Eight Hundred Women Die Every Day During Pregnancy or Childbirth 23/02/2023 Stefan Anderson By the time you finish reading this article, at least two women will have died from complications in pregnancy or childbirth. In the next 24 hours, another 798 will lose their lives. Nearly all of these women will be from low-and lower middle-income countries, and nearly all of their deaths will have been preventable. These […] Continue reading -> WHO Stands Firm On Using Masks to Combat COVID-19 22/02/2023 Megha Kaveri The World Health Organization (WHO) has reiterated its firm recommendation that wearing masks is an effective method to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in a media briefing on Wednesday. Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead for COVID-19, said that coronavirus is still in circulation and wearing appropriate face masks is one of the ways […] Continue reading -> Increasingly Brutal Attacks on Civilians by Islamist Rebels Take Toll on Mental Health in DR Congo 22/02/2023 Claude Muhindo Sengenya via The New Humanitarian “We have never experienced such killings,” says an aid work as local health centres struggle to help survivors deal with mental health problems in the aftermath of increasingly brutal attacks by the Islamic rebel group, Allied Democratic Forces. Of the more than 100 armed groups active in DRC’s eastern provinces, one of the oldest and […] Continue reading -> Ukraine Gets New Emergency Funds for HIV and TB Programmes 21/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan On the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved an additional $10.32 million in emergency funding to maintain essential HIV and tuberculosis (TB) services in Ukraine. The funds are earmarked for HIV and TB treatment, prevention and care, including for internally […] Continue reading -> Scientists Launch R&D Plan to Develop Broad Vaccine for Coronaviruses 21/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Fifty influential scientists have developed a coronavirus vaccines research and development (R&D) roadmap aimed at developing broadly protective vaccines to combat fast-evolving coronaviruses threatening humans. “The COVID-19 pandemic marks the third time in just 20 years that a coronavirus has emerged to cause a public health crisis,” said Professor Michael Osterholm, director of the University […] Continue reading -> Natural Immunity Against COVID-19 ‘At Least’ On Par With Vaccination in Preventing Death 21/02/2023 Stefan Anderson New research published in The Lancet suggests that individuals who have previously been infected with COVID-19 have an 88% lower risk of hospitalization or death than those who have not. The study is the most comprehensive review of data on natural immunity to date, covering data from 65 studies across 19 countries published since January […] Continue reading -> New Africa CDC Head Jean Kaseya’s Challenge: Advancing Public Health in ‘Post-COVID’ Era 20/02/2023 Paul Adepoju Nine months after John Nkengasong left Africa CDC to head PEPFAR, the African Union has now elected a Director General for the continent’s leading public health institution who has the task of finding new ways to engage continental and global leaders in Africa’s public health challenges in the post-COVID era. A new Director-General has been […] Continue reading -> Death by Cough Mixture: Global Scandal Exposes India’s Weak Drug Regulations 20/02/2023 Safina Nabi The deaths of children and young people related to contaminated cough syrups made by Indian companies have exposed India’s lack of regulation, which is also enabling the over-consumption of over-the-counter cough syrups in the country. After completing her household chores, 42-year-old Shameema Akhter was tending to a cow outside her home in Shangas village in […] Continue reading -> Pathogen Sharing: Pandemic Accord Could Offer Solutions or Further Tangle the Web of Confusion 17/02/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Just 66 days after the SARS-CoV2 genetic sequence was shared by a Chinese scientist online, the first COVID-19 vaccines went into production – in record time for R&D that yielded the first approved vaccines less than a year later. But there are looming concerns that the relatively open models of data and pathogen sharing that […] Continue reading -> Europeans Don’t Exercise Enough – And Policy-Makers Should Do More to Encourage Them 17/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A third of Europeans don’t meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for physical activity – but if they did, this would avert over 10 000 premature deaths, almost four million cases of cardiovascular disease, three and a half million cases of depression and nearly a million cases of type two diabetes by 2050. This is […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Stands Firm On Using Masks to Combat COVID-19 22/02/2023 Megha Kaveri The World Health Organization (WHO) has reiterated its firm recommendation that wearing masks is an effective method to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in a media briefing on Wednesday. Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead for COVID-19, said that coronavirus is still in circulation and wearing appropriate face masks is one of the ways […] Continue reading -> Increasingly Brutal Attacks on Civilians by Islamist Rebels Take Toll on Mental Health in DR Congo 22/02/2023 Claude Muhindo Sengenya via The New Humanitarian “We have never experienced such killings,” says an aid work as local health centres struggle to help survivors deal with mental health problems in the aftermath of increasingly brutal attacks by the Islamic rebel group, Allied Democratic Forces. Of the more than 100 armed groups active in DRC’s eastern provinces, one of the oldest and […] Continue reading -> Ukraine Gets New Emergency Funds for HIV and TB Programmes 21/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan On the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved an additional $10.32 million in emergency funding to maintain essential HIV and tuberculosis (TB) services in Ukraine. The funds are earmarked for HIV and TB treatment, prevention and care, including for internally […] Continue reading -> Scientists Launch R&D Plan to Develop Broad Vaccine for Coronaviruses 21/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Fifty influential scientists have developed a coronavirus vaccines research and development (R&D) roadmap aimed at developing broadly protective vaccines to combat fast-evolving coronaviruses threatening humans. “The COVID-19 pandemic marks the third time in just 20 years that a coronavirus has emerged to cause a public health crisis,” said Professor Michael Osterholm, director of the University […] Continue reading -> Natural Immunity Against COVID-19 ‘At Least’ On Par With Vaccination in Preventing Death 21/02/2023 Stefan Anderson New research published in The Lancet suggests that individuals who have previously been infected with COVID-19 have an 88% lower risk of hospitalization or death than those who have not. The study is the most comprehensive review of data on natural immunity to date, covering data from 65 studies across 19 countries published since January […] Continue reading -> New Africa CDC Head Jean Kaseya’s Challenge: Advancing Public Health in ‘Post-COVID’ Era 20/02/2023 Paul Adepoju Nine months after John Nkengasong left Africa CDC to head PEPFAR, the African Union has now elected a Director General for the continent’s leading public health institution who has the task of finding new ways to engage continental and global leaders in Africa’s public health challenges in the post-COVID era. A new Director-General has been […] Continue reading -> Death by Cough Mixture: Global Scandal Exposes India’s Weak Drug Regulations 20/02/2023 Safina Nabi The deaths of children and young people related to contaminated cough syrups made by Indian companies have exposed India’s lack of regulation, which is also enabling the over-consumption of over-the-counter cough syrups in the country. After completing her household chores, 42-year-old Shameema Akhter was tending to a cow outside her home in Shangas village in […] Continue reading -> Pathogen Sharing: Pandemic Accord Could Offer Solutions or Further Tangle the Web of Confusion 17/02/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Just 66 days after the SARS-CoV2 genetic sequence was shared by a Chinese scientist online, the first COVID-19 vaccines went into production – in record time for R&D that yielded the first approved vaccines less than a year later. But there are looming concerns that the relatively open models of data and pathogen sharing that […] Continue reading -> Europeans Don’t Exercise Enough – And Policy-Makers Should Do More to Encourage Them 17/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A third of Europeans don’t meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for physical activity – but if they did, this would avert over 10 000 premature deaths, almost four million cases of cardiovascular disease, three and a half million cases of depression and nearly a million cases of type two diabetes by 2050. This is […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Increasingly Brutal Attacks on Civilians by Islamist Rebels Take Toll on Mental Health in DR Congo 22/02/2023 Claude Muhindo Sengenya via The New Humanitarian “We have never experienced such killings,” says an aid work as local health centres struggle to help survivors deal with mental health problems in the aftermath of increasingly brutal attacks by the Islamic rebel group, Allied Democratic Forces. Of the more than 100 armed groups active in DRC’s eastern provinces, one of the oldest and […] Continue reading -> Ukraine Gets New Emergency Funds for HIV and TB Programmes 21/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan On the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved an additional $10.32 million in emergency funding to maintain essential HIV and tuberculosis (TB) services in Ukraine. The funds are earmarked for HIV and TB treatment, prevention and care, including for internally […] Continue reading -> Scientists Launch R&D Plan to Develop Broad Vaccine for Coronaviruses 21/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Fifty influential scientists have developed a coronavirus vaccines research and development (R&D) roadmap aimed at developing broadly protective vaccines to combat fast-evolving coronaviruses threatening humans. “The COVID-19 pandemic marks the third time in just 20 years that a coronavirus has emerged to cause a public health crisis,” said Professor Michael Osterholm, director of the University […] Continue reading -> Natural Immunity Against COVID-19 ‘At Least’ On Par With Vaccination in Preventing Death 21/02/2023 Stefan Anderson New research published in The Lancet suggests that individuals who have previously been infected with COVID-19 have an 88% lower risk of hospitalization or death than those who have not. The study is the most comprehensive review of data on natural immunity to date, covering data from 65 studies across 19 countries published since January […] Continue reading -> New Africa CDC Head Jean Kaseya’s Challenge: Advancing Public Health in ‘Post-COVID’ Era 20/02/2023 Paul Adepoju Nine months after John Nkengasong left Africa CDC to head PEPFAR, the African Union has now elected a Director General for the continent’s leading public health institution who has the task of finding new ways to engage continental and global leaders in Africa’s public health challenges in the post-COVID era. A new Director-General has been […] Continue reading -> Death by Cough Mixture: Global Scandal Exposes India’s Weak Drug Regulations 20/02/2023 Safina Nabi The deaths of children and young people related to contaminated cough syrups made by Indian companies have exposed India’s lack of regulation, which is also enabling the over-consumption of over-the-counter cough syrups in the country. After completing her household chores, 42-year-old Shameema Akhter was tending to a cow outside her home in Shangas village in […] Continue reading -> Pathogen Sharing: Pandemic Accord Could Offer Solutions or Further Tangle the Web of Confusion 17/02/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Just 66 days after the SARS-CoV2 genetic sequence was shared by a Chinese scientist online, the first COVID-19 vaccines went into production – in record time for R&D that yielded the first approved vaccines less than a year later. But there are looming concerns that the relatively open models of data and pathogen sharing that […] Continue reading -> Europeans Don’t Exercise Enough – And Policy-Makers Should Do More to Encourage Them 17/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A third of Europeans don’t meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for physical activity – but if they did, this would avert over 10 000 premature deaths, almost four million cases of cardiovascular disease, three and a half million cases of depression and nearly a million cases of type two diabetes by 2050. This is […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Ukraine Gets New Emergency Funds for HIV and TB Programmes 21/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan On the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved an additional $10.32 million in emergency funding to maintain essential HIV and tuberculosis (TB) services in Ukraine. The funds are earmarked for HIV and TB treatment, prevention and care, including for internally […] Continue reading -> Scientists Launch R&D Plan to Develop Broad Vaccine for Coronaviruses 21/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Fifty influential scientists have developed a coronavirus vaccines research and development (R&D) roadmap aimed at developing broadly protective vaccines to combat fast-evolving coronaviruses threatening humans. “The COVID-19 pandemic marks the third time in just 20 years that a coronavirus has emerged to cause a public health crisis,” said Professor Michael Osterholm, director of the University […] Continue reading -> Natural Immunity Against COVID-19 ‘At Least’ On Par With Vaccination in Preventing Death 21/02/2023 Stefan Anderson New research published in The Lancet suggests that individuals who have previously been infected with COVID-19 have an 88% lower risk of hospitalization or death than those who have not. The study is the most comprehensive review of data on natural immunity to date, covering data from 65 studies across 19 countries published since January […] Continue reading -> New Africa CDC Head Jean Kaseya’s Challenge: Advancing Public Health in ‘Post-COVID’ Era 20/02/2023 Paul Adepoju Nine months after John Nkengasong left Africa CDC to head PEPFAR, the African Union has now elected a Director General for the continent’s leading public health institution who has the task of finding new ways to engage continental and global leaders in Africa’s public health challenges in the post-COVID era. A new Director-General has been […] Continue reading -> Death by Cough Mixture: Global Scandal Exposes India’s Weak Drug Regulations 20/02/2023 Safina Nabi The deaths of children and young people related to contaminated cough syrups made by Indian companies have exposed India’s lack of regulation, which is also enabling the over-consumption of over-the-counter cough syrups in the country. After completing her household chores, 42-year-old Shameema Akhter was tending to a cow outside her home in Shangas village in […] Continue reading -> Pathogen Sharing: Pandemic Accord Could Offer Solutions or Further Tangle the Web of Confusion 17/02/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Just 66 days after the SARS-CoV2 genetic sequence was shared by a Chinese scientist online, the first COVID-19 vaccines went into production – in record time for R&D that yielded the first approved vaccines less than a year later. But there are looming concerns that the relatively open models of data and pathogen sharing that […] Continue reading -> Europeans Don’t Exercise Enough – And Policy-Makers Should Do More to Encourage Them 17/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A third of Europeans don’t meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for physical activity – but if they did, this would avert over 10 000 premature deaths, almost four million cases of cardiovascular disease, three and a half million cases of depression and nearly a million cases of type two diabetes by 2050. This is […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Scientists Launch R&D Plan to Develop Broad Vaccine for Coronaviruses 21/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan Fifty influential scientists have developed a coronavirus vaccines research and development (R&D) roadmap aimed at developing broadly protective vaccines to combat fast-evolving coronaviruses threatening humans. “The COVID-19 pandemic marks the third time in just 20 years that a coronavirus has emerged to cause a public health crisis,” said Professor Michael Osterholm, director of the University […] Continue reading -> Natural Immunity Against COVID-19 ‘At Least’ On Par With Vaccination in Preventing Death 21/02/2023 Stefan Anderson New research published in The Lancet suggests that individuals who have previously been infected with COVID-19 have an 88% lower risk of hospitalization or death than those who have not. The study is the most comprehensive review of data on natural immunity to date, covering data from 65 studies across 19 countries published since January […] Continue reading -> New Africa CDC Head Jean Kaseya’s Challenge: Advancing Public Health in ‘Post-COVID’ Era 20/02/2023 Paul Adepoju Nine months after John Nkengasong left Africa CDC to head PEPFAR, the African Union has now elected a Director General for the continent’s leading public health institution who has the task of finding new ways to engage continental and global leaders in Africa’s public health challenges in the post-COVID era. A new Director-General has been […] Continue reading -> Death by Cough Mixture: Global Scandal Exposes India’s Weak Drug Regulations 20/02/2023 Safina Nabi The deaths of children and young people related to contaminated cough syrups made by Indian companies have exposed India’s lack of regulation, which is also enabling the over-consumption of over-the-counter cough syrups in the country. After completing her household chores, 42-year-old Shameema Akhter was tending to a cow outside her home in Shangas village in […] Continue reading -> Pathogen Sharing: Pandemic Accord Could Offer Solutions or Further Tangle the Web of Confusion 17/02/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Just 66 days after the SARS-CoV2 genetic sequence was shared by a Chinese scientist online, the first COVID-19 vaccines went into production – in record time for R&D that yielded the first approved vaccines less than a year later. But there are looming concerns that the relatively open models of data and pathogen sharing that […] Continue reading -> Europeans Don’t Exercise Enough – And Policy-Makers Should Do More to Encourage Them 17/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A third of Europeans don’t meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for physical activity – but if they did, this would avert over 10 000 premature deaths, almost four million cases of cardiovascular disease, three and a half million cases of depression and nearly a million cases of type two diabetes by 2050. This is […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Natural Immunity Against COVID-19 ‘At Least’ On Par With Vaccination in Preventing Death 21/02/2023 Stefan Anderson New research published in The Lancet suggests that individuals who have previously been infected with COVID-19 have an 88% lower risk of hospitalization or death than those who have not. The study is the most comprehensive review of data on natural immunity to date, covering data from 65 studies across 19 countries published since January […] Continue reading -> New Africa CDC Head Jean Kaseya’s Challenge: Advancing Public Health in ‘Post-COVID’ Era 20/02/2023 Paul Adepoju Nine months after John Nkengasong left Africa CDC to head PEPFAR, the African Union has now elected a Director General for the continent’s leading public health institution who has the task of finding new ways to engage continental and global leaders in Africa’s public health challenges in the post-COVID era. A new Director-General has been […] Continue reading -> Death by Cough Mixture: Global Scandal Exposes India’s Weak Drug Regulations 20/02/2023 Safina Nabi The deaths of children and young people related to contaminated cough syrups made by Indian companies have exposed India’s lack of regulation, which is also enabling the over-consumption of over-the-counter cough syrups in the country. After completing her household chores, 42-year-old Shameema Akhter was tending to a cow outside her home in Shangas village in […] Continue reading -> Pathogen Sharing: Pandemic Accord Could Offer Solutions or Further Tangle the Web of Confusion 17/02/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Just 66 days after the SARS-CoV2 genetic sequence was shared by a Chinese scientist online, the first COVID-19 vaccines went into production – in record time for R&D that yielded the first approved vaccines less than a year later. But there are looming concerns that the relatively open models of data and pathogen sharing that […] Continue reading -> Europeans Don’t Exercise Enough – And Policy-Makers Should Do More to Encourage Them 17/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A third of Europeans don’t meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for physical activity – but if they did, this would avert over 10 000 premature deaths, almost four million cases of cardiovascular disease, three and a half million cases of depression and nearly a million cases of type two diabetes by 2050. This is […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
New Africa CDC Head Jean Kaseya’s Challenge: Advancing Public Health in ‘Post-COVID’ Era 20/02/2023 Paul Adepoju Nine months after John Nkengasong left Africa CDC to head PEPFAR, the African Union has now elected a Director General for the continent’s leading public health institution who has the task of finding new ways to engage continental and global leaders in Africa’s public health challenges in the post-COVID era. A new Director-General has been […] Continue reading -> Death by Cough Mixture: Global Scandal Exposes India’s Weak Drug Regulations 20/02/2023 Safina Nabi The deaths of children and young people related to contaminated cough syrups made by Indian companies have exposed India’s lack of regulation, which is also enabling the over-consumption of over-the-counter cough syrups in the country. After completing her household chores, 42-year-old Shameema Akhter was tending to a cow outside her home in Shangas village in […] Continue reading -> Pathogen Sharing: Pandemic Accord Could Offer Solutions or Further Tangle the Web of Confusion 17/02/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Just 66 days after the SARS-CoV2 genetic sequence was shared by a Chinese scientist online, the first COVID-19 vaccines went into production – in record time for R&D that yielded the first approved vaccines less than a year later. But there are looming concerns that the relatively open models of data and pathogen sharing that […] Continue reading -> Europeans Don’t Exercise Enough – And Policy-Makers Should Do More to Encourage Them 17/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A third of Europeans don’t meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for physical activity – but if they did, this would avert over 10 000 premature deaths, almost four million cases of cardiovascular disease, three and a half million cases of depression and nearly a million cases of type two diabetes by 2050. This is […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Death by Cough Mixture: Global Scandal Exposes India’s Weak Drug Regulations 20/02/2023 Safina Nabi The deaths of children and young people related to contaminated cough syrups made by Indian companies have exposed India’s lack of regulation, which is also enabling the over-consumption of over-the-counter cough syrups in the country. After completing her household chores, 42-year-old Shameema Akhter was tending to a cow outside her home in Shangas village in […] Continue reading -> Pathogen Sharing: Pandemic Accord Could Offer Solutions or Further Tangle the Web of Confusion 17/02/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Just 66 days after the SARS-CoV2 genetic sequence was shared by a Chinese scientist online, the first COVID-19 vaccines went into production – in record time for R&D that yielded the first approved vaccines less than a year later. But there are looming concerns that the relatively open models of data and pathogen sharing that […] Continue reading -> Europeans Don’t Exercise Enough – And Policy-Makers Should Do More to Encourage Them 17/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A third of Europeans don’t meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for physical activity – but if they did, this would avert over 10 000 premature deaths, almost four million cases of cardiovascular disease, three and a half million cases of depression and nearly a million cases of type two diabetes by 2050. This is […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Pathogen Sharing: Pandemic Accord Could Offer Solutions or Further Tangle the Web of Confusion 17/02/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Just 66 days after the SARS-CoV2 genetic sequence was shared by a Chinese scientist online, the first COVID-19 vaccines went into production – in record time for R&D that yielded the first approved vaccines less than a year later. But there are looming concerns that the relatively open models of data and pathogen sharing that […] Continue reading -> Europeans Don’t Exercise Enough – And Policy-Makers Should Do More to Encourage Them 17/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A third of Europeans don’t meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for physical activity – but if they did, this would avert over 10 000 premature deaths, almost four million cases of cardiovascular disease, three and a half million cases of depression and nearly a million cases of type two diabetes by 2050. This is […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Europeans Don’t Exercise Enough – And Policy-Makers Should Do More to Encourage Them 17/02/2023 Kerry Cullinan A third of Europeans don’t meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for physical activity – but if they did, this would avert over 10 000 premature deaths, almost four million cases of cardiovascular disease, three and a half million cases of depression and nearly a million cases of type two diabetes by 2050. This is […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts