauds Gavi and the international community for a very successful funding replenishment. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has shown the world what…

CNN: New Zealand to provide free sanitary products in schools to fight period poverty (Regan, 6/4). The Guardian: #NiUnaMenos five years on: Latin America as deadly as ever for women, say activists (Alcoba/McGowan, 6/4). The Guardian: ‘I know they aren’t healthy’: the energy drink craze sweeping Afghanistan (Glinski, 6/5). New…

New York Post: Why President Trump is entirely right to give up on WHO Betsy McCaughey, chair of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (6/4). USA TODAY: I treat COVID patients and work with WHO. Trump is risking our health by cutting ties Vanessa Kerry, critical care physician at Massachusetts…

Science: Two elite medical journals retract coronavirus papers over data integrity questions “In the first big research scandal of the COVID-19 era, The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) [Thursday] retracted two high-profile papers after a company declined to make the underlying data for both available for…

Devex: ‘Big concerns’ over Gates foundation’s potential to become largest WHO donor “If the United States government withdraws from the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is poised to become the agency’s top donor. The potential of this change is raising questions about what such influence from…