Violence Against Ebola Responders Plagues Outbreak Response As Case Counts Plateau 08/11/2019 Grace Ren The number of Ebola cases per week has plateaued at a low, but consistent, count of 19 per week in the past 21 days, but the violent death of a radio journalist who had won acclaim for his Ebola outreach work has responders remaining vigilant. One Ebola case was also detected this week at a […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization And Sudan Ministry of Health Scale Up Response To Cholera Outbreak 06/11/2019 Grace Ren As a cholera outbreak inches closer to Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum, the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization are scaling up the response. Two cholera cases were confirmed in the district of Khartoum State on October 19. As of Monday, November 3, the Ministry of Health had reported 332 suspected cases […] Continue reading -> Civil Society Pressures French Leaders To Adopt Transparency Amendments 06/11/2019 Grace Ren A coalition of over 40 personalities – from doctors and economists to actors and health access activists – released an open letter Tuesday calling on the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn to support a series of amendments to the French Social Security Budget Bill for 2020 providing for […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Chile Pulls Out Of Hosting COP25 Climate Conference Amid Massive Protests 30/10/2019 Editorial team Chile pulled out of hosting the COP25 Climate Change Conference on Wednesday, following two weeks of protests in the hosting city of Santiago. The announcement throws preparations for the conference, scheduled for December, into disarray for the second time, after Brazil withdrew its request to host the 2019 conference late last year. It casts a […] Continue reading -> WHO Launches Digital Health Action Plan To Guide Expert Group’s Work 25/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization has launched a plan to accelerate the use of digital technologies to meet global public health needs, following the first-ever meeting of a WHO Technical Advisory Group on digital health. “All governments are facing increasing demands to provide health services to their citizens, and many digital technologies offer solutions to help meet […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Progress’ Knowledge Hub Highlights Public-Private Initiatives On Health-Related SDGs 25/10/2019 Press release A new knowledge hub Global Health Progress, highlighting over 200 collaborations between the biopharmaceutical industry involving more than 850 government, multilateral organization and civil society partners, was launched Friday by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA). The hub provides a worldwide mapping of health-related initiatives in which IFPMA members are engaged, searchable […] Continue reading -> G20 Health Ministers Issue Detailed Declaration On Global Health Goals 22/10/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A G20 Health Ministers Declaration, issued after a two-day meeting of ministers in Okayama Japan, has endorsed rapid achievement of universal health coverage, a more effective support of healthy ageing, increased attention to health emergencies and their underlying causes such as poverty and weak health systems, and more forceful action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The […] Continue reading -> Campaign To Ban Lead Paint Worldwide Featured For International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 21/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization and UN Environment kicked off a week-long campaign asking countries to take more assertive action to ban lead paint, coinciding with International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. The Global Alliance to Ban Lead Paint, a WHO-UN Environment Partnership involving countries and civil society, has set a goal to ban lead paint in […] Continue reading -> World Falling Short Of 2020 Targets For ‘End TB’ Strategy 17/10/2019 Grace Ren The world is not on track to reach the 2020 targets of the End TB Strategy, according to the World Health Organization’s latest Global Tuberculosis Report, published on Thursday. On a more positive note, 2018 saw a reduction in the number of TB deaths with some 1.5 million deaths from TB, down from 1.6 million […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
World Health Organization And Sudan Ministry of Health Scale Up Response To Cholera Outbreak 06/11/2019 Grace Ren As a cholera outbreak inches closer to Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum, the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization are scaling up the response. Two cholera cases were confirmed in the district of Khartoum State on October 19. As of Monday, November 3, the Ministry of Health had reported 332 suspected cases […] Continue reading -> Civil Society Pressures French Leaders To Adopt Transparency Amendments 06/11/2019 Grace Ren A coalition of over 40 personalities – from doctors and economists to actors and health access activists – released an open letter Tuesday calling on the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn to support a series of amendments to the French Social Security Budget Bill for 2020 providing for […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Chile Pulls Out Of Hosting COP25 Climate Conference Amid Massive Protests 30/10/2019 Editorial team Chile pulled out of hosting the COP25 Climate Change Conference on Wednesday, following two weeks of protests in the hosting city of Santiago. The announcement throws preparations for the conference, scheduled for December, into disarray for the second time, after Brazil withdrew its request to host the 2019 conference late last year. It casts a […] Continue reading -> WHO Launches Digital Health Action Plan To Guide Expert Group’s Work 25/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization has launched a plan to accelerate the use of digital technologies to meet global public health needs, following the first-ever meeting of a WHO Technical Advisory Group on digital health. “All governments are facing increasing demands to provide health services to their citizens, and many digital technologies offer solutions to help meet […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Progress’ Knowledge Hub Highlights Public-Private Initiatives On Health-Related SDGs 25/10/2019 Press release A new knowledge hub Global Health Progress, highlighting over 200 collaborations between the biopharmaceutical industry involving more than 850 government, multilateral organization and civil society partners, was launched Friday by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA). The hub provides a worldwide mapping of health-related initiatives in which IFPMA members are engaged, searchable […] Continue reading -> G20 Health Ministers Issue Detailed Declaration On Global Health Goals 22/10/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A G20 Health Ministers Declaration, issued after a two-day meeting of ministers in Okayama Japan, has endorsed rapid achievement of universal health coverage, a more effective support of healthy ageing, increased attention to health emergencies and their underlying causes such as poverty and weak health systems, and more forceful action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The […] Continue reading -> Campaign To Ban Lead Paint Worldwide Featured For International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 21/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization and UN Environment kicked off a week-long campaign asking countries to take more assertive action to ban lead paint, coinciding with International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. The Global Alliance to Ban Lead Paint, a WHO-UN Environment Partnership involving countries and civil society, has set a goal to ban lead paint in […] Continue reading -> World Falling Short Of 2020 Targets For ‘End TB’ Strategy 17/10/2019 Grace Ren The world is not on track to reach the 2020 targets of the End TB Strategy, according to the World Health Organization’s latest Global Tuberculosis Report, published on Thursday. On a more positive note, 2018 saw a reduction in the number of TB deaths with some 1.5 million deaths from TB, down from 1.6 million […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Civil Society Pressures French Leaders To Adopt Transparency Amendments 06/11/2019 Grace Ren A coalition of over 40 personalities – from doctors and economists to actors and health access activists – released an open letter Tuesday calling on the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn to support a series of amendments to the French Social Security Budget Bill for 2020 providing for […] Continue reading -> Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Chile Pulls Out Of Hosting COP25 Climate Conference Amid Massive Protests 30/10/2019 Editorial team Chile pulled out of hosting the COP25 Climate Change Conference on Wednesday, following two weeks of protests in the hosting city of Santiago. The announcement throws preparations for the conference, scheduled for December, into disarray for the second time, after Brazil withdrew its request to host the 2019 conference late last year. It casts a […] Continue reading -> WHO Launches Digital Health Action Plan To Guide Expert Group’s Work 25/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization has launched a plan to accelerate the use of digital technologies to meet global public health needs, following the first-ever meeting of a WHO Technical Advisory Group on digital health. “All governments are facing increasing demands to provide health services to their citizens, and many digital technologies offer solutions to help meet […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Progress’ Knowledge Hub Highlights Public-Private Initiatives On Health-Related SDGs 25/10/2019 Press release A new knowledge hub Global Health Progress, highlighting over 200 collaborations between the biopharmaceutical industry involving more than 850 government, multilateral organization and civil society partners, was launched Friday by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA). The hub provides a worldwide mapping of health-related initiatives in which IFPMA members are engaged, searchable […] Continue reading -> G20 Health Ministers Issue Detailed Declaration On Global Health Goals 22/10/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A G20 Health Ministers Declaration, issued after a two-day meeting of ministers in Okayama Japan, has endorsed rapid achievement of universal health coverage, a more effective support of healthy ageing, increased attention to health emergencies and their underlying causes such as poverty and weak health systems, and more forceful action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The […] Continue reading -> Campaign To Ban Lead Paint Worldwide Featured For International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 21/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization and UN Environment kicked off a week-long campaign asking countries to take more assertive action to ban lead paint, coinciding with International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. The Global Alliance to Ban Lead Paint, a WHO-UN Environment Partnership involving countries and civil society, has set a goal to ban lead paint in […] Continue reading -> World Falling Short Of 2020 Targets For ‘End TB’ Strategy 17/10/2019 Grace Ren The world is not on track to reach the 2020 targets of the End TB Strategy, according to the World Health Organization’s latest Global Tuberculosis Report, published on Thursday. On a more positive note, 2018 saw a reduction in the number of TB deaths with some 1.5 million deaths from TB, down from 1.6 million […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Challenges & Opportunities Of Cutting-Edge Health Technologies Discussed At WTO-WHO-WIPO Symposium 31/10/2019 Grace Ren Cutting-edge health technologies – such as gene editing therapies for cancer – have the potential to save lives, and the international intellectual property system should be leveraged to drive innovation and bring those therapies to people who need them, said the leaders of global health, trade and intellectual property agencies at a Trilateral Symposium on […] Continue reading -> Chile Pulls Out Of Hosting COP25 Climate Conference Amid Massive Protests 30/10/2019 Editorial team Chile pulled out of hosting the COP25 Climate Change Conference on Wednesday, following two weeks of protests in the hosting city of Santiago. The announcement throws preparations for the conference, scheduled for December, into disarray for the second time, after Brazil withdrew its request to host the 2019 conference late last year. It casts a […] Continue reading -> WHO Launches Digital Health Action Plan To Guide Expert Group’s Work 25/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization has launched a plan to accelerate the use of digital technologies to meet global public health needs, following the first-ever meeting of a WHO Technical Advisory Group on digital health. “All governments are facing increasing demands to provide health services to their citizens, and many digital technologies offer solutions to help meet […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Progress’ Knowledge Hub Highlights Public-Private Initiatives On Health-Related SDGs 25/10/2019 Press release A new knowledge hub Global Health Progress, highlighting over 200 collaborations between the biopharmaceutical industry involving more than 850 government, multilateral organization and civil society partners, was launched Friday by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA). The hub provides a worldwide mapping of health-related initiatives in which IFPMA members are engaged, searchable […] Continue reading -> G20 Health Ministers Issue Detailed Declaration On Global Health Goals 22/10/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A G20 Health Ministers Declaration, issued after a two-day meeting of ministers in Okayama Japan, has endorsed rapid achievement of universal health coverage, a more effective support of healthy ageing, increased attention to health emergencies and their underlying causes such as poverty and weak health systems, and more forceful action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The […] Continue reading -> Campaign To Ban Lead Paint Worldwide Featured For International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 21/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization and UN Environment kicked off a week-long campaign asking countries to take more assertive action to ban lead paint, coinciding with International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. The Global Alliance to Ban Lead Paint, a WHO-UN Environment Partnership involving countries and civil society, has set a goal to ban lead paint in […] Continue reading -> World Falling Short Of 2020 Targets For ‘End TB’ Strategy 17/10/2019 Grace Ren The world is not on track to reach the 2020 targets of the End TB Strategy, according to the World Health Organization’s latest Global Tuberculosis Report, published on Thursday. On a more positive note, 2018 saw a reduction in the number of TB deaths with some 1.5 million deaths from TB, down from 1.6 million […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Chile Pulls Out Of Hosting COP25 Climate Conference Amid Massive Protests 30/10/2019 Editorial team Chile pulled out of hosting the COP25 Climate Change Conference on Wednesday, following two weeks of protests in the hosting city of Santiago. The announcement throws preparations for the conference, scheduled for December, into disarray for the second time, after Brazil withdrew its request to host the 2019 conference late last year. It casts a […] Continue reading -> WHO Launches Digital Health Action Plan To Guide Expert Group’s Work 25/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization has launched a plan to accelerate the use of digital technologies to meet global public health needs, following the first-ever meeting of a WHO Technical Advisory Group on digital health. “All governments are facing increasing demands to provide health services to their citizens, and many digital technologies offer solutions to help meet […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Progress’ Knowledge Hub Highlights Public-Private Initiatives On Health-Related SDGs 25/10/2019 Press release A new knowledge hub Global Health Progress, highlighting over 200 collaborations between the biopharmaceutical industry involving more than 850 government, multilateral organization and civil society partners, was launched Friday by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA). The hub provides a worldwide mapping of health-related initiatives in which IFPMA members are engaged, searchable […] Continue reading -> G20 Health Ministers Issue Detailed Declaration On Global Health Goals 22/10/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A G20 Health Ministers Declaration, issued after a two-day meeting of ministers in Okayama Japan, has endorsed rapid achievement of universal health coverage, a more effective support of healthy ageing, increased attention to health emergencies and their underlying causes such as poverty and weak health systems, and more forceful action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The […] Continue reading -> Campaign To Ban Lead Paint Worldwide Featured For International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 21/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization and UN Environment kicked off a week-long campaign asking countries to take more assertive action to ban lead paint, coinciding with International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. The Global Alliance to Ban Lead Paint, a WHO-UN Environment Partnership involving countries and civil society, has set a goal to ban lead paint in […] Continue reading -> World Falling Short Of 2020 Targets For ‘End TB’ Strategy 17/10/2019 Grace Ren The world is not on track to reach the 2020 targets of the End TB Strategy, according to the World Health Organization’s latest Global Tuberculosis Report, published on Thursday. On a more positive note, 2018 saw a reduction in the number of TB deaths with some 1.5 million deaths from TB, down from 1.6 million […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Launches Digital Health Action Plan To Guide Expert Group’s Work 25/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization has launched a plan to accelerate the use of digital technologies to meet global public health needs, following the first-ever meeting of a WHO Technical Advisory Group on digital health. “All governments are facing increasing demands to provide health services to their citizens, and many digital technologies offer solutions to help meet […] Continue reading -> ‘Global Health Progress’ Knowledge Hub Highlights Public-Private Initiatives On Health-Related SDGs 25/10/2019 Press release A new knowledge hub Global Health Progress, highlighting over 200 collaborations between the biopharmaceutical industry involving more than 850 government, multilateral organization and civil society partners, was launched Friday by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA). The hub provides a worldwide mapping of health-related initiatives in which IFPMA members are engaged, searchable […] Continue reading -> G20 Health Ministers Issue Detailed Declaration On Global Health Goals 22/10/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A G20 Health Ministers Declaration, issued after a two-day meeting of ministers in Okayama Japan, has endorsed rapid achievement of universal health coverage, a more effective support of healthy ageing, increased attention to health emergencies and their underlying causes such as poverty and weak health systems, and more forceful action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The […] Continue reading -> Campaign To Ban Lead Paint Worldwide Featured For International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 21/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization and UN Environment kicked off a week-long campaign asking countries to take more assertive action to ban lead paint, coinciding with International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. The Global Alliance to Ban Lead Paint, a WHO-UN Environment Partnership involving countries and civil society, has set a goal to ban lead paint in […] Continue reading -> World Falling Short Of 2020 Targets For ‘End TB’ Strategy 17/10/2019 Grace Ren The world is not on track to reach the 2020 targets of the End TB Strategy, according to the World Health Organization’s latest Global Tuberculosis Report, published on Thursday. On a more positive note, 2018 saw a reduction in the number of TB deaths with some 1.5 million deaths from TB, down from 1.6 million […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘Global Health Progress’ Knowledge Hub Highlights Public-Private Initiatives On Health-Related SDGs 25/10/2019 Press release A new knowledge hub Global Health Progress, highlighting over 200 collaborations between the biopharmaceutical industry involving more than 850 government, multilateral organization and civil society partners, was launched Friday by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA). The hub provides a worldwide mapping of health-related initiatives in which IFPMA members are engaged, searchable […] Continue reading -> G20 Health Ministers Issue Detailed Declaration On Global Health Goals 22/10/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A G20 Health Ministers Declaration, issued after a two-day meeting of ministers in Okayama Japan, has endorsed rapid achievement of universal health coverage, a more effective support of healthy ageing, increased attention to health emergencies and their underlying causes such as poverty and weak health systems, and more forceful action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The […] Continue reading -> Campaign To Ban Lead Paint Worldwide Featured For International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 21/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization and UN Environment kicked off a week-long campaign asking countries to take more assertive action to ban lead paint, coinciding with International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. The Global Alliance to Ban Lead Paint, a WHO-UN Environment Partnership involving countries and civil society, has set a goal to ban lead paint in […] Continue reading -> World Falling Short Of 2020 Targets For ‘End TB’ Strategy 17/10/2019 Grace Ren The world is not on track to reach the 2020 targets of the End TB Strategy, according to the World Health Organization’s latest Global Tuberculosis Report, published on Thursday. On a more positive note, 2018 saw a reduction in the number of TB deaths with some 1.5 million deaths from TB, down from 1.6 million […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
G20 Health Ministers Issue Detailed Declaration On Global Health Goals 22/10/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A G20 Health Ministers Declaration, issued after a two-day meeting of ministers in Okayama Japan, has endorsed rapid achievement of universal health coverage, a more effective support of healthy ageing, increased attention to health emergencies and their underlying causes such as poverty and weak health systems, and more forceful action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The […] Continue reading -> Campaign To Ban Lead Paint Worldwide Featured For International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 21/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization and UN Environment kicked off a week-long campaign asking countries to take more assertive action to ban lead paint, coinciding with International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. The Global Alliance to Ban Lead Paint, a WHO-UN Environment Partnership involving countries and civil society, has set a goal to ban lead paint in […] Continue reading -> World Falling Short Of 2020 Targets For ‘End TB’ Strategy 17/10/2019 Grace Ren The world is not on track to reach the 2020 targets of the End TB Strategy, according to the World Health Organization’s latest Global Tuberculosis Report, published on Thursday. On a more positive note, 2018 saw a reduction in the number of TB deaths with some 1.5 million deaths from TB, down from 1.6 million […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Campaign To Ban Lead Paint Worldwide Featured For International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 21/10/2019 Grace Ren The World Health Organization and UN Environment kicked off a week-long campaign asking countries to take more assertive action to ban lead paint, coinciding with International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. The Global Alliance to Ban Lead Paint, a WHO-UN Environment Partnership involving countries and civil society, has set a goal to ban lead paint in […] Continue reading -> World Falling Short Of 2020 Targets For ‘End TB’ Strategy 17/10/2019 Grace Ren The world is not on track to reach the 2020 targets of the End TB Strategy, according to the World Health Organization’s latest Global Tuberculosis Report, published on Thursday. On a more positive note, 2018 saw a reduction in the number of TB deaths with some 1.5 million deaths from TB, down from 1.6 million […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
World Falling Short Of 2020 Targets For ‘End TB’ Strategy 17/10/2019 Grace Ren The world is not on track to reach the 2020 targets of the End TB Strategy, according to the World Health Organization’s latest Global Tuberculosis Report, published on Thursday. On a more positive note, 2018 saw a reduction in the number of TB deaths with some 1.5 million deaths from TB, down from 1.6 million […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts