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PDP Press Releases/ statements
• 1 Apr: IAVI and Japan’s premier global health organization pilot Human Resource Development Program
• 6 Feb: IVCC secures SDC funding to drive vector control innovation
• 14 Feb: Forging global partnerships for Aedes control tools
• 19 Mar: Mel Spigelman on the future of TB treatment and the evolution of TB Alliance
• 23 Mar: PeerLINC Recognizes One Year of Transforming Drug-Resistant TB Treatment Through Faster, More Easily Accessible Technical Assistance
• 24 Mar: The Biggest Challenge to Ending TB is not Scientific
• 24 Mar: Brazil’s former Health Minister Temporão appointed to GARDP Board
• 3 Feb: Statement from the Population Council on the US President’s Executive Orders
• 5 Mar: African leaders reaffirm commitment to immunization
• 11 Mar: PATH launches clinical trial on the use of artificial intelligence in primary health care
• 12 Mar: PATH launches new Center for Policy and Advocacy
• 14 Mar: PATH welcomes maternal RSV vaccine WHO prequalification
• 25 Mar: Fewer shots, more protection: The promise of combination vaccines
• 19 Mar: Medicines for Malaria Venture and deepmirror join forces to adapt machine-learning platform for global health research
• 3 Apr: DNDi looking for a new Patient Representative to join its Board of Directors
• 18 Mar: DNDi welcomes GHIT support for new collaboration with Shionogi to identify novel drug candidates for neglected Chagas disease
• 11 Mar: Strong blows the South Winds: FIND Chair visits global south Health Ministers/Partners
• 4 Apr: Kerstin Westritschnig joins International Vaccine Institute as Head of its Austria office
• 25 Mar: Four recipients of 2025 IVI – SK bioscience Park MahnHoon Award announced
• 24 Mar: World TB Day: advancing the fight against tuberculosis
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• 20 Feb: U.S. FDA expands indication for moxidectin to treat river blindness in children as young as four
• 20 Feb: MDGH submits an Investigational New Drug Application for dovramilast for the treatment of leprosy type 2 reaction
PDP Funder News/Announcements
• 5 Mar: GHIT-backed Innovation Achieves Landmark: New Treatment Option for Schistosomiasis Reaches Preschool-Aged Children. GHIT
• 5 Mar: First preschool-aged child receives arpraziquantel for schistosomiasis treatment. EDCTP
• 6 Mar: Medical oxygen a lifesaving investment: Landmark report launched by The Lancet Global Health Commission. Unitaid
• 11 Mar: Unitaid earns A+ rating in UK FCDO annual review, reinforcing its leadership in global health innovation. Unitaid
• 19 Mar: Japan partners with Unitaid to strengthen global health efforts for women and children. Unitaid
• 20 Mar: Unitaid and partners expand Africa’s first regional oxygen production network into Tanzania. Unitaid
• 26 Mar: Mark Suzman’s Statement on Proposed Cuts to Global Vaccines. Gates Foundation
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• 25 Apr: Rethinking antibodies for infectious diseases?. IAVI
Other Reports/ Publications
• 6 Feb: Global health R&D makes a strong investment case for Team Europe. Impact Global Health
• 6 Feb: Technology transfer in practice: implications for Pandemic Agreement negotiations: interviews with Ellen 't Hoen, Ravi Ganapathy, Ike James and Martin Friede. The Graduate Institute
• 21 Feb: Corporate accountability: A case study of the Access to Medicine Index Does it help or hinder global health?. United Nations University
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• 1 Apr: Qiagen introduces QIAprep Plasmodium kit to strengthen malaria research efforts. Biospectrum Asia
• 1 Apr: Rollout of ‘miracle’ HIV prevention drug is threatened by Trump cuts to global AIDS relief program. STAT
• 1 Apr: WHO issues its first-ever reports on tests and treatments for fungal infections. WHO
• 1 Apr: Africa's Quiet Response to U.S. Realignment of Foreign Aid. Think Global Health
• 1 Apr: 2025 HIV Market Impact Memo. CHAI
• 1 Apr: The CDC Has Been Gutted. Wired
• 1 Apr: How Trump’s trade war will break global medicine supply chains. BMJ
• 1 Apr: Why are you not doing research in your home country? dissecting expectations of southern researchers. Development in Practice
• 1 Apr: The global landscape of country-level health technology assessment processes: A survey among 104 countries. Science Direct
• 1 Apr: A roadmap for fostering timely regulatory and ethics approvals of international clinical trials in support of global health research systems. The Lancet
• 2 Apr: Museveni to launch free malaria vaccinations today. The Monitor
• 2 Apr: The USAID List of Terminated Global Health Awards – What Does it Tell Us?. KFF
• 2 Apr: Uganda launches largest malaria vaccine introduction to date. Gavi
• 2 Apr: EU Countries Divided Over European Commission’s Role in the Pandemic Treaty Negotiations, Disagreement On Technology Transfer. Geneva Health Files
• 2 Apr: Global Fund Secures First Eighth Replenishment Pledge – A Historic Private Sector Commitment from Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. Global Fund
• 2 Apr: Pioneering vaccine tech could pave the way for all-in-one shots against rapidly mutating viruses. CEPI
• 2 Apr: 11 needle-free vaccines that could transform global immunisation. Gavi
• 2 Apr: U.S. Retreat from Gavi Cedes Influence to China's Vaccine Suppliers. Think Global Health
• 2 Apr: Historic Vaccine Milestone In Uganda’s Fight Against Malaria. Forbes Africa
• 2 Apr: Will Pandemic Agreement Be Thwarted by a Handful of Words?. Health Policy Watch
• 2 Apr: AVAC Condemns HHS Mass Layoffs. AVAC
• 2 Apr: The catastrophic cost of TB care: Understanding costs incurred by individuals undergoing TB care in low-, middle-, and high-income settings – A systematic review. PLOS Global Public Health
• 2 Apr: ‘This is About Children’s Lives’: Gavi’s CEO Makes the Case for Funding the Global Vaccine Alliance. Time
• 2 Apr: WHO Budget Crisis Bigger Than Previously Thought – $2.5 Billion Gap for 2025-2027. Health Policy Watch
• 3 Apr: Mobilising national and regional assets and non-state actors for pandemic preparedness. The Lancet
• 3 Apr: Filling the funding void would mitigate infectious outbreaks and build resilience in Africa. BMJ
• 3 Apr: Trump Tariffs Will Make it Harder for African Countries to Finance Health. Health Policy Watch
• 3 Apr: Africa’s Health Financing in a New Era – April, 2025. Africa CDC
• 3 Apr: Mpox activity in Africa on pace to pass 2024 total. CIDRAP
• 3 Apr: The New US Tariff Regime Will Have Its Greatest Impact in Developing Countries. CGD
• 3 Apr: WHO grapples with deepening funding shortfall. Devex
• 3 Apr: Frustration mounts as Uganda faces HIV treatment shortages. Devex
• 3 Apr: Mobilising national and regional assets and non-state actors for pandemic preparedness. The Lancet
• 4 Apr: Big foundations say it's time to increase giving. Devex
• 4 Mar: EU ‘hopeful’ for pandemic deal this year. Euroactiv
• 4 Mar: Massive $200 million TB research programme derailed by US funding cuts. Spotlight
• 4 Mar: Antibody correlates of risk of clinical malaria in an area of low and unstable malaria transmission in western Kenya. Malaria Journal
• 4 Mar: With WHO in crisis, prioritization can’t wait, warns german official. Devex
• 4 Mar: Stop TB Partnership looks at downsizing after USAID cuts. Devex
• 4 Mar: Who is Jenny Chapman, the new UK development minister?. Devex
• 4 Mar: Nwoko commits $20m to malaria vaccine research, pushes for local manufacturing. Business Day
• 4 Mar: Tanzania tackles second Marburg outbreak with hard-won lessons. Gavi
• 4 Mar: BioNTech’s RNA malaria vaccine trial hit by FDA hold. Fierce Biotech
• 4 Mar: ACRN officially launched at a Colourful Ceremony in Kigali. African Clinical Research Network
• 4 Mar: ‘Omg, did PubMed go dark?’ Blackout stokes fears about database’s future. Nature
• 5 Mar: Safety and drug quantification of the dapivirine vaginal ring and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis in breastfeeding mother–infant pairs (MTN-043): a phase 3B, open-label, randomised trial. The Lancet HIV
• 5 Mar: Safety of dapivirine vaginal rings during breastfeeding. The Lancet HIV
• 5 Mar: Why all countries should adopt the term mpox. The Lancet
• 5 Apr: Long-acting HIV preventive treatments for remote rural communities. The Lancet
• 5 Apr: The potential for annual long-acting HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. The Lancet
• 5 Mar: Mapping the malaria burden in the context of a global pandemic: progress, hiccups, and challenges. The Lancet
• 5 Mar: Devex Newswire: Is the US aid freeze a gift to Chinese soft power?. Devex
• 5 Mar: Opinion: Trump aid shock underscores need for more made-in-Africa medicine. Devex
• 5 Mar: Dr. Ntobeko Ntusi joins MPP as newest Board Member. Medicines Patent Pool
• 5 Mar: Funding cuts impact access to TB services endangering millions of lives. WHO
• 5 Mar: Aid freeze, waiver, termination, reversal: Stop TB awaits clarity from US. Devex
• 5 Mar: Two fatal probable cases reported in Uganda's Ebola Sudan outbreak. CIDRAP
• 5 Mar: Wastewater sampling could be key to early warning of new disease outbreaks. The Guardian
• 5 Mar: Avian influenza (H5N1) vaccines: What's the status?. GHTC
• 5 Mar: Mapping the global prevalence, incidence, and mortality of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria, 2000–22: a spatial and temporal modelling study. The Lancet
• 6 Mar: Infrastructure, capabilities, and capacities required for clinical trials design and delivery: A rapid scoping review of recommendations and regulations. Wellcome Open Research
• 6 Mar: Some malaria, TB programme cuts reversed by US, sources say. Reuters
• 6 Mar: How Uganda is tackling the Ebola-like Sudan virus. Gavi
• 6 Mar: The Future of US Foreign Assistance: How Low Can They Go?. CGD
• 6 Mar: Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5. The New York Times
• 6 Mar: Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants. Nature
• 6 Mar: Huge Risk of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Wake of Abrupt US Funding Cuts. Health Policy Watch
• 6 Mar: The Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Freeze and Global Health: The Biggest Gaps Left on the Donor Landscape. KFF
• 6 Mar: Mapping Supply Chains: Global Health Agencies Lead the Way. Think Global Health
• 6 Mar: UK scientists develop DNA sequencing system to fight superbugs. The Guardian
• 6 Mar: ‘It is chaos’: US funding freezes are endangering global health. Nature
• 6 Mar: As Ebola Spreads in Uganda, Trump Aid Freeze Hinders Effort to Contain It, U.S. Officials Fear. The New York Times
• 6 Mar: Breakthrough discovery offers hope for more effective malaria treatment. News Medical
• 6 Mar: Second cluster reported in Uganda's Ebola Sudan outbreak. CIDRAP
• 6 Mar: Long-acting injectable HIV therapy offers hope for those unable to take pills. MedicalXpress
• 6 Mar: Mpox vaccination gains steam in Kinshasa, DR Congo. CIDRAP
• 6 Mar: Study finds higher prevalence of MRSA strains in low-income countries. CIDRAP
• 6 Mar: 4 Key Steps To Build Supply Chains For Later-Stage Clinical Trials In LMICs. Clinical Leader Supply
• 7 Mar: How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks. The New York Times
• 7 Mar: Global health research funders rally as Trump’s cuts bite. Research Professional News
• 7 Mar: Uganda Minister of Health receives and flags off malaria vaccines to 105 districts. Gavi
• 7 Mar: Global Health is At a Crossroads: Let’s be Bold and Aspirational. Health Policy Watch
• 7 Mar: Statement on Global High-Level Summit in support of Gavi replenishment. Gavi
• 7 Mar: The world should prepare now for a potential H5N1 flu pandemic, experts warn. CEPI
• 7 Mar: Trump administration ordered to pay select USAID partners by Monday. Devex
• 7 Mar: Dengue virus epidemic: physical vector control success in Timor-Leste. The Lancet
• 7 Mar: Can solidarity in global health curb the next outbreak? A commentary on mpox. BMJ
• 8 Mar: Brazil hopes for new vaccine to combat dengue. The Lancet World Report
• 8 Mar: Women are poorly represented in clinical trials. That’s problematic. Nature India
• 9 Mar: Funding Options for Health Products Manufacturing in Africa Tabled. Africa CDC
• 9 Mar: No disease is deadlier in Africa than malaria. Trump’s US aid cuts weaken the fight against it. AP
• 9 Mar: ViiV Healthcare continues to deliver long-acting injectable HIV innovation with late-breaking data and real-world insights across pipeline and portfolio at CROI 2025. ViiV
• 10 Mar: Nagasaki University’s ‘Nanoball’ technology could help defeat the next Disease X. CEPI
• 10 Mar: How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts. Nature
• 10 Mar: Global partnerships in combating tropical diseases: assessing the impact of a U.S. withdrawal from the WHO. Tropical Medicine & Health
• 10 Mar: Uganda to become 18th country to roll-out malaria vaccine for children. The Independent
• 10 Mar: Remaining USAID programs now under State Department, 5,200 programs canceled. Devex
• 10 Mar: Gavi delays $9B replenishment event amid tough fundraising environment. Devex
• 10 Mar: Research prioritisation in preparedness for and response to outbreaks of high-consequence pathogens: a scoping review. BMC
• 10 Mar: Uganda launches world’s biggest malaria vaccine rollout. UNICEF
• 10 Mar: NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. Science
• 10 Mar: US funding cuts imperil search for HIV vaccine. Spotlight
• 10 Mar: Strengthening Africa’s mpox diagnostic capacity for enhanced epidemic preparedness and response. Impact Global Health
• 11 Mar: First Clinical Data for Gilead’s Investigational Once-Yearly Lenacapavir for HIV Prevention Presented at CROI 2025 and Published in The Lancet. Gilead
• 11 Mar: WHO injects fresh support into DR Congo vaccination drive. UN News
• 11 Mar: Microplastics contribute to evolution of antimicrobial resistance, study finds. CIDRAP
• 11 Mar: Countries, global health groups band together as US aid gaps threaten lives. Reuters
• 11 Mar: WHO starts slimming down in response to US cuts, document shows. Reuters
• 11 Mar: Discovery of Mosquito Molecular Mechanism Opens Door to New Antimalaria Strategies. Johns Hopkins
• 11 Mar: Nigerian authorities confirm meningitis outbreak in northwest has killed 26 people since January. MedicalXpress
• 11 Mar: Life-saving drug trials halted after unexpected move by US government: 'Our priority remains the safety and care of participants'. The Cool Down
• 11 Mar: Global healthcare at a crossroads: African scientists seek local solutions. Africa News
• 11 Mar: Gilead's Once-Yearly Lenacapavir Formulations Show Sustained Efficacy for HIV PrEP in Phase 1 Study. Contagion Live
• 11 Mar: After USAID: what now for aid and Africa?. BMJ
• 11 Mar: Groundbreaking vaccine study offers hope for ending meningitis in Africa. News Medical
• 11 Mar: Will infants finally have access to a highly effective HIV drug?. Devex
• 11 Mar: Judge orders Trump to pay USAID partners, rejects 'unbounded' power. Devex
• 11 Mar: Effect of digital adherence technologies on treatment outcomes in people with drug-susceptible tuberculosis: four pragmatic, cluster-randomised trials. The Lancet
• 11 Mar: Safety and immunogenicity of a pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine targeting serogroups A, C, W, Y, and X when co-administered with routine childhood vaccines at ages 9 months and 15 months in Mali: a single-centre, double-blind, randomised, controlled, phase 3, non-inferiority trial. The Lancet
• 11 Mar: Another step towards defeating meningitis. The Lancet
• 11 Mar: Five years on: how COVID was the catalyst for Africa’s genomic revolution. Nature
• 11 Mar: Rethinking the benefits of digital adherence technologies for tuberculosis treatment. The Lancet
• 11 Mar: Pharmacokinetics and safety of once-yearly lenacapavir: a phase 1, open-label study. The Lancet
• 11 Mar: The potential for annual long-acting HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. The Lancet
• 11 Mar: Gilead data suggest once-yearly shot of PrEP drug blocks HIV infection. STAT
• 11 Mar: Rift Valley fever kills both livestock and people, and it's becoming more common. Gavi
• 11 Mar: Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally. The New York Times
• 11 Mar: USAid employees told to destroy classified documents, email shows. The Guardian
• 11 Mar: Newly Launched African Epidemic Fund to Strengthen Health Security. Africa CDC
• 11 Mar: Public health priorities for mpox clade Ib in pregnant, breastfeeding, and paediatric populations in DR Congo. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• 11 Mar: ‘Miracle’ Aids drug ‘may give protection for a year’. The Telegraph
• 11 Mar: Germany’s Future Coalition Faces a Tough Choice on Global Development as US and UK Pull Back. CGD
• 12 Mar: Long-acting PrEP for adolescent girls and young women. The Lancet HIV
• 12 Mar: Safety, tolerability, and acceptability of long-acting injectable cabotegravir for HIV prevention in cisgender female adolescents (HPTN 084-01): a single-arm, open-label, phase 2b trial. The Lancet HIV
• 12 Mar: USAID funding cuts jeopardize breakthrough drugs and research. Devex
• 12 Mar: Why increasing rates of tuberculosis in the UK and US should concern everyone. Gavi
• 12 Mar: Trump's new 'loyalty test' for UN and aid groups. Devex
• 12 Mar: Opinion: Trump’s war on science imperils global development and cooperation. Devex
• 12 Mar: Understanding the expectations, positions and ambitions of LMICs during pandemic treaty negotiations, and the factors contributing to them. PLOS Global Public Health
• 12 Mar: Team behind immunity breakthrough plan to unleash ‘natural antibacterials’ on AMR superbugs. The Telegraph
• 12 Mar: The looming antibiotic emergency and why the time for global action is now. The Telegraph
• 12 Mar: Scientific review of protocols to enhance informativeness of global health clinical trials. BMC
• 12 Mar: 5-strain meningitis vaccine shows promise in very young kids. CIDRAP
• 13 Mar: Inside the lab breeding malaria-resistant GM mosquitoes. Reuters
• 13 Mar: Tanzania reports first mpox cases as African officials look for more vaccine doses. CIDRAP
• 13 Mar: Devex CheckUp: USAID cuts threaten global health research. Devex
• 13 Mar: Mosquitoes being genetically modified to kill the malaria parasite they carry. Sky News
• 13 Mar: Kenya's Delayed R21 Malaria Vaccine Rollout - A Costly Gamble. All Africa
• 13 Mar: Marburg Outbreak Ends in Tanzania, but Africa Faces a Rising Tide of Health Crises. Health Policy Watch
• 13 Mar: Cuts to USAID-funded research another blow to global HIV response. Devex
• 13 Mar: Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers Funded by Federal Aid. The New York Times
• 13 Mar: WHO welcomes end of Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania. Reuters
• 13 Mar: Gene drive modified mosquitoes offer new tool for malaria elimination efforts. Imperial College London
• 13 Mar: When Combatting Ebola and other Outbreak-Prone Pathogens, Global Health is American’s Health. AJTMH
• 13 Mar: Gavi welcomes first-ever prequalification of a maternal RSV vaccine. Gavi
• 13 Mar: US aid cuts are hurting Africa’s ability to respond to disease outbreaks, health chief says. AP
• 14 Mar: Exclusive: Inside USAID's post-mortem program review. Devex
• 14 Mar: USAID implementing partners told government must pay up. Devex
• 14 Mar: How the UK and China can promote global health innovation. China-Britain Business Council
• 14 Mar: In wake of federal funding cuts, Johns Hopkins scales back USAID-supported work around the globe. Johns Hopkins University
• 14 Mar: The USAID Cuts: Little Sign of Mercy for “Life-Saving” Health Programs. CGD
• 14 Mar: Opinion: Civil society has a crucial role in shaping global public health. Devex
• 14 Mar: From Albania to Zambia: List of Cancelled USAID Projects Provides Insight into US Influence. Health Policy Watch
• 14 Mar: The NIH’s Grant Terminations Are ‘Utter and Complete Chaos’. The Atlantic
• 14 Mar: Aid workers warn ‘people are dying and they’re going to continue dying’ as funding cuts hit. The Guardian
• 14 Mar: Health Rounds: Birth control pill for men moves closer to reality. Reuters
• 15 Mar: Hundreds of Thousands Will Die. The New Yorker
• 15 Mar: A call for health R&D prioritisation and governance mechanisms in Africa. The Lancet
• 15 Mar: Why Do Health Inequality Solutions Keep Failing?. Health Policy Watch
• 15 Mar: ‘I Cried Every Day’—How a Noma Survivor Turned Tragedy Into Triumph. Health Policy Watch
• 15 Mar: How Many Lives Does US Foreign Aid Save?. CGD
• 15 Mar: Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. The New York Times
• 15 Mar: Latin American researchers denounce economic and cultural inequities in the global scientific publishing system. MedicalXpress
• 16 Mar: The devastating impact of Trump’s slashing foreign aid, in 3 charts. Vox
• 16 Mar: Delayed malaria vaccine rollout a costly gamble. Business Daily
• 16 Mar: Exclusive: Inside the closed-door meeting on USAID’s future. Devex
• 17 Mar: Injectable PrEP use leads to zero new HIV infections among gay, trans and non-binary Brazilian. AIDSmap
• 17 Mar: Burundi introduces malaria vaccine into routine immunization. Gavi
• 17 Mar: NIH-sponsored trial of Lassa vaccine opens. NIAID
• 17 Mar: Seth Berkley warns of an era of ‘polyepidemics’ as cooperation crumbles. Devex
• 17 Mar: Uganda receives first pediatric drug for schistosomiasis. What's next?. Devex
• 17 Mar: Priority knowledge gaps for schistosomiasis research and development in the World Health Organization Africa Region. Infectious Diseases of Poverty
• 17 Mar: Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants. KFF
• 17 Mar: Global burden of malaria before and after the COVID-19 pandemic based on the global burden of disease study 2021. Nature
• 17 Mar: Scientists may have finally developed pill to cure Ebola. The Independent
• 17 Mar: UK aid cuts will undermine global health and pose a risk to children’s lives. BMJ
• 17 Mar: As bird flu continues to spread, Trump administration sidelines key pandemic preparedness office. CNN
• 17 Mar: 14 days of high-dose versus low-dose primaquine treatment in patients with Plasmodium vivax infection in Cambodia: a randomised, single-centre, open-label efficacy study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• 17 Mar: High-dose primaquine reduces vivax relapses: time for change. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• 17 Mar: Safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of a condensed, multi-dose prime regimen of PfSPZ Vaccine for the prevention of Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection. Malaria Journal
• 17 Mar: Grim Global Impact of US Funds Withdrawal; WHO Mulls ‘Terrible Choices’. Health Policy Watch
• 17 Mar: Democratic lawmakers push Rubio, Trump administration for USAID answers. Devex
• 17 Mar: USAID Funding Saved Millions of Children’s Lives. Recent Cuts Put It in Jeopardy. Scientific American
• 18 Mar: Exclusive-Gates warns White House he can’t fill shortfalls in US global health funding. WTVB
• 18 Mar: Malaria Vaccination Gains Momentum As WHO Targets 25 Countries By 2025. MSN
• 18 Mar: ‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts. The Guardian
• 18 Mar: Op-ed: Why the EU must renew its commitment to global public health. The Parliament Magazine
• 18 Mar: Devex Invested: Europe takes note but no action amid USAID collapse. Devex
• 18 Mar: Bill Gates reportedly warned Trump his foundation won’t be able to fund global health gaps if the administration keeps making major cuts. Fortune
• 18 Mar: Bill Gates Advocates for Global Health Initiatives Amid U.S. Funding Cuts. Devidiscourse
• 18 Mar: Life After USAID: Africa's Development, Education, and Health Care. Think Global Health
• 18 Mar: Mpox vaccination: a dose of protection, but is it enough?. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• 18 Mar: ‘No one can fill that gap’: Why a global health leader sees U.S. funding as irreplaceable. STAT
• 18 Mar: Mpox in Uganda is now responsible for 40% of Africa’s new cases. BMJ
• 18 Mar: CDC issues alert about ongoing dengue threat. CIDRAP
• 18 Mar: Measles Vaccination, Disease Surveillance and Labs Hit Hardest by US Budget Cuts. Health Policy Watch
• 18 Mar: Nigeria Allocates N700 Billion To Combat Tuberculosis, Malaria, HIV – Ogah. The Independent
• 19 Mar: What will happen if Trump cuts the US’s Global Fund contributions? We work it out. BHEKISISA
• 19 Mar: What research is important to prepare and respond to H5N1 influenza outbreaks?. WHO
• 19 Mar: WHO localization strategy - Strengthening local engagements and collaborations for more effective health emergency management. WHO
• 19 Mar: ECDC and Africa CDC discuss deeper collaboration for global health security. Africa CDC
• 19 Mar: Exploiting fungus growth for rapid and affordable vaccine development. CEPI
• 19 Mar: Why malaria still accounts for 40% of hospital cases in Kasese. The Monitor
• 19 Mar: FDA warns Aspen Pharmacare, Africa’s biggest drugmaker, over sterility issues at a key plant. STAT
• 19 Mar: Peter Marocco departs USAID, remains at State Department. Devex
• 19 Mar: International Geneva in crisis: the fallout from US aid cuts in numbers. Geneva Solutions
• 19 Mar: Devex Newswire: Judge brings DOGE to heel over USAID dismantling. Devex
• 19 Mar: Newfound bacterial compound kills fungi that are resistant to multiple antifungals. Fierce Biotech
• 19 Mar: Trump Administration Considers Scaling Back H.I.V. Efforts at C.D.C.. The New York Times
• 19 Mar: Opinion: How AI can rejuvenate imaging equipment to ramp up TB screening. Devex
• 19 Mar: Trump aides circulate plan for complete revamp of foreign aid programs. Politico
• 19 Mar: Smart spending to combat global health threats. OECD
• 19 Mar: Estimates: Jynneos mpox vaccine 84% and 35% effective in people without, with HIV. CIDRAP
• 20 Mar: Could US foreign aid cuts fuel a superbug crisis?. Devex
• 20 Mar: African leaders take stock of health cuts, chart path forward. CIDRAP
• 20 Mar: Acceptance of a malaria vaccine among caregivers of sick children under 5 years of age in Burundi. Malaria Journal
• 20 Mar: US funding cuts risk spread of hepatitis. Devex
• 20 Mar: Memo lays out plan to replace USAID with new humanitarian agency. Devex
• 20 Mar: Africa CDC: Aid Cuts Will Result in Millions More African Deaths. Health Policy Watch
• 20 Mar: How combining vaccines saves money and lives. Gavi
• 20 Mar: New study suggests Ebola could be cured with a pill. Gavi
• 20 Mar: CEPI and AstraZeneca to advance discovery into novel antibody to help prevent infection during outbreaks. CEPI
• 20 Mar: Schistosomiasis: the hidden struggle for diagnosis and control. LSTM
• 20 Mar: A jab that could protect against HIV for a year at a time, and other highlights from major conference. Spotlight
• 20 Mar: We Are the Feet on the Ground Fighting TB: Voices from South Africa. Medicines Patent Pool
• 20 Mar: Supporting policy-makers tackling drug-resistant TB. TDR
• 20 Mar: WHO calls for urgent action to address worldwide disruptions in tuberculosis services putting millions of lives at risk.WHO
• 20 Mar: World TB Day 2025 quiz: Innovating to end TB. GHTC
• 20 Mar: Threat of HIV and tuberculosis drug resistance after US funding cuts. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• 21 Mar: Unpacking proposals to overhaul US foreign aid. Devex
• 21 Mar: Can Managed Entry Agreements Help LMICs Navigate the Rising Cost of Medicines?. CGD
• 21 Mar: Has USAID spending been cut by less than we thought?. Devex
• 21 Mar: Tuberculosis groups struggle with loss of US funding. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• 21 Mar: Tuberculosis preventive therapy: scientific and ethical considerations for trials of ultra-short regimens. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• 21 Mar: Asymptomatic tuberculosis: undetected and underestimated, but not unimportant. The Lancet
• 21 Mar: Calculating the future: how Gavi figures out how many lives vaccines have saved. Gavi
• 21 Mar: Promising Phase 3 Trial of Tuberculosis Vaccine is Running Ahead of Schedule. Health Policy Watch
• 21 Mar: ‘We’re living in the Twilight Zone’: Researchers decry Trump administration assault on science. STAT
• 21 Mar: Are new TB vaccines finally within reach?. Vaccines Today
• 21 Mar: World Tuberculosis Day: unite, invest and deliver to end TB. UNAIDS
• 21 Mar: African scientists set genomics ‘world speed record’ in confirming Ebola outbreak in Uganda. Nature Africa
• 22 Mar: Enhancing TB diagnosis and treatment for children in Africa. TDR
• 22 Mar: Rachael Burke: integrating equitable HIV and TB research and care. The Lancet
• 22 Mar: The demise of USAID: time to rethink foreign aid?. The Lancet
• 22 Mar: Four breakthrough studies could revolutionize tuberculosis treatment. News Medical
• 23 Mar: Government ready to invest in gene drive technology to fight malaria as African scientists push for approval. GBC Ghana
• 23 Mar: A late-stage tuberculosis vaccine is making its way through clinical trials. Contagion Live
• 23 Mar: Long Seen As The ‘Pandemic Of The Poor,’ TB Is A Threat To Us All. Forbes
• 23 Mar: America’s European allies are trying to pry their unspent money back from USAID. AP
• 23 Mar: Rethinking Sustainable Health Financing in Africa: From Dependence to Partnership. Social Health Protection Network
• 24 Mar: New funding for vaccine to protect against deadly MERS coronavirus. CEPI
• 24 Mar: Q&A: "Moment of reckoning" in fight against AIDS, TB, malaria. Context News
• 24 Mar: Gavi terminates COVID vaccine deal with Clover, demands $224M repayment. Fierce Pharma
• 24 Mar: A faster rollout of malaria vaccines would save many lives. The Economist
• 24 Mar: Tuberculosis disease among people with HIV: therapeutic advances. The Lancet HIV
• 24 Mar: Broadly neutralizing antibodies show promise for long-acting HIV treatments. POZ
• 24 Mar: Pandemic Preparedness in African Countries: Status Quo and the Way Forward. APRI
• 24 Mar: Devex Newswire: Has anyone emerged from USAID's downfall unscathed?. Devex
• 24 Mar: Why PEPFAR has bigger problems than reauthorization. Devex
• 24 Mar: The Coming Global Health Crisis. Foreign Affairs
• 24 Mar: Are new TB vaccines finally within reach?. Vaccines Today
• 24 Mar: New MIT method promises less painful drug injections with tiny crystals. News Medical
• 24 Mar: How much foreign aid is spent domestically rather than overseas?. Our World in Data
• 24 Mar: Pandemic Preparedness in African Countries: Status Quo and the Way Forward. APRI
• 24 Mar: Why is the fight against tuberculosis far from over? The answer in four charts. World Bank
• 24 Mar: Scaling up clinical research capacity in Africa requires more non-communicable disease studies. The Lancet
• 24 Mar: REPORT: Experts outline priorities for Rift Valley fever vaccine development. IFAKARA Health Institute
• 25 Mar: Malaria confirmed as cause of deadly outbreak in DRC. Africanews
• 25 Mar: UK experts urge prioritising research into 24 types of deadly pathogen families. The Guardian
• 25 Mar: Navigating US global health aid cuts: What can past donor exits teach us?. Brookings
• 25 Mar: Trump Slashed International Aid. Geneva Is Feeling the Impact. Bloomberg
• 25 Mar: Civil Society Organisations Face Backlash After Trump, Musk Link USAID Grantees to ‘Terrorism’. Health Policy Watch
• 25 Mar: Coinfection of COVID-19 and malaria: clinical profiles, interactions, and strategies for effective control. Malaria Journal
• 25 Mar: PEPFAR Reauthorisation Expires With No Clear Path for Renewed Aid. Health Policy Watch
• 25 Mar: TAG Condemns Plans to Eliminate Vital HIV programs at the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. TAG
• 25 Mar: PQ Pulse: A malaria product developer’s perspective on breaking down silos. GHTC
• 25 Mar: Time For Sunset Strategy? Global Health After GAVI & The Global Fund. Geneva Health Files
• 25 Mar: Congo lab testing confirms deadly disease outbreak was malaria. Reuters
• 25 Mar: A new tool to keep breastfeeding moms safe from HIV infection. Jhpeigo
• 25 Mar: How Zika virus knocks out our immune defenses. MedicalXpress
• 25 Mar: Hepatitis B: A new rapid diagnostic test to halt mother-to-child transmission. MedicalXpress
• 25 Mar: Excitement builds for long-acting TB treatments, but research still at early stage. Spotlight
• 26 Mar: High hopes for major TB vaccine study recently launched in Paarl. Spotlight
• 26 Mar: U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries. The New York Times
• 26 Mar: Ousted USAID health lead says US fumbled Uganda’s Ebola response. Devex
• 26 Mar: Kenyan govt internal memo warns of ‘domino effect’ of US health cuts. Devex
• 26 Mar: To fight malaria, scientists want to poison mosquitos—with human blood. National Geographic
• 26 Mar: AMA1-targeting antibodies provide multi-strain malaria protection. BioWorld
• 26 Mar: Nitisinone makes human blood lethal to mosquitoes and outlasts ivermectin, study shows. MedicalXpress
• 26 Mar: First hormone-free male birth control pill clears another milestone. MedicalXpress
• 26 Mar: The Liverpool team preparing for future pandemics. BBC
• 26 Mar: Impact of an international HIV funding crisis on HIV infections and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study. The Lancet HIV
• 26 Mar: Modelling study shows staggering impact of HIV funding cuts. The Lancet HIV
• 26 Mar: MedAccess and dsm-firmenich partner to secure vitamin A pricing for edible oil fortification in low- and middle-income countries. MedAccess
• 26 Mar: Gavi does more than save the lives of children – cutting it will impoverish us all. The Telegraph
• 26 Mar: Improving the Financing of Supply Chains. CGD
• 26 Mar: Combining antibiotics to tackle antimicrobial resistance. Nature Microbiology
• 26 Mar: Immediate cuts to UK aid budget announced in the Spring Statement – Bond reaction. BOND
• 26 Mar: Scientists use alpaca antibodies to make new pandemic flu drug. The Telegraph
• 26 Mar: Disease surveillance programs worldwide are suddenly in limbo. Science
• 26 Mar: The Lessons Not Learned From COVID-19. Foreign Policy
• 26 Mar: Breakthrough discovery could lead to new class of antibiotics. News Medical
• 26 Mar: Clinical Trials in Global Health 2025. The Lancet Global Health
• 27 Mar: Oxford launches first human trial of aerosol vaccine delivery. University of Oxford
• 27 Mar: Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – study. The Guardian
• 27 Mar: The USAID awards the Trump administration killed — and kept. Devex
• 27 Mar: Vaccines group Gavi says U.S. has not confirmed it will end funding. AP
• 27 Mar: I’m the Former CEO of Gavi. Here’s What’s at Risk if Trump Cuts Vaccine Aid. Time
• 27 Mar: Drug used for rare genetic disorders kills mosquitoes capable of malaria transmission. LSTM
• 27 Mar: First, jab more babies. The Economist
• 27 Mar: US Expresses Interest in ‘Health as Business’ at Meeting with African Leaders After Huge Funding Cuts. Health Policy Watch
• 27 Mar: PrEP in the Balance: Hopes and fears in 2025. AVAC
• 27 Mar: Why the Trump Administration's Plan to Cut Funding to Gavi is Shortsighted. CGD
• 27 Mar: One million children could die if US cuts funding, charity warns. BBC
• 27 Mar: African health officials meet with US counterparts amid news of Gavi cuts. CIDRAP
• 27 Mar: Trump targets vaccine programmes and malaria initiatives. The Nation
• 27 Mar: A New Era for Global Health: Can African Countries Agree a New Compact with External Donors?. CGD
• 27 Mar: The devil’s in the detail: an appraisal of the use of innovative financing mechanisms for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. Globalisation & Health
• 27 Mar: Africa CDC and RECs create Synergies between Regional Procurement Mechanisms and the African Pooled Procurement Mechanism (APPM). Africa CDC
• 27 Mar: Global health perspectives on antibacterial drug discovery and the preclinical pipeline. Nature Microbiology
• 27 Mar: Up to 11 mln new HIV infections expected after cuts. SciDevNet
• 28 Mar: Fruits of decades of Aids vaccine research imperilled by Trump’s withdrawal of US funding. The Straits Times
• 28 Mar: With US aid cuts, local actors adapt HIV response to new reality. Geneva Health Solutions
• 28 Mar: A New Era for Global Health: Can African Countries Agree a New Compact with External Donors?. CGD
• 28 Mar: Global health chiefs urge EU to step up amid US funding cuts. Politico
• 28 Mar: Mothers hail historic malaria vaccination roll-out in Burundi. Gavi
• 28 Mar: Could a drug make our blood toxic to mosquitoes?. Gavi
• 28 Mar: Funding gaps threaten global health security, warns OECD – and other top health stories. WEF
• 29 Mar: Yap Boum II: coordinating the mpox response in Africa. The Lancet
• 29 Mar: Study reveals how Chagas parasite invades human cells. MedicalXpress
• 29 Mar: Another step towards defeating meningitis. The Lancet
• 31 Mar: WHO proposes a Billion Dollar Cut to its Budget for 2026-27 to US$4.2 billion, DG Signals Plans to Shed Jobs Citing $600 Million Hole This Year. Geneva Health Files
• 31 Mar: AI-enhanced self-amplifying mRNA vaccine set to combat one of the deadliest known viruses. CEPI
• 31 Mar: Boosting advanced-stage clinical trial capacity in East and Central Africa to combat regional epidemic threats. CEPI
• 31 Mar: Gavi’s funding is axed as Trump shuts down research on covid and pandemic threats. BMJ
• 31 Mar: Parasite and vector circadian clocks mediate efficient malaria transmission. Nature
• 31 Mar: Flagship Gavi vaccine projects face axe if US funding stops, CEO warns. The Telegraph
• 31 Mar: Nature's secrets: What chimpanzees can teach us about fighting malaria. The Standard
• 31 Mar: WHO warns that faint lines on rapid tests may cause malaria misdiagnosis. MSN
• 31 Mar: WHO's Strategic Group of Experts charts bold path to strengthen global immunization amid new challenges. WHO
Upcoming Meetings/ Webinars
12th EDCTP Forum
Date: June 15 - 20, 2025
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
The 12th EDCTP Forum will serve as a pivotal gathering for stakeholders in the field of global health research and development. This event aims to facilitate collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and networking among researchers, policymakers, and funders committed to improving health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
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