Proponents of a sweeping World Trade Organization ‘waiver’ on intellectual property rights for all COVID-19 treatments, tests and vaccines face an ...

Are Chinese COVID Vaccines Underperforming? A Dearth of Real-Life Studies Leaves Unanswered Questions

Analysis

From Indonesia and the Seychelles, to Chile and China itself, there are some worrisome indications that the Chinese Sinopharm and Sinovac ...

Africa’s COVID-19 Surge is Expected to Worsen, Warns WHO

COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday that the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa was expected to get worse, as 22 ...

Stricter Laws Needed to Fight Child Labour on Tobacco Farms

Women’s, children & adolescent health

Children’s rights activists and anti-tobacco campaigners called on governments this week to implement stricter laws, impose hefty fines and carry out ...

Transparency International Calls On World Health Assembly To Investigate Disclosures by WHO’s Italian Whistleblower

Inside View

News in Brief

Indian Bar Association Rebukes WHO Chief Scientist Over Ivermectin Guidelines for COVID Treatment

The Indian Bar Association (IBA), a voluntary organisation, say it has served a second legal notice to WHO Chief Scientist ...

18/06/2021

Guinea Poised to Declare End of Ebola Outbreak

The government of Guinea is a few days away from declaring the end of the country’s Ebola outbreak after 45 ...

17/06/2021

Antibody Cocktail Reduces Risk of Death by 20% in Patients lacking Adequate SARS-CoV2 Immune Response

A COVID-19 antibody cocktail developed by the US-based company, Regeneron, dramatically reduced the risk of mortality and shortened hospital stays ...

Transparency International Calls On World Health Assembly To Investigate Disclosures by WHO’s Italian Whistleblower

Inside View

Global Health Policy in Geneva & Worldwide