On 75th Anniversary World Health Assembly Must Confront New and Growing Threats 21/05/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Health Assembly opened its annual meeting of member states Sunday on a celebratory note marking the 75th anniversary of the World Health Organization’s foundation in 1948. Eradicating smallpox, eliminating polio in most countries worldwide, and dramatic reductions in deaths from once-deadly childhood diseases preventable by clean water, basic medicines and vaccines are among […] Continue reading -> WHO Calls on Countries to “Drastically Reduce” Climate Emissions to Improve Global Health 19/05/2023 Megha Kaveri The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for focused action to address global warming and climate change to promote health outcomes. Recommendations include concerted efforts to reduce carbon emissions, build climate-resilient and sustainable health systems and protect health from the impacts of climate change. There is also a decline in the treatment coverage for tuberculosis […] 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 -> Paris Agreement Global Temperature Limit to be Breached Within Four Years 17/05/2023 Megha Kaveri In the next four years, there is a 66% chance that global temperatures will rise by at least 1.5°C – the limit set by the Paris Agreement. There is also a 98% likelihood that the world will live through the warmest year on record. This is according to the latest Global Annual to Decadal Climate […] Continue reading -> Cutting Global Plastic Pollution by 80% by 2040 is Within Reach, UN Says 16/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Cutting global plastic pollution by 80% by 2040 is within reach if countries and companies commit to deep systemic changes in the way the world consumes and produces plastics, according to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released on Tuesday. The roadmap set out by the report is remarkably low-tech: reuse, recycle, and replace […] 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 -> WHO Declares End to Mpox Global Health Emergency 11/05/2023 Stefan Anderson The World Health Organization (WHO) has ended the global health emergency for mpox, marking the end of a 10-month juggling act by the UN health agency as it scrambled to deal with concurrent global pandemics. The announcement arrives just days after WHO declared the end of the global health emergency for COVID-19 last Friday, three […] Continue reading -> A Lost Decade: Zero Progress in Reducing Premature Births Since 2010, UN finds 10/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Zero gains have been made in any region of the world in reducing premature births in the past decade, a major UN report found. In a perfect storm of flatlining progress in maternal and newborn health, preterm birth has become to the leading cause of child mortality worldwide, responsible for the deaths of over one […] Continue reading -> COVID’s Failures Must Never be Repeated, Stakeholders Tell UN Pandemic Meeting 09/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The global response to COVID-19 failed people in developing countries, women and health workers and must never be repeated, non-state actors told a meeting hosted by the United Nations (UN) in New York on Tuesday. The UN convened the four-hour multi-stakeholder meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) in preparation for a High-Level Meeting […] Continue reading -> UN Multi-stakeholder Meetings Marred by Complaints About Lack of Consultation 08/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The United Nations (UN) is hosting three multi-stakeholder meetings in New York on Monday and Tuesday on tuberculosis, pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) and universal health coverage (UHC). They are aimed at getting the views of non-state actors in preparation for UN High-Level meetings in September, starting with pandemic preparedness on 20 September, followed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Calls on Countries to “Drastically Reduce” Climate Emissions to Improve Global Health 19/05/2023 Megha Kaveri The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for focused action to address global warming and climate change to promote health outcomes. Recommendations include concerted efforts to reduce carbon emissions, build climate-resilient and sustainable health systems and protect health from the impacts of climate change. There is also a decline in the treatment coverage for tuberculosis […] 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 -> Paris Agreement Global Temperature Limit to be Breached Within Four Years 17/05/2023 Megha Kaveri In the next four years, there is a 66% chance that global temperatures will rise by at least 1.5°C – the limit set by the Paris Agreement. There is also a 98% likelihood that the world will live through the warmest year on record. This is according to the latest Global Annual to Decadal Climate […] Continue reading -> Cutting Global Plastic Pollution by 80% by 2040 is Within Reach, UN Says 16/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Cutting global plastic pollution by 80% by 2040 is within reach if countries and companies commit to deep systemic changes in the way the world consumes and produces plastics, according to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released on Tuesday. The roadmap set out by the report is remarkably low-tech: reuse, recycle, and replace […] 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 -> WHO Declares End to Mpox Global Health Emergency 11/05/2023 Stefan Anderson The World Health Organization (WHO) has ended the global health emergency for mpox, marking the end of a 10-month juggling act by the UN health