WHO Director General “Regrets” Trump Decision To Suspend Organization’s Funding; UN, European Union, China and Others Decry US Move 15/04/2020 Grace Ren The European Union, China, and Norway Wednesday joined UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in decrying United States President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend US funding to the World Health Organization – at a critical moment in the international agency’s coordination of the global COVID-19 response. Trump announced Tuesday night that the US administration would suspend […] Continue reading -> Confronting COVID-19 In A World Without WHO – Seriously? 14/04/2020 Frederick M. Abbott As the World Health Organization becomes the target of attack by President Trump, his administration and political allies for its alleged failures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the main points of critique are reverberating throughout the media in an escalating cycle. After a week of mounting criticism, Trump announced on Tuesday night that he […] Continue reading -> Access To Affordable Biologics In The Context Of COVID-19: Will WHO Step Up To Its Responsibility? 14/04/2020 Chetali Rao & K M Gopakumar New Delhi, India – COVID-19 has posed unique challenges for healthcare providers across the globe, as the world has been grappling with the pandemic with no approved treatments or vaccines for the disease. Researchers are searching everywhere for drugs that may help treat or prevent the spread of the deadly virus. This has led to […] Continue reading -> GlaxoSmithKline & Sanofi Team Up To Develop COVID-19 Vaccine 14/04/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay Two of the largest vaccines companies in the world, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Sanofi, are teaming up to hasten vaccine development for COVID-19. “By combining our science and our technologies, we believe we can help accelerate the global effort to develop a vaccine to protect as many people as possible from COVID-19”, said Emma Walmsley, chief […] Continue reading -> Unitaid Greets World Chagas Disease Day With New Analysis, New Plans 14/04/2020 Press release [Unitaid] Geneva, Switzerland (14 April 2020) – Unitaid marked the first World Chagas Disease Day with the release of a comprehensive report on how to better confront the potentially deadly parasitic infection that strikes hardest among Latin America’s poor and marginalized. It was on this date in 1909 that a Brazilian doctor, Carlos Chagas, diagnosed […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General Says He “Hopes” US Funding Will Continue Amidst Spate of White House Attacks 14/04/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the relationship between WHO and the United States is “very good” and that, despite the recent maelstrom of criticism by President Donald Trump over WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, he hoped that funding from the USA will continue. “I hope the funding to […] Continue reading -> Experts Warn COVID-19 Pandemic In Northern Hemisphere May Not Wane With Warmer Weather 09/04/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Although there have been suggestions that warmer weather might lead to the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Northern Hemisphere, a new study published by the United States National Academy of Sciences has dashed some cold water on that hypothesis, saying that available data on diease spread has so far failed to show strong […] Continue reading -> The Netherlands Joins COVID-19 IP Pool Initiative; Kentucky Governor Requests 3M Release N95 Patent 08/04/2020 Editorial team Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Hugo de Jonge on Wednesday offered to support the World Health Organization to develop a pool of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 technologies, just days after WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced WHO’s public support for the initiative. “In principle, I am sympathetic to this initiative,” Minister de Jonge wrote […] Continue reading -> BCG Vaccine & Ivermectin – Can Old Solutions Be Repurposed For COVID-19? 08/04/2020 Grace Ren & Svĕt Lustig Vijay While much of the public fanfare around new COVID-19 drugs has centered around the lupus drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a failed Ebola remedy, remdesivir, other researchers are keen to explore the potential of other time-worn remedies – although here, too, experts are urging extreme caution. Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that turned the tide in the […] Continue reading -> Six Million More Nurses Needed Ensure Health for All by 2030, Says New WHO Report 07/04/2020 Grace Ren The world needs 6 million more nurses in the next 15 years in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report released by the World Health Organization, Nursing Now, and the International Council of Nurses. The report, released Tuesday on World Health Day, explores challenges and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Confronting COVID-19 In A World Without WHO – Seriously? 14/04/2020 Frederick M. Abbott As the World Health Organization becomes the target of attack by President Trump, his administration and political allies for its alleged failures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the main points of critique are reverberating throughout the media in an escalating cycle. After a week of mounting criticism, Trump announced on Tuesday night that he […] Continue reading -> Access To Affordable Biologics In The Context Of COVID-19: Will WHO Step Up To Its Responsibility? 14/04/2020 Chetali Rao & K M Gopakumar New Delhi, India – COVID-19 has posed unique challenges for healthcare providers across the globe, as the world has been grappling with the pandemic with no approved treatments or vaccines for the disease. Researchers are searching everywhere for drugs that may help treat or prevent the spread of the deadly virus. This has led to […] Continue reading -> GlaxoSmithKline & Sanofi Team Up To Develop COVID-19 Vaccine 14/04/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay Two of the largest vaccines companies in the world, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Sanofi, are teaming up to hasten vaccine development for COVID-19. “By combining our science and our technologies, we believe we can help accelerate the global effort to develop a vaccine to protect as many people as possible from COVID-19”, said Emma Walmsley, chief […] Continue reading -> Unitaid Greets World Chagas Disease Day With New Analysis, New Plans 14/04/2020 Press release [Unitaid] Geneva, Switzerland (14 April 2020) – Unitaid marked the first World Chagas Disease Day with the release of a comprehensive report on how to better confront the potentially deadly parasitic infection that strikes hardest among Latin America’s poor and marginalized. It was on this date in 1909 that a Brazilian doctor, Carlos Chagas, diagnosed […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General Says He “Hopes” US Funding Will Continue Amidst Spate of White House Attacks 14/04/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the relationship between WHO and the United States is “very good” and that, despite the recent maelstrom of criticism by President Donald Trump over WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, he hoped that funding from the USA will continue. “I hope the funding to […] Continue reading -> Experts Warn COVID-19 Pandemic In Northern Hemisphere May Not Wane With Warmer Weather 09/04/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Although there have been suggestions that warmer weather might lead to the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Northern Hemisphere, a new study published by the United States National Academy of Sciences has dashed some cold water on that hypothesis, saying that available data on diease spread has so far failed to show strong […] Continue reading -> The Netherlands Joins COVID-19 IP Pool Initiative; Kentucky Governor Requests 3M Release N95 Patent 08/04/2020 Editorial team Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Hugo de Jonge on Wednesday offered to support the World Health Organization to develop a pool of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 technologies, just days after WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced WHO’s public support for the initiative. “In principle, I am sympathetic to this initiative,” Minister de Jonge wrote […] Continue reading -> BCG Vaccine & Ivermectin – Can Old Solutions Be Repurposed For COVID-19? 08/04/2020 Grace Ren & Svĕt Lustig Vijay While much of the public fanfare around new COVID-19 drugs has centered around the lupus drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a failed Ebola remedy, remdesivir, other researchers are keen to explore the potential of other time-worn remedies – although here, too, experts are urging extreme caution. Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that turned the tide in the […] Continue reading -> Six Million More Nurses Needed Ensure Health for All by 2030, Says New WHO Report 07/04/2020 Grace Ren The world needs 6 million more nurses in the next 15 years in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report released by the World Health Organization, Nursing Now, and the International Council of Nurses. The report, released Tuesday on World Health Day, explores challenges and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Access To Affordable Biologics In The Context Of COVID-19: Will WHO Step Up To Its Responsibility? 14/04/2020 Chetali Rao & K M Gopakumar New Delhi, India – COVID-19 has posed unique challenges for healthcare providers across the globe, as the world has been grappling with the pandemic with no approved treatments or vaccines for the disease. Researchers are searching everywhere for drugs that may help treat or prevent the spread of the deadly virus. This has led to […] Continue reading -> GlaxoSmithKline & Sanofi Team Up To Develop COVID-19 Vaccine 14/04/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay Two of the largest vaccines companies in the world, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Sanofi, are teaming up to hasten vaccine development for COVID-19. “By combining our science and our technologies, we believe we can help accelerate the global effort to develop a vaccine to protect as many people as possible from COVID-19”, said Emma Walmsley, chief […] Continue reading -> Unitaid Greets World Chagas Disease Day With New Analysis, New Plans 14/04/2020 Press release [Unitaid] Geneva, Switzerland (14 April 2020) – Unitaid marked the first World Chagas Disease Day with the release of a comprehensive report on how to better confront the potentially deadly parasitic infection that strikes hardest among Latin America’s poor and marginalized. It was on this date in 1909 that a Brazilian doctor, Carlos Chagas, diagnosed […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General Says He “Hopes” US Funding Will Continue Amidst Spate of White House Attacks 14/04/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the relationship between WHO and the United States is “very good” and that, despite the recent maelstrom of criticism by President Donald Trump over WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, he hoped that funding from the USA will continue. “I hope the funding to […] Continue reading -> Experts Warn COVID-19 Pandemic In Northern Hemisphere May Not Wane With Warmer Weather 09/04/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Although there have been suggestions that warmer weather might lead to the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Northern Hemisphere, a new study published by the United States National Academy of Sciences has dashed some cold water on that hypothesis, saying that available data on diease spread has so far failed to show strong […] Continue reading -> The Netherlands Joins COVID-19 IP Pool Initiative; Kentucky Governor Requests 3M Release N95 Patent 08/04/2020 Editorial team Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Hugo de Jonge on Wednesday offered to support the World Health Organization to develop a pool of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 technologies, just days after WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced WHO’s public support for the initiative. “In principle, I am sympathetic to this initiative,” Minister de Jonge wrote […] Continue reading -> BCG Vaccine & Ivermectin – Can Old Solutions Be Repurposed For COVID-19? 08/04/2020 Grace Ren & Svĕt Lustig Vijay While much of the public fanfare around new COVID-19 drugs has centered around the lupus drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a failed Ebola remedy, remdesivir, other researchers are keen to explore the potential of other time-worn remedies – although here, too, experts are urging extreme caution. Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that turned the tide in the […] Continue reading -> Six Million More Nurses Needed Ensure Health for All by 2030, Says New WHO Report 07/04/2020 Grace Ren The world needs 6 million more nurses in the next 15 years in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report released by the World Health Organization, Nursing Now, and the International Council of Nurses. The report, released Tuesday on World Health Day, explores challenges and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
GlaxoSmithKline & Sanofi Team Up To Develop COVID-19 Vaccine 14/04/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay Two of the largest vaccines companies in the world, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Sanofi, are teaming up to hasten vaccine development for COVID-19. “By combining our science and our technologies, we believe we can help accelerate the global effort to develop a vaccine to protect as many people as possible from COVID-19”, said Emma Walmsley, chief […] Continue reading -> Unitaid Greets World Chagas Disease Day With New Analysis, New Plans 14/04/2020 Press release [Unitaid] Geneva, Switzerland (14 April 2020) – Unitaid marked the first World Chagas Disease Day with the release of a comprehensive report on how to better confront the potentially deadly parasitic infection that strikes hardest among Latin America’s poor and marginalized. It was on this date in 1909 that a Brazilian doctor, Carlos Chagas, diagnosed […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General Says He “Hopes” US Funding Will Continue Amidst Spate of White House Attacks 14/04/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the relationship between WHO and the United States is “very good” and that, despite the recent maelstrom of criticism by President Donald Trump over WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, he hoped that funding from the USA will continue. “I hope the funding to […] Continue reading -> Experts Warn COVID-19 Pandemic In Northern Hemisphere May Not Wane With Warmer Weather 09/04/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Although there have been suggestions that warmer weather might lead to the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Northern Hemisphere, a new study published by the United States National Academy of Sciences has dashed some cold water on that hypothesis, saying that available data on diease spread has so far failed to show strong […] Continue reading -> The Netherlands Joins COVID-19 IP Pool Initiative; Kentucky Governor Requests 3M Release N95 Patent 08/04/2020 Editorial team Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Hugo de Jonge on Wednesday offered to support the World Health Organization to develop a pool of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 technologies, just days after WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced WHO’s public support for the initiative. “In principle, I am sympathetic to this initiative,” Minister de Jonge wrote […] Continue reading -> BCG Vaccine & Ivermectin – Can Old Solutions Be Repurposed For COVID-19? 08/04/2020 Grace Ren & Svĕt Lustig Vijay While much of the public fanfare around new COVID-19 drugs has centered around the lupus drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a failed Ebola remedy, remdesivir, other researchers are keen to explore the potential of other time-worn remedies – although here, too, experts are urging extreme caution. Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that turned the tide in the […] Continue reading -> Six Million More Nurses Needed Ensure Health for All by 2030, Says New WHO Report 07/04/2020 Grace Ren The world needs 6 million more nurses in the next 15 years in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report released by the World Health Organization, Nursing Now, and the International Council of Nurses. The report, released Tuesday on World Health Day, explores challenges and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Unitaid Greets World Chagas Disease Day With New Analysis, New Plans 14/04/2020 Press release [Unitaid] Geneva, Switzerland (14 April 2020) – Unitaid marked the first World Chagas Disease Day with the release of a comprehensive report on how to better confront the potentially deadly parasitic infection that strikes hardest among Latin America’s poor and marginalized. It was on this date in 1909 that a Brazilian doctor, Carlos Chagas, diagnosed […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General Says He “Hopes” US Funding Will Continue Amidst Spate of White House Attacks 14/04/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the relationship between WHO and the United States is “very good” and that, despite the recent maelstrom of criticism by President Donald Trump over WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, he hoped that funding from the USA will continue. “I hope the funding to […] Continue reading -> Experts Warn COVID-19 Pandemic In Northern Hemisphere May Not Wane With Warmer Weather 09/04/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Although there have been suggestions that warmer weather might lead to the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Northern Hemisphere, a new study published by the United States National Academy of Sciences has dashed some cold water on that hypothesis, saying that available data on diease spread has so far failed to show strong […] Continue reading -> The Netherlands Joins COVID-19 IP Pool Initiative; Kentucky Governor Requests 3M Release N95 Patent 08/04/2020 Editorial team Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Hugo de Jonge on Wednesday offered to support the World Health Organization to develop a pool of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 technologies, just days after WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced WHO’s public support for the initiative. “In principle, I am sympathetic to this initiative,” Minister de Jonge wrote […] Continue reading -> BCG Vaccine & Ivermectin – Can Old Solutions Be Repurposed For COVID-19? 08/04/2020 Grace Ren & Svĕt Lustig Vijay While much of the public fanfare around new COVID-19 drugs has centered around the lupus drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a failed Ebola remedy, remdesivir, other researchers are keen to explore the potential of other time-worn remedies – although here, too, experts are urging extreme caution. Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that turned the tide in the […] Continue reading -> Six Million More Nurses Needed Ensure Health for All by 2030, Says New WHO Report 07/04/2020 Grace Ren The world needs 6 million more nurses in the next 15 years in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report released by the World Health Organization, Nursing Now, and the International Council of Nurses. The report, released Tuesday on World Health Day, explores challenges and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Director General Says He “Hopes” US Funding Will Continue Amidst Spate of White House Attacks 14/04/2020 Svĕt Lustig Vijay WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the relationship between WHO and the United States is “very good” and that, despite the recent maelstrom of criticism by President Donald Trump over WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, he hoped that funding from the USA will continue. “I hope the funding to […] Continue reading -> Experts Warn COVID-19 Pandemic In Northern Hemisphere May Not Wane With Warmer Weather 09/04/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Although there have been suggestions that warmer weather might lead to the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Northern Hemisphere, a new study published by the United States National Academy of Sciences has dashed some cold water on that hypothesis, saying that available data on diease spread has so far failed to show strong […] Continue reading -> The Netherlands Joins COVID-19 IP Pool Initiative; Kentucky Governor Requests 3M Release N95 Patent 08/04/2020 Editorial team Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Hugo de Jonge on Wednesday offered to support the World Health Organization to develop a pool of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 technologies, just days after WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced WHO’s public support for the initiative. “In principle, I am sympathetic to this initiative,” Minister de Jonge wrote […] Continue reading -> BCG Vaccine & Ivermectin – Can Old Solutions Be Repurposed For COVID-19? 08/04/2020 Grace Ren & Svĕt Lustig Vijay While much of the public fanfare around new COVID-19 drugs has centered around the lupus drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a failed Ebola remedy, remdesivir, other researchers are keen to explore the potential of other time-worn remedies – although here, too, experts are urging extreme caution. Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that turned the tide in the […] Continue reading -> Six Million More Nurses Needed Ensure Health for All by 2030, Says New WHO Report 07/04/2020 Grace Ren The world needs 6 million more nurses in the next 15 years in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report released by the World Health Organization, Nursing Now, and the International Council of Nurses. The report, released Tuesday on World Health Day, explores challenges and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Experts Warn COVID-19 Pandemic In Northern Hemisphere May Not Wane With Warmer Weather 09/04/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Although there have been suggestions that warmer weather might lead to the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Northern Hemisphere, a new study published by the United States National Academy of Sciences has dashed some cold water on that hypothesis, saying that available data on diease spread has so far failed to show strong […] Continue reading -> The Netherlands Joins COVID-19 IP Pool Initiative; Kentucky Governor Requests 3M Release N95 Patent 08/04/2020 Editorial team Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Hugo de Jonge on Wednesday offered to support the World Health Organization to develop a pool of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 technologies, just days after WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced WHO’s public support for the initiative. “In principle, I am sympathetic to this initiative,” Minister de Jonge wrote […] Continue reading -> BCG Vaccine & Ivermectin – Can Old Solutions Be Repurposed For COVID-19? 08/04/2020 Grace Ren & Svĕt Lustig Vijay While much of the public fanfare around new COVID-19 drugs has centered around the lupus drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a failed Ebola remedy, remdesivir, other researchers are keen to explore the potential of other time-worn remedies – although here, too, experts are urging extreme caution. Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that turned the tide in the […] Continue reading -> Six Million More Nurses Needed Ensure Health for All by 2030, Says New WHO Report 07/04/2020 Grace Ren The world needs 6 million more nurses in the next 15 years in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report released by the World Health Organization, Nursing Now, and the International Council of Nurses. The report, released Tuesday on World Health Day, explores challenges and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
The Netherlands Joins COVID-19 IP Pool Initiative; Kentucky Governor Requests 3M Release N95 Patent 08/04/2020 Editorial team Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Hugo de Jonge on Wednesday offered to support the World Health Organization to develop a pool of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 technologies, just days after WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced WHO’s public support for the initiative. “In principle, I am sympathetic to this initiative,” Minister de Jonge wrote […] Continue reading -> BCG Vaccine & Ivermectin – Can Old Solutions Be Repurposed For COVID-19? 08/04/2020 Grace Ren & Svĕt Lustig Vijay While much of the public fanfare around new COVID-19 drugs has centered around the lupus drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a failed Ebola remedy, remdesivir, other researchers are keen to explore the potential of other time-worn remedies – although here, too, experts are urging extreme caution. Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that turned the tide in the […] Continue reading -> Six Million More Nurses Needed Ensure Health for All by 2030, Says New WHO Report 07/04/2020 Grace Ren The world needs 6 million more nurses in the next 15 years in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report released by the World Health Organization, Nursing Now, and the International Council of Nurses. The report, released Tuesday on World Health Day, explores challenges and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
BCG Vaccine & Ivermectin – Can Old Solutions Be Repurposed For COVID-19? 08/04/2020 Grace Ren & Svĕt Lustig Vijay While much of the public fanfare around new COVID-19 drugs has centered around the lupus drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a failed Ebola remedy, remdesivir, other researchers are keen to explore the potential of other time-worn remedies – although here, too, experts are urging extreme caution. Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that turned the tide in the […] Continue reading -> Six Million More Nurses Needed Ensure Health for All by 2030, Says New WHO Report 07/04/2020 Grace Ren The world needs 6 million more nurses in the next 15 years in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report released by the World Health Organization, Nursing Now, and the International Council of Nurses. The report, released Tuesday on World Health Day, explores challenges and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Six Million More Nurses Needed Ensure Health for All by 2030, Says New WHO Report 07/04/2020 Grace Ren The world needs 6 million more nurses in the next 15 years in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report released by the World Health Organization, Nursing Now, and the International Council of Nurses. The report, released Tuesday on World Health Day, explores challenges and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts