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Homeland Preparedness News: Sen. Burr introduces bipartisan bill to update U.S. bioterror, pandemics law “U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who crafted and sponsored the nation’s original law protecting public health during man-made and natural disasters, and then took the lead on the law’s subsequent restructuring, again has commanded the next…

Reuters: U.S. aid chief calls on Myanmar to end violence against Rohingya “The U.S. government’s aid chief called on Thursday on Myanmar to end violence against members of the Rohingya Muslim minority and to provide humanitarian workers and media unhindered access to the country. Mark Green, administrator of the United…

The Guardian: Congo enters uncharted territory as it faces gravest Ebola challenge to date “More than 4,000 doses of an experimental vaccine against Ebola have arrived in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a bid to check the spread of an outbreak that is alarming experts…

The Guardian: Bill Gates: Trump twice asked me the difference between HIV and HPV “Bill Gates, the billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, has claimed Donald Trump twice asked him the difference between HIV and HPV and knew a ‘scary’ amount about Gates’s daughter’s looks…” (Smith, 5/18). The Hill: Bill Gates: I…

BBC News: Why mums-to-be are fleeing Venezuela (Watson, 5/18). Deutsche Welle: What good is AI for UN Development Goals? (Abbany, 5/16). Devex: More than 30 million people were internally displaced in 2017, report shows (Lieberman, 5/18). Reuters: Death toll from listeria outbreak in South Africa rises to more than 200…

CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”: Trends in Antiretroviral Therapy Eligibility and Coverage Among Children Aged <15 Years with HIV Infection — 20 PEPFAR-Supported Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2012-2016 Amanda Burrage of the Epidemic Intelligence Service and Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis at CDC and colleagues discuss a study on…

Project Syndicate: The Road to a TB-Free World Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS, and Lucica Ditiu, executive director of the Stop TB Partnership “…The international community needs to take five specific actions to eliminate the scourge of TB once and for all. For starters, the gaps in existing health…

Project Syndicate: Where the Water Is Manzoor Qadir, assistant director, and Vladimir Smakhtin, director, both at the U.N. University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health (UNU-INWEH) “…[G]overnments must abandon their outdated assumption that tapping unconventional water sources would be technically impractical or excessively costly. Efforts should be made to analyze…

ONE Blog: What the Financing for Development Forum was missing Kerezhi Sebany, policy manager for multilateral institutions at ONE, discusses the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development Follow-up (FfD Forum) and notes, “[T]he Forum is void of any measures to make sure countries deliver on their commitments. … If we…

WHO: Director-General brings ambitious agenda for change to World Health Assembly “After one year in office, WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, will open the Seventy-First World Health Assembly next week in Geneva with an ambitious agenda for change that aims to save 29 million lives by 2023. Ministers of…