‘I Couldn’t Just Stand By’: Syrians Step up With Earthquake Aid Despite Pressures 15/02/2023 Safaa Sallal DAMASCUS/JABLEH – One week on from last week’s massive earthquakes, ordinary people across Syria – including in the large parts controlled by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces – have been scrambling to marshal whatever help they can for survivors, offering up their homes, supplies, and skills. While many of the areas al-Assad controls are further from […] Continue reading -> Turkey-Syria Earthquake Is World’s Deadliest in Over a Decade 08/02/2023 Stefan Anderson The earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria this week is now the deadliest the world has seen in over a decade. By Wednesday evening, 11,600 people had been confirmed dead. Tens of thousands more are injured. As deaths continue to mount, search and rescue teams from across the world are in a race against the […] Continue reading -> Earthquake Update: ‘Every Minute, We Lose a Life’ 07/02/2023 Stefan Anderson The World Health Organization (WHO) triggered its “no regrets” policy at an emergency meeting on Tuesday in response to the earthquakes that devastated Turkey and Syria this week, while promising long-term aid to the affected regions after the period of emergency response ends. The policy – which says that in unpredictable crises, WHO should err […] Continue reading -> WHO Chief Fires Back in Clash with Russia 04/02/2023 John Heilprin The Russian delegation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB) called the report on the work of the UN health agency’s response to the Ukraine war “politicised,” prompting a spirited defense from the agency chief. Russia pressured the UN health agency to revise a report related to its emergency response in Ukraine, prompting […] Continue reading -> WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> UN Rallies Support for Pakistan Flood Reconstruction Efforts 09/01/2023 Stefan Anderson World leaders, representatives of international development and humanitarian organizations, and UN delegations gathered in Geneva on Monday to rally financial support for Pakistan’s recovery from the devastating floods that hammered the country last year. Pakistan has appealed for $16.3 billion to assist it to rebuild the country, and almost half this amount had been pledged […] Continue reading -> US National Institutes of Health and Israel To Kick-off Joint Research Into Regional Emerging Disease Threats 05/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman In the wake of the COVID pandemic, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Israel’s largest medical center, Sheba Medical Center, are launching a scientific collaboration aimed at identifying emerging disease threats in the region. One of the first projects planned will be a study examining the impacts on antibody defenses amongst travelers from […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General: Hopes COVID Global Health Emergency Can Be Declared Over in 2023 14/12/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher There are emerging hopes that sometime in 2023, WHO can declare that the COVID-19 global health emergency is over, said WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a pre-holiday press briefing on Wednesday. Meanwhile, however, the world continues to invest some $2 trillion in wars and “killing each other” – but not nearly […] Continue reading -> Ukrainian MP Warns of Rise in Illness, Death from Impending War-Winter Combination 09/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A four-year-old asthmatic girl from Ukraine was forced to relocate to a gas station earlier this week where she could connect her ventilator, after a Russian missile attack cut off her city’s electricity supply, leaving her without any other means of receiving life-saving oxygen. Pictures of her frightened, frozen eyes made social media. But according […] Continue reading -> ‘Multilateralism’ Essential in Battle Against Pandemics, Says President of Portuguese Parliament 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The battle against pandemics can only be won through multilateralism, according to Augusto Santos Silva, president of the Portuguese parliament. During a keynote address at the UNITE Global Summit on Tuesday, Silva stressed that “viruses and bacteria know no borders. They do not have to show passports and they are not subject to border control. […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Turkey-Syria Earthquake Is World’s Deadliest in Over a Decade 08/02/2023 Stefan Anderson The earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria this week is now the deadliest the world has seen in over a decade. By Wednesday evening, 11,600 people had been confirmed dead. Tens of thousands more are injured. As deaths continue to mount, search and rescue teams from across the world are in a race against the […] Continue reading -> Earthquake Update: ‘Every Minute, We Lose a Life’ 07/02/2023 Stefan Anderson The World Health Organization (WHO) triggered its “no regrets” policy at an emergency meeting on Tuesday in response to the earthquakes that devastated Turkey and Syria this week, while promising long-term aid to the affected regions after the period of emergency response ends. The policy – which says that in unpredictable crises, WHO should err […] Continue reading -> WHO Chief Fires Back in Clash with Russia 04/02/2023 John Heilprin The Russian delegation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB) called the report on the work of the UN health agency’s response to the Ukraine war “politicised,” prompting a spirited defense from the agency chief. Russia pressured the UN health agency to revise a report related to its emergency response in Ukraine, prompting […] Continue reading -> WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> UN Rallies Support for Pakistan Flood Reconstruction Efforts 09/01/2023 Stefan Anderson World leaders, representatives of international development and humanitarian organizations, and UN delegations gathered in Geneva on Monday to rally financial support for Pakistan’s recovery from the devastating floods that hammered the country last year. Pakistan has appealed for $16.3 billion to assist it to rebuild the country, and almost half this amount had been pledged […] Continue reading -> US National Institutes of Health and Israel To Kick-off Joint Research Into Regional Emerging Disease Threats 05/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman In the wake of the COVID pandemic, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Israel’s largest medical center, Sheba Medical Center, are launching a scientific collaboration aimed at identifying emerging disease threats in the region. One of the first projects planned will be a study examining the impacts on antibody defenses amongst travelers from […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General: Hopes COVID Global Health Emergency Can Be Declared Over in 2023 14/12/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher There are emerging hopes that sometime in 2023, WHO can declare that the COVID-19 global health emergency is over, said WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a pre-holiday press briefing on Wednesday. Meanwhile, however, the world continues to invest some $2 trillion in wars and “killing each other” – but not nearly […] Continue reading -> Ukrainian MP Warns of Rise in Illness, Death from Impending War-Winter Combination 09/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A four-year-old asthmatic girl from Ukraine was forced to relocate to a gas station earlier this week where she could connect her ventilator, after a Russian missile attack cut off her city’s electricity supply, leaving her without any other means of receiving life-saving oxygen. Pictures of her frightened, frozen eyes made social media. But according […] Continue reading -> ‘Multilateralism’ Essential in Battle Against Pandemics, Says President of Portuguese Parliament 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The battle against pandemics can only be won through multilateralism, according to Augusto Santos Silva, president of the Portuguese parliament. During a keynote address at the UNITE Global Summit on Tuesday, Silva stressed that “viruses and bacteria know no borders. They do not have to show passports and they are not subject to border control. […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Earthquake Update: ‘Every Minute, We Lose a Life’ 07/02/2023 Stefan Anderson The World Health Organization (WHO) triggered its “no regrets” policy at an emergency meeting on Tuesday in response to the earthquakes that devastated Turkey and Syria this week, while promising long-term aid to the affected regions after the period of emergency response ends. The policy – which says that in unpredictable crises, WHO should err […] Continue reading -> WHO Chief Fires Back in Clash with Russia 04/02/2023 John Heilprin The Russian delegation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB) called the report on the work of the UN health agency’s response to the Ukraine war “politicised,” prompting a spirited defense from the agency chief. Russia pressured the UN health agency to revise a report related to its emergency response in Ukraine, prompting […] Continue reading -> WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> UN Rallies Support for Pakistan Flood Reconstruction Efforts 09/01/2023 Stefan Anderson World leaders, representatives of international development and humanitarian organizations, and UN delegations gathered in Geneva on Monday to rally financial support for Pakistan’s recovery from the devastating floods that hammered the country last year. Pakistan has appealed for $16.3 billion to assist it to rebuild the country, and almost half this amount had been pledged […] Continue reading -> US National Institutes of Health and Israel To Kick-off Joint Research Into Regional Emerging Disease Threats 05/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman In the wake of the COVID pandemic, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Israel’s largest medical center, Sheba Medical Center, are launching a scientific collaboration aimed at identifying emerging disease threats in the region. One of the first projects planned will be a study examining the impacts on antibody defenses amongst travelers from […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General: Hopes COVID Global Health Emergency Can Be Declared Over in 2023 14/12/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher There are emerging hopes that sometime in 2023, WHO can declare that the COVID-19 global health emergency is over, said WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a pre-holiday press briefing on Wednesday. Meanwhile, however, the world continues to invest some $2 trillion in wars and “killing each other” – but not nearly […] Continue reading -> Ukrainian MP Warns of Rise in Illness, Death from Impending War-Winter Combination 09/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A four-year-old asthmatic girl from Ukraine was forced to relocate to a gas station earlier this week where she could connect her ventilator, after a Russian missile attack cut off her city’s electricity supply, leaving her without any other means of receiving life-saving oxygen. Pictures of her frightened, frozen eyes made social media. But according […] Continue reading -> ‘Multilateralism’ Essential in Battle Against Pandemics, Says President of Portuguese Parliament 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The battle against pandemics can only be won through multilateralism, according to Augusto Santos Silva, president of the Portuguese parliament. During a keynote address at the UNITE Global Summit on Tuesday, Silva stressed that “viruses and bacteria know no borders. They do not have to show passports and they are not subject to border control. […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Chief Fires Back in Clash with Russia 04/02/2023 John Heilprin The Russian delegation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB) called the report on the work of the UN health agency’s response to the Ukraine war “politicised,” prompting a spirited defense from the agency chief. Russia pressured the UN health agency to revise a report related to its emergency response in Ukraine, prompting […] Continue reading -> WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> UN Rallies Support for Pakistan Flood Reconstruction Efforts 09/01/2023 Stefan Anderson World leaders, representatives of international development and humanitarian organizations, and UN delegations gathered in Geneva on Monday to rally financial support for Pakistan’s recovery from the devastating floods that hammered the country last year. Pakistan has appealed for $16.3 billion to assist it to rebuild the country, and almost half this amount had been pledged […] Continue reading -> US National Institutes of Health and Israel To Kick-off Joint Research Into Regional Emerging Disease Threats 05/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman In the wake of the COVID pandemic, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Israel’s largest medical center, Sheba Medical Center, are launching a scientific collaboration aimed at identifying emerging disease threats in the region. One of the first projects planned will be a study examining the impacts on antibody defenses amongst travelers from […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General: Hopes COVID Global Health Emergency Can Be Declared Over in 2023 14/12/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher There are emerging hopes that sometime in 2023, WHO can declare that the COVID-19 global health emergency is over, said WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a pre-holiday press briefing on Wednesday. Meanwhile, however, the world continues to invest some $2 trillion in wars and “killing each other” – but not nearly […] Continue reading -> Ukrainian MP Warns of Rise in Illness, Death from Impending War-Winter Combination 09/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A four-year-old asthmatic girl from Ukraine was forced to relocate to a gas station earlier this week where she could connect her ventilator, after a Russian missile attack cut off her city’s electricity supply, leaving her without any other means of receiving life-saving oxygen. Pictures of her frightened, frozen eyes made social media. But according […] Continue reading -> ‘Multilateralism’ Essential in Battle Against Pandemics, Says President of Portuguese Parliament 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The battle against pandemics can only be won through multilateralism, according to Augusto Santos Silva, president of the Portuguese parliament. During a keynote address at the UNITE Global Summit on Tuesday, Silva stressed that “viruses and bacteria know no borders. They do not have to show passports and they are not subject to border control. […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO to Decide on Including Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023 03/02/2023 Stefan Anderson Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Mulikat Okanlawan embarked on a 1000-kilometer journey from her home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to the Northwestern city of Sokoto in a bid to change her life. She is a survivor of noma, a little-known bacterial disease that attacks cells in facial tissue and bones. On paper, Okanlawan had […] Continue reading -> UN Rallies Support for Pakistan Flood Reconstruction Efforts 09/01/2023 Stefan Anderson World leaders, representatives of international development and humanitarian organizations, and UN delegations gathered in Geneva on Monday to rally financial support for Pakistan’s recovery from the devastating floods that hammered the country last year. Pakistan has appealed for $16.3 billion to assist it to rebuild the country, and almost half this amount had been pledged […] Continue reading -> US National Institutes of Health and Israel To Kick-off Joint Research Into Regional Emerging Disease Threats 05/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman In the wake of the COVID pandemic, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Israel’s largest medical center, Sheba Medical Center, are launching a scientific collaboration aimed at identifying emerging disease threats in the region. One of the first projects planned will be a study examining the impacts on antibody defenses amongst travelers from […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General: Hopes COVID Global Health Emergency Can Be Declared Over in 2023 14/12/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher There are emerging hopes that sometime in 2023, WHO can declare that the COVID-19 global health emergency is over, said WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a pre-holiday press briefing on Wednesday. Meanwhile, however, the world continues to invest some $2 trillion in wars and “killing each other” – but not nearly […] Continue reading -> Ukrainian MP Warns of Rise in Illness, Death from Impending War-Winter Combination 09/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A four-year-old asthmatic girl from Ukraine was forced to relocate to a gas station earlier this week where she could connect her ventilator, after a Russian missile attack cut off her city’s electricity supply, leaving her without any other means of receiving life-saving oxygen. Pictures of her frightened, frozen eyes made social media. But according […] Continue reading -> ‘Multilateralism’ Essential in Battle Against Pandemics, Says President of Portuguese Parliament 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The battle against pandemics can only be won through multilateralism, according to Augusto Santos Silva, president of the Portuguese parliament. During a keynote address at the UNITE Global Summit on Tuesday, Silva stressed that “viruses and bacteria know no borders. They do not have to show passports and they are not subject to border control. […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
UN Rallies Support for Pakistan Flood Reconstruction Efforts 09/01/2023 Stefan Anderson World leaders, representatives of international development and humanitarian organizations, and UN delegations gathered in Geneva on Monday to rally financial support for Pakistan’s recovery from the devastating floods that hammered the country last year. Pakistan has appealed for $16.3 billion to assist it to rebuild the country, and almost half this amount had been pledged […] Continue reading -> US National Institutes of Health and Israel To Kick-off Joint Research Into Regional Emerging Disease Threats 05/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman In the wake of the COVID pandemic, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Israel’s largest medical center, Sheba Medical Center, are launching a scientific collaboration aimed at identifying emerging disease threats in the region. One of the first projects planned will be a study examining the impacts on antibody defenses amongst travelers from […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General: Hopes COVID Global Health Emergency Can Be Declared Over in 2023 14/12/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher There are emerging hopes that sometime in 2023, WHO can declare that the COVID-19 global health emergency is over, said WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a pre-holiday press briefing on Wednesday. Meanwhile, however, the world continues to invest some $2 trillion in wars and “killing each other” – but not nearly […] Continue reading -> Ukrainian MP Warns of Rise in Illness, Death from Impending War-Winter Combination 09/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A four-year-old asthmatic girl from Ukraine was forced to relocate to a gas station earlier this week where she could connect her ventilator, after a Russian missile attack cut off her city’s electricity supply, leaving her without any other means of receiving life-saving oxygen. Pictures of her frightened, frozen eyes made social media. But according […] Continue reading -> ‘Multilateralism’ Essential in Battle Against Pandemics, Says President of Portuguese Parliament 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The battle against pandemics can only be won through multilateralism, according to Augusto Santos Silva, president of the Portuguese parliament. During a keynote address at the UNITE Global Summit on Tuesday, Silva stressed that “viruses and bacteria know no borders. They do not have to show passports and they are not subject to border control. […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
US National Institutes of Health and Israel To Kick-off Joint Research Into Regional Emerging Disease Threats 05/01/2023 Maayan Hoffman In the wake of the COVID pandemic, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Israel’s largest medical center, Sheba Medical Center, are launching a scientific collaboration aimed at identifying emerging disease threats in the region. One of the first projects planned will be a study examining the impacts on antibody defenses amongst travelers from […] Continue reading -> WHO Director General: Hopes COVID Global Health Emergency Can Be Declared Over in 2023 14/12/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher There are emerging hopes that sometime in 2023, WHO can declare that the COVID-19 global health emergency is over, said WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a pre-holiday press briefing on Wednesday. Meanwhile, however, the world continues to invest some $2 trillion in wars and “killing each other” – but not nearly […] Continue reading -> Ukrainian MP Warns of Rise in Illness, Death from Impending War-Winter Combination 09/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A four-year-old asthmatic girl from Ukraine was forced to relocate to a gas station earlier this week where she could connect her ventilator, after a Russian missile attack cut off her city’s electricity supply, leaving her without any other means of receiving life-saving oxygen. Pictures of her frightened, frozen eyes made social media. But according […] Continue reading -> ‘Multilateralism’ Essential in Battle Against Pandemics, Says President of Portuguese Parliament 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The battle against pandemics can only be won through multilateralism, according to Augusto Santos Silva, president of the Portuguese parliament. During a keynote address at the UNITE Global Summit on Tuesday, Silva stressed that “viruses and bacteria know no borders. They do not have to show passports and they are not subject to border control. […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Director General: Hopes COVID Global Health Emergency Can Be Declared Over in 2023 14/12/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher There are emerging hopes that sometime in 2023, WHO can declare that the COVID-19 global health emergency is over, said WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a pre-holiday press briefing on Wednesday. Meanwhile, however, the world continues to invest some $2 trillion in wars and “killing each other” – but not nearly […] Continue reading -> Ukrainian MP Warns of Rise in Illness, Death from Impending War-Winter Combination 09/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A four-year-old asthmatic girl from Ukraine was forced to relocate to a gas station earlier this week where she could connect her ventilator, after a Russian missile attack cut off her city’s electricity supply, leaving her without any other means of receiving life-saving oxygen. Pictures of her frightened, frozen eyes made social media. But according […] Continue reading -> ‘Multilateralism’ Essential in Battle Against Pandemics, Says President of Portuguese Parliament 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The battle against pandemics can only be won through multilateralism, according to Augusto Santos Silva, president of the Portuguese parliament. During a keynote address at the UNITE Global Summit on Tuesday, Silva stressed that “viruses and bacteria know no borders. They do not have to show passports and they are not subject to border control. […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Ukrainian MP Warns of Rise in Illness, Death from Impending War-Winter Combination 09/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A four-year-old asthmatic girl from Ukraine was forced to relocate to a gas station earlier this week where she could connect her ventilator, after a Russian missile attack cut off her city’s electricity supply, leaving her without any other means of receiving life-saving oxygen. Pictures of her frightened, frozen eyes made social media. But according […] Continue reading -> ‘Multilateralism’ Essential in Battle Against Pandemics, Says President of Portuguese Parliament 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The battle against pandemics can only be won through multilateralism, according to Augusto Santos Silva, president of the Portuguese parliament. During a keynote address at the UNITE Global Summit on Tuesday, Silva stressed that “viruses and bacteria know no borders. They do not have to show passports and they are not subject to border control. […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘Multilateralism’ Essential in Battle Against Pandemics, Says President of Portuguese Parliament 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The battle against pandemics can only be won through multilateralism, according to Augusto Santos Silva, president of the Portuguese parliament. During a keynote address at the UNITE Global Summit on Tuesday, Silva stressed that “viruses and bacteria know no borders. They do not have to show passports and they are not subject to border control. […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts