What We’re Reading
From Our April 2024 Connections Newsletter
Women Are Getting off Birth Control Amid Misinformation Explosion [Washington Post]
Health as a Driver of Innovation, Not Just a Recipient [Health Policy Watch]
PEPFAR HIV Program Gets Yearlong Lifeline: What’s Next? [Think Global Health]
- Global Leaders Group Urges ‘Robust Global Response’ to Antimicrobial Resistance [CIDRAP]
- To Rebuild Trust in Public Health: Better Communication, Fewer Mandates, & Small Wins, Opinion [STAT]
- Biden Administration Announces New Partnership with 50 Countries to Stifle Future Pandemics [STAT]
- How to Support the Transition to AI-Powered Healthcare [Nature]
- The New AI Rules on the Block [Politico]
- 5 Things We’ve Learned About Localization [Devex]
- For Centuries We Have Plundered Our Planet. Now We Are Paying the Price, Opinion [The Telegraph]
- UN: 2.2B People Have No Access to Clean Water [Deutsche Welles]
- More Than 4,000 Plastic Chemicals Are Hazardous, Report Finds [Nature]
- How Climate Change Is Driving a Global Epidemic of Immune Health Problems, & How to Stop It, Opinion [STAT]
- Life Expectancy Increased as World Addressed Major Killers Including Diarrhea, Lower Respiratory Infections, & Stroke [IHME]
- Phase 3 Trial for TB Vaccine Candidate Launches in South Africa [CIDRAP]
- Scientists Say They Can Cut HIV Out of Cells [BBC]
- Mpox: Is the World Failing the Next Pandemic Preparedness Litmus Test? [Health Policy Watch]
- Why the Mpox Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo Is Worrying Disease Docs [NPR]
- Study Reveals Waning Antibody Response to Mpox Vaccine Over Time [News-Medical]
- Summary Analysis of Genetic Sequences of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses in Texas [CDC]
- Why a Leading Bird Flu Expert Isn’t Convinced That the Risk H5N1 Poses to People Has Declined [STAT]
- Ground-Up Chicken Waste Fed to Cattle May Be Behind Bird Flu Outbreak in US Cows [The Telegraph]
- The Push for a Better Dengue Vaccine Grows More Urgent [New York Times]
- Puerto Rico Declares an Epidemic After Dengue Cases Spike [Washington Post]
- Brazil to Release Millions of Anti-Dengue Mosquitoes as Death Toll from Outbreak Mounts [The Guardian]
- Peru’s Dengue Deaths Triple as Climate Change Swells Mosquito Population [Reuters]
- Second-Generation Mosquito Nets Prevented 13M Malaria Cases in Large Pilot Programs [STAT]
- Global Deployment of Rapid Diagnostic Tests to Boost Fight Against Cholera [WHO]
- WHO Prequalifies Simplified Version of Oral Cholera Vaccine [CIDRAP]
- Cholera Kills at Least 54 in Somalia; Humanitarians Call for Action [VOA News]
- Funding Crunch Threatens a Key Virus-Fighting Tool: Tracking America’s Poop [Axios]
- How Scientists Traced a Mysterious COVID Case Back to Six Toilets [MIT Technology Review]
- How Do We Halt the Next Pandemic? Be Kind to Critters Like Bats, Says a New Paper [NPR]
- Closing Diagnostic Gaps to Achieve Parity in Women’s Healthcare, Opinion [PLOS]
- Health Disparities & Premature Deaths Run Deep, Even in Best-Performing States [STAT]
- Native Americans Are Hardest Hit by Syphilis Surge [NPR]
- Here Are 3 Solutions to Get Blood to Folks in ‘Blood Deserts.’ One Is Often Illegal [NPR]
- Africa CDC Calls Out Moderna for ‘Abandoning’ Vaccine Equity Commitment [Devex]
- Food as a Weapon in the New Age of Starvation [Devex]
- Bodies into Battlefields: Gender-Based Violence in Sudan [Think Global Health]
- Sudan’s Humanitarian Catastrophe Must Be Addressed [Médicins Sans Frontières]
- Haiti’s Chaos Puts Both Patients & Healthcare Workers at Risk [NPR]
- Medical Crisis in Gaza Hospitals at ‘Unimaginable’ Level, Aid Agencies Say [The Guardian]
- Tanzania Merges HIV & Diabetes Care to Tackle NCD Crisis [Health Policy Watch]