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PDP Press Releases/ statements

IAVI

• 4 Aug: Phase 1 clinical trial of HIV vaccine starts in Africa to evaluate immune responses to highly networked HIV T-cell epitopes

• 28 Aug: IAVI 2024 Annual Report

IVCC

 • 19 Aug: World Mosquito Day 2025: A new world, crises, and opportunities

TB Alliance

• 1 Aug: New Study: India Could Save Lives & Costs with Next-Generation DR-TB Treatments

• 1 Aug: Bangladesh TB Leaders Build Momentum for Shorter, Safer Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment

GARDP 

• 18 Aug: Japan commits new funding to develop treatments for drug-resistant infections

Population Council

 • 26 Jun: Dapivirine vaginal ring recommended as an HIV prevention option for adolescent girls

PATH

 • 2 Sep: Turning trust into coverage: Youth-led efforts raise malaria vaccine uptake

• 21 Jul: R&D experts to create playbooks that map immune markers in deadly diseases

MMV

• 20 Aug: Pyramax ® label update: Now includes information for the treatment of pregnant women with malaria

DNDi

• 2 Sep: DNDi Brochure: A revolution in medicine starts here

• 8 Aug: Statement from DNDi on Kenya’s elimination of rhodesiense sleeping sickness as a public health problem 

• 12 Aug: DNDi calls for nominations for private sector Board member 

• 21 Aug: DNDi’s briefing note for the 75th Session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for Africa

• 22 Aug: DNDi receives Japan’s Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize 2025 for its work to develop new treatments for neglected diseases in Africa 

FIND

•  7 Aug: FIND Congratulates Kenya for Eliminating Human African Trypanosomiasis as a Public Health Problem

•  30 Aug: FIND Update on Governance and Financial Reforms

IVI

• 6 Aug: International Vaccine Institute joins CEPI’s global vaccine testing network to strengthen pandemic preparedness

• 26 Aug: Health leaders, partners pledge to catalyse Africa’s production of medicines and vaccines

• 27 Aug: WHO Africa, International Vaccine Institute sign agreement to boost vaccine production in Africa

EVI

• 14 Aug: EVI begins clinical trial for promising malaria vaccine in Burkina Faso

MDGH

• 20 Feb: U.S. FDA expands indication for moxidectin to treat river blindness in children as young as four

PDP Funder News/Announcements

• 4 Aug: Gates Foundation Announces Catalytic Funding to Spark New Era of Women-Centered Research and Innovation. Gates Foundation

• 4 Aug: What $2.5 billion can do: Four innovations advancing women’s health. Gates Foundation

• 13 Aug: Unitaid-funded research drives WHO recommendation of spatial repellents – the first new malaria vector control tool in decades. Unitaid

• 19 Aug: Unitaid and Jhpiego launch US$26.5 million initiative to curb rising antimalarial drug resistance in Africa. Unitaid

• 21 Aug: Unitaid announces two new flagship investments to boost regional manufacturing of diagnostics and medicines in Africa. Unitaid

• 28 Aug: Professor Marcel Tanner steps down as High Representative of the EDCTP Association. EDCTP

Funder Announcement Archives

     •     2014 PDP Funder Announcements

     •     2013 PDP Funder Announcements

New PDP Publications

•  25 Apr: Rethinking antibodies for infectious diseases?. IAVI

Other Reports/ Publications

• 22 Aug: Pipeline Report » 2025 Antiretroviral Therapy. AVAC

• 22 Aug: Pipeline Report » 2025 HIV Vaccines and Passive Immunization. AVAC

• 22 Aug: Pipeline Report » 2025 PrEP and Microbicides. AVAC

• 22 Aug: Pipeline Report » 2025 Research Toward a Cure and Immune-Based Therapies. AVAC

Related Press Releases/ Announcements/Articles

• 1 Sep: EMA and WHO mark ten years of collaboration to advance global access to medicines. EMA

• 1 Sep: Mitigating antimicrobial resistance by innovative solutions in AI (MARISA): a modified James Lind Alliance analysis. Nature

• 1 Sep: Pan American Health Organization Targeted in New Round of US Funding Cut. Health Policy Watch

• 1 Sep: Nigeria Scales Up Mpox Prevention with Targeted Vaccination in High-Burden States. WHO

