While Innovators Can Help, Africa Needs Systemic Response to Build Health Equity 08/05/2023 Katusha de Villiers & Gillian Moodley Barriers to inclusive health are spurring African innovators into action. But to build an inclusive health system the continent needs to address structural inequalities – political, social and economic – and this will require that private and public partners alike embrace radical collaboration to support inclusive innovation. When public health graduate student, Jason Carmichael, arrived […] Continue reading -> BREAKING! WHO Declares End to COVID-19 Global Health Emergency 05/05/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The COVID global health emergency is over, said WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyessus at a press conference on Friday. His declaration came more than 39 months after WHO first declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020 over a mysterious respiratory virus that emerged in Wuhan, China but […] Continue reading -> WHO’s Two Pandemic Negotiation Processes Prepare for Joint Meetings as Equity and IP Dominate Talks 04/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Equity and intellectual property (IP) rights are – unsurprisingly – the most important and trickiest issues facing countries negotiating the terms on which the next global pandemic will be addressed. This emerged at a World Health Organization (WHO) briefing on Thursday addressed by Precious Matsoso, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) crafting a pandemic […] Continue reading -> US FDA Approves First-Ever RSV Vaccine 04/05/2023 Megha Kaveri The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The single-shot vaccine intended for use in adults aged 60 or older represents the culmination of six decades of research to protect the world from RSV. With the green light from the FDA on Wednesday, GSK’s Arexvy vaccine […] Continue reading -> Is the COVID Pandemic Over? 04/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan There is widespread speculation that the World Health Organization (WHO) will decide that COVID-19 is no longer a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)” when its expert group convenes on Thursday. The 15th meeting of the Emergency Committee for COVID-19 has been convened by the WHO Director-General in terms of the International Health Regulations […] Continue reading -> US Needs to Act Against ‘Anti-science Aggression’ to Protect Medicine and Scientists 03/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The conspiracy-based anti-science attacks on scientists and vaccines that proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US are likely to have chilling, long-term effects on biomedicine, according to Professor Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The biggest casualty may be childhood vaccinations, leading to […] Continue reading -> Time to Bridge the Funding Gap to Achieve Zero Malaria 03/05/2023 Corine Karema The momentum from last week’s World Malaria Day needs to translate into more resources to address the global funding shortfall to achieve 2030 malaria targets. Since the turn of the century, global partnership and sustained investment have completely transformed the fight against malaria – preventing two billion malaria cases, saving 11.7 million lives, and putting […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Matters’ Podcast Prepares to Kick Off Season 3 03/05/2023 Editorial team TDR and Dr Garry Aslanyan are preparing to launch a third season of his Global Health Matters podcast with a new list of guests to help tackle core issues in the global health community. Aslanyan is the executive producer and host of the podcast. “We have learned a lot in terms of how we can […] Continue reading -> Uganda’s Parliament Retains Death Penalty as it Passes Revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill 02/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Uganda’s Parliament passed a revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Tuesday, retaining executions for certain same-sex activity and introducing harsher penalties for some categories of ‘offences’. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had declined to sign into law an earlier version of the Bill after the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) had advised him that it would be open to […] Continue reading -> Health Systems Across the World Show First Signs Of Recovery Since Pandemic 02/05/2023 Megha Kaveri Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, health systems across the world are showing signs of recovery from its negative impact, with fewer countries reporting on scaling back delivery of essential health services as compared with 2020-21. Disruptions to the delivery of essential health services had almost halved by the end of 2022 when compared […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
BREAKING! WHO Declares End to COVID-19 Global Health Emergency 05/05/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The COVID global health emergency is over, said WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyessus at a press conference on Friday. His declaration came more than 39 months after WHO first declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020 over a mysterious respiratory virus that emerged in Wuhan, China but […] Continue reading -> WHO’s Two Pandemic Negotiation Processes Prepare for Joint Meetings as Equity and IP Dominate Talks 04/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Equity and intellectual property (IP) rights are – unsurprisingly – the most important and trickiest issues facing countries negotiating the terms on which the next global pandemic will be addressed. This emerged at a World Health Organization (WHO) briefing on Thursday addressed by Precious Matsoso, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) crafting a pandemic […] Continue reading -> US FDA Approves First-Ever RSV Vaccine 04/05/2023 Megha Kaveri The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The single-shot vaccine intended for use in adults aged 60 or older represents the culmination of six decades of research to protect the world from RSV. With the green light from the FDA on Wednesday, GSK’s Arexvy vaccine […] Continue reading -> Is the COVID Pandemic Over? 04/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan There is widespread speculation that the World Health Organization (WHO) will decide that COVID-19 is no longer a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)” when its expert group convenes on Thursday. The 15th meeting of the Emergency Committee for COVID-19 has been convened by the WHO Director-General in terms of the International Health Regulations […] Continue reading -> US Needs to Act Against ‘Anti-science Aggression’ to Protect Medicine and Scientists 03/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The conspiracy-based anti-science attacks on scientists and vaccines that proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US are likely to have chilling, long-term effects on biomedicine, according to Professor Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The biggest casualty may be childhood vaccinations, leading to […] Continue reading -> Time to Bridge the Funding Gap to Achieve Zero Malaria 03/05/2023 Corine Karema The momentum from last week’s World Malaria Day needs to translate into more resources to address the global funding shortfall to achieve 2030 malaria targets. Since the turn of the century, global partnership and sustained investment have completely transformed the fight against malaria – preventing two billion malaria cases, saving 11.7 million lives, and putting […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Matters’ Podcast Prepares to Kick Off Season 3 03/05/2023 Editorial team TDR and Dr Garry Aslanyan are preparing to launch a third season of his Global Health Matters podcast with a new list of guests to help tackle core issues in the global health community. Aslanyan is the executive producer and host of the podcast. “We have learned a lot in terms of how we can […] Continue reading -> Uganda’s Parliament Retains Death Penalty as it Passes Revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill 02/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Uganda’s Parliament passed a revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Tuesday, retaining executions for certain same-sex activity and introducing harsher penalties for some categories of ‘offences’. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had declined to sign into law an earlier version of the Bill after the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) had advised him that it would be open to […] Continue reading -> Health Systems Across the World Show First Signs Of Recovery Since Pandemic 02/05/2023 Megha Kaveri Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, health systems across the world are showing signs of recovery from its negative impact, with fewer countries reporting on scaling back delivery of essential health services as compared with 2020-21. Disruptions to the delivery of essential health services had almost halved by the end of 2022 when compared […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO’s Two Pandemic Negotiation Processes Prepare for Joint Meetings as Equity and IP Dominate Talks 04/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Equity and intellectual property (IP) rights are – unsurprisingly – the most important and trickiest issues facing countries negotiating the terms on which the next global pandemic will be addressed. This emerged at a World Health Organization (WHO) briefing on Thursday addressed by Precious Matsoso, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) crafting a pandemic […] Continue reading -> US FDA Approves First-Ever RSV Vaccine 04/05/2023 Megha Kaveri The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The single-shot vaccine intended for use in adults aged 60 or older represents the culmination of six decades of research to protect the world from RSV. With the green light from the FDA on Wednesday, GSK’s Arexvy vaccine […] Continue reading -> Is the COVID Pandemic Over? 04/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan There is widespread speculation that the World Health Organization (WHO) will decide that COVID-19 is no longer a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)” when its expert group convenes on Thursday. The 15th meeting of the Emergency Committee for COVID-19 has been convened by the WHO Director-General in terms of the International Health Regulations […] Continue reading -> US Needs to Act Against ‘Anti-science Aggression’ to Protect Medicine and Scientists 03/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The conspiracy-based anti-science attacks on scientists and vaccines that proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US are likely to have chilling, long-term effects on biomedicine, according to Professor Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The biggest casualty may be childhood vaccinations, leading to […] Continue reading -> Time to Bridge the Funding Gap to Achieve Zero Malaria 03/05/2023 Corine Karema The momentum from last week’s World Malaria Day needs to translate into more resources to address the global funding shortfall to achieve 2030 malaria targets. Since the turn of the century, global partnership and sustained investment have completely transformed the fight against malaria – preventing two billion malaria cases, saving 11.7 million lives, and putting […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Matters’ Podcast Prepares to Kick Off Season 3 03/05/2023 Editorial team TDR and Dr Garry Aslanyan are preparing to launch a third season of his Global Health Matters podcast with a new list of guests to help tackle core issues in the global health community. Aslanyan is the executive producer and host of the podcast. “We have learned a lot in terms of how we can […] Continue reading -> Uganda’s Parliament Retains Death Penalty as it Passes Revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill 02/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Uganda’s Parliament passed a revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Tuesday, retaining executions for certain same-sex activity and introducing harsher penalties for some categories of ‘offences’. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had declined to sign into law an earlier version of the Bill after the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) had advised him that it would be open to […] Continue reading -> Health Systems Across the World Show First Signs Of Recovery Since Pandemic 02/05/2023 Megha Kaveri Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, health systems across the world are showing signs of recovery from its negative impact, with fewer countries reporting on scaling back delivery of essential health services as compared with 2020-21. Disruptions to the delivery of essential health services had almost halved by the end of 2022 when compared […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
US FDA Approves First-Ever RSV Vaccine 04/05/2023 Megha Kaveri The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The single-shot vaccine intended for use in adults aged 60 or older represents the culmination of six decades of research to protect the world from RSV. With the green light from the FDA on Wednesday, GSK’s Arexvy vaccine […] Continue reading -> Is the COVID Pandemic Over? 04/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan There is widespread speculation that the World Health Organization (WHO) will decide that COVID-19 is no longer a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)” when its expert group convenes on Thursday. The 15th meeting of the Emergency Committee for COVID-19 has been convened by the WHO Director-General in terms of the International Health Regulations […] Continue reading -> US Needs to Act Against ‘Anti-science Aggression’ to Protect Medicine and Scientists 03/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The conspiracy-based anti-science attacks on scientists and vaccines that proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US are likely to have chilling, long-term effects on biomedicine, according to Professor Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The biggest casualty may be childhood vaccinations, leading to […] Continue reading -> Time to Bridge the Funding Gap to Achieve Zero Malaria 03/05/2023 Corine Karema The momentum from last week’s World Malaria Day needs to translate into more resources to address the global funding shortfall to achieve 2030 malaria targets. Since the turn of the century, global partnership and sustained investment have completely transformed the fight against malaria – preventing two billion malaria cases, saving 11.7 million lives, and putting […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Matters’ Podcast Prepares to Kick Off Season 3 03/05/2023 Editorial team TDR and Dr Garry Aslanyan are preparing to launch a third season of his Global Health Matters podcast with a new list of guests to help tackle core issues in the global health community. Aslanyan is the executive producer and host of the podcast. “We have learned a lot in terms of how we can […] Continue reading -> Uganda’s Parliament Retains Death Penalty as it Passes Revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill 02/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Uganda’s Parliament passed a revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Tuesday, retaining executions for certain same-sex activity and introducing harsher penalties for some categories of ‘offences’. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had declined to sign into law an earlier version of the Bill after the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) had advised him that it would be open to […] Continue reading -> Health Systems Across the World Show First Signs Of Recovery Since Pandemic 02/05/2023 Megha Kaveri Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, health systems across the world are showing signs of recovery from its negative impact, with fewer countries reporting on scaling back delivery of essential health services as compared with 2020-21. Disruptions to the delivery of essential health services had almost halved by the end of 2022 when compared […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Is the COVID Pandemic Over? 04/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan There is widespread speculation that the World Health Organization (WHO) will decide that COVID-19 is no longer a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)” when its expert group convenes on Thursday. The 15th meeting of the Emergency Committee for COVID-19 has been convened by the WHO Director-General in terms of the International Health Regulations […] Continue reading -> US Needs to Act Against ‘Anti-science Aggression’ to Protect Medicine and Scientists 03/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The conspiracy-based anti-science attacks on scientists and vaccines that proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US are likely to have chilling, long-term effects on biomedicine, according to Professor Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The biggest casualty may be childhood vaccinations, leading to […] Continue reading -> Time to Bridge the Funding Gap to Achieve Zero Malaria 03/05/2023 Corine Karema The momentum from last week’s World Malaria Day needs to translate into more resources to address the global funding shortfall to achieve 2030 malaria targets. Since the turn of the century, global partnership and sustained investment have completely transformed the fight against malaria – preventing two billion malaria cases, saving 11.7 million lives, and putting […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Matters’ Podcast Prepares to Kick Off Season 3 03/05/2023 Editorial team TDR and Dr Garry Aslanyan are preparing to launch a third season of his Global Health Matters podcast with a new list of guests to help tackle core issues in the global health community. Aslanyan is the executive producer and host of the podcast. “We have learned a lot in terms of how we can […] Continue reading -> Uganda’s Parliament Retains Death Penalty as it Passes Revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill 02/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Uganda’s Parliament passed a revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Tuesday, retaining executions for certain same-sex activity and introducing harsher penalties for some categories of ‘offences’. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had declined to sign into law an earlier version of the Bill after the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) had advised him that it would be open to […] Continue reading -> Health Systems Across the World Show First Signs Of Recovery Since Pandemic 02/05/2023 Megha Kaveri Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, health systems across the world are showing signs of recovery from its negative impact, with fewer countries reporting on scaling back delivery of essential health services as compared with 2020-21. Disruptions to the delivery of essential health services had almost halved by the end of 2022 when compared […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
US Needs to Act Against ‘Anti-science Aggression’ to Protect Medicine and Scientists 03/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The conspiracy-based anti-science attacks on scientists and vaccines that proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US are likely to have chilling, long-term effects on biomedicine, according to Professor Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The biggest casualty may be childhood vaccinations, leading to […] Continue reading -> Time to Bridge the Funding Gap to Achieve Zero Malaria 03/05/2023 Corine Karema The momentum from last week’s World Malaria Day needs to translate into more resources to address the global funding shortfall to achieve 2030 malaria targets. Since the turn of the century, global partnership and sustained investment have completely transformed the fight against malaria – preventing two billion malaria cases, saving 11.7 million lives, and putting […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Matters’ Podcast Prepares to Kick Off Season 3 03/05/2023 Editorial team TDR and Dr Garry Aslanyan are preparing to launch a third season of his Global Health Matters podcast with a new list of guests to help tackle core issues in the global health community. Aslanyan is the executive producer and host of the podcast. “We have learned a lot in terms of how we can […] Continue reading -> Uganda’s Parliament Retains Death Penalty as it Passes Revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill 02/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Uganda’s Parliament passed a revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Tuesday, retaining executions for certain same-sex activity and introducing harsher penalties for some categories of ‘offences’. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had declined to sign into law an earlier version of the Bill after the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) had advised him that it would be open to […] Continue reading -> Health Systems Across the World Show First Signs Of Recovery Since Pandemic 02/05/2023 Megha Kaveri Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, health systems across the world are showing signs of recovery from its negative impact, with fewer countries reporting on scaling back delivery of essential health services as compared with 2020-21. Disruptions to the delivery of essential health services had almost halved by the end of 2022 when compared […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Time to Bridge the Funding Gap to Achieve Zero Malaria 03/05/2023 Corine Karema The momentum from last week’s World Malaria Day needs to translate into more resources to address the global funding shortfall to achieve 2030 malaria targets. Since the turn of the century, global partnership and sustained investment have completely transformed the fight against malaria – preventing two billion malaria cases, saving 11.7 million lives, and putting […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Matters’ Podcast Prepares to Kick Off Season 3 03/05/2023 Editorial team TDR and Dr Garry Aslanyan are preparing to launch a third season of his Global Health Matters podcast with a new list of guests to help tackle core issues in the global health community. Aslanyan is the executive producer and host of the podcast. “We have learned a lot in terms of how we can […] Continue reading -> Uganda’s Parliament Retains Death Penalty as it Passes Revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill 02/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Uganda’s Parliament passed a revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Tuesday, retaining executions for certain same-sex activity and introducing harsher penalties for some categories of ‘offences’. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had declined to sign into law an earlier version of the Bill after the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) had advised him that it would be open to […] Continue reading -> Health Systems Across the World Show First Signs Of Recovery Since Pandemic 02/05/2023 Megha Kaveri Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, health systems across the world are showing signs of recovery from its negative impact, with fewer countries reporting on scaling back delivery of essential health services as compared with 2020-21. Disruptions to the delivery of essential health services had almost halved by the end of 2022 when compared […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘Global Health Matters’ Podcast Prepares to Kick Off Season 3 03/05/2023 Editorial team TDR and Dr Garry Aslanyan are preparing to launch a third season of his Global Health Matters podcast with a new list of guests to help tackle core issues in the global health community. Aslanyan is the executive producer and host of the podcast. “We have learned a lot in terms of how we can […] Continue reading -> Uganda’s Parliament Retains Death Penalty as it Passes Revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill 02/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Uganda’s Parliament passed a revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Tuesday, retaining executions for certain same-sex activity and introducing harsher penalties for some categories of ‘offences’. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had declined to sign into law an earlier version of the Bill after the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) had advised him that it would be open to […] Continue reading -> Health Systems Across the World Show First Signs Of Recovery Since Pandemic 02/05/2023 Megha Kaveri Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, health systems across the world are showing signs of recovery from its negative impact, with fewer countries reporting on scaling back delivery of essential health services as compared with 2020-21. Disruptions to the delivery of essential health services had almost halved by the end of 2022 when compared […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Uganda’s Parliament Retains Death Penalty as it Passes Revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill 02/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Uganda’s Parliament passed a revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Tuesday, retaining executions for certain same-sex activity and introducing harsher penalties for some categories of ‘offences’. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had declined to sign into law an earlier version of the Bill after the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) had advised him that it would be open to […] Continue reading -> Health Systems Across the World Show First Signs Of Recovery Since Pandemic 02/05/2023 Megha Kaveri Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, health systems across the world are showing signs of recovery from its negative impact, with fewer countries reporting on scaling back delivery of essential health services as compared with 2020-21. Disruptions to the delivery of essential health services had almost halved by the end of 2022 when compared […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Health Systems Across the World Show First Signs Of Recovery Since Pandemic 02/05/2023 Megha Kaveri Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, health systems across the world are showing signs of recovery from its negative impact, with fewer countries reporting on scaling back delivery of essential health services as compared with 2020-21. Disruptions to the delivery of essential health services had almost halved by the end of 2022 when compared […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts