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Associated Press: Congo approves use of experimental Ebola vaccine, WHO says “Congo has agreed to allow the World Health Organization to use an experimental Ebola vaccine to combat an outbreak announced last week, the WHO director general said Monday. The aim is for health officials to start using the vaccine,…

U.S. Government Accountability Office: Zika Supplemental Funding: Status of HHS Agencies’ Obligations, Disbursements, and the Activities Funded This GAO report examines how the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its agencies have used the Zika supplemental funding appropriated by Congress to address the 2015 Zika outbreak. The…

CNN: WHO calls for elimination of trans fat in foods by 2023 (Howard, 5/14). Fortune: The WHO Now Wants Every Country to Eliminate Trans Fats. Here’s How That Will Change the Way You Eat (Detrick, 5/14). The Guardian: Industrial trans fats must be removed from food supply, WHO says (Boseley,…

Scientific American: A New Push for a Universal Flu Vaccine “If all goes according to plan, the annual flu shot protects about 60 percent of vaccinated people. This year’s inoculation, of course, fell far short of such expectations, safeguarding only one in four vaccinated people who encountered the dominant H3N2…

Devex: Can the U.N.’s Centre for Humanitarian Data stand out? “As the United Nations’ Centre for Humanitarian Data took shape last year, its founders had to think hard about what it would not be doing. It would not be the place where all humanitarian information, from cash transfer volumes to…

Devex: In Rohingya camps, monsoon threatens hard-won WASH progress (Rogers, 5/15). Devex: Questions raised over private sector accountability on safeguarding (Anders, 5/15). The Guardian: Sudan urged to pardon teenager facing death for killing husband who raped her (Beaumont, 5/14). NPR: What’s Behind The Alarming Spike In HIV Infections In Panama?…

Brookings Institution’s “Future Development”: Will a capital increase mean a greater global role for the World Bank? Johannes F. Linn, nonresident senior fellow for global economy and development at the Brookings Institution, discusses the role of the World Bank Group in addressing global challenges and how a proposed capital increase…

The Hill: Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting Ted Poe (R-Texas), chair of the Foreign Affairs Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee “…Water scarcity not only affects individuals and communities — it is directly tied to global stability and even U.S. national security. … By addressing this one fundamental…

BBC News: Why Ebola keeps coming back Charlie Weller, head of vaccines at the Wellcome Trust “…While we can identify high-risk [Ebola] areas, it is unrealistic to expect that we could ever eradicate this disease and impossible to know when or where the next outbreak will occur. … We can,…

Capital Times: Bill Berry: White House missing in action in pandemics fight Bill Berry, columnist for the Capital Times “…Just last week came word that health officials with the World Health Organization fear a new outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus may spiral out of control in the Democratic Republic…