WHO Budget Replenishment Text Keeps Door Open to ‘Earmarked’ Donations 25/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan GENEVA – The World Health Assembly is poised to decide on an “investment round” in late 2024 to boost the World Health Organization’s (WHO) finances – but not the establishment of a “replenishment fund”. Member states and donors will be able to continue to provide funds to the WHO earmarked for specific health programmes – […] Continue reading -> NCD Advocates Call for Stronger Global Action to Curb Harmful Industries 24/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan GENEVA – There needs to be stronger global action to prevent interference in health policy by industries selling products that harm people – tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed food and fossil fuel. This is the call from advocates for non-communicable diseases (NCD) attending a side event at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, which is due to […] Continue reading -> Pandemic-Proofing Global Health Infrastructure – WHO Director General Charts Way Forward 24/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan & Elaine Ruth Fletcher GENEVA – WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyusus has proposed five measures to strengthen the global health infrastructure to pandemic-proof the world in his WHA report on “Strengthening the global architecture for health emergency preparedness, response and resilience”. The pandemic accord and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) are part of the measure on […] Continue reading -> Egypt to Produce Insulin for Africa in New Collaboration with Eli Lilly 22/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan GENEVA – Within months, insulin manufactured in Egypt will be available for distribution in sub-Saharan Africa, thanks to a collaboration between Eli Lilly and a local manufacturer that aims to produce one million doses of insulin by 2030. Eli Lilly is providing Egypt’s EVA Pharma with the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) of insulin at a […] Continue reading -> Sexual Health Derailed the Last World Health Assembly; What Are This Year’s Flashpoints? 18/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Much of this year’s WHA agenda, being held in Geneva between 21 and 30 May, should be preoccupied with pandemic preparedness and the WHO’s budget. But there are some obscure items for anti-rights conservatives to latch onto if they want to derail discussion – and there is growing appetite for such disruptions throughout all UN […] Continue reading -> Focus on Influencing Substance of Pandemic Accord as Process Unlikely to Change, EU Official Advises Civil Society 18/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Civil society is unlikely to be included in the World Health Organization (WHO)’s pandemic accord negotiations and should focus on making an impact on its content, according to a European Union official. “I don’t see these rules.. changing very easily at this stage. So I would concentrate efforts in working on the substance more than […] Continue reading -> Burundi Tops Scorecard for Integrating Health into Climate Action Plan 16/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Landlocked equatorial Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world – yet it scored the highest out of 58 countries for its plans to integrate health measures into its climate mitigation plan, getting an almost perfect score of 17 out of 18. Low- and middle-income countries were far more likely to include health […] Continue reading -> Artificial Sweeteners Do Not Help to Control Weight 15/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Artificial sweeteners should not be used to control body weight or reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), according to a World Health Organization (WHO) guideline issued on Monday. “Non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value. People should reduce the sweetness of their diet altogether, starting early in life, […] Continue reading -> Important Lessons From the African Vaccine Manufacturer That Could Not Sell a Single Dose 11/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Regional vaccine production features in the draft pandemic accord, but there is still a long road before this becomes a reality Aspen Pharmacare invested millions of dollars in scaling up its South African production plant to make COVID-19 vaccines – yet it never sold a single vial. Meanwhile, in a “demoralising blow”, Bangladesh’s government rejected […] Continue reading -> HIV Activists Urge US Govt to Appeal Gilead Court Ruling 10/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan HIV activists want the US government to appeal Tuesday’s court ruling that pharmaceutical company Gilead did not infringe on patents held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to two anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. The US government had claimed $1 billion in patent violations in relation to the use of Gilead’s Truvada and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
NCD Advocates Call for Stronger Global Action to Curb Harmful Industries 24/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan GENEVA – There needs to be stronger global action to prevent interference in health policy by industries selling products that harm people – tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed food and fossil fuel. This is the call from advocates for non-communicable diseases (NCD) attending a side event at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, which is due to […] Continue reading -> Pandemic-Proofing Global Health Infrastructure – WHO Director General Charts Way Forward 24/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan & Elaine Ruth Fletcher GENEVA – WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyusus has proposed five measures to strengthen the global health infrastructure to pandemic-proof the world in his WHA report on “Strengthening the global architecture for health emergency preparedness, response and resilience”. The pandemic accord and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) are part of the measure on […] Continue reading -> Egypt to Produce Insulin for Africa in New Collaboration with Eli Lilly 22/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan GENEVA – Within months, insulin manufactured in Egypt will be available for distribution in sub-Saharan Africa, thanks to a collaboration between Eli Lilly and a local manufacturer that aims to produce one million doses of insulin by 2030. Eli Lilly is providing Egypt’s EVA Pharma with the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) of insulin at a […] Continue reading -> Sexual Health Derailed the Last World Health Assembly; What Are This Year’s Flashpoints? 18/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Much of this year’s WHA agenda, being held in Geneva between 21 and 30 May, should be preoccupied with pandemic preparedness and the WHO’s budget. But there are some obscure items for anti-rights conservatives to latch onto if they want to derail discussion – and there is growing appetite for such disruptions throughout all UN […] Continue reading -> Focus on Influencing Substance of Pandemic Accord as Process Unlikely to Change, EU Official Advises Civil Society 18/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Civil society is unlikely to be included in the World Health Organization (WHO)’s pandemic accord negotiations and should focus on making an impact on its content, according to a European Union official. “I don’t see these rules.. changing very easily at this stage. So I would concentrate efforts in working on the substance more than […] Continue reading -> Burundi Tops Scorecard for Integrating Health into Climate Action Plan 16/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Landlocked equatorial Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world – yet it scored the highest out of 58 countries for its plans to integrate health measures into its climate mitigation plan, getting an almost perfect score of 17 out of 18. Low- and middle-income countries were far more likely to include health […] Continue reading -> Artificial Sweeteners Do Not Help to Control Weight 15/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Artificial sweeteners should not be used to control body weight or reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), according to a World Health Organization (WHO) guideline issued on Monday. “Non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value. People should reduce the sweetness of their diet altogether, starting early in life, […] Continue reading -> Important Lessons From the African Vaccine Manufacturer That Could Not Sell a Single Dose 11/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Regional vaccine production features in the draft pandemic accord, but there is still a long road before this becomes a reality Aspen Pharmacare invested millions of dollars in scaling up its South African production plant to make COVID-19 vaccines – yet it never sold a single vial. Meanwhile, in a “demoralising blow”, Bangladesh’s government rejected […] Continue reading -> HIV Activists Urge US Govt to Appeal Gilead Court Ruling 10/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan HIV activists want the US government to appeal Tuesday’s court ruling that pharmaceutical company Gilead did not infringe on patents held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to two anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. The US government had claimed $1 billion in patent violations in relation to the use of Gilead’s Truvada and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Pandemic-Proofing Global Health Infrastructure – WHO Director General Charts Way Forward 24/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan & Elaine Ruth Fletcher GENEVA – WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyusus has proposed five measures to strengthen the global health infrastructure to pandemic-proof the world in his WHA report on “Strengthening the global architecture for health emergency preparedness, response and resilience”. The pandemic accord and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) are part of the measure on […] Continue reading -> Egypt to Produce Insulin for Africa in New Collaboration with Eli Lilly 22/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan GENEVA – Within months, insulin manufactured in Egypt will be available for distribution in sub-Saharan Africa, thanks to a collaboration between Eli Lilly and a local manufacturer that aims to produce one million doses of insulin by 2030. Eli Lilly is providing Egypt’s EVA Pharma with the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) of insulin at a […] Continue reading -> Sexual Health Derailed the Last World Health Assembly; What Are This Year’s Flashpoints? 18/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Much of this year’s WHA agenda, being held in Geneva between 21 and 30 May, should be preoccupied with pandemic preparedness and the WHO’s budget. But there are some obscure items for anti-rights conservatives to latch onto if they want to derail discussion – and there is growing appetite for such disruptions throughout all UN […] Continue reading -> Focus on Influencing Substance of Pandemic Accord as Process Unlikely to Change, EU Official Advises Civil Society 18/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Civil society is unlikely to be included in the World Health Organization (WHO)’s pandemic accord negotiations and should focus on making an impact on its content, according to a European Union official. “I don’t see these rules.. changing very easily at this stage. So I would concentrate efforts in working on the substance more than […] Continue reading -> Burundi Tops Scorecard for Integrating Health into Climate Action Plan 16/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Landlocked equatorial Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world – yet it scored the highest out of 58 countries for its plans to integrate health measures into its climate mitigation plan, getting an almost perfect score of 17 out of 18. Low- and middle-income countries were far more likely to include health […] Continue reading -> Artificial Sweeteners Do Not Help to Control Weight 15/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Artificial sweeteners should not be used to control body weight or reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), according to a World Health Organization (WHO) guideline issued on Monday. “Non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value. People should reduce the sweetness of their diet altogether, starting early in life, […] Continue reading -> Important Lessons From the African Vaccine Manufacturer That Could Not Sell a Single Dose 11/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Regional vaccine production features in the draft pandemic accord, but there is still a long road before this becomes a reality Aspen Pharmacare invested millions of dollars in scaling up its South African production plant to make COVID-19 vaccines – yet it never sold a single vial. Meanwhile, in a “demoralising blow”, Bangladesh’s government rejected […] Continue reading -> HIV Activists Urge US Govt to Appeal Gilead Court Ruling 10/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan HIV activists want the US government to appeal Tuesday’s court ruling that pharmaceutical company Gilead did not infringe on patents held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to two anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. The US government had claimed $1 billion in patent violations in relation to the use of Gilead’s Truvada and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Egypt to Produce Insulin for Africa in New Collaboration with Eli Lilly 22/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan GENEVA – Within months, insulin manufactured in Egypt will be available for distribution in sub-Saharan Africa, thanks to a collaboration between Eli Lilly and a local manufacturer that aims to produce one million doses of insulin by 2030. Eli Lilly is providing Egypt’s EVA Pharma with the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) of insulin at a […] Continue reading -> Sexual Health Derailed the Last World Health Assembly; What Are This Year’s Flashpoints? 18/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Much of this year’s WHA agenda, being held in Geneva between 21 and 30 May, should be preoccupied with pandemic preparedness and the WHO’s budget. But there are some obscure items for anti-rights conservatives to latch onto if they want to derail discussion – and there is growing appetite for such disruptions throughout all UN […] Continue reading -> Focus on Influencing Substance of Pandemic Accord as Process Unlikely to Change, EU Official Advises Civil Society 18/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Civil society is unlikely to be included in the World Health Organization (WHO)’s pandemic accord negotiations and should focus on making an impact on its content, according to a European Union official. “I don’t see these rules.. changing very easily at this stage. So I would concentrate efforts in working on the substance more than […] Continue reading -> Burundi Tops Scorecard for Integrating Health into Climate Action Plan 16/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Landlocked equatorial Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world – yet it scored the highest out of 58 countries for its plans to integrate health measures into its climate mitigation plan, getting an almost perfect score of 17 out of 18. Low- and middle-income countries were far more likely to include health […] Continue reading -> Artificial Sweeteners Do Not Help to Control Weight 15/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Artificial sweeteners should not be used to control body weight or reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), according to a World Health Organization (WHO) guideline issued on Monday. “Non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value. People should reduce the sweetness of their diet altogether, starting early in life, […] Continue reading -> Important Lessons From the African Vaccine Manufacturer That Could Not Sell a Single Dose 11/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Regional vaccine production features in the draft pandemic accord, but there is still a long road before this becomes a reality Aspen Pharmacare invested millions of dollars in scaling up its South African production plant to make COVID-19 vaccines – yet it never sold a single vial. Meanwhile, in a “demoralising blow”, Bangladesh’s government rejected […] Continue reading -> HIV Activists Urge US Govt to Appeal Gilead Court Ruling 10/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan HIV activists want the US government to appeal Tuesday’s court ruling that pharmaceutical company Gilead did not infringe on patents held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to two anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. The US government had claimed $1 billion in patent violations in relation to the use of Gilead’s Truvada and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Sexual Health Derailed the Last World Health Assembly; What Are This Year’s Flashpoints? 18/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Much of this year’s WHA agenda, being held in Geneva between 21 and 30 May, should be preoccupied with pandemic preparedness and the WHO’s budget. But there are some obscure items for anti-rights conservatives to latch onto if they want to derail discussion – and there is growing appetite for such disruptions throughout all UN […] Continue reading -> Focus on Influencing Substance of Pandemic Accord as Process Unlikely to Change, EU Official Advises Civil Society 18/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Civil society is unlikely to be included in the World Health Organization (WHO)’s pandemic accord negotiations and should focus on making an impact on its content, according to a European Union official. “I don’t see these rules.. changing very easily at this stage. So I would concentrate efforts in working on the substance more than […] Continue reading -> Burundi Tops Scorecard for Integrating Health into Climate Action Plan 16/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Landlocked equatorial Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world – yet it scored the highest out of 58 countries for its plans to integrate health measures into its climate mitigation plan, getting an almost perfect score of 17 out of 18. Low- and middle-income countries were far more likely to include health […] Continue reading -> Artificial Sweeteners Do Not Help to Control Weight 15/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Artificial sweeteners should not be used to control body weight or reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), according to a World Health Organization (WHO) guideline issued on Monday. “Non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value. People should reduce the sweetness of their diet altogether, starting early in life, […] Continue reading -> Important Lessons From the African Vaccine Manufacturer That Could Not Sell a Single Dose 11/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Regional vaccine production features in the draft pandemic accord, but there is still a long road before this becomes a reality Aspen Pharmacare invested millions of dollars in scaling up its South African production plant to make COVID-19 vaccines – yet it never sold a single vial. Meanwhile, in a “demoralising blow”, Bangladesh’s government rejected […] Continue reading -> HIV Activists Urge US Govt to Appeal Gilead Court Ruling 10/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan HIV activists want the US government to appeal Tuesday’s court ruling that pharmaceutical company Gilead did not infringe on patents held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to two anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. The US government had claimed $1 billion in patent violations in relation to the use of Gilead’s Truvada and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Focus on Influencing Substance of Pandemic Accord as Process Unlikely to Change, EU Official Advises Civil Society 18/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Civil society is unlikely to be included in the World Health Organization (WHO)’s pandemic accord negotiations and should focus on making an impact on its content, according to a European Union official. “I don’t see these rules.. changing very easily at this stage. So I would concentrate efforts in working on the substance more than […] Continue reading -> Burundi Tops Scorecard for Integrating Health into Climate Action Plan 16/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Landlocked equatorial Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world – yet it scored the highest out of 58 countries for its plans to integrate health measures into its climate mitigation plan, getting an almost perfect score of 17 out of 18. Low- and middle-income countries were far more likely to include health […] Continue reading -> Artificial Sweeteners Do Not Help to Control Weight 15/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Artificial sweeteners should not be used to control body weight or reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), according to a World Health Organization (WHO) guideline issued on Monday. “Non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value. People should reduce the sweetness of their diet altogether, starting early in life, […] Continue reading -> Important Lessons From the African Vaccine Manufacturer That Could Not Sell a Single Dose 11/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Regional vaccine production features in the draft pandemic accord, but there is still a long road before this becomes a reality Aspen Pharmacare invested millions of dollars in scaling up its South African production plant to make COVID-19 vaccines – yet it never sold a single vial. Meanwhile, in a “demoralising blow”, Bangladesh’s government rejected […] Continue reading -> HIV Activists Urge US Govt to Appeal Gilead Court Ruling 10/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan HIV activists want the US government to appeal Tuesday’s court ruling that pharmaceutical company Gilead did not infringe on patents held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to two anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. The US government had claimed $1 billion in patent violations in relation to the use of Gilead’s Truvada and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Burundi Tops Scorecard for Integrating Health into Climate Action Plan 16/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Landlocked equatorial Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world – yet it scored the highest out of 58 countries for its plans to integrate health measures into its climate mitigation plan, getting an almost perfect score of 17 out of 18. Low- and middle-income countries were far more likely to include health […] Continue reading -> Artificial Sweeteners Do Not Help to Control Weight 15/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Artificial sweeteners should not be used to control body weight or reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), according to a World Health Organization (WHO) guideline issued on Monday. “Non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value. People should reduce the sweetness of their diet altogether, starting early in life, […] Continue reading -> Important Lessons From the African Vaccine Manufacturer That Could Not Sell a Single Dose 11/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Regional vaccine production features in the draft pandemic accord, but there is still a long road before this becomes a reality Aspen Pharmacare invested millions of dollars in scaling up its South African production plant to make COVID-19 vaccines – yet it never sold a single vial. Meanwhile, in a “demoralising blow”, Bangladesh’s government rejected […] Continue reading -> HIV Activists Urge US Govt to Appeal Gilead Court Ruling 10/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan HIV activists want the US government to appeal Tuesday’s court ruling that pharmaceutical company Gilead did not infringe on patents held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to two anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. The US government had claimed $1 billion in patent violations in relation to the use of Gilead’s Truvada and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Artificial Sweeteners Do Not Help to Control Weight 15/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Artificial sweeteners should not be used to control body weight or reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), according to a World Health Organization (WHO) guideline issued on Monday. “Non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value. People should reduce the sweetness of their diet altogether, starting early in life, […] Continue reading -> Important Lessons From the African Vaccine Manufacturer That Could Not Sell a Single Dose 11/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Regional vaccine production features in the draft pandemic accord, but there is still a long road before this becomes a reality Aspen Pharmacare invested millions of dollars in scaling up its South African production plant to make COVID-19 vaccines – yet it never sold a single vial. Meanwhile, in a “demoralising blow”, Bangladesh’s government rejected […] Continue reading -> HIV Activists Urge US Govt to Appeal Gilead Court Ruling 10/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan HIV activists want the US government to appeal Tuesday’s court ruling that pharmaceutical company Gilead did not infringe on patents held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to two anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. The US government had claimed $1 billion in patent violations in relation to the use of Gilead’s Truvada and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Important Lessons From the African Vaccine Manufacturer That Could Not Sell a Single Dose 11/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan Regional vaccine production features in the draft pandemic accord, but there is still a long road before this becomes a reality Aspen Pharmacare invested millions of dollars in scaling up its South African production plant to make COVID-19 vaccines – yet it never sold a single vial. Meanwhile, in a “demoralising blow”, Bangladesh’s government rejected […] Continue reading -> HIV Activists Urge US Govt to Appeal Gilead Court Ruling 10/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan HIV activists want the US government to appeal Tuesday’s court ruling that pharmaceutical company Gilead did not infringe on patents held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to two anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. The US government had claimed $1 billion in patent violations in relation to the use of Gilead’s Truvada and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
HIV Activists Urge US Govt to Appeal Gilead Court Ruling 10/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan HIV activists want the US government to appeal Tuesday’s court ruling that pharmaceutical company Gilead did not infringe on patents held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to two anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. The US government had claimed $1 billion in patent violations in relation to the use of Gilead’s Truvada and […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts