Without urgent action to boost supply and ensure equitable access to vaccines across every country, COVID-19 vaccine inequity will profoundly impact and impede socio-economic recovery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This is according to the Global Dashboard for COVID-19 Vaccine Equity, a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health […] Continue reading ->
An estimated 1.5 million children worldwide have lost a parent, grandparent, or caregiver due to COVID-19, according to a new study published in The Lancet on Tuesday. The study, which was conducted by international researchers, including scientists from the World Health Organization (WHO), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the University of […] Continue reading ->
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat has issued a list of bottlenecks and trade-facilitating measures on critical COVID-19 products, ahead of Wednesday’s High-Level Dialogue between itself and the World Health Organization (WHO) on how to expand COVID-19 vaccines manufacturing to ensure equitable access. “One common theme that emerges from the list is that essential goods […] Continue reading ->
Almost one in five trans women globally are living with HIV – 49 times greater than the general population – while HIV in trans men is woefully understudied. Yet trans and gender-diverse (TGD) people are “frequently and often systematically left out of HIV prevention research and responses”, according to No Data No More, a global […] Continue reading ->
The World Food Program (WFP) and World Health Organization (WHO) launched a health emergencies project, INITIATE2, on Monday. The joint INITIATE2 project will gather health emergency actors, research and academic institutions, and international and national partners to facilitate knowledge sharing and skills transfer to improve emergency health responses. The project will develop innovative solutions to […] Continue reading ->
Burkina Faso, Djibouti, and Ethiopia will be the first African countries to benefit from the US donation of COVID-19 vaccines, with a million doses expected “in the coming days” as part of the US pledge to provide 25 million vaccines to the continent, US officials and the global vaccine alliance, Gavi, said on Friday. This […] Continue reading ->
Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Peru are set to benefit from a US$ 25 million investment by Unitaid into a new Partnership For Vivax Elimination (PAVE), which aims to help these countries eliminate Plasmodium vivax (P. Vivax) malaria. PAVE will also generate and consolidate evidence to support malaria-endemic countries in developing and implementing […] Continue reading ->
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has accepted the resignation of Henrietta Fore as executive director of UNICEF “with deep regret” and expressed his full understanding of her decision to resign. Through a statement released by his spokesman on Tuesday, Guterres thanked Fore her “inspiring leadership of UNICEF and for her service to improve the lives of […] Continue reading ->
More than 740,000 newly diagnosed cancer cases in 2020 may be linked to alcohol consumption, with men accounting for more than three-quarters of those cases, a new global study estimates. The study published in The Lancet Oncology estimates that men accounted for 77% (568,700) of alcohol-associated cancer cases last year, compared with women, who accounted […] Continue reading ->
The Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, is set to begin producing Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in September, paving the way to scale up globally available COVID vaccines. The Sputnik V vaccine, produced by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute and marketed abroad by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), is a two-dose […] Continue reading ->
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