Two Years into COVID Pandemic, 92 % of Countries Still Face Significant Health Service Disruptions 08/02/2022 Maayan Hoffman Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, over ninety percent of countries continue to face ongoing disruptions to their health systems, according to a survey published Monday evening by the World Health Organization. The WHO Global Pulse Survey, the third of its kind since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, analysed responses from 129 countries, […] Continue reading -> Mexico City Officials in Row Over ‘Misleading’ Paper to Justify its Ivermectin Drive 08/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan Mexico City officials have been dishing out the animal worm treatment, ivermectin, to citizens with COVID-19 – and published a paper in which they apparently attempted to manufacture evidence that the treatment could reduce COVID-19 hospitalisation to justify their actions. The paper was removed from the social science platform, SocArXiv, last week for trying to provide […] Continue reading -> Africa CDC is Elevated to Status of Continental Public Health Agency 07/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The African Union has decided to elevate its African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to the status of an autonomous public health agency for the continent – rather than operating simply as technical arm of the AU. “Africa CDC will now be an autonomous health agency for the continent. Until now, Africa […] Continue reading -> Closing the Cancer Care Gap in Indigenous, Child, and Ageing Populations for World Cancer Day 04/02/2022 Raisa Santos For the indigenous people of New Zealand, the Māori, cancer statistics are bleak, as they are 20% more likely to develop cancer, and twice as likely as non-Māori to die from it. But New Zealand-based Cancer Control Agency, Te Aho o Te Kahu, is trying to beat back against this inequity and close the gap […] Continue reading -> Thirty African Countries Now Back Africa Medicines Agency Treaty But Continent’s Economic Powers Still Hold Out 03/02/2022 Paul Adepoju Some 21 countries have now ratified the African Medicines Agency treaty – well beyond the 15 ratifications reached in November 2021, which allowed the AMA treaty instrument to formally take effect. Egypt, Africa’s third most populous country, is the most recent state to have both ratified and deposited the treaty – marking a significant milestone […] Continue reading -> Cancer Services and Routine Immunizations Backlogged – as Some Countries Anticipate Pandemic ‘Ceasefire’ – WHO 03/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Raisa Santos Cancer services remain backlogged in many parts of the world due to the effects of the two-year-long COVID pandemic – even as Europe hopes a pandemic “ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace” , said WHO’s European Regional Director Hans Kluge Thursday on the eve of World Cancer Day. Meanwhile, in Latin America, routine childhood […] Continue reading -> Switzerland Plans Major Relaxation of COVID-19 Restrictions – Despite Omicron Rates Among Europe’s Highest 02/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Switzerland could be the next European country to lift virtually all COVID restrictions, federal officials said Wednesday – despite warnings from the World Health Organization, headquartered in Geneva, that a total relaxation of the pandemic rules could be premature. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Swiss federal government officials lifted all work-from-home and some quarantine […] Continue reading -> HIV Vaccine: Phase 1 Clinical Trial Tests mRNA Technology Against HIV 02/02/2022 Maayan Hoffman Moderna and the nonprofit science research organization IAVI have administered the first doses in a Phase I clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine, delivered by messenger RNA (mRNA) – the technology that revolutionized vaccines against COVID-19. The trial kicked off last week at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, […] Continue reading -> As Denmark Scraps COVID Restrictions, WHO Urges Caution 01/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan The world is “sick and tired” of COVID-19, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged but warned that Omicron posed a substantial threat to global health, having caused 90 million infections in the past 10 weeks – more than all the cases recorded in 2021. Tedros’s appeal came as Denmark lifted […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Mexico City Officials in Row Over ‘Misleading’ Paper to Justify its Ivermectin Drive 08/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan Mexico City officials have been dishing out the animal worm treatment, ivermectin, to citizens with COVID-19 – and published a paper in which they apparently attempted to manufacture evidence that the treatment could reduce COVID-19 hospitalisation to justify their actions. The paper was removed from the social science platform, SocArXiv, last week for trying to provide […] Continue reading -> Africa CDC is Elevated to Status of Continental Public Health Agency 07/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The African Union has decided to elevate its African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to the status of an autonomous public health agency for the continent – rather than operating simply as technical arm of the AU. “Africa CDC will now be an autonomous health agency for the continent. Until now, Africa […] Continue reading -> Closing the Cancer Care Gap in Indigenous, Child, and Ageing Populations for World Cancer Day 04/02/2022 Raisa Santos For the indigenous people of New Zealand, the Māori, cancer statistics are bleak, as they are 20% more likely to develop cancer, and twice as likely as non-Māori to die from it. But New Zealand-based Cancer Control Agency, Te Aho o Te Kahu, is trying to beat back against this inequity and close the gap […] Continue reading -> Thirty African Countries Now Back Africa Medicines Agency Treaty But Continent’s Economic Powers Still Hold Out 03/02/2022 Paul Adepoju Some 21 countries have now ratified the African Medicines Agency treaty – well beyond the 15 ratifications reached in November 2021, which allowed the AMA treaty instrument to formally take effect. Egypt, Africa’s third most populous country, is the most recent state to have both ratified and deposited the treaty – marking a significant milestone […] Continue reading -> Cancer Services and Routine Immunizations Backlogged – as Some Countries Anticipate Pandemic ‘Ceasefire’ – WHO 03/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Raisa Santos Cancer services remain backlogged in many parts of the world due to the effects of the two-year-long COVID pandemic – even as Europe hopes a pandemic “ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace” , said WHO’s European Regional Director Hans Kluge Thursday on the eve of World Cancer Day. Meanwhile, in Latin America, routine childhood […] Continue reading -> Switzerland Plans Major Relaxation of COVID-19 Restrictions – Despite Omicron Rates Among Europe’s Highest 02/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Switzerland could be the next European country to lift virtually all COVID restrictions, federal officials said Wednesday – despite warnings from the World Health Organization, headquartered in Geneva, that a total relaxation of the pandemic rules could be premature. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Swiss federal government officials lifted all work-from-home and some quarantine […] Continue reading -> HIV Vaccine: Phase 1 Clinical Trial Tests mRNA Technology Against HIV 02/02/2022 Maayan Hoffman Moderna and the nonprofit science research organization IAVI have administered the first doses in a Phase I clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine, delivered by messenger RNA (mRNA) – the technology that revolutionized vaccines against COVID-19. The trial kicked off last week at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, […] Continue reading -> As Denmark Scraps COVID Restrictions, WHO Urges Caution 01/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan The world is “sick and tired” of COVID-19, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged but warned that Omicron posed a substantial threat to global health, having caused 90 million infections in the past 10 weeks – more than all the cases recorded in 2021. Tedros’s appeal came as Denmark lifted […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Africa CDC is Elevated to Status of Continental Public Health Agency 07/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The African Union has decided to elevate its African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to the status of an autonomous public health agency for the continent – rather than operating simply as technical arm of the AU. “Africa CDC will now be an autonomous health agency for the continent. Until now, Africa […] Continue reading -> Closing the Cancer Care Gap in Indigenous, Child, and Ageing Populations for World Cancer Day 04/02/2022 Raisa Santos For the indigenous people of New Zealand, the Māori, cancer statistics are bleak, as they are 20% more likely to develop cancer, and twice as likely as non-Māori to die from it. But New Zealand-based Cancer Control Agency, Te Aho o Te Kahu, is trying to beat back against this inequity and close the gap […] Continue reading -> Thirty African Countries Now Back Africa Medicines Agency Treaty But Continent’s Economic Powers Still Hold Out 03/02/2022 Paul Adepoju Some 21 countries have now ratified the African Medicines Agency treaty – well beyond the 15 ratifications reached in November 2021, which allowed the AMA treaty instrument to formally take effect. Egypt, Africa’s third most populous country, is the most recent state to have both ratified and deposited the treaty – marking a significant milestone […] Continue reading -> Cancer Services and Routine Immunizations Backlogged – as Some Countries Anticipate Pandemic ‘Ceasefire’ – WHO 03/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Raisa Santos Cancer services remain backlogged in many parts of the world due to the effects of the two-year-long COVID pandemic – even as Europe hopes a pandemic “ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace” , said WHO’s European Regional Director Hans Kluge Thursday on the eve of World Cancer Day. Meanwhile, in Latin America, routine childhood […] Continue reading -> Switzerland Plans Major Relaxation of COVID-19 Restrictions – Despite Omicron Rates Among Europe’s Highest 02/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Switzerland could be the next European country to lift virtually all COVID restrictions, federal officials said Wednesday – despite warnings from the World Health Organization, headquartered in Geneva, that a total relaxation of the pandemic rules could be premature. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Swiss federal government officials lifted all work-from-home and some quarantine […] Continue reading -> HIV Vaccine: Phase 1 Clinical Trial Tests mRNA Technology Against HIV 02/02/2022 Maayan Hoffman Moderna and the nonprofit science research organization IAVI have administered the first doses in a Phase I clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine, delivered by messenger RNA (mRNA) – the technology that revolutionized vaccines against COVID-19. The trial kicked off last week at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, […] Continue reading -> As Denmark Scraps COVID Restrictions, WHO Urges Caution 01/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan The world is “sick and tired” of COVID-19, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged but warned that Omicron posed a substantial threat to global health, having caused 90 million infections in the past 10 weeks – more than all the cases recorded in 2021. Tedros’s appeal came as Denmark lifted […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Closing the Cancer Care Gap in Indigenous, Child, and Ageing Populations for World Cancer Day 04/02/2022 Raisa Santos For the indigenous people of New Zealand, the Māori, cancer statistics are bleak, as they are 20% more likely to develop cancer, and twice as likely as non-Māori to die from it. But New Zealand-based Cancer Control Agency, Te Aho o Te Kahu, is trying to beat back against this inequity and close the gap […] Continue reading -> Thirty African Countries Now Back Africa Medicines Agency Treaty But Continent’s Economic Powers Still Hold Out 03/02/2022 Paul Adepoju Some 21 countries have now ratified the African Medicines Agency treaty – well beyond the 15 ratifications reached in November 2021, which allowed the AMA treaty instrument to formally take effect. Egypt, Africa’s third most populous country, is the most recent state to have both ratified and deposited the treaty – marking a significant milestone […] Continue reading -> Cancer Services and Routine Immunizations Backlogged – as Some Countries Anticipate Pandemic ‘Ceasefire’ – WHO 03/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Raisa Santos Cancer services remain backlogged in many parts of the world due to the effects of the two-year-long COVID pandemic – even as Europe hopes a pandemic “ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace” , said WHO’s European Regional Director Hans Kluge Thursday on the eve of World Cancer Day. Meanwhile, in Latin America, routine childhood […] Continue reading -> Switzerland Plans Major Relaxation of COVID-19 Restrictions – Despite Omicron Rates Among Europe’s Highest 02/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Switzerland could be the next European country to lift virtually all COVID restrictions, federal officials said Wednesday – despite warnings from the World Health Organization, headquartered in Geneva, that a total relaxation of the pandemic rules could be premature. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Swiss federal government officials lifted all work-from-home and some quarantine […] Continue reading -> HIV Vaccine: Phase 1 Clinical Trial Tests mRNA Technology Against HIV 02/02/2022 Maayan Hoffman Moderna and the nonprofit science research organization IAVI have administered the first doses in a Phase I clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine, delivered by messenger RNA (mRNA) – the technology that revolutionized vaccines against COVID-19. The trial kicked off last week at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, […] Continue reading -> As Denmark Scraps COVID Restrictions, WHO Urges Caution 01/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan The world is “sick and tired” of COVID-19, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged but warned that Omicron posed a substantial threat to global health, having caused 90 million infections in the past 10 weeks – more than all the cases recorded in 2021. Tedros’s appeal came as Denmark lifted […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Thirty African Countries Now Back Africa Medicines Agency Treaty But Continent’s Economic Powers Still Hold Out 03/02/2022 Paul Adepoju Some 21 countries have now ratified the African Medicines Agency treaty – well beyond the 15 ratifications reached in November 2021, which allowed the AMA treaty instrument to formally take effect. Egypt, Africa’s third most populous country, is the most recent state to have both ratified and deposited the treaty – marking a significant milestone […] Continue reading -> Cancer Services and Routine Immunizations Backlogged – as Some Countries Anticipate Pandemic ‘Ceasefire’ – WHO 03/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Raisa Santos Cancer services remain backlogged in many parts of the world due to the effects of the two-year-long COVID pandemic – even as Europe hopes a pandemic “ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace” , said WHO’s European Regional Director Hans Kluge Thursday on the eve of World Cancer Day. Meanwhile, in Latin America, routine childhood […] Continue reading -> Switzerland Plans Major Relaxation of COVID-19 Restrictions – Despite Omicron Rates Among Europe’s Highest 02/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Switzerland could be the next European country to lift virtually all COVID restrictions, federal officials said Wednesday – despite warnings from the World Health Organization, headquartered in Geneva, that a total relaxation of the pandemic rules could be premature. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Swiss federal government officials lifted all work-from-home and some quarantine […] Continue reading -> HIV Vaccine: Phase 1 Clinical Trial Tests mRNA Technology Against HIV 02/02/2022 Maayan Hoffman Moderna and the nonprofit science research organization IAVI have administered the first doses in a Phase I clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine, delivered by messenger RNA (mRNA) – the technology that revolutionized vaccines against COVID-19. The trial kicked off last week at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, […] Continue reading -> As Denmark Scraps COVID Restrictions, WHO Urges Caution 01/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan The world is “sick and tired” of COVID-19, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged but warned that Omicron posed a substantial threat to global health, having caused 90 million infections in the past 10 weeks – more than all the cases recorded in 2021. Tedros’s appeal came as Denmark lifted […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Cancer Services and Routine Immunizations Backlogged – as Some Countries Anticipate Pandemic ‘Ceasefire’ – WHO 03/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Raisa Santos Cancer services remain backlogged in many parts of the world due to the effects of the two-year-long COVID pandemic – even as Europe hopes a pandemic “ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace” , said WHO’s European Regional Director Hans Kluge Thursday on the eve of World Cancer Day. Meanwhile, in Latin America, routine childhood […] Continue reading -> Switzerland Plans Major Relaxation of COVID-19 Restrictions – Despite Omicron Rates Among Europe’s Highest 02/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Switzerland could be the next European country to lift virtually all COVID restrictions, federal officials said Wednesday – despite warnings from the World Health Organization, headquartered in Geneva, that a total relaxation of the pandemic rules could be premature. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Swiss federal government officials lifted all work-from-home and some quarantine […] Continue reading -> HIV Vaccine: Phase 1 Clinical Trial Tests mRNA Technology Against HIV 02/02/2022 Maayan Hoffman Moderna and the nonprofit science research organization IAVI have administered the first doses in a Phase I clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine, delivered by messenger RNA (mRNA) – the technology that revolutionized vaccines against COVID-19. The trial kicked off last week at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, […] Continue reading -> As Denmark Scraps COVID Restrictions, WHO Urges Caution 01/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan The world is “sick and tired” of COVID-19, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged but warned that Omicron posed a substantial threat to global health, having caused 90 million infections in the past 10 weeks – more than all the cases recorded in 2021. Tedros’s appeal came as Denmark lifted […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Switzerland Plans Major Relaxation of COVID-19 Restrictions – Despite Omicron Rates Among Europe’s Highest 02/02/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Switzerland could be the next European country to lift virtually all COVID restrictions, federal officials said Wednesday – despite warnings from the World Health Organization, headquartered in Geneva, that a total relaxation of the pandemic rules could be premature. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Swiss federal government officials lifted all work-from-home and some quarantine […] Continue reading -> HIV Vaccine: Phase 1 Clinical Trial Tests mRNA Technology Against HIV 02/02/2022 Maayan Hoffman Moderna and the nonprofit science research organization IAVI have administered the first doses in a Phase I clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine, delivered by messenger RNA (mRNA) – the technology that revolutionized vaccines against COVID-19. The trial kicked off last week at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, […] Continue reading -> As Denmark Scraps COVID Restrictions, WHO Urges Caution 01/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan The world is “sick and tired” of COVID-19, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged but warned that Omicron posed a substantial threat to global health, having caused 90 million infections in the past 10 weeks – more than all the cases recorded in 2021. Tedros’s appeal came as Denmark lifted […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
HIV Vaccine: Phase 1 Clinical Trial Tests mRNA Technology Against HIV 02/02/2022 Maayan Hoffman Moderna and the nonprofit science research organization IAVI have administered the first doses in a Phase I clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine, delivered by messenger RNA (mRNA) – the technology that revolutionized vaccines against COVID-19. The trial kicked off last week at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, […] Continue reading -> As Denmark Scraps COVID Restrictions, WHO Urges Caution 01/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan The world is “sick and tired” of COVID-19, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged but warned that Omicron posed a substantial threat to global health, having caused 90 million infections in the past 10 weeks – more than all the cases recorded in 2021. Tedros’s appeal came as Denmark lifted […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
As Denmark Scraps COVID Restrictions, WHO Urges Caution 01/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan The world is “sick and tired” of COVID-19, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged but warned that Omicron posed a substantial threat to global health, having caused 90 million infections in the past 10 weeks – more than all the cases recorded in 2021. Tedros’s appeal came as Denmark lifted […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts