Community & Health Sector Cooperation Contains Ebola Threat In Uganda; Epidemic Simmers On In DRC 08/07/2019 Maina Waruru Nairobi, Kenya – The World Health Organization has commended efforts by the government of Uganda for keeping the deadly Ebola virus from spreading eastwards into the country from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where a prolonged outbreak has claimed approximately 1,600 lives since last August. The East African country has recorded only three […] Continue reading -> Who should lead UNAIDS? 05/07/2019 Guest contributor [Republished from The Lancet] Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, examines the issues around the pending appointment of a new executive director for UNAIDS, as well as the candidates for the post, following the May resignation of executive director Michel Sidibé. The selection process has fueled questions about who may now be best positioned to […] Continue reading -> “Delinkage” Of Medicines R&D From Patent Incentives Stirs Debate at Human Rights Council 04/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Only a month after a hotly-contested World Health Assembly resolution touched off a debate around “price transparency” as a way to improve access to medicines, a new controversy over how to stimulate access has emerged in another UN Forum, the Human Rights Council. This time the debate is around ways to “delink” incentives for the […] Continue reading -> EU Calls For Results Of All EU-based Clinical Trials To Be Added To Public Database 04/07/2019 David Branigan The European Commission and European Union medicines regulatory agencies sent an open letter to all sponsors of EU-based clinical trials to remind them of their obligation to publish the results of the trials – both positive and negative – in a public database. The open letter by the European Commission (EC), the European Medicines Agency […] Continue reading -> GARDP To Develop & Deliver 5 New Treatments For Antibiotic Resistant Infections By 2025 04/07/2019 David Branigan The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP) has announced its new “5 BY 25” strategy to mobilise global stakeholders to raise the €500 million needed to develop and deliver five new antibiotic treatments by 2025, to help tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Drug-resistant infections already cause at least 700,000 deaths globally each year, and affect […] Continue reading -> Climate Is A ‘Well-Being’ Issue; OECD Head Decries Lack Of Political Action 03/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Globally, political resistance to assertive climate action remains an enormous barrier to change, despite mounting evidence about the impacts of climate change on people’s well-being and health, said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), before an audience of several hundred people in Geneva today. Reframing the climate debate […] Continue reading -> Dr Tedros Calls For Investment In Nurses, Highlights WHA 2020 Focus On Nurses & Midwives 02/07/2019 David Branigan In a surprise appearance before the 2019 Congress of the International Council of Nurses, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that investing in a stronger nursing workforce is essential for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). He proposed that “every country bring one nurse and one midwife to the World Health Assembly next year,” as […] Continue reading -> ‘Climate Change Is Happening to All of Us’ Guterres Tells Abu Dhabi Meeting 01/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Sounding a note of ever-increasing urgency, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told ministers gathered at a Global Preparatory Meeting for the UN Climate Action Summit, in Abu Dhabi that “we are in a battle for our lives” with regards to climate change, which is happening at an even faster pace that what top scientists […] Continue reading -> G20 Leaders Declare General Commitment To Advance Global Health 01/07/2019 David Branigan Heads of state from the world’s largest economies concluded this year’s G20 Summit in Japan with a general declaration committing to advance global health priorities – but the statement still left much to be desired in terms of concrete goals and targets. In the G20 Osaka Leaders’ Declaration, issued on Saturday at the close of […] Continue reading -> Global Action Plan For Health In SDGs: Public Comments Sought on Ambitious Initiative 28/06/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher An ambitious Global Action Plan to accelerate progress on some 50 health-related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through better alignment of work in a dozen different UN and international agencies is open for public comments until Tuesday, 2 July. Drafts of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (GAP) […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Who should lead UNAIDS? 05/07/2019 Guest contributor [Republished from The Lancet] Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, examines the issues around the pending appointment of a new executive director for UNAIDS, as well as the candidates for the post, following the May resignation of executive director Michel Sidibé. The selection process has fueled questions about who may now be best positioned to […] Continue reading -> “Delinkage” Of Medicines R&D From Patent Incentives Stirs Debate at Human Rights Council 04/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Only a month after a hotly-contested World Health Assembly resolution touched off a debate around “price transparency” as a way to improve access to medicines, a new controversy over how to stimulate access has emerged in another UN Forum, the Human Rights Council. This time the debate is around ways to “delink” incentives for the […] Continue reading -> EU Calls For Results Of All EU-based Clinical Trials To Be Added To Public Database 04/07/2019 David Branigan The European Commission and European Union medicines regulatory agencies sent an open letter to all sponsors of EU-based clinical trials to remind them of their obligation to publish the results of the trials – both positive and negative – in a public database. The open letter by the European Commission (EC), the European Medicines Agency […] Continue reading -> GARDP To Develop & Deliver 5 New Treatments For Antibiotic Resistant Infections By 2025 04/07/2019 David Branigan The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP) has announced its new “5 BY 25” strategy to mobilise global stakeholders to raise the €500 million needed to develop and deliver five new antibiotic treatments by 2025, to help tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Drug-resistant infections already cause at least 700,000 deaths globally each year, and affect […] Continue reading -> Climate Is A ‘Well-Being’ Issue; OECD Head Decries Lack Of Political Action 03/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Globally, political resistance to assertive climate action remains an enormous barrier to change, despite mounting evidence about the impacts of climate change on people’s well-being and health, said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), before an audience of several hundred people in Geneva today. Reframing the climate debate […] Continue reading -> Dr Tedros Calls For Investment In Nurses, Highlights WHA 2020 Focus On Nurses & Midwives 02/07/2019 David Branigan In a surprise appearance before the 2019 Congress of the International Council of Nurses, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that investing in a stronger nursing workforce is essential for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). He proposed that “every country bring one nurse and one midwife to the World Health Assembly next year,” as […] Continue reading -> ‘Climate Change Is Happening to All of Us’ Guterres Tells Abu Dhabi Meeting 01/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Sounding a note of ever-increasing urgency, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told ministers gathered at a Global Preparatory Meeting for the UN Climate Action Summit, in Abu Dhabi that “we are in a battle for our lives” with regards to climate change, which is happening at an even faster pace that what top scientists […] Continue reading -> G20 Leaders Declare General Commitment To Advance Global Health 01/07/2019 David Branigan Heads of state from the world’s largest economies concluded this year’s G20 Summit in Japan with a general declaration committing to advance global health priorities – but the statement still left much to be desired in terms of concrete goals and targets. In the G20 Osaka Leaders’ Declaration, issued on Saturday at the close of […] Continue reading -> Global Action Plan For Health In SDGs: Public Comments Sought on Ambitious Initiative 28/06/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher An ambitious Global Action Plan to accelerate progress on some 50 health-related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through better alignment of work in a dozen different UN and international agencies is open for public comments until Tuesday, 2 July. Drafts of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (GAP) […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
“Delinkage” Of Medicines R&D From Patent Incentives Stirs Debate at Human Rights Council 04/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Only a month after a hotly-contested World Health Assembly resolution touched off a debate around “price transparency” as a way to improve access to medicines, a new controversy over how to stimulate access has emerged in another UN Forum, the Human Rights Council. This time the debate is around ways to “delink” incentives for the […] Continue reading -> EU Calls For Results Of All EU-based Clinical Trials To Be Added To Public Database 04/07/2019 David Branigan The European Commission and European Union medicines regulatory agencies sent an open letter to all sponsors of EU-based clinical trials to remind them of their obligation to publish the results of the trials – both positive and negative – in a public database. The open letter by the European Commission (EC), the European Medicines Agency […] Continue reading -> GARDP To Develop & Deliver 5 New Treatments For Antibiotic Resistant Infections By 2025 04/07/2019 David Branigan The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP) has announced its new “5 BY 25” strategy to mobilise global stakeholders to raise the €500 million needed to develop and deliver five new antibiotic treatments by 2025, to help tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Drug-resistant infections already cause at least 700,000 deaths globally each year, and affect […] Continue reading -> Climate Is A ‘Well-Being’ Issue; OECD Head Decries Lack Of Political Action 03/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Globally, political resistance to assertive climate action remains an enormous barrier to change, despite mounting evidence about the impacts of climate change on people’s well-being and health, said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), before an audience of several hundred people in Geneva today. Reframing the climate debate […] Continue reading -> Dr Tedros Calls For Investment In Nurses, Highlights WHA 2020 Focus On Nurses & Midwives 02/07/2019 David Branigan In a surprise appearance before the 2019 Congress of the International Council of Nurses, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that investing in a stronger nursing workforce is essential for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). He proposed that “every country bring one nurse and one midwife to the World Health Assembly next year,” as […] Continue reading -> ‘Climate Change Is Happening to All of Us’ Guterres Tells Abu Dhabi Meeting 01/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Sounding a note of ever-increasing urgency, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told ministers gathered at a Global Preparatory Meeting for the UN Climate Action Summit, in Abu Dhabi that “we are in a battle for our lives” with regards to climate change, which is happening at an even faster pace that what top scientists […] Continue reading -> G20 Leaders Declare General Commitment To Advance Global Health 01/07/2019 David Branigan Heads of state from the world’s largest economies concluded this year’s G20 Summit in Japan with a general declaration committing to advance global health priorities – but the statement still left much to be desired in terms of concrete goals and targets. In the G20 Osaka Leaders’ Declaration, issued on Saturday at the close of […] Continue reading -> Global Action Plan For Health In SDGs: Public Comments Sought on Ambitious Initiative 28/06/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher An ambitious Global Action Plan to accelerate progress on some 50 health-related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through better alignment of work in a dozen different UN and international agencies is open for public comments until Tuesday, 2 July. Drafts of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (GAP) […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
EU Calls For Results Of All EU-based Clinical Trials To Be Added To Public Database 04/07/2019 David Branigan The European Commission and European Union medicines regulatory agencies sent an open letter to all sponsors of EU-based clinical trials to remind them of their obligation to publish the results of the trials – both positive and negative – in a public database. The open letter by the European Commission (EC), the European Medicines Agency […] Continue reading -> GARDP To Develop & Deliver 5 New Treatments For Antibiotic Resistant Infections By 2025 04/07/2019 David Branigan The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP) has announced its new “5 BY 25” strategy to mobilise global stakeholders to raise the €500 million needed to develop and deliver five new antibiotic treatments by 2025, to help tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Drug-resistant infections already cause at least 700,000 deaths globally each year, and affect […] Continue reading -> Climate Is A ‘Well-Being’ Issue; OECD Head Decries Lack Of Political Action 03/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Globally, political resistance to assertive climate action remains an enormous barrier to change, despite mounting evidence about the impacts of climate change on people’s well-being and health, said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), before an audience of several hundred people in Geneva today. Reframing the climate debate […] Continue reading -> Dr Tedros Calls For Investment In Nurses, Highlights WHA 2020 Focus On Nurses & Midwives 02/07/2019 David Branigan In a surprise appearance before the 2019 Congress of the International Council of Nurses, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that investing in a stronger nursing workforce is essential for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). He proposed that “every country bring one nurse and one midwife to the World Health Assembly next year,” as […] Continue reading -> ‘Climate Change Is Happening to All of Us’ Guterres Tells Abu Dhabi Meeting 01/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Sounding a note of ever-increasing urgency, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told ministers gathered at a Global Preparatory Meeting for the UN Climate Action Summit, in Abu Dhabi that “we are in a battle for our lives” with regards to climate change, which is happening at an even faster pace that what top scientists […] Continue reading -> G20 Leaders Declare General Commitment To Advance Global Health 01/07/2019 David Branigan Heads of state from the world’s largest economies concluded this year’s G20 Summit in Japan with a general declaration committing to advance global health priorities – but the statement still left much to be desired in terms of concrete goals and targets. In the G20 Osaka Leaders’ Declaration, issued on Saturday at the close of […] Continue reading -> Global Action Plan For Health In SDGs: Public Comments Sought on Ambitious Initiative 28/06/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher An ambitious Global Action Plan to accelerate progress on some 50 health-related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through better alignment of work in a dozen different UN and international agencies is open for public comments until Tuesday, 2 July. Drafts of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (GAP) […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
GARDP To Develop & Deliver 5 New Treatments For Antibiotic Resistant Infections By 2025 04/07/2019 David Branigan The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP) has announced its new “5 BY 25” strategy to mobilise global stakeholders to raise the €500 million needed to develop and deliver five new antibiotic treatments by 2025, to help tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Drug-resistant infections already cause at least 700,000 deaths globally each year, and affect […] Continue reading -> Climate Is A ‘Well-Being’ Issue; OECD Head Decries Lack Of Political Action 03/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Globally, political resistance to assertive climate action remains an enormous barrier to change, despite mounting evidence about the impacts of climate change on people’s well-being and health, said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), before an audience of several hundred people in Geneva today. Reframing the climate debate […] Continue reading -> Dr Tedros Calls For Investment In Nurses, Highlights WHA 2020 Focus On Nurses & Midwives 02/07/2019 David Branigan In a surprise appearance before the 2019 Congress of the International Council of Nurses, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that investing in a stronger nursing workforce is essential for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). He proposed that “every country bring one nurse and one midwife to the World Health Assembly next year,” as […] Continue reading -> ‘Climate Change Is Happening to All of Us’ Guterres Tells Abu Dhabi Meeting 01/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Sounding a note of ever-increasing urgency, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told ministers gathered at a Global Preparatory Meeting for the UN Climate Action Summit, in Abu Dhabi that “we are in a battle for our lives” with regards to climate change, which is happening at an even faster pace that what top scientists […] Continue reading -> G20 Leaders Declare General Commitment To Advance Global Health 01/07/2019 David Branigan Heads of state from the world’s largest economies concluded this year’s G20 Summit in Japan with a general declaration committing to advance global health priorities – but the statement still left much to be desired in terms of concrete goals and targets. In the G20 Osaka Leaders’ Declaration, issued on Saturday at the close of […] Continue reading -> Global Action Plan For Health In SDGs: Public Comments Sought on Ambitious Initiative 28/06/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher An ambitious Global Action Plan to accelerate progress on some 50 health-related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through better alignment of work in a dozen different UN and international agencies is open for public comments until Tuesday, 2 July. Drafts of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (GAP) […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Climate Is A ‘Well-Being’ Issue; OECD Head Decries Lack Of Political Action 03/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Globally, political resistance to assertive climate action remains an enormous barrier to change, despite mounting evidence about the impacts of climate change on people’s well-being and health, said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), before an audience of several hundred people in Geneva today. Reframing the climate debate […] Continue reading -> Dr Tedros Calls For Investment In Nurses, Highlights WHA 2020 Focus On Nurses & Midwives 02/07/2019 David Branigan In a surprise appearance before the 2019 Congress of the International Council of Nurses, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that investing in a stronger nursing workforce is essential for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). He proposed that “every country bring one nurse and one midwife to the World Health Assembly next year,” as […] Continue reading -> ‘Climate Change Is Happening to All of Us’ Guterres Tells Abu Dhabi Meeting 01/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Sounding a note of ever-increasing urgency, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told ministers gathered at a Global Preparatory Meeting for the UN Climate Action Summit, in Abu Dhabi that “we are in a battle for our lives” with regards to climate change, which is happening at an even faster pace that what top scientists […] Continue reading -> G20 Leaders Declare General Commitment To Advance Global Health 01/07/2019 David Branigan Heads of state from the world’s largest economies concluded this year’s G20 Summit in Japan with a general declaration committing to advance global health priorities – but the statement still left much to be desired in terms of concrete goals and targets. In the G20 Osaka Leaders’ Declaration, issued on Saturday at the close of […] Continue reading -> Global Action Plan For Health In SDGs: Public Comments Sought on Ambitious Initiative 28/06/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher An ambitious Global Action Plan to accelerate progress on some 50 health-related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through better alignment of work in a dozen different UN and international agencies is open for public comments until Tuesday, 2 July. Drafts of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (GAP) […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Dr Tedros Calls For Investment In Nurses, Highlights WHA 2020 Focus On Nurses & Midwives 02/07/2019 David Branigan In a surprise appearance before the 2019 Congress of the International Council of Nurses, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that investing in a stronger nursing workforce is essential for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). He proposed that “every country bring one nurse and one midwife to the World Health Assembly next year,” as […] Continue reading -> ‘Climate Change Is Happening to All of Us’ Guterres Tells Abu Dhabi Meeting 01/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Sounding a note of ever-increasing urgency, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told ministers gathered at a Global Preparatory Meeting for the UN Climate Action Summit, in Abu Dhabi that “we are in a battle for our lives” with regards to climate change, which is happening at an even faster pace that what top scientists […] Continue reading -> G20 Leaders Declare General Commitment To Advance Global Health 01/07/2019 David Branigan Heads of state from the world’s largest economies concluded this year’s G20 Summit in Japan with a general declaration committing to advance global health priorities – but the statement still left much to be desired in terms of concrete goals and targets. In the G20 Osaka Leaders’ Declaration, issued on Saturday at the close of […] Continue reading -> Global Action Plan For Health In SDGs: Public Comments Sought on Ambitious Initiative 28/06/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher An ambitious Global Action Plan to accelerate progress on some 50 health-related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through better alignment of work in a dozen different UN and international agencies is open for public comments until Tuesday, 2 July. Drafts of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (GAP) […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘Climate Change Is Happening to All of Us’ Guterres Tells Abu Dhabi Meeting 01/07/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Sounding a note of ever-increasing urgency, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told ministers gathered at a Global Preparatory Meeting for the UN Climate Action Summit, in Abu Dhabi that “we are in a battle for our lives” with regards to climate change, which is happening at an even faster pace that what top scientists […] Continue reading -> G20 Leaders Declare General Commitment To Advance Global Health 01/07/2019 David Branigan Heads of state from the world’s largest economies concluded this year’s G20 Summit in Japan with a general declaration committing to advance global health priorities – but the statement still left much to be desired in terms of concrete goals and targets. In the G20 Osaka Leaders’ Declaration, issued on Saturday at the close of […] Continue reading -> Global Action Plan For Health In SDGs: Public Comments Sought on Ambitious Initiative 28/06/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher An ambitious Global Action Plan to accelerate progress on some 50 health-related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through better alignment of work in a dozen different UN and international agencies is open for public comments until Tuesday, 2 July. Drafts of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (GAP) […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
G20 Leaders Declare General Commitment To Advance Global Health 01/07/2019 David Branigan Heads of state from the world’s largest economies concluded this year’s G20 Summit in Japan with a general declaration committing to advance global health priorities – but the statement still left much to be desired in terms of concrete goals and targets. In the G20 Osaka Leaders’ Declaration, issued on Saturday at the close of […] Continue reading -> Global Action Plan For Health In SDGs: Public Comments Sought on Ambitious Initiative 28/06/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher An ambitious Global Action Plan to accelerate progress on some 50 health-related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through better alignment of work in a dozen different UN and international agencies is open for public comments until Tuesday, 2 July. Drafts of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (GAP) […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Global Action Plan For Health In SDGs: Public Comments Sought on Ambitious Initiative 28/06/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher An ambitious Global Action Plan to accelerate progress on some 50 health-related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through better alignment of work in a dozen different UN and international agencies is open for public comments until Tuesday, 2 July. Drafts of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (GAP) […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts