RESOURCES

• The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2019 | UN
• WHO consolidated guideline on self-care interventions for health: sexual and reproductive health and rights | WHO
• Acting on the Call 2019: A Focus on the Journey to Self-Reliance for Preventing Child and Maternal Deaths
  | USAID
• Tackling the Triple Transition in Global Health Procurement | Center for Global Development
• U.S. Global Health Legislation Tracker | Kaiser Family Foundation

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• New 2021-2025 high level strategy to leave no-one behind with immunisation approved by Gavi Board | GAVI
• Ministers of Health agree next steps for Sahel Malaria Elimination Initiative | WHO Africa
• Helen Clark appointed Board Chair of PMNCH | PMNCH
• German Healthcare Partnership (GHP) expands its strategic alignment / Launch of GHA | German Health Alliance
• Mylan and Upjohn, a Division of Pfizer, to Combine, Creating a New Champion for Global Health Uniquely Positioned to Fulfill the World’s Need for Medicine | Mylan & Upjohn
• Joint Paris G7 / G5 Sahel Communique | G7
• At 1-year mark, we mourn the lives lost to Ebola, and call for solidarity | WHO
• Business Fights Poverty Magazine Issue 2: Purposeful Collaboration | Business Fights Poverty

NEWS & INSIGHTS

• HPV Vaccines Are Reducing Infections, Warts — and Probably Cancer | NYTimes
• Measles vaccination begins in Ebola-hit Congo amid fears of ‘massive loss of life’ | The Guardian
• Dr. Abdourahmane Diallo: Why the elimination of malaria matters more than ever | Devex
• Time to work together, say family planning and conservation groups | Devex
• Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker: The Man With the $13 Billion Checkbook | NYTimes
• Pandemic bonds face scrutiny after Ebola outbreak yet to trigger payout | Reuters
• Leveraging the private sector to fill the global health funding gap | Devex

RESEARCH

• Long-term incidence of severe malaria following RTS,S/AS01 vaccination in children and infants in Africa: an open-label 3-year extension study of a phase 3 randomised controlled tria | The Lancet
• How Are Insecticide-Treated Bednets Used in Ugandan Households? A Comprehensive Characterization of Bednet Adherence Using a Remote Monitor | The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• Accelerated evolution and spread of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum takes down the latest first-line antimalarial drug in southeast Asia | The Lancet

EVENTS

• September 4-6 | World Economic Forum on Africa | Cape Town, South Africa

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