• 1 Sep: To stop disease X, we must invest in African health. The Telegraph

• 1 Aug: Emerging landscape for long-acting HIV prevention. The Lancet HIV

• 1 Aug: Safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of an annual tenofovir alafenamide silicone subdermal implant in South African women: a two-part, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, first-in-human, phase 1 trial. The Lancet HIV

• 1 Aug: Senate appropriators advance spending bill rejecting White House cuts to medical research and global health. GHTC

• 1 Aug: ​​​​Mpox testing initiative launched in Africa as outbreaks continue. CIDRAP

• 1 Aug: Africa’s push for HIV independence advances with first procurement of locally made medicines. UN News

• 1 Aug: Prioritizing countries for TB vaccine readiness research using a global stakeholder-centric approach. PLOS Global Public Health

• 2 Sep: A widening divide: Global health research risks drifting away from real-world disease needs, study warns. MedicalXpress

• 2 Sep: New Proposal to Empower Developing Country Manufacturers During Pandemics. Health Policy Watch

• 2 Sep: USAID's 'final mission' has just ended. Now what?. Devex

• 2 Sep: The UK as a Global Partner of Choice for R&D – will it catch on?. HEPI

• 2 Sep: A combined designed CSP and Pfs48/45 infection and transmission blocking vaccine for malaria. Nature

• 2 Sep: Philanthropic initiative launches long-term fund to replace USAID stopgap. Devex

• 2 Sep: Monitoring Drug Resistant Strains of Malaria Utilizing Genomic Sequencing. Contagion Live

• 4 Aug: Just 1% of health R&D targets women. The Gates Foundation aims to change that with $2.5 billion push. Fortune

• 4 Aug: New lenacapavir guidelines from WHO. The Lancet Infectious Diseases

• 4 Aug: Gates Foundation pledges $2.5 billion to women’s health initiatives. STAT

• 4 Aug: Health Experts Call for Greater Investment in Women-Led TB Solutions. Health Policy Watch

• 5 Aug: New study shows how E. coli can become resistant to a key antibiotic during treatment. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

• 5 Aug: Opinion: Antimicrobial resistance and the fight to prevent a real-life The Last of Us. The Telegraph

• 5 Aug: Rwanda reconsiders malaria vaccines amid surprise surge. SciDevNet

• 5 Aug: Wellcome Trust to adapt strategy in response to US research cuts. Science Business

• 5 Aug: Elton John AIDS Foundation plugging gaps in HIV funding. The Lancet HIV

• 5 Aug: How Mpox resurgence reignites Kenya’s vaccine manufacturing ambitions. Business Daily

• 6 Aug: AVAC Condemns Administration’s Further Actions to Dismantle and Deconstruct U.S. Government Vaccine Research and Delivery Infrastructure. AVAC

• 6 Aug: Why mRNA Vaccines Are So Revolutionary—And What’s at Stake if We Lose Them. Scientific American

• 6 Aug: Federal mRNA funding cut is ‘most dangerous public health decision’ ever, expert says. PBS Newshour

• 6 Aug: African Summit Looks for Solutions to Health Funding Crisis. Health Policy Watch

• 6 Aug: Revealed: new vaccine target to block malaria transmission. WEHI

• 6 Aug: Leading science labs in Korea join world’s largest vaccine testing network. CEPI

• 6 Aug: WHO Decries US Cancellation of mRNA Vaccine Research as “Unfortunate and Untimely”. Health Policy Watch

• 6 Aug: WHO releases new target product profile for diagnostic tests to detect serious bacterial infections in young infants. WHO

• 6 Aug: Australian researchers uncover new target for next-generation malaria vaccines. News Medical

• 7 Aug: Collaboration Enabled South Africa’s Success in Tackling Tuberculosis – But Funding Cuts Threaten Progress. Health Policy Watch

• 7 Aug: The Future is Now: How Africa’s Innovation Is Reshaping Global Health. FINN Partners

• 7 Aug: New strategies for HIV prevention in a shifting funding landscape. Touch Infectious Diseases

• 7 Aug: Addressing Transgender Erasure in HIV Clinical Trials: The Scorecard for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Inclusion. American Journal of Public Health

• 7 Aug: Drug turns human blood into a mosquito killer. News Medical

• 7 Aug: The role of gender in antimicrobial resistance: Findings from a scoping review. Global Public Health

• 7 Aug: Wealth over welfare: Mpox vaccination delayed in Disputed Region of Congo as high-income countries stockpile vaccines. BMJ Global Health