agency as it scrambled to deal with concurrent global pandemics. The announcement arrives just days after WHO declared the end of the global health emergency for COVID-19 last Friday, three […] Continue reading -> A Lost Decade: Zero Progress in Reducing Premature Births Since 2010, UN finds 10/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Zero gains have been made in any region of the world in reducing premature births in the past decade, a major UN report found. In a perfect storm of flatlining progress in maternal and newborn health, preterm birth has become to the leading cause of child mortality worldwide, responsible for the deaths of over one […] Continue reading -> COVID’s Failures Must Never be Repeated, Stakeholders Tell UN Pandemic Meeting 09/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The global response to COVID-19 failed people in developing countries, women and health workers and must never be repeated, non-state actors told a meeting hosted by the United Nations (UN) in New York on Tuesday. The UN convened the four-hour multi-stakeholder meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) in preparation for a High-Level Meeting […] Continue reading -> UN Multi-stakeholder Meetings Marred by Complaints About Lack of Consultation 08/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The United Nations (UN) is hosting three multi-stakeholder meetings in New York on Monday and Tuesday on tuberculosis, pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) and universal health coverage (UHC). They are aimed at getting the views of non-state actors in preparation for UN High-Level meetings in September, starting with pandemic preparedness on 20 September, followed […] 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 -> Paris Agreement Global Temperature Limit to be Breached Within Four Years 17/05/2023 Megha Kaveri In the next four years, there is a 66% chance that global temperatures will rise by at least 1.5°C – the limit set by the Paris Agreement. There is also a 98% likelihood that the world will live through the warmest year on record. This is according to the latest Global Annual to Decadal Climate […] Continue reading -> Cutting Global Plastic Pollution by 80% by 2040 is Within Reach, UN Says 16/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Cutting global plastic pollution by 80% by 2040 is within reach if countries and companies commit to deep systemic changes in the way the world consumes and produces plastics, according to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released on Tuesday. The roadmap set out by the report is remarkably low-tech: reuse, recycle, and replace […] 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 -> WHO Declares End to Mpox Global Health Emergency 11/05/2023 Stefan Anderson The World Health Organization (WHO) has ended the global health emergency for mpox, marking the end of a 10-month juggling act by the UN health agency as it scrambled to deal with concurrent global pandemics. The announcement arrives just days after WHO declared the end of the global health emergency for COVID-19 last Friday, three […] Continue reading -> A Lost Decade: Zero Progress in Reducing Premature Births Since 2010, UN finds 10/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Zero gains have been made in any region of the world in reducing premature births in the past decade, a major UN report found. In a perfect storm of flatlining progress in maternal and newborn health, preterm birth has become to the leading cause of child mortality worldwide, responsible for the deaths of over one […] Continue reading -> COVID’s Failures Must Never be Repeated, Stakeholders Tell UN Pandemic Meeting 09/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The global response to COVID-19 failed people in developing countries, women and health workers and must never be repeated, non-state actors told a meeting hosted by the United Nations (UN) in New York on Tuesday. The UN convened the four-hour multi-stakeholder meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) in preparation for a High-Level Meeting […] Continue reading -> UN Multi-stakeholder Meetings Marred by Complaints About Lack of Consultation 08/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The United Nations (UN) is hosting three multi-stakeholder meetings in New York on Monday and Tuesday on tuberculosis, pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) and universal health coverage (UHC). They are aimed at getting the views of non-state actors in preparation for UN High-Level meetings in September, starting with pandemic preparedness on 20 September, followed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Paris Agreement Global Temperature Limit to be Breached Within Four Years 17/05/2023 Megha Kaveri In the next four years, there is a 66% chance that global temperatures will rise by at least 1.5°C – the limit set by the Paris Agreement. There is also a 98% likelihood that the world will live through the warmest year on record. This is according to the latest Global Annual to Decadal Climate […] Continue reading -> Cutting Global Plastic Pollution by 80% by 2040 is Within Reach, UN Says 16/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Cutting global plastic pollution by 80% by 2040 is within reach if countries and companies commit to deep systemic changes in the way the world consumes and produces plastics, according to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released on Tuesday. The roadmap set out by the report is remarkably low-tech: reuse, recycle, and replace […] 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 -> WHO Declares End to Mpox Global Health Emergency 11/05/2023 Stefan Anderson The World Health Organization (WHO) has ended the global health emergency for mpox, marking the end of a 10-month juggling act by the UN health agency as it scrambled to deal with concurrent global pandemics. The announcement arrives just days after WHO declared the end of the global health emergency for COVID-19 last Friday, three […] Continue reading -> A Lost Decade: Zero Progress in Reducing Premature Births Since 2010, UN finds 10/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Zero gains have been made in any region of the world in reducing premature births in the past decade, a major UN report found. In a perfect storm of flatlining progress in maternal and newborn health, preterm birth has become to the leading cause of child mortality worldwide, responsible for the deaths of over one […] Continue reading -> COVID’s Failures Must Never be Repeated, Stakeholders Tell UN Pandemic Meeting 09/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The global response to COVID-19 failed people in developing countries, women and health workers and must never be repeated, non-state actors told a meeting hosted by the United Nations (UN) in New York on Tuesday. The UN convened the four-hour multi-stakeholder meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) in preparation for a High-Level Meeting […] Continue reading -> UN Multi-stakeholder Meetings Marred by Complaints About Lack of Consultation 08/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The United Nations (UN) is hosting three multi-stakeholder meetings in New York on Monday and Tuesday on tuberculosis, pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) and universal health coverage (UHC). They are aimed at getting the views of non-state actors in preparation for UN High-Level meetings in September, starting with pandemic preparedness on 20 September, followed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Cutting Global Plastic Pollution by 80% by 2040 is Within Reach, UN Says 16/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Cutting global plastic pollution by 80% by 2040 is within reach if countries and companies commit to deep systemic changes in the way the world consumes and produces plastics, according to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released on Tuesday. The roadmap set out by the report is remarkably low-tech: reuse, recycle, and replace […] 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 -> WHO Declares End to Mpox Global Health Emergency 11/05/2023 Stefan Anderson The World Health Organization (WHO) has ended the global health emergency for mpox, marking the end of a 10-month juggling act by the UN health agency as it scrambled to deal with concurrent global pandemics. The announcement arrives just days after WHO declared the end of the global health emergency for COVID-19 last Friday, three […] Continue reading -> A Lost Decade: Zero Progress in Reducing Premature Births Since 2010, UN finds 10/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Zero gains have been made in any region of the world in reducing premature births in the past decade, a major UN report found. In a perfect storm of flatlining progress in maternal and newborn health, preterm birth has become to the leading cause of child mortality worldwide, responsible for the deaths of over one […] Continue reading -> COVID’s Failures Must Never be Repeated, Stakeholders Tell UN Pandemic Meeting 09/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The global response to COVID-19 failed people in developing countries, women and health workers and must never be repeated, non-state actors told a meeting hosted by the United Nations (UN) in New York on Tuesday. The UN convened the four-hour multi-stakeholder meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) in preparation for a High-Level Meeting […] Continue reading -> UN Multi-stakeholder Meetings Marred by Complaints About Lack of Consultation 08/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The United Nations (UN) is hosting three multi-stakeholder meetings in New York on Monday and Tuesday on tuberculosis, pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) and universal health coverage (UHC). They are aimed at getting the views of non-state actors in preparation for UN High-Level meetings in September, starting with pandemic preparedness on 20 September, followed […] 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 -> WHO Declares End to Mpox Global Health Emergency 11/05/2023 Stefan Anderson The World Health Organization (WHO) has ended the global health emergency for mpox, marking the end of a 10-month juggling act by the UN health agency as it scrambled to deal with concurrent global pandemics. The announcement arrives just days after WHO declared the end of the global health emergency for COVID-19 last Friday, three […] Continue reading -> A Lost Decade: Zero Progress in Reducing Premature Births Since 2010, UN finds 10/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Zero gains have been made in any region of the world in reducing premature births in the past decade, a major UN report found. In a perfect storm of flatlining progress in maternal and newborn health, preterm birth has become to the leading cause of child mortality worldwide, responsible for the deaths of over one […] Continue reading -> COVID’s Failures Must Never be Repeated, Stakeholders Tell UN Pandemic Meeting 09/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The global response to COVID-19 failed people in developing countries, women and health workers and must never be repeated, non-state actors told a meeting hosted by the United Nations (UN) in New York on Tuesday. The UN convened the four-hour multi-stakeholder meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) in preparation for a High-Level Meeting […] Continue reading -> UN Multi-stakeholder Meetings Marred by Complaints About Lack of Consultation 08/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The United Nations (UN) is hosting three multi-stakeholder meetings in New York on Monday and Tuesday on tuberculosis, pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) and universal health coverage (UHC). They are aimed at getting the views of non-state actors in preparation for UN High-Level meetings in September, starting with pandemic preparedness on 20 September, followed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Declares End to Mpox Global Health Emergency 11/05/2023 Stefan Anderson The World Health Organization (WHO) has ended the global health emergency for mpox, marking the end of a 10-month juggling act by the UN health agency as it scrambled to deal with concurrent global pandemics. The announcement arrives just days after WHO declared the end of the global health emergency for COVID-19 last Friday, three […] Continue reading -> A Lost Decade: Zero Progress in Reducing Premature Births Since 2010, UN finds 10/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Zero gains have been made in any region of the world in reducing premature births in the past decade, a major UN report found. In a perfect storm of flatlining progress in maternal and newborn health, preterm birth has become to the leading cause of child mortality worldwide, responsible for the deaths of over one […] Continue reading -> COVID’s Failures Must Never be Repeated, Stakeholders Tell UN Pandemic Meeting 09/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The global response to COVID-19 failed people in developing countries, women and health workers and must never be repeated, non-state actors told a meeting hosted by the United Nations (UN) in New York on Tuesday. The UN convened the four-hour multi-stakeholder meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) in preparation for a High-Level Meeting […] Continue reading -> UN Multi-stakeholder Meetings Marred by Complaints About Lack of Consultation 08/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The United Nations (UN) is hosting three multi-stakeholder meetings in New York on Monday and Tuesday on tuberculosis, pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) and universal health coverage (UHC). They are aimed at getting the views of non-state actors in preparation for UN High-Level meetings in September, starting with pandemic preparedness on 20 September, followed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
A Lost Decade: Zero Progress in Reducing Premature Births Since 2010, UN finds 10/05/2023 Stefan Anderson Zero gains have been made in any region of the world in reducing premature births in the past decade, a major UN report found. In a perfect storm of flatlining progress in maternal and newborn health, preterm birth has become to the leading cause of child mortality worldwide, responsible for the deaths of over one […] Continue reading -> COVID’s Failures Must Never be Repeated, Stakeholders Tell UN Pandemic Meeting 09/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The global response to COVID-19 failed people in developing countries, women and health workers and must never be repeated, non-state actors told a meeting hosted by the United Nations (UN) in New York on Tuesday. The UN convened the four-hour multi-stakeholder meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) in preparation for a High-Level Meeting […] Continue reading -> UN Multi-stakeholder Meetings Marred by Complaints About Lack of Consultation 08/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The United Nations (UN) is hosting three multi-stakeholder meetings in New York on Monday and Tuesday on tuberculosis, pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) and universal health coverage (UHC). They are aimed at getting the views of non-state actors in preparation for UN High-Level meetings in September, starting with pandemic preparedness on 20 September, followed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
COVID’s Failures Must Never be Repeated, Stakeholders Tell UN Pandemic Meeting 09/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The global response to COVID-19 failed people in developing countries, women and health workers and must never be repeated, non-state actors told a meeting hosted by the United Nations (UN) in New York on Tuesday. The UN convened the four-hour multi-stakeholder meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) in preparation for a High-Level Meeting […] Continue reading -> UN Multi-stakeholder Meetings Marred by Complaints About Lack of Consultation 08/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The United Nations (UN) is hosting three multi-stakeholder meetings in New York on Monday and Tuesday on tuberculosis, pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) and universal health coverage (UHC). They are aimed at getting the views of non-state actors in preparation for UN High-Level meetings in September, starting with pandemic preparedness on 20 September, followed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
UN Multi-stakeholder Meetings Marred by Complaints About Lack of Consultation 08/05/2023 Kerry Cullinan The United Nations (UN) is hosting three multi-stakeholder meetings in New York on Monday and Tuesday on tuberculosis, pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) and universal health coverage (UHC). They are aimed at getting the views of non-state actors in preparation for UN High-Level meetings in September, starting with pandemic preparedness on 20 September, followed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts