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Associated Press: U.N. official on Trump order: Family planning is a human right “The head of the United Nations Population Fund says a recent executive order by President Donald Trump on abortion-related funding will not affect the agency’s family planning services, but he insists that family planning is a human…

Nature: Trump immigration ban upends international work on disease “Diseases don’t respect borders, laws or walls. And efforts to combat them rely on networks of scientists to detect outbreaks early, understand how the diseases operate, and then intervene. Researchers say that President Donald Trump’s travel ban challenges that process, putting…

Devex: More than half of President Trump’s Global Development Council have resigned “More than half of the president’s Global Development Council — a high-level advisory group of business, civil society, and academic leaders who offer guidance on U.S. foreign assistance — have resigned, according to a former member of the…

U.N. Dispatch: 5 Big Global Health Victories to Anticipate in 2017. (This is Humanity Affirming Stuff!) Alanna Shaikh, an international development professional who writes for U.N. Dispatch, discusses five global health victories to anticipate in 2017, including the elimination of Guinea worm; implementation of a dengue fever vaccine; expected approval…

PolitiFact: Yes, Trump’s ‘Mexico City’ abortion policy puts global health money at risk “…On the Senate floor, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., warned that Trump’s version [of the Mexico City policy] was even more extreme than those of his GOP predecessors. ‘Previously, under President Reagan and the Bush administrations, this policy…

New York Times: Rex Tillerson Is Confirmed as Secretary of State Amid Record Opposition “Rex W. Tillerson, the former chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil, was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday in a 56-to-43 vote to become the nation’s 69th secretary of state just as serious strains have…

WHO: Zika: We must be ready for the long haul Margaret Chan, director general of the WHO, reflects on the Zika outbreak, which the WHO declared a public health emergency of international concern from February to November 2016. Chan writes, “In large parts of the world, the virus is now…

Reuters: Zika ebbing in Latin America but vigilance needed: WHO “Brazil and Latin America are recording lower numbers of Zika infections than last year, but all countries must remain vigilant against the virus which can cause birth defects, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday…” (Nebehay, 2/1).

Center for Global Development’s “U.S. Development Policy”: Should the Trump Administration Cut USAID to Expand MCC? Sarah Rose, senior policy analyst at CGD, examines a proposal by the Heritage Foundation that calls for scaling back or phasing out USAID and elevating the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in order to make…