World On Course for 2.7°C Temperature Rise by 2100 – Even If All Current Climate Commitments Are Met 25/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The latest climate commitments from 165 of the 192 countries that are signatories to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement would still lead to a global temperature rise of 2.7°C by the end of the century, according to an updated United Nations analysis of climate commitments and their impacts. Major emitters including China and India, remain […] Continue reading -> Less Than 10% of Vaccine Dose Donations Promised to COVAX Have Been Delivered 25/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Of the 1.3 billion COVID-19 vaccine dose donations promised to COVAX by wealthy countries, only 150 million doses have actually arrived – around 9% – Gavi CEO Dr Seth Berkley told the World Health Summit in Berlin on Monday. Ensuring that countries delivered their promised doses “now” was COVAX’s “core ask”, said Berkley, who added […] Continue reading -> World Watches UK COVID-19 Surge, and Parts of Europe Enter ‘Fourth Wave’ 22/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Warning: Attempt to read property "post_title" on null in /home/clients/58f2a29976672af522a8f4d82ffa28b6/web/wp-content/plugins/better-image-credits/better-image-credits.php on line 227 Amid soaring COVID-19 cases in the UK, the government is prioritising giving third booster shots to people as it banks on the country’s high COVID-19 vaccination rate being able to prevent severe illness and death. Over the past week, COVID-19 cases in the UK increased by almost 18% – with 52,000 new cases confirmed on Thursday […] Continue reading -> Rabies is Proof That Vaccine Inequality is Nothing New – But it Can be Changed 22/10/2021 Louis Nel In the US, cases of dogs infected with the rabies virus being brought into the country are significant enough to warrant national headlines and a year-long dog importation ban on dogs from hundreds of countries worldwide. Yet, in India, rabies does not get much media attention but it accounts for a shocking total of 20,000 […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Accelerating Health Crises, Endangering More Lives, Warns New Lancet ‘Countdown’ Report 21/10/2021 Aishwarya Tendolkar Surging fossil fuel use to feed a COVID economic recovery and record numbers of heat-wave days for older groups and agricultural workers; these are just a few of the sobering messages contained in the new Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, just 10 days before the start of the Glasgow Climate Conference. The report, […] Continue reading -> Western Countries Sit on Massive COVID-19 Vaccine Stockpiles While COVAX is Short of 500m Doses 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Western stockpiles of surplus COVID-19 vaccines are predicted to reach 600 million doses by the end of the year and millions might expire – yet the global vaccine facility COVAX is still short of 500 million doses to vaccinate 40% of the population by December. This is according to former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, […] Continue reading -> Discuss TRIPS Waiver, Health Activists Urge the European Council 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Health activists have appealed to the European Council (EUCO) to discuss a waiver on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) on all health goods necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is no indication that this is on the agenda of the meeting which started in Brussels on Thursday afternoon. While COVID-19 is on […] Continue reading -> Much Shorter Regimen for Drug-Resistant TB Shows Better Results 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The days of people with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (TB) taking up to 20 pills daily, interspersed with injections, for up to 20 months might be over. This follows the release on Wednesday of the preliminary results of a trial of a six-month oral treatment that researchers found to be substantially more effective than the current standard […] Continue reading -> Can COVAX Finally Deliver on its Delayed Vaccine Promises? 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The global vaccine facility, COVAX, is on the cusp of delivering large amounts of vaccines to countries that need them the most – but will poorer countries have the ability to properly absorb these? And how can COVAX ensure that it has the trust of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) who need the vaccines most, […] Continue reading -> Simple Breathing Can Transmit TB More Effectively than Cough – New Research Debunks Old Convictions About Transmission 19/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher New research published at the opening of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health has demonstrated that routine breathing can transmit tuberculosis even more effectively than coughing – in a finding that also echoes one of the signature lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about SARS-CoV2 transmission. While large droplets jammed with bacteria produced by […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Less Than 10% of Vaccine Dose Donations Promised to COVAX Have Been Delivered 25/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Of the 1.3 billion COVID-19 vaccine dose donations promised to COVAX by wealthy countries, only 150 million doses have actually arrived – around 9% – Gavi CEO Dr Seth Berkley told the World Health Summit in Berlin on Monday. Ensuring that countries delivered their promised doses “now” was COVAX’s “core ask”, said Berkley, who added […] Continue reading -> World Watches UK COVID-19 Surge, and Parts of Europe Enter ‘Fourth Wave’ 22/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Warning: Attempt to read property "post_title" on null in /home/clients/58f2a29976672af522a8f4d82ffa28b6/web/wp-content/plugins/better-image-credits/better-image-credits.php on line 227 Amid soaring COVID-19 cases in the UK, the government is prioritising giving third booster shots to people as it banks on the country’s high COVID-19 vaccination rate being able to prevent severe illness and death. Over the past week, COVID-19 cases in the UK increased by almost 18% – with 52,000 new cases confirmed on Thursday […] Continue reading -> Rabies is Proof That Vaccine Inequality is Nothing New – But it Can be Changed 22/10/2021 Louis Nel In the US, cases of dogs infected with the rabies virus being brought into the country are significant enough to warrant national headlines and a year-long dog importation ban on dogs from hundreds of countries worldwide. Yet, in India, rabies does not get much media attention but it accounts for a shocking total of 20,000 […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Accelerating Health Crises, Endangering More Lives, Warns New Lancet ‘Countdown’ Report 21/10/2021 Aishwarya Tendolkar Surging fossil fuel use to feed a COVID economic recovery and record numbers of heat-wave days for older groups and agricultural workers; these are just a few of the sobering messages contained in the new Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, just 10 days before the start of the Glasgow Climate Conference. The report, […] Continue reading -> Western Countries Sit on Massive COVID-19 Vaccine Stockpiles While COVAX is Short of 500m Doses 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Western stockpiles of surplus COVID-19 vaccines are predicted to reach 600 million doses by the end of the year and millions might expire – yet the global vaccine facility COVAX is still short of 500 million doses to vaccinate 40% of the population by December. This is according to former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, […] Continue reading -> Discuss TRIPS Waiver, Health Activists Urge the European Council 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Health activists have appealed to the European Council (EUCO) to discuss a waiver on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) on all health goods necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is no indication that this is on the agenda of the meeting which started in Brussels on Thursday afternoon. While COVID-19 is on […] Continue reading -> Much Shorter Regimen for Drug-Resistant TB Shows Better Results 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The days of people with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (TB) taking up to 20 pills daily, interspersed with injections, for up to 20 months might be over. This follows the release on Wednesday of the preliminary results of a trial of a six-month oral treatment that researchers found to be substantially more effective than the current standard […] Continue reading -> Can COVAX Finally Deliver on its Delayed Vaccine Promises? 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The global vaccine facility, COVAX, is on the cusp of delivering large amounts of vaccines to countries that need them the most – but will poorer countries have the ability to properly absorb these? And how can COVAX ensure that it has the trust of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) who need the vaccines most, […] Continue reading -> Simple Breathing Can Transmit TB More Effectively than Cough – New Research Debunks Old Convictions About Transmission 19/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher New research published at the opening of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health has demonstrated that routine breathing can transmit tuberculosis even more effectively than coughing – in a finding that also echoes one of the signature lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about SARS-CoV2 transmission. While large droplets jammed with bacteria produced by […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
World Watches UK COVID-19 Surge, and Parts of Europe Enter ‘Fourth Wave’ 22/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Warning: Attempt to read property "post_title" on null in /home/clients/58f2a29976672af522a8f4d82ffa28b6/web/wp-content/plugins/better-image-credits/better-image-credits.php on line 227 Amid soaring COVID-19 cases in the UK, the government is prioritising giving third booster shots to people as it banks on the country’s high COVID-19 vaccination rate being able to prevent severe illness and death. Over the past week, COVID-19 cases in the UK increased by almost 18% – with 52,000 new cases confirmed on Thursday […] Continue reading -> Rabies is Proof That Vaccine Inequality is Nothing New – But it Can be Changed 22/10/2021 Louis Nel In the US, cases of dogs infected with the rabies virus being brought into the country are significant enough to warrant national headlines and a year-long dog importation ban on dogs from hundreds of countries worldwide. Yet, in India, rabies does not get much media attention but it accounts for a shocking total of 20,000 […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Accelerating Health Crises, Endangering More Lives, Warns New Lancet ‘Countdown’ Report 21/10/2021 Aishwarya Tendolkar Surging fossil fuel use to feed a COVID economic recovery and record numbers of heat-wave days for older groups and agricultural workers; these are just a few of the sobering messages contained in the new Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, just 10 days before the start of the Glasgow Climate Conference. The report, […] Continue reading -> Western Countries Sit on Massive COVID-19 Vaccine Stockpiles While COVAX is Short of 500m Doses 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Western stockpiles of surplus COVID-19 vaccines are predicted to reach 600 million doses by the end of the year and millions might expire – yet the global vaccine facility COVAX is still short of 500 million doses to vaccinate 40% of the population by December. This is according to former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, […] Continue reading -> Discuss TRIPS Waiver, Health Activists Urge the European Council 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Health activists have appealed to the European Council (EUCO) to discuss a waiver on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) on all health goods necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is no indication that this is on the agenda of the meeting which started in Brussels on Thursday afternoon. While COVID-19 is on […] Continue reading -> Much Shorter Regimen for Drug-Resistant TB Shows Better Results 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The days of people with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (TB) taking up to 20 pills daily, interspersed with injections, for up to 20 months might be over. This follows the release on Wednesday of the preliminary results of a trial of a six-month oral treatment that researchers found to be substantially more effective than the current standard […] Continue reading -> Can COVAX Finally Deliver on its Delayed Vaccine Promises? 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The global vaccine facility, COVAX, is on the cusp of delivering large amounts of vaccines to countries that need them the most – but will poorer countries have the ability to properly absorb these? And how can COVAX ensure that it has the trust of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) who need the vaccines most, […] Continue reading -> Simple Breathing Can Transmit TB More Effectively than Cough – New Research Debunks Old Convictions About Transmission 19/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher New research published at the opening of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health has demonstrated that routine breathing can transmit tuberculosis even more effectively than coughing – in a finding that also echoes one of the signature lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about SARS-CoV2 transmission. While large droplets jammed with bacteria produced by […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Rabies is Proof That Vaccine Inequality is Nothing New – But it Can be Changed 22/10/2021 Louis Nel In the US, cases of dogs infected with the rabies virus being brought into the country are significant enough to warrant national headlines and a year-long dog importation ban on dogs from hundreds of countries worldwide. Yet, in India, rabies does not get much media attention but it accounts for a shocking total of 20,000 […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Accelerating Health Crises, Endangering More Lives, Warns New Lancet ‘Countdown’ Report 21/10/2021 Aishwarya Tendolkar Surging fossil fuel use to feed a COVID economic recovery and record numbers of heat-wave days for older groups and agricultural workers; these are just a few of the sobering messages contained in the new Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, just 10 days before the start of the Glasgow Climate Conference. The report, […] Continue reading -> Western Countries Sit on Massive COVID-19 Vaccine Stockpiles While COVAX is Short of 500m Doses 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Western stockpiles of surplus COVID-19 vaccines are predicted to reach 600 million doses by the end of the year and millions might expire – yet the global vaccine facility COVAX is still short of 500 million doses to vaccinate 40% of the population by December. This is according to former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, […] Continue reading -> Discuss TRIPS Waiver, Health Activists Urge the European Council 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Health activists have appealed to the European Council (EUCO) to discuss a waiver on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) on all health goods necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is no indication that this is on the agenda of the meeting which started in Brussels on Thursday afternoon. While COVID-19 is on […] Continue reading -> Much Shorter Regimen for Drug-Resistant TB Shows Better Results 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The days of people with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (TB) taking up to 20 pills daily, interspersed with injections, for up to 20 months might be over. This follows the release on Wednesday of the preliminary results of a trial of a six-month oral treatment that researchers found to be substantially more effective than the current standard […] Continue reading -> Can COVAX Finally Deliver on its Delayed Vaccine Promises? 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The global vaccine facility, COVAX, is on the cusp of delivering large amounts of vaccines to countries that need them the most – but will poorer countries have the ability to properly absorb these? And how can COVAX ensure that it has the trust of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) who need the vaccines most, […] Continue reading -> Simple Breathing Can Transmit TB More Effectively than Cough – New Research Debunks Old Convictions About Transmission 19/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher New research published at the opening of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health has demonstrated that routine breathing can transmit tuberculosis even more effectively than coughing – in a finding that also echoes one of the signature lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about SARS-CoV2 transmission. While large droplets jammed with bacteria produced by […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Climate Change Accelerating Health Crises, Endangering More Lives, Warns New Lancet ‘Countdown’ Report 21/10/2021 Aishwarya Tendolkar Surging fossil fuel use to feed a COVID economic recovery and record numbers of heat-wave days for older groups and agricultural workers; these are just a few of the sobering messages contained in the new Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, just 10 days before the start of the Glasgow Climate Conference. The report, […] Continue reading -> Western Countries Sit on Massive COVID-19 Vaccine Stockpiles While COVAX is Short of 500m Doses 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Western stockpiles of surplus COVID-19 vaccines are predicted to reach 600 million doses by the end of the year and millions might expire – yet the global vaccine facility COVAX is still short of 500 million doses to vaccinate 40% of the population by December. This is according to former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, […] Continue reading -> Discuss TRIPS Waiver, Health Activists Urge the European Council 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Health activists have appealed to the European Council (EUCO) to discuss a waiver on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) on all health goods necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is no indication that this is on the agenda of the meeting which started in Brussels on Thursday afternoon. While COVID-19 is on […] Continue reading -> Much Shorter Regimen for Drug-Resistant TB Shows Better Results 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The days of people with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (TB) taking up to 20 pills daily, interspersed with injections, for up to 20 months might be over. This follows the release on Wednesday of the preliminary results of a trial of a six-month oral treatment that researchers found to be substantially more effective than the current standard […] Continue reading -> Can COVAX Finally Deliver on its Delayed Vaccine Promises? 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The global vaccine facility, COVAX, is on the cusp of delivering large amounts of vaccines to countries that need them the most – but will poorer countries have the ability to properly absorb these? And how can COVAX ensure that it has the trust of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) who need the vaccines most, […] Continue reading -> Simple Breathing Can Transmit TB More Effectively than Cough – New Research Debunks Old Convictions About Transmission 19/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher New research published at the opening of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health has demonstrated that routine breathing can transmit tuberculosis even more effectively than coughing – in a finding that also echoes one of the signature lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about SARS-CoV2 transmission. While large droplets jammed with bacteria produced by […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Western Countries Sit on Massive COVID-19 Vaccine Stockpiles While COVAX is Short of 500m Doses 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Western stockpiles of surplus COVID-19 vaccines are predicted to reach 600 million doses by the end of the year and millions might expire – yet the global vaccine facility COVAX is still short of 500 million doses to vaccinate 40% of the population by December. This is according to former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, […] Continue reading -> Discuss TRIPS Waiver, Health Activists Urge the European Council 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Health activists have appealed to the European Council (EUCO) to discuss a waiver on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) on all health goods necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is no indication that this is on the agenda of the meeting which started in Brussels on Thursday afternoon. While COVID-19 is on […] Continue reading -> Much Shorter Regimen for Drug-Resistant TB Shows Better Results 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The days of people with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (TB) taking up to 20 pills daily, interspersed with injections, for up to 20 months might be over. This follows the release on Wednesday of the preliminary results of a trial of a six-month oral treatment that researchers found to be substantially more effective than the current standard […] Continue reading -> Can COVAX Finally Deliver on its Delayed Vaccine Promises? 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The global vaccine facility, COVAX, is on the cusp of delivering large amounts of vaccines to countries that need them the most – but will poorer countries have the ability to properly absorb these? And how can COVAX ensure that it has the trust of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) who need the vaccines most, […] Continue reading -> Simple Breathing Can Transmit TB More Effectively than Cough – New Research Debunks Old Convictions About Transmission 19/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher New research published at the opening of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health has demonstrated that routine breathing can transmit tuberculosis even more effectively than coughing – in a finding that also echoes one of the signature lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about SARS-CoV2 transmission. While large droplets jammed with bacteria produced by […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Discuss TRIPS Waiver, Health Activists Urge the European Council 21/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Health activists have appealed to the European Council (EUCO) to discuss a waiver on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) on all health goods necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is no indication that this is on the agenda of the meeting which started in Brussels on Thursday afternoon. While COVID-19 is on […] Continue reading -> Much Shorter Regimen for Drug-Resistant TB Shows Better Results 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The days of people with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (TB) taking up to 20 pills daily, interspersed with injections, for up to 20 months might be over. This follows the release on Wednesday of the preliminary results of a trial of a six-month oral treatment that researchers found to be substantially more effective than the current standard […] Continue reading -> Can COVAX Finally Deliver on its Delayed Vaccine Promises? 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The global vaccine facility, COVAX, is on the cusp of delivering large amounts of vaccines to countries that need them the most – but will poorer countries have the ability to properly absorb these? And how can COVAX ensure that it has the trust of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) who need the vaccines most, […] Continue reading -> Simple Breathing Can Transmit TB More Effectively than Cough – New Research Debunks Old Convictions About Transmission 19/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher New research published at the opening of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health has demonstrated that routine breathing can transmit tuberculosis even more effectively than coughing – in a finding that also echoes one of the signature lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about SARS-CoV2 transmission. While large droplets jammed with bacteria produced by […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Much Shorter Regimen for Drug-Resistant TB Shows Better Results 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The days of people with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (TB) taking up to 20 pills daily, interspersed with injections, for up to 20 months might be over. This follows the release on Wednesday of the preliminary results of a trial of a six-month oral treatment that researchers found to be substantially more effective than the current standard […] Continue reading -> Can COVAX Finally Deliver on its Delayed Vaccine Promises? 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The global vaccine facility, COVAX, is on the cusp of delivering large amounts of vaccines to countries that need them the most – but will poorer countries have the ability to properly absorb these? And how can COVAX ensure that it has the trust of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) who need the vaccines most, […] Continue reading -> Simple Breathing Can Transmit TB More Effectively than Cough – New Research Debunks Old Convictions About Transmission 19/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher New research published at the opening of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health has demonstrated that routine breathing can transmit tuberculosis even more effectively than coughing – in a finding that also echoes one of the signature lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about SARS-CoV2 transmission. While large droplets jammed with bacteria produced by […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Can COVAX Finally Deliver on its Delayed Vaccine Promises? 20/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan The global vaccine facility, COVAX, is on the cusp of delivering large amounts of vaccines to countries that need them the most – but will poorer countries have the ability to properly absorb these? And how can COVAX ensure that it has the trust of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) who need the vaccines most, […] Continue reading -> Simple Breathing Can Transmit TB More Effectively than Cough – New Research Debunks Old Convictions About Transmission 19/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher New research published at the opening of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health has demonstrated that routine breathing can transmit tuberculosis even more effectively than coughing – in a finding that also echoes one of the signature lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about SARS-CoV2 transmission. While large droplets jammed with bacteria produced by […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Simple Breathing Can Transmit TB More Effectively than Cough – New Research Debunks Old Convictions About Transmission 19/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher New research published at the opening of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health has demonstrated that routine breathing can transmit tuberculosis even more effectively than coughing – in a finding that also echoes one of the signature lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about SARS-CoV2 transmission. While large droplets jammed with bacteria produced by […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts