More Than 2M COVID-19 Cases Recorded In African Nations As Officials Warn Of Inevitable 2nd Wave November 19, 2020 News Summary AP: African continent hits 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases “Africa has surpassed 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases as the continent’s top public health official warned Thursday that ‘we are inevitably edging toward a second wave’ of infections. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the 54-nation continent had…
Achieving SDGs Requires Addressing Health Inequalities Facing Men, Says Editorial November 19, 2020 News Summary The Lancet Global Health: No man left behind Editorial Board “…International Men’s Day, celebrated on Nov. 19, encourages us to consider all we still need to do to improve men’s health and wellbeing. The event seems especially pertinent this year, given findings that about 1.5 times more men than women…
With At Least 2 Efficacious Vaccines, End Of Pandemic Becomes More Reality But Challenges Remain, Experts Warn November 19, 2020 News Summary The Atlantic: The End of the Pandemic Is Now in Sight “…Even as science began to unravel many of the virus’s mysteries — how it spreads, how it tricks its way into cells, how it kills — a fundamental unknown about vaccines hung over the pandemic and our collective human…
New Reports, Release Highlight Antimicrobial Resistance Challenges At Start Of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week November 19, 2020 News Summary CIDRAP News: Wellcome calls for more focused antimicrobial resistance agenda “…[W]hile there’s been a lot of talk about AMR in the ensuing years [since the United Nations (U.N.) high-level meeting on AMR in 2016], there hasn’t been as much action. And even before the COVID-19 pandemic became the biggest public…
Editorial, Opinion Pieces Address Topics Related COVID-19, Including Vaccine Distribution Challenges; Lessons From HIV Response; Pandemic’s Disruption To Polio, Measles Vaccination Campaigns November 19, 2020 News Summary Devex: Opinion: How AI can push for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines Jayasree Iyer, executive director, and Thomas Collin-Lefebvre, researcher to the executive director, both at the Access to Medicine Foundation (11/18). Devex: Opinion: Why exciting results from vaccine research are just the beginning of efforts to end COVID-19 Mitchell…
School-Aged Children Can Serve As Malaria Superspreaders, Research Shows November 19, 2020 News Summary Devex: Children as superspreaders of malaria “New research from Uganda found that asymptomatic, school-aged children can serve as superspreaders of malaria. These findings suggest that efforts to eliminate the disease from countries might be harder than previously thought. The findings, which were presented at the annual meeting of the American…
Pledges By World’s Top Polluting Nations, New Biden Administration Bring Hope To Paris Accord, U.N. Climate Chief Says November 19, 2020 News Summary AP: U.N. climate chief: pledges by big polluters boost Paris hopes “The U.N.’s climate chief says deadlines set by some of the world’s top polluters to end greenhouse gas emissions, along with president-elect Joe Biden’s pledge to take the United States back into the Paris accord, have boosted hopes of…
More COVID-19 & Global Health News November 19, 2020 News Summary Al Jazeera: Pacific’s Samoa records first case of coronavirus (11/19). Devex: Exclusive: FCDO to become ‘reserved’ department, will not be hiring foreign nationals (Worley, 11/18). New Humanitarian: In storm-hit Honduras, a climate crisis drives needs and fuels migration (Olson, 11/18). New York Times: How Profit Collided With Public Health in…
USAID Congratulates DRC For Ending Most Recent Ebola Outbreak November 19, 2020 News Summary USAID: USAID Welcomes The Official Declaration Of The End Of The Ebola Outbreak In The Northwestern Democratic Republic Of Congo On Wednesday, “the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared an end to the epidemic of Ebola in Northwestern Équateur Province, which began on June 1, 2020. The…
UNICEF, WHO Release State Of The World’s Sanitation Report November 19, 2020 News Summary WHO: State of the World’s Sanitation “…[T]he world is alarmingly off-track in delivering sanitation for all by 2030, according to the State of the World’s Sanitation report, released on this year’s World Toilet Day by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). Despite progress over the past two decades, toilets…