• 7 Aug: Princeton researchers develop CRISPR-based tuberculosis test using sputum. 360Dx

• 7 Aug: Mixed mpox picture in Africa shows successes, but challenges in newly affected countries. CIDRAP

• 7 Aug: New research pipeline fuels the development of universal vaccines. News Medical

• 7 Aug: FDA tightens label of Valneva's chikungunya vaccine, lifts pause in older adult. Fierce Pharma

• 7 Aug: Tedros says 400 WHO jobs phased out – half in Geneva. Geneva Solutions

• 7 Aug: WHO designates new WHO-Listed Authorities, strengthening global access to quality-assured medical products. WHO

• 7 Aug: Losing protection: The United States helped beat back malaria in Guinea. Now, the disease is set to soar. Science

• 8 Aug: Climate change could make Chagas more common in the U.S. STAT

• 8 Aug: Patient-centred approaches for drug-resistant tuberculosis. The Lancet Infectious Diseases

• 8 Aug: Patient-centred approaches for drug-resistant tuberculosis – Authors' reply. The Lancet Infectious Diseases

• 8 Aug: Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants. Nature

• 8 Aug: Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them. Nature

• 8 Aug: China deploys ‘cannibal’ mosquitoes and killer fish to fight chikungunya. The Telegraph

• 8 Aug: Ghana approves breakthrough malaria drug for babies — but research is ‘on ice’ amid US funding cuts. The World

• 8 Aug: Mpox cases drop by 58% across Africa but new outbreaks raise alarm — Africa CDC. The Nation

• 9 Aug: Worldwide genetic diversity of Plasmodium vivax Pv47 is consistent with natural selection by anopheline mosquitoes. Nature

• 9 Aug: Beneath the rhetoric of global justice: Reinforcement of global hegemonic governmentality by South Korea’s Global Vaccine Hub Project. Globalisation & Health

• 11 Aug: Fractional-order model of malaria incorporating treatment and prevention strategies. Nature

• 11 Aug: Fast-Tracking Vaccine Manufacturing: CEPI’s Rapid Response Framework for the 100 Days Mission. MDPI

• 11 Aug: No One in the White House Knows How to Stop Ebola. The Atlantic

• 11 Aug: RFK Jr has slashed vaccine research. You need to know how perilous that is for the world. The Guardian

• 11 Aug: Inside the Red Zone: Sierra Leone’s terrifying mpox outbreak. The Telegraph

• 11 Aug: Research gaps for children who are HIV-exposed but uninfected: outcomes of a research prioritisation workshop. The Lancet HIV

• 11 Aug: Tackling antimicrobial resistance in people who are immunocompromised: leveraging diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship The Lancet Infectious Diseases

• 11 Aug: Malaria vaccine mimics natural immunity with high precision. Medical Xpress

• 11 Aug: West Africa Launches Landmark Study On Lassa Fever, Malaria Coinfection. Science Nigeria

• 11 Aug: US science funding cuts are a global health emergency. BMJ

• 11 Aug: Exclusive: NIH ponders overhauling HIV budget to capitalize on prevention breakthrough. Science

• 12 Aug: FDA grants priority review for new oral gonorrhea antibiotic. CIDRAP

• 12 Aug: The patent landscape of Chagas disease vaccines indicates major underinvestment in an emerging global health threat. Nature

• 12 Aug: US has slashed global vaccine funding. If philanthropy fills the gap, there could be some trade-offs. Medical Xpress

• 12 Aug: Community readiness and acceptance for the implementation of the malaria vaccine among caretakers of at-risk children in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Malaria Journal

• 12 Aug: South Sudan launches second phase of R21 malaria vaccine introduction in 52 counties to protect children. WHO

• 13 Aug: WHO updates guidance on tuberculosis diagnosis. 360Dx

• 13 Aug: Guinea introduces malaria vaccine into routine immunization. Gavi

• 13 Aug: WHO recommends spatial emanators for malaria vector control and prequalifies first two products. WHO

• 13 Aug: We must stand together for immunization in Africa. Devex

• 13 Aug: Kennedy’s case against mRNA vaccines collapses under his own evidence. STAT

• 13 Aug: Global UNVEIL Initiative launches to fast track lassa fever vaccine development. University of Texas

• 13 Aug: How HIV funding cuts are undermining years of progress in Zimbabwe. Doctors Without Borders

• 13 Aug: "Meningitis was a death sentence": Cameroon's health workers look back on the pre-vaccine era. Gavi

• 13 Aug: Globalizing Vaccines: A Post-COVID Perspective on Industrial Policy, International Health Cooperation, and the Characteristics of Vaccine Production. CGD

• 14 Aug: Accelerating the approval of mpox vaccines based on lessons learnt from COVID-19 vaccines through the lens of regulatory science. BMJ Global Health

• 14 Aug: Malaria resurgence in Africa: confronting the challenges. The Lancet

• 14 Aug: IVI and GAVI: The Future of Vaccination in Developing Countries. The Borgen Project

• 14 Aug: Researchers find signs of regional spread of drug-resistant malaria in Africa. CIDRAP

• 14 Aug: Devex CheckUp: Experts weigh in on the future of global health. Devex

• 14 Aug: Hot springs’ hardy microbes offer new source of antibiotics. Science

• 14 Aug: Current global practice and implications for future research on disseminating health research results to study participants: A systematic review. PLOS Medicine

• 14 Aug: Sustaining efforts to end mpox outbreaks in Africa. WHO

• 14 Aug: AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs. BBC

• 14 Aug: GHF Plus: How Geopolitics Has Reshaped Global Biomedical Investments in 2025. Geneva Health Files

• 14 Aug: Trump administration leaves biotech investors more wary than ever of funding mRNA vaccines. STAT

• 14 Aug: Africa’s Mpox Response: Better Diagnostics One Year into Emergency. Health Policy Watch

• 15 Aug: Malaria vaccine cuts costs, crowds and caregiver fatigue in Nigeria’s Kebbi State. Gavi

• 15 Aug: Africa launches historic malaria vaccine rollout amid funding uncertainty. Nature

• 15 Aug: Larvae-eating fish and anti-mosquito drones: China battles largest-ever chikungunya outbreak. Gavi

• 15 Aug: First volunteers receive Rift Valley fever vaccine in Kenya Phase II trial. Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health 

• 15 Aug: NIH director orders new review of grants in outline of top research priorities. Science

• 15 Aug: Opinion: Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility. Nature

• 15 Aug: Scientists have discovered a potential new treatment for tuberculosis – even drug-resistant strains. Drug Discovery & Development

• 15 Aug: Global Health Watch: NIH swings to implementation science, Court upholds foreign aid freeze, federal grants politicized & violence at US CDC. AVAC

• 15 Aug: Seek Labs aims to disrupt molecular POCT market with portable testing device, TB assay. 360Dx

• 15 Aug: US Non-profits Vow to Fight on After Court Rules They Can’t Challenge Trump Aid Freeze. Health Policy Watch

• 15 Aug: A layered strategy for tackling antimicrobial resistance: the Swiss cheese model for policy, prevention, and engagement. The Lancet Microbe

• 16 Aug: Undoing progress through sudden tuberculosis funding cuts. The Lancet

• 16 Aug: Unifying forces to strengthen pandemic preparedness: a call for a Global Pandemic Risk Observatory. The Lancet

• 16 Aug: Africa CDC Applauds First-Ever Malaria Treatment for Infants Under 5 kg. Africa CDC

• 17 Sep: Country preparedness for the introduction and appropriate use of antibiotics: operational guidance. WHO

• 18 Aug: Climate-driven malaria mortality among children in malaria-endemic areas of Uganda. BMC Public Health

• 18 Aug:'The only good mosquito is a dead one' — on the frontline of the fight against malaria. The Express

• 18 Aug: Buzzkill: The worrying rise in mosquito-borne diseases and how scientists are tackling them. GHTC

• 18 Aug: TICAD spotlight: Japan’s pharma commitment to global health. Devex

• 18 Aug: 2025 Chikungunya outbreak: A global health challenge. News Medical

• 18 Aug: Africa CDC welcomes first malaria treatment for babies as "major advance". Africa News

• 18 Aug: Sequencing of circulating antibodies from a malaria-exposed child provides new insight into immunity. MedicalXpress

• 18 Aug: What it takes to launch a world-first vaccination trial during an outbreak. Gavi

• 18 Aug: A call to strengthen clinical trials capacity in resource-limited settings. BMJ Global Health

• 19 Aug: The High Cost of Pausing Life-Saving Aid. CGD

• 19 Aug: WHO pandemic agreement. WHO

• 19 Aug: Is there really a need for another global body for pandemic preparedness?. The Lancet Microbe

• 19 Aug: Researchers find plasma donors with broad malaria protection. News Medical

• 19 Aug: China Ties Manufacturers’ Access to Pathogen Information to Host Country’s Commitment to Pandemic Agreement. Health Policy Watch

• 19 Aug: How a new global vaccine stockpile will help to counter the ongoing mpox threat. Gavi

• 19 Aug: A Debilitating Virus Surges Globally as Mosquitoes Move With Warming Climate. The New York Times

• 19 Aug: Stage Set for the Techno-Political Negotiations on the WHO Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing (PABS) System, Countries Contest the Role of Experts. Geneva Health Files

• 19 Aug: Effectiveness of the TAK-003 dengue vaccine in adolescents during the 2024 outbreak in São Paulo, Brazil: a test-negative, case–control study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases

• 19 Aug: Efficacies of artemether–lumefantrine, artesunate–amodiaquine, dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine, and artesunate–pyronaridine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children aged 6 months to 10 years in Uganda: a randomised, open-label, phase 4 clinical trial. The Lancet Infectious Diseases

• 19 Aug: Diversifying antimalarial treatment for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Uganda. The Lancet Infectious Diseases

• 20 Aug: A diagnostic gap is fueling Africa’s antimicrobial resistance. Devex

• 20 Aug: Strengthening health research capacity for postgraduate trainees: An indigenous realist evaluation of the ‘African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence’ programme. Health Policy & Planning

• 20 Aug: Japan to donate $550 million to Gavi vaccine alliance over five years. The Japan Times

• 20 Aug: Trump’s global health cuts upend CDC’s malaria work. Politico

• 20 Aug: World Mosquito Day 2025: Europe sets new records for mosquito-borne diseases - ECDC supporting Member States in adapting to ‘new normal’. ECDC

• 20 Aug: Outbreaks of debilitating tropical diseases becoming Europe’s ‘new normal’. The Telegraph

• 20 Aug: New malaria drug for babies offers hope to health workers in Uganda. MedicalXpress

• 20 Aug: In the aftermath of the adoption of the landmark Pandemic Accord: what are the strategic options for its effective implementation in Africa?. Globalisation & Health

• 21 Aug: Landmark African-led research to map the extent of Rift Valley fever impact. CEPI

• 21 Aug: Gates calls on Seoul to raise aid, rethink strategy for greater impact. Korea Herald

• 21 Aug: Dengue-spreading mosquito racing north through Europe as climate warms. Gavi

• 21 Aug: SK Bioscience, Gates Foundation discuss ways to advance global health. The Korea Herald

• 21 Aug: Rewiring science diplomacy. Science

• 21 Aug: Trump Budget Office Is Withholding H.I.V. Funds That Congress Appropriated. The New York Times

• 21 Aug: Mpox deaths, Kenya surge among top concerns in Africa's outbreaks. CIDRAP

• 21 Aug: Senegal’s NTD victory shows progress — but experts warn gains are fragile. Nature Africa

• 21 Aug: Global Advocates Welcome the Launch of Merck’s EXPrESSIVE Program. AVAC

• 21 Aug: CARB-X funds development of vaccine against E coli infections. CIDRAP

• 21 Aug: The prevalence and risk of mortality associated with antimicrobial resistance within nosocomial settings—a global systematic review and meta-analysis of over 20,000 patients. The Lancet

• 22 Aug: US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants. Nature

• 22 Aug: Reductions in development assistance for health funding threaten decades of progress in Africa. PLOS Medicine

• 22 Aug: Supreme Court greenlights $783M in NIH grant cuts tied to Trump's DEI crackdown. Fierce Biotech

• 22 Aug: The long last mile of access to essential medicines: A qualitative study on access barriers to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in Kenya and Ireland. Global Public Health

• 23 Aug: Scientists Strip ‘Diversity’ Language From Research to Keep Federal Grants. Wall Street Journal

• 23 Aug: Kenya-Japan partnership paves way for local vaccine manufacturing by 2027. The Standard

• 23 Aug: How to (or how not to)…Enhance equity in the conduct of Global Health Research: Dimensions and directions for organizations. Health Policy & Planning

• 24 Aug: Burkina Faso says no to Bill Gates’ plan of creating modified species of mosquitoes. Business Insider

• 25 Aug: Botswana declares public health emergency as clinics run out of medicine. Reuters

• 25 Aug: The Lost Promise of Lenacapavir. Foreign Policy

• 25 Aug: Designing Trigger Mechanisms for Epidemic and Pandemic Financing and Response. CGD

• 25 Aug: Whatever happened to ... the race to cure HIV? There's promising new. NPR

• 25 Aug: Should global health initiatives have sunset strategies?. Devex

• 25 Aug: WHO To Shed 600 Jobs At HQ; Early Projections Show Berlin Wins From Proposed Relocation of Key Technical Functions. Geneva Health Files

• 26 Aug: Health leaders, partners pledge to catalyse Africa’s production of medicines and vaccines. WHO

• 26 Aug: WHO’s Low- and Mid-Rank Staff at Risk in face of Pressures to Preserve Costly Jobs at Top. Health Policy Watch

• 26 Aug: Gavi welcomes renewed commitments health equity and security made at TICAD9. Gavi

• 26 Aug: Volatile pyrethroid spatial repellents for preventing mosquito bites: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Science Direct

• 26 Aug: Understanding the traits underlying vaccine-driven virulence evolution in malaria parasites. BioMed Central

• 26 Aug: Kiss goodbye to deadly disease—antibodies neutralize Chagas parasite, offering hope for vaccine. MedicalXpress

• 26 Aug: How a Malaria-Fighting Breakthrough Provides Lasting Protection. UCSF

• 26 Aug: Gates Foundation Quietly Cuts Ties With Firm Linked to Democrats. The New York Times

• 26 Aug: The challenges of PrEP. The Lancet

• 27 Aug: New blood test tracks malaria antibodies at work. Doherty Institute

• 27 Aug: Kenya to launch mpox vaccination drive as cases rise. The Telegraph

• 27 Aug: Adoption of pandemic treaty is historic: Compliance and accountability must now follow. PLOS

• 27 Aug: The most burdensome diseases globally are the least studied, but the gap is narrowing. STAT

• 27 Aug: Breakthrough mosquito repellent protects against malaria for a whole year. Open Access Government

• 27 Aug: Why the wait for effective newborn malaria treatment?. SciDevNet

• 27 Aug: Microbes with memory: why some infections fight back. Gavi

• 27 Aug: Global distribution of research efforts, disease burden, and impact of US public funding withdrawal. Nature

• 27 Aug: Putting the Pandemic Agreement Into Practice: A Case for ASEAN. Think Global Health

• 27 Aug: Advancing the course of HIV genomics research in Africa. BMJ Global Health

• 27 Aug: African health ministers call for urgent action as progress against malaria stalls. WHO AFRO

• 27 Aug: African health ministers commit to strengthen emergency preparedness and response. WHO AFRO

• 27 Aug: SA plans anti-HIV jab roll-out at 300+ clinics by April. By 2027 the government will be buying generics. Bhekisisa

• 27 Aug: Controlled human infection studies: insights into recent advances and key immunological and ethical implementation lessons. Frontiers

• 28 Aug: Chaos in CDC as Kennedy Tries to Remove Director After Vaccine Row. Health Policy Watch

• 28 Aug: A Geneva-based global health foundation came close to ‘collapse’. Where were regulators? . Swiss Info

• 28 Aug: PQ Pulse: AMA’s role in shaping regulatory harmonization in Africa. GHTC

• 28 Aug: Malawi set to run out of TB drugs in a month after US, UK and others cut aid. The Guardian

• 28 Aug: In Malawi, the fight to get HIV services back on track post-USAID cuts. Devex

• 28 Aug: Unraveling the arc of vaccine progress. Science

• 29 Aug: Genetic polymorphism of circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum isolates in children in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Malaria Journal

• 29 Aug: Impact case studies 2025. MedAccess

• 29 Aug: Mpox Cases Rise in Ghana, Philippines and China – But Decline Overall. Health Policy Watch

• 29 Aug: Good governance essential to expanding vaccine capacity and strengthening public trust. The Lancet

• 29 Aug: White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress' funding power. Politico

• 30 Aug: Chikungunya's global resurgence. The Lancet

• 30 Aug: Chikungunya virus disease returns to Europe: a turning point for the global arboviral landscape. The Lancet

• 30 Aug: The Rise of Drug Innovation in China — Implications for Patient Access in the United States and Globally. NEJM

• 30 Aug: Cultivating an equity-oriented data sharing culture for African health research initiatives. Nature

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