MMS News

"After a year of dissolving the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO), and reducing foreign assistance for health, the Trump administration is finalizing bilateral arrangements that will define the next era of U.S. global health engagement."

• Think Global Health

"How can global south countries mobilize funding for health in the wake of aid cuts and debt servicing? Plus, the latest leadership team changes at the World Health Organization."

• devex

"Efforts to develop a vaccine to help stem the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo are intensifying as it becomes the world’s second-largest on record and the fastest-spreading. Aurélia Nguyen, deputy CEO of Cepi, one of the non-profits leading the push, appears nonetheless optimistic."

• Geneva Solutions

"ISLAMABAD – Pakistan was once considered a low-prevalence country for HIV, but a series of outbreaks has infected hundreds of children and exposed fundamental weaknesses in its healthcare system."

• Health Policy Watch

"It’s the largest allocation of global health aid to faith-based organizations in over two decades."

• devex

"Religious actors can help reduce the fear and mistrust surrounding the Ebola outbreak, and deliver health-care services directly"

"United Nations member states are almost certain to break the silence on the final draft of the Political Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) that was sent to them recently– but likely for all the wrong reasons."

• Health Policy Watch

"Over 4,000 Ebola Bundibugyo cases and 1,800 deaths have been recorded so far in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – numbers so alarming that health experts intend to research whether the virus is mutating to become more infectious."

• Health Policy Watch

"As global health financing shifts toward country self-reliance, emphasis on principles like measurement and accountability can guide implementation"

• Think Global Health

"The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with stronger early detection, contact follow up, access to care, support for frontline health workers and faster delivery of resources to affected communities. "

• World Health Organization

"Opinion: Malaria is masking the extent of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The U.S. Congress has funds available and should put them to use for mass drug administration."

• devex

"Unter Donald Trump hat die US-Regierung internationale Hilfsmittel stark reduziert. Bei der Bekämpfung der Ebolaepidemie will sie ihr Engagement nun aber verstärken."

• Die Zeit

"Parents and teachers worry about the number of kids who vape cannabis. But many of them are using something far more dangerous – without even realising it"

• The Guardian

"HARARE, Zimbabwe – For the past two decades, 49-year-old Renious Gumbi from Mberengwa in Zimbabwe lived in South Africa, where he worked as a bricklayer. Gumbi, who was living with HIV, received free antiretroviral (ARV) treatment from his local clinic in South Africa as, according to that country’s Constitution, “everyone has the right to have access to healthcare services”."

• Health Policy Watch

"KARAGWE, Tanzania – Maria Mwijage had barely reached the footpath home from the village well when mosquitoes began circling her legs. Overnight rain had filled roadside puddles and cattle hoof prints with stagnant water, turning them into breeding grounds."

• Health Policy Watch