Six International Organisations Pledge Collaboration On Local Production Of Medicines 24/05/2019 Catherine Saez While delegates remained bogged down today in negotiations to find consensus on a resolution to increase transparency of pharma prices, five United Nations agencies and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria forged a brand new collaboration to promote local production of medicines. The World Health Organization, the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), […] Continue reading -> Snakebite Envenoming: WHO Launches First-Ever Strategy For Prevention & Control 24/05/2019 Catherine Saez The World Health Organization today launched its first-ever global strategy for the prevention and control of snakebite envenoming, just one year after the World Health Assembly agreed on a resolution to fight this neglected cause of death and disability. Image Credits: Catherine Saez. Continue reading -> Little Progress Over Price Transparency Resolution; Negotiators Behind Closed Doors 24/05/2019 Catherine Saez Secrecy was the watchword Friday as countries huddled together behind closed doors trying to reach agreement on a WHA resolution that would shed more sunshine on the real prices of medicines in national and global pharmaceutical markets. Image Credits: Max Pixel, Catherine Saez. Continue reading -> Behind The Headlines: How Can Industry Contribute To Cancer Care As Part Of Universal Health Coverage? 24/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher From preventive screening to the quality of nursing care and the structure of national insurance systems, patients face multiple barriers to cancer prevention, treatment and care, said a high-level panel of experts at a side event on the margins of this week’s World Health Assembly (20-28 May). Image Credits: UnternehmerTUM/@birdyfoto.de. Continue reading -> US Faces Off Against 43 Countries On Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights 24/05/2019 David Branigan The United States faced off against 43 other countries at the 72nd World Health Assembly this week regarding a proposal to include language protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the draft political declaration on universal health coverage (UHC), due to be issued at a UN high-level meeting in September. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Future Of Drug Pricing Resolution Hangs In Balance At World Health Assembly 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez The fate of a potentially game-changing World Health Assembly resolution that would support greater national and global transparency in drug pricing remained in the balance today as the country co-sponsors tabled a resolution riddled with comments and caveats, and a “drafting group” was urgently formed to huddle on ways to move forward on a compromise […] Continue reading -> Green Light For First-Ever WHO Strategy On Health, Environment And Climate Change 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez Faced by an annual death toll of nearly 13 million people due to environmental risks, the World Health Assembly today approved a first-ever global strategy that sets out a transformative plan for action on Health, environment and climate change. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Five Billion People Still At Risk From Industrial Trans Fat Exposure 23/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 28 WHO member states, representing 31 percent of the global population, have moved to restrict or ban the use of health-harmful industrial trans fats (TFAs) in food products – but that leaves two-thirds of the world’s population still exposed to risks from TFAs that kill approximately half a million people a year. Image Credits: […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Does More Damage Than Previously Understood, Leading To Chronic Health Impacts 22/05/2019 David Branigan Air pollution is doing more damage than previously understood, causing a range of chronic health impacts that go even beyond the annual 7 million deaths estimated by the WHO, said panelists yesterday at a World Health Assembly (WHA) side event, Every Breath Can Do Damage: The Urgency of Air Pollution Action. Image Credits: Vital Strategies. Continue reading -> Digital Health Revolution Needs Change Of Mindset 22/05/2019 Catherine Saez A side event yesterday on the margins of the World Health Assembly launched two new digital health initiatives, while a panel of speakers from government, industry and civil society described how the digital health revolution can help achieve universal health coverage. Image Credits: PATH, G20 Health & Development Partnership. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Snakebite Envenoming: WHO Launches First-Ever Strategy For Prevention & Control 24/05/2019 Catherine Saez The World Health Organization today launched its first-ever global strategy for the prevention and control of snakebite envenoming, just one year after the World Health Assembly agreed on a resolution to fight this neglected cause of death and disability. Image Credits: Catherine Saez. Continue reading -> Little Progress Over Price Transparency Resolution; Negotiators Behind Closed Doors 24/05/2019 Catherine Saez Secrecy was the watchword Friday as countries huddled together behind closed doors trying to reach agreement on a WHA resolution that would shed more sunshine on the real prices of medicines in national and global pharmaceutical markets. Image Credits: Max Pixel, Catherine Saez. Continue reading -> Behind The Headlines: How Can Industry Contribute To Cancer Care As Part Of Universal Health Coverage? 24/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher From preventive screening to the quality of nursing care and the structure of national insurance systems, patients face multiple barriers to cancer prevention, treatment and care, said a high-level panel of experts at a side event on the margins of this week’s World Health Assembly (20-28 May). Image Credits: UnternehmerTUM/@birdyfoto.de. Continue reading -> US Faces Off Against 43 Countries On Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights 24/05/2019 David Branigan The United States faced off against 43 other countries at the 72nd World Health Assembly this week regarding a proposal to include language protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the draft political declaration on universal health coverage (UHC), due to be issued at a UN high-level meeting in September. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Future Of Drug Pricing Resolution Hangs In Balance At World Health Assembly 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez The fate of a potentially game-changing World Health Assembly resolution that would support greater national and global transparency in drug pricing remained in the balance today as the country co-sponsors tabled a resolution riddled with comments and caveats, and a “drafting group” was urgently formed to huddle on ways to move forward on a compromise […] Continue reading -> Green Light For First-Ever WHO Strategy On Health, Environment And Climate Change 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez Faced by an annual death toll of nearly 13 million people due to environmental risks, the World Health Assembly today approved a first-ever global strategy that sets out a transformative plan for action on Health, environment and climate change. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Five Billion People Still At Risk From Industrial Trans Fat Exposure 23/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 28 WHO member states, representing 31 percent of the global population, have moved to restrict or ban the use of health-harmful industrial trans fats (TFAs) in food products – but that leaves two-thirds of the world’s population still exposed to risks from TFAs that kill approximately half a million people a year. Image Credits: […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Does More Damage Than Previously Understood, Leading To Chronic Health Impacts 22/05/2019 David Branigan Air pollution is doing more damage than previously understood, causing a range of chronic health impacts that go even beyond the annual 7 million deaths estimated by the WHO, said panelists yesterday at a World Health Assembly (WHA) side event, Every Breath Can Do Damage: The Urgency of Air Pollution Action. Image Credits: Vital Strategies. Continue reading -> Digital Health Revolution Needs Change Of Mindset 22/05/2019 Catherine Saez A side event yesterday on the margins of the World Health Assembly launched two new digital health initiatives, while a panel of speakers from government, industry and civil society described how the digital health revolution can help achieve universal health coverage. Image Credits: PATH, G20 Health & Development Partnership. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Little Progress Over Price Transparency Resolution; Negotiators Behind Closed Doors 24/05/2019 Catherine Saez Secrecy was the watchword Friday as countries huddled together behind closed doors trying to reach agreement on a WHA resolution that would shed more sunshine on the real prices of medicines in national and global pharmaceutical markets. Image Credits: Max Pixel, Catherine Saez. Continue reading -> Behind The Headlines: How Can Industry Contribute To Cancer Care As Part Of Universal Health Coverage? 24/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher From preventive screening to the quality of nursing care and the structure of national insurance systems, patients face multiple barriers to cancer prevention, treatment and care, said a high-level panel of experts at a side event on the margins of this week’s World Health Assembly (20-28 May). Image Credits: UnternehmerTUM/@birdyfoto.de. Continue reading -> US Faces Off Against 43 Countries On Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights 24/05/2019 David Branigan The United States faced off against 43 other countries at the 72nd World Health Assembly this week regarding a proposal to include language protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the draft political declaration on universal health coverage (UHC), due to be issued at a UN high-level meeting in September. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Future Of Drug Pricing Resolution Hangs In Balance At World Health Assembly 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez The fate of a potentially game-changing World Health Assembly resolution that would support greater national and global transparency in drug pricing remained in the balance today as the country co-sponsors tabled a resolution riddled with comments and caveats, and a “drafting group” was urgently formed to huddle on ways to move forward on a compromise […] Continue reading -> Green Light For First-Ever WHO Strategy On Health, Environment And Climate Change 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez Faced by an annual death toll of nearly 13 million people due to environmental risks, the World Health Assembly today approved a first-ever global strategy that sets out a transformative plan for action on Health, environment and climate change. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Five Billion People Still At Risk From Industrial Trans Fat Exposure 23/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 28 WHO member states, representing 31 percent of the global population, have moved to restrict or ban the use of health-harmful industrial trans fats (TFAs) in food products – but that leaves two-thirds of the world’s population still exposed to risks from TFAs that kill approximately half a million people a year. Image Credits: […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Does More Damage Than Previously Understood, Leading To Chronic Health Impacts 22/05/2019 David Branigan Air pollution is doing more damage than previously understood, causing a range of chronic health impacts that go even beyond the annual 7 million deaths estimated by the WHO, said panelists yesterday at a World Health Assembly (WHA) side event, Every Breath Can Do Damage: The Urgency of Air Pollution Action. Image Credits: Vital Strategies. Continue reading -> Digital Health Revolution Needs Change Of Mindset 22/05/2019 Catherine Saez A side event yesterday on the margins of the World Health Assembly launched two new digital health initiatives, while a panel of speakers from government, industry and civil society described how the digital health revolution can help achieve universal health coverage. Image Credits: PATH, G20 Health & Development Partnership. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Behind The Headlines: How Can Industry Contribute To Cancer Care As Part Of Universal Health Coverage? 24/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher From preventive screening to the quality of nursing care and the structure of national insurance systems, patients face multiple barriers to cancer prevention, treatment and care, said a high-level panel of experts at a side event on the margins of this week’s World Health Assembly (20-28 May). Image Credits: UnternehmerTUM/@birdyfoto.de. Continue reading -> US Faces Off Against 43 Countries On Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights 24/05/2019 David Branigan The United States faced off against 43 other countries at the 72nd World Health Assembly this week regarding a proposal to include language protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the draft political declaration on universal health coverage (UHC), due to be issued at a UN high-level meeting in September. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Future Of Drug Pricing Resolution Hangs In Balance At World Health Assembly 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez The fate of a potentially game-changing World Health Assembly resolution that would support greater national and global transparency in drug pricing remained in the balance today as the country co-sponsors tabled a resolution riddled with comments and caveats, and a “drafting group” was urgently formed to huddle on ways to move forward on a compromise […] Continue reading -> Green Light For First-Ever WHO Strategy On Health, Environment And Climate Change 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez Faced by an annual death toll of nearly 13 million people due to environmental risks, the World Health Assembly today approved a first-ever global strategy that sets out a transformative plan for action on Health, environment and climate change. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Five Billion People Still At Risk From Industrial Trans Fat Exposure 23/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 28 WHO member states, representing 31 percent of the global population, have moved to restrict or ban the use of health-harmful industrial trans fats (TFAs) in food products – but that leaves two-thirds of the world’s population still exposed to risks from TFAs that kill approximately half a million people a year. Image Credits: […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Does More Damage Than Previously Understood, Leading To Chronic Health Impacts 22/05/2019 David Branigan Air pollution is doing more damage than previously understood, causing a range of chronic health impacts that go even beyond the annual 7 million deaths estimated by the WHO, said panelists yesterday at a World Health Assembly (WHA) side event, Every Breath Can Do Damage: The Urgency of Air Pollution Action. Image Credits: Vital Strategies. Continue reading -> Digital Health Revolution Needs Change Of Mindset 22/05/2019 Catherine Saez A side event yesterday on the margins of the World Health Assembly launched two new digital health initiatives, while a panel of speakers from government, industry and civil society described how the digital health revolution can help achieve universal health coverage. Image Credits: PATH, G20 Health & Development Partnership. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
US Faces Off Against 43 Countries On Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights 24/05/2019 David Branigan The United States faced off against 43 other countries at the 72nd World Health Assembly this week regarding a proposal to include language protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the draft political declaration on universal health coverage (UHC), due to be issued at a UN high-level meeting in September. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Future Of Drug Pricing Resolution Hangs In Balance At World Health Assembly 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez The fate of a potentially game-changing World Health Assembly resolution that would support greater national and global transparency in drug pricing remained in the balance today as the country co-sponsors tabled a resolution riddled with comments and caveats, and a “drafting group” was urgently formed to huddle on ways to move forward on a compromise […] Continue reading -> Green Light For First-Ever WHO Strategy On Health, Environment And Climate Change 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez Faced by an annual death toll of nearly 13 million people due to environmental risks, the World Health Assembly today approved a first-ever global strategy that sets out a transformative plan for action on Health, environment and climate change. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Five Billion People Still At Risk From Industrial Trans Fat Exposure 23/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 28 WHO member states, representing 31 percent of the global population, have moved to restrict or ban the use of health-harmful industrial trans fats (TFAs) in food products – but that leaves two-thirds of the world’s population still exposed to risks from TFAs that kill approximately half a million people a year. Image Credits: […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Does More Damage Than Previously Understood, Leading To Chronic Health Impacts 22/05/2019 David Branigan Air pollution is doing more damage than previously understood, causing a range of chronic health impacts that go even beyond the annual 7 million deaths estimated by the WHO, said panelists yesterday at a World Health Assembly (WHA) side event, Every Breath Can Do Damage: The Urgency of Air Pollution Action. Image Credits: Vital Strategies. Continue reading -> Digital Health Revolution Needs Change Of Mindset 22/05/2019 Catherine Saez A side event yesterday on the margins of the World Health Assembly launched two new digital health initiatives, while a panel of speakers from government, industry and civil society described how the digital health revolution can help achieve universal health coverage. Image Credits: PATH, G20 Health & Development Partnership. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Future Of Drug Pricing Resolution Hangs In Balance At World Health Assembly 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez The fate of a potentially game-changing World Health Assembly resolution that would support greater national and global transparency in drug pricing remained in the balance today as the country co-sponsors tabled a resolution riddled with comments and caveats, and a “drafting group” was urgently formed to huddle on ways to move forward on a compromise […] Continue reading -> Green Light For First-Ever WHO Strategy On Health, Environment And Climate Change 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez Faced by an annual death toll of nearly 13 million people due to environmental risks, the World Health Assembly today approved a first-ever global strategy that sets out a transformative plan for action on Health, environment and climate change. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Five Billion People Still At Risk From Industrial Trans Fat Exposure 23/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 28 WHO member states, representing 31 percent of the global population, have moved to restrict or ban the use of health-harmful industrial trans fats (TFAs) in food products – but that leaves two-thirds of the world’s population still exposed to risks from TFAs that kill approximately half a million people a year. Image Credits: […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Does More Damage Than Previously Understood, Leading To Chronic Health Impacts 22/05/2019 David Branigan Air pollution is doing more damage than previously understood, causing a range of chronic health impacts that go even beyond the annual 7 million deaths estimated by the WHO, said panelists yesterday at a World Health Assembly (WHA) side event, Every Breath Can Do Damage: The Urgency of Air Pollution Action. Image Credits: Vital Strategies. Continue reading -> Digital Health Revolution Needs Change Of Mindset 22/05/2019 Catherine Saez A side event yesterday on the margins of the World Health Assembly launched two new digital health initiatives, while a panel of speakers from government, industry and civil society described how the digital health revolution can help achieve universal health coverage. Image Credits: PATH, G20 Health & Development Partnership. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Green Light For First-Ever WHO Strategy On Health, Environment And Climate Change 23/05/2019 Catherine Saez Faced by an annual death toll of nearly 13 million people due to environmental risks, the World Health Assembly today approved a first-ever global strategy that sets out a transformative plan for action on Health, environment and climate change. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Five Billion People Still At Risk From Industrial Trans Fat Exposure 23/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 28 WHO member states, representing 31 percent of the global population, have moved to restrict or ban the use of health-harmful industrial trans fats (TFAs) in food products – but that leaves two-thirds of the world’s population still exposed to risks from TFAs that kill approximately half a million people a year. Image Credits: […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Does More Damage Than Previously Understood, Leading To Chronic Health Impacts 22/05/2019 David Branigan Air pollution is doing more damage than previously understood, causing a range of chronic health impacts that go even beyond the annual 7 million deaths estimated by the WHO, said panelists yesterday at a World Health Assembly (WHA) side event, Every Breath Can Do Damage: The Urgency of Air Pollution Action. Image Credits: Vital Strategies. Continue reading -> Digital Health Revolution Needs Change Of Mindset 22/05/2019 Catherine Saez A side event yesterday on the margins of the World Health Assembly launched two new digital health initiatives, while a panel of speakers from government, industry and civil society described how the digital health revolution can help achieve universal health coverage. Image Credits: PATH, G20 Health & Development Partnership. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Five Billion People Still At Risk From Industrial Trans Fat Exposure 23/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 28 WHO member states, representing 31 percent of the global population, have moved to restrict or ban the use of health-harmful industrial trans fats (TFAs) in food products – but that leaves two-thirds of the world’s population still exposed to risks from TFAs that kill approximately half a million people a year. Image Credits: […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Does More Damage Than Previously Understood, Leading To Chronic Health Impacts 22/05/2019 David Branigan Air pollution is doing more damage than previously understood, causing a range of chronic health impacts that go even beyond the annual 7 million deaths estimated by the WHO, said panelists yesterday at a World Health Assembly (WHA) side event, Every Breath Can Do Damage: The Urgency of Air Pollution Action. Image Credits: Vital Strategies. Continue reading -> Digital Health Revolution Needs Change Of Mindset 22/05/2019 Catherine Saez A side event yesterday on the margins of the World Health Assembly launched two new digital health initiatives, while a panel of speakers from government, industry and civil society described how the digital health revolution can help achieve universal health coverage. Image Credits: PATH, G20 Health & Development Partnership. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Air Pollution Does More Damage Than Previously Understood, Leading To Chronic Health Impacts 22/05/2019 David Branigan Air pollution is doing more damage than previously understood, causing a range of chronic health impacts that go even beyond the annual 7 million deaths estimated by the WHO, said panelists yesterday at a World Health Assembly (WHA) side event, Every Breath Can Do Damage: The Urgency of Air Pollution Action. Image Credits: Vital Strategies. Continue reading -> Digital Health Revolution Needs Change Of Mindset 22/05/2019 Catherine Saez A side event yesterday on the margins of the World Health Assembly launched two new digital health initiatives, while a panel of speakers from government, industry and civil society described how the digital health revolution can help achieve universal health coverage. Image Credits: PATH, G20 Health & Development Partnership. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Digital Health Revolution Needs Change Of Mindset 22/05/2019 Catherine Saez A side event yesterday on the margins of the World Health Assembly launched two new digital health initiatives, while a panel of speakers from government, industry and civil society described how the digital health revolution can help achieve universal health coverage. Image Credits: PATH, G20 Health & Development Partnership. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts