FIFA Will Help WHO Campaign For Fair Access to Vaccines 01/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan The 2020 FIFA Club World Cup, which kicks off in Qatar on Thursday, will also launch a major COVID-19 media campaign focusing on fair global access to vaccines as well as preventive measures such as mask-wearing – thanks to a new partnership between the World Health Organization and football’s global body, FIFA, which was announced […] Continue reading -> WHO Plays Down China ‘Origins’ Research Expectations 01/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin As the World Health Organization (WHO) led expert team on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus began to conduct fieldwork at hospitals, research centers and markets in Wuhan, China, the WHO attempted to curb expectations, insisting that the mission will likely raise more questions. “The plans and the visits that they have, provide detailed information…The […] Continue reading -> One Year Later: COVID-19 Versus WHO And The World – Successes, Failures & Hopes 30/01/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher “A strange virus is circulating in Wuhan, China,” said my grad school intern, Grace Ren, just back from a visit to her mother in Shanghai in early January, 2020. Somewhere in between the brief respite of New Year’s and a hurried fondue alongside frigid Lake Leman in early February during WHO’s first and last in-person […] Continue reading -> Novavax’s COVID Vaccine Shows High Efficacy In Trials; J&J One-Dose Shot Less So – As Europe Feuds With AstraZeneca 29/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Novavax has become the first COVID-19 vaccine to show clinical efficacy against two major new SARS-CoV-2 virus variants now circulating worldwide – although the vaccine’s highest efficacy of 95.6% was against the COVID strain that had been predominant up until the end of 2020. The results of a UK-based Phase 3 clinical trial, which enrolled […] Continue reading -> COVAX Will Be Able To Give Country Data On Expected COVID Vaccine Allocations Within ‘Next Day’ 29/01/2021 Kerry Cullinan Member countries will have an idea of how many COVID vaccine doses they will receive via the World Health Organization’s COVAX Facility and when they will arrive within the next day, WHO special advisor Dr Bruce Alyward has said. These “indicative allocations” would depend on when the WHO’s regulatory review of the specific vaccines that […] Continue reading -> ‘Gag Rule’ Must Never Be Repeated, International AIDS Society Tells US Gov 29/01/2021 Kerry Cullinan The International AIDS Society (IAS) has welcomed US President Joe Biden’s repeal of the Mexico City Policy, known as the global “gag rule”, which prevented non-US organisations from getting US aid if they offered abortion services, referrals or advocacy. But the IAS urged the US administration “to consider legislation preventing the global gag rule from […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Has Outlined Healthcare Systems’ Dangerous Emissions Problem 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos Failure to align the global recovery from COVID-19 with an equally powerful climate response could threaten the worldwide effort to limit the average global temperature increase, public health experts have said. In a convention in 2015 now known as the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established its aim to […] Continue reading -> Pharma Ill-Equipped To Handle 10 Most Infectious Diseases And Future Pandemics, Report Warns 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos With ten of the world’s most infectious diseases not catered by drug firms, pharmaceutical giants remain unprepared to tackle future pandemics, a new report has said. The report, published on Tuesday, found that though current medicine and vaccine research and development is primarily geared towards the COVID-19 pandemic, there are next to no efforts to […] Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Rejects Israel’s Proposal To Remove Standalone Agenda Item On Palestinian Health Conditions 28/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin For the second time in as many years, WHO member states have voted down a proposal by Israel to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health Assembly – devoted exclusively to a report on health conditions in the Occupied Palestinian territories – and consider it as part of WHO’s overall […] Continue reading -> New WHO Roadmap Sets Ambitious Targets To Reduce By 90% Neglected Tropical Disease Burden Within Decade 28/01/2021 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday released a new road map for reducing by 90% illnesses related to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the year 2030. The plan proposes ambitious targets and a more integrated and holistic approach to tackle 20 diseases which affect more than a billion people worldwide, mainly poor, and which thrive […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Plays Down China ‘Origins’ Research Expectations 01/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin As the World Health Organization (WHO) led expert team on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus began to conduct fieldwork at hospitals, research centers and markets in Wuhan, China, the WHO attempted to curb expectations, insisting that the mission will likely raise more questions. “The plans and the visits that they have, provide detailed information…The […] Continue reading -> One Year Later: COVID-19 Versus WHO And The World – Successes, Failures & Hopes 30/01/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher “A strange virus is circulating in Wuhan, China,” said my grad school intern, Grace Ren, just back from a visit to her mother in Shanghai in early January, 2020. Somewhere in between the brief respite of New Year’s and a hurried fondue alongside frigid Lake Leman in early February during WHO’s first and last in-person […] Continue reading -> Novavax’s COVID Vaccine Shows High Efficacy In Trials; J&J One-Dose Shot Less So – As Europe Feuds With AstraZeneca 29/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Novavax has become the first COVID-19 vaccine to show clinical efficacy against two major new SARS-CoV-2 virus variants now circulating worldwide – although the vaccine’s highest efficacy of 95.6% was against the COVID strain that had been predominant up until the end of 2020. The results of a UK-based Phase 3 clinical trial, which enrolled […] Continue reading -> COVAX Will Be Able To Give Country Data On Expected COVID Vaccine Allocations Within ‘Next Day’ 29/01/2021 Kerry Cullinan Member countries will have an idea of how many COVID vaccine doses they will receive via the World Health Organization’s COVAX Facility and when they will arrive within the next day, WHO special advisor Dr Bruce Alyward has said. These “indicative allocations” would depend on when the WHO’s regulatory review of the specific vaccines that […] Continue reading -> ‘Gag Rule’ Must Never Be Repeated, International AIDS Society Tells US Gov 29/01/2021 Kerry Cullinan The International AIDS Society (IAS) has welcomed US President Joe Biden’s repeal of the Mexico City Policy, known as the global “gag rule”, which prevented non-US organisations from getting US aid if they offered abortion services, referrals or advocacy. But the IAS urged the US administration “to consider legislation preventing the global gag rule from […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Has Outlined Healthcare Systems’ Dangerous Emissions Problem 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos Failure to align the global recovery from COVID-19 with an equally powerful climate response could threaten the worldwide effort to limit the average global temperature increase, public health experts have said. In a convention in 2015 now known as the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established its aim to […] Continue reading -> Pharma Ill-Equipped To Handle 10 Most Infectious Diseases And Future Pandemics, Report Warns 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos With ten of the world’s most infectious diseases not catered by drug firms, pharmaceutical giants remain unprepared to tackle future pandemics, a new report has said. The report, published on Tuesday, found that though current medicine and vaccine research and development is primarily geared towards the COVID-19 pandemic, there are next to no efforts to […] Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Rejects Israel’s Proposal To Remove Standalone Agenda Item On Palestinian Health Conditions 28/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin For the second time in as many years, WHO member states have voted down a proposal by Israel to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health Assembly – devoted exclusively to a report on health conditions in the Occupied Palestinian territories – and consider it as part of WHO’s overall […] Continue reading -> New WHO Roadmap Sets Ambitious Targets To Reduce By 90% Neglected Tropical Disease Burden Within Decade 28/01/2021 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday released a new road map for reducing by 90% illnesses related to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the year 2030. The plan proposes ambitious targets and a more integrated and holistic approach to tackle 20 diseases which affect more than a billion people worldwide, mainly poor, and which thrive […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
One Year Later: COVID-19 Versus WHO And The World – Successes, Failures & Hopes 30/01/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher “A strange virus is circulating in Wuhan, China,” said my grad school intern, Grace Ren, just back from a visit to her mother in Shanghai in early January, 2020. Somewhere in between the brief respite of New Year’s and a hurried fondue alongside frigid Lake Leman in early February during WHO’s first and last in-person […] Continue reading -> Novavax’s COVID Vaccine Shows High Efficacy In Trials; J&J One-Dose Shot Less So – As Europe Feuds With AstraZeneca 29/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Novavax has become the first COVID-19 vaccine to show clinical efficacy against two major new SARS-CoV-2 virus variants now circulating worldwide – although the vaccine’s highest efficacy of 95.6% was against the COVID strain that had been predominant up until the end of 2020. The results of a UK-based Phase 3 clinical trial, which enrolled […] Continue reading -> COVAX Will Be Able To Give Country Data On Expected COVID Vaccine Allocations Within ‘Next Day’ 29/01/2021 Kerry Cullinan Member countries will have an idea of how many COVID vaccine doses they will receive via the World Health Organization’s COVAX Facility and when they will arrive within the next day, WHO special advisor Dr Bruce Alyward has said. These “indicative allocations” would depend on when the WHO’s regulatory review of the specific vaccines that […] Continue reading -> ‘Gag Rule’ Must Never Be Repeated, International AIDS Society Tells US Gov 29/01/2021 Kerry Cullinan The International AIDS Society (IAS) has welcomed US President Joe Biden’s repeal of the Mexico City Policy, known as the global “gag rule”, which prevented non-US organisations from getting US aid if they offered abortion services, referrals or advocacy. But the IAS urged the US administration “to consider legislation preventing the global gag rule from […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Has Outlined Healthcare Systems’ Dangerous Emissions Problem 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos Failure to align the global recovery from COVID-19 with an equally powerful climate response could threaten the worldwide effort to limit the average global temperature increase, public health experts have said. In a convention in 2015 now known as the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established its aim to […] Continue reading -> Pharma Ill-Equipped To Handle 10 Most Infectious Diseases And Future Pandemics, Report Warns 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos With ten of the world’s most infectious diseases not catered by drug firms, pharmaceutical giants remain unprepared to tackle future pandemics, a new report has said. The report, published on Tuesday, found that though current medicine and vaccine research and development is primarily geared towards the COVID-19 pandemic, there are next to no efforts to […] Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Rejects Israel’s Proposal To Remove Standalone Agenda Item On Palestinian Health Conditions 28/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin For the second time in as many years, WHO member states have voted down a proposal by Israel to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health Assembly – devoted exclusively to a report on health conditions in the Occupied Palestinian territories – and consider it as part of WHO’s overall […] Continue reading -> New WHO Roadmap Sets Ambitious Targets To Reduce By 90% Neglected Tropical Disease Burden Within Decade 28/01/2021 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday released a new road map for reducing by 90% illnesses related to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the year 2030. The plan proposes ambitious targets and a more integrated and holistic approach to tackle 20 diseases which affect more than a billion people worldwide, mainly poor, and which thrive […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Novavax’s COVID Vaccine Shows High Efficacy In Trials; J&J One-Dose Shot Less So – As Europe Feuds With AstraZeneca 29/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Novavax has become the first COVID-19 vaccine to show clinical efficacy against two major new SARS-CoV-2 virus variants now circulating worldwide – although the vaccine’s highest efficacy of 95.6% was against the COVID strain that had been predominant up until the end of 2020. The results of a UK-based Phase 3 clinical trial, which enrolled […] Continue reading -> COVAX Will Be Able To Give Country Data On Expected COVID Vaccine Allocations Within ‘Next Day’ 29/01/2021 Kerry Cullinan Member countries will have an idea of how many COVID vaccine doses they will receive via the World Health Organization’s COVAX Facility and when they will arrive within the next day, WHO special advisor Dr Bruce Alyward has said. These “indicative allocations” would depend on when the WHO’s regulatory review of the specific vaccines that […] Continue reading -> ‘Gag Rule’ Must Never Be Repeated, International AIDS Society Tells US Gov 29/01/2021 Kerry Cullinan The International AIDS Society (IAS) has welcomed US President Joe Biden’s repeal of the Mexico City Policy, known as the global “gag rule”, which prevented non-US organisations from getting US aid if they offered abortion services, referrals or advocacy. But the IAS urged the US administration “to consider legislation preventing the global gag rule from […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Has Outlined Healthcare Systems’ Dangerous Emissions Problem 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos Failure to align the global recovery from COVID-19 with an equally powerful climate response could threaten the worldwide effort to limit the average global temperature increase, public health experts have said. In a convention in 2015 now known as the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established its aim to […] Continue reading -> Pharma Ill-Equipped To Handle 10 Most Infectious Diseases And Future Pandemics, Report Warns 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos With ten of the world’s most infectious diseases not catered by drug firms, pharmaceutical giants remain unprepared to tackle future pandemics, a new report has said. The report, published on Tuesday, found that though current medicine and vaccine research and development is primarily geared towards the COVID-19 pandemic, there are next to no efforts to […] Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Rejects Israel’s Proposal To Remove Standalone Agenda Item On Palestinian Health Conditions 28/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin For the second time in as many years, WHO member states have voted down a proposal by Israel to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health Assembly – devoted exclusively to a report on health conditions in the Occupied Palestinian territories – and consider it as part of WHO’s overall […] Continue reading -> New WHO Roadmap Sets Ambitious Targets To Reduce By 90% Neglected Tropical Disease Burden Within Decade 28/01/2021 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday released a new road map for reducing by 90% illnesses related to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the year 2030. The plan proposes ambitious targets and a more integrated and holistic approach to tackle 20 diseases which affect more than a billion people worldwide, mainly poor, and which thrive […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
COVAX Will Be Able To Give Country Data On Expected COVID Vaccine Allocations Within ‘Next Day’ 29/01/2021 Kerry Cullinan Member countries will have an idea of how many COVID vaccine doses they will receive via the World Health Organization’s COVAX Facility and when they will arrive within the next day, WHO special advisor Dr Bruce Alyward has said. These “indicative allocations” would depend on when the WHO’s regulatory review of the specific vaccines that […] Continue reading -> ‘Gag Rule’ Must Never Be Repeated, International AIDS Society Tells US Gov 29/01/2021 Kerry Cullinan The International AIDS Society (IAS) has welcomed US President Joe Biden’s repeal of the Mexico City Policy, known as the global “gag rule”, which prevented non-US organisations from getting US aid if they offered abortion services, referrals or advocacy. But the IAS urged the US administration “to consider legislation preventing the global gag rule from […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Has Outlined Healthcare Systems’ Dangerous Emissions Problem 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos Failure to align the global recovery from COVID-19 with an equally powerful climate response could threaten the worldwide effort to limit the average global temperature increase, public health experts have said. In a convention in 2015 now known as the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established its aim to […] Continue reading -> Pharma Ill-Equipped To Handle 10 Most Infectious Diseases And Future Pandemics, Report Warns 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos With ten of the world’s most infectious diseases not catered by drug firms, pharmaceutical giants remain unprepared to tackle future pandemics, a new report has said. The report, published on Tuesday, found that though current medicine and vaccine research and development is primarily geared towards the COVID-19 pandemic, there are next to no efforts to […] Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Rejects Israel’s Proposal To Remove Standalone Agenda Item On Palestinian Health Conditions 28/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin For the second time in as many years, WHO member states have voted down a proposal by Israel to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health Assembly – devoted exclusively to a report on health conditions in the Occupied Palestinian territories – and consider it as part of WHO’s overall […] Continue reading -> New WHO Roadmap Sets Ambitious Targets To Reduce By 90% Neglected Tropical Disease Burden Within Decade 28/01/2021 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday released a new road map for reducing by 90% illnesses related to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the year 2030. The plan proposes ambitious targets and a more integrated and holistic approach to tackle 20 diseases which affect more than a billion people worldwide, mainly poor, and which thrive […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘Gag Rule’ Must Never Be Repeated, International AIDS Society Tells US Gov 29/01/2021 Kerry Cullinan The International AIDS Society (IAS) has welcomed US President Joe Biden’s repeal of the Mexico City Policy, known as the global “gag rule”, which prevented non-US organisations from getting US aid if they offered abortion services, referrals or advocacy. But the IAS urged the US administration “to consider legislation preventing the global gag rule from […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Has Outlined Healthcare Systems’ Dangerous Emissions Problem 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos Failure to align the global recovery from COVID-19 with an equally powerful climate response could threaten the worldwide effort to limit the average global temperature increase, public health experts have said. In a convention in 2015 now known as the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established its aim to […] Continue reading -> Pharma Ill-Equipped To Handle 10 Most Infectious Diseases And Future Pandemics, Report Warns 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos With ten of the world’s most infectious diseases not catered by drug firms, pharmaceutical giants remain unprepared to tackle future pandemics, a new report has said. The report, published on Tuesday, found that though current medicine and vaccine research and development is primarily geared towards the COVID-19 pandemic, there are next to no efforts to […] Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Rejects Israel’s Proposal To Remove Standalone Agenda Item On Palestinian Health Conditions 28/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin For the second time in as many years, WHO member states have voted down a proposal by Israel to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health Assembly – devoted exclusively to a report on health conditions in the Occupied Palestinian territories – and consider it as part of WHO’s overall […] Continue reading -> New WHO Roadmap Sets Ambitious Targets To Reduce By 90% Neglected Tropical Disease Burden Within Decade 28/01/2021 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday released a new road map for reducing by 90% illnesses related to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the year 2030. The plan proposes ambitious targets and a more integrated and holistic approach to tackle 20 diseases which affect more than a billion people worldwide, mainly poor, and which thrive […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
COVID-19 Has Outlined Healthcare Systems’ Dangerous Emissions Problem 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos Failure to align the global recovery from COVID-19 with an equally powerful climate response could threaten the worldwide effort to limit the average global temperature increase, public health experts have said. In a convention in 2015 now known as the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established its aim to […] Continue reading -> Pharma Ill-Equipped To Handle 10 Most Infectious Diseases And Future Pandemics, Report Warns 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos With ten of the world’s most infectious diseases not catered by drug firms, pharmaceutical giants remain unprepared to tackle future pandemics, a new report has said. The report, published on Tuesday, found that though current medicine and vaccine research and development is primarily geared towards the COVID-19 pandemic, there are next to no efforts to […] Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Rejects Israel’s Proposal To Remove Standalone Agenda Item On Palestinian Health Conditions 28/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin For the second time in as many years, WHO member states have voted down a proposal by Israel to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health Assembly – devoted exclusively to a report on health conditions in the Occupied Palestinian territories – and consider it as part of WHO’s overall […] Continue reading -> New WHO Roadmap Sets Ambitious Targets To Reduce By 90% Neglected Tropical Disease Burden Within Decade 28/01/2021 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday released a new road map for reducing by 90% illnesses related to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the year 2030. The plan proposes ambitious targets and a more integrated and holistic approach to tackle 20 diseases which affect more than a billion people worldwide, mainly poor, and which thrive […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Pharma Ill-Equipped To Handle 10 Most Infectious Diseases And Future Pandemics, Report Warns 29/01/2021 Raisa Santos With ten of the world’s most infectious diseases not catered by drug firms, pharmaceutical giants remain unprepared to tackle future pandemics, a new report has said. The report, published on Tuesday, found that though current medicine and vaccine research and development is primarily geared towards the COVID-19 pandemic, there are next to no efforts to […] Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Rejects Israel’s Proposal To Remove Standalone Agenda Item On Palestinian Health Conditions 28/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin For the second time in as many years, WHO member states have voted down a proposal by Israel to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health Assembly – devoted exclusively to a report on health conditions in the Occupied Palestinian territories – and consider it as part of WHO’s overall […] Continue reading -> New WHO Roadmap Sets Ambitious Targets To Reduce By 90% Neglected Tropical Disease Burden Within Decade 28/01/2021 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday released a new road map for reducing by 90% illnesses related to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the year 2030. The plan proposes ambitious targets and a more integrated and holistic approach to tackle 20 diseases which affect more than a billion people worldwide, mainly poor, and which thrive […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Executive Board Rejects Israel’s Proposal To Remove Standalone Agenda Item On Palestinian Health Conditions 28/01/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin For the second time in as many years, WHO member states have voted down a proposal by Israel to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health Assembly – devoted exclusively to a report on health conditions in the Occupied Palestinian territories – and consider it as part of WHO’s overall […] Continue reading -> New WHO Roadmap Sets Ambitious Targets To Reduce By 90% Neglected Tropical Disease Burden Within Decade 28/01/2021 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday released a new road map for reducing by 90% illnesses related to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the year 2030. The plan proposes ambitious targets and a more integrated and holistic approach to tackle 20 diseases which affect more than a billion people worldwide, mainly poor, and which thrive […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
New WHO Roadmap Sets Ambitious Targets To Reduce By 90% Neglected Tropical Disease Burden Within Decade 28/01/2021 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday released a new road map for reducing by 90% illnesses related to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the year 2030. The plan proposes ambitious targets and a more integrated and holistic approach to tackle 20 diseases which affect more than a billion people worldwide, mainly poor, and which thrive […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts