WHO is establishing technical advisory group and roster of experts on digital health 10/05/2019 Editorial team [WHO News Release] WHO is establishing a global multi-disciplinary technical group to advise us on issues related to digital health. Continue reading -> WHA 2019 Top Issues: Budget, UHC, Access To Medicines, Emergencies, Environment 09/05/2019 William New This year’s World Health Assembly will provide perhaps the best measure to date of the World Health Organization director-general’s policies since taking office nearly two years ago. But it will also reflect changing times for country relationships and for the state of global health. Image Credits: Photo: WHO/Antoine Tardy, WHO/Antoine Tardy, WHO, WHO/J. D. Kannah. Continue reading -> Global Fund Panel Stresses Strengthening Health Systems, Community Engagement Vital To Delivering UHC 08/05/2019 Divya Schlesinger Stamping out HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria can play a major role in helping to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), said a high-level panel of leaders and supporters of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, convened yesterday in the lead-up to the World Health Assembly later this month. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Loss Of Biodiversity In Nature: “A Truly Global, Generational Threat To Human Well-Being” 07/05/2019 David Branigan Loss of biodiversity around the world is happening at an unprecedented rate, damaging ecosystems and threatening grave impacts to human well-being, a new landmark report warns. But it’s not too late to make a difference, it says, through transformative, system-wide change across technological, economic and social factors. Image Credits: IPBES/Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, IPBES. Continue reading -> New Polio Eradication Strategy Faces Challenges Of “Missing Children” Due To Geographic Isolation, Migration, Insecurity 03/05/2019 David Branigan The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) this week launched its new five-year strategy that aims to overcome final hurdles in eradicating polio transmission. However, remaining pockets of transmission in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria pose challenges of geographic isolation, migration and insecurity, leading to “missing children” in polio vaccination efforts. Image Credits: Jean-Marc Giboux, GPEI. Continue reading -> World Health Assembly Agenda, Technical Briefings, Side Events – Online Links To The Big Moments Ahead 03/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first “World Health Assembly Journal” for the upcoming World Health Assembly, 20-28 May, has been published online, together with the provisional agenda for the 72nd WHA and links to some 50 progress reports, strategy plans and updates that will shape the face of the meeting between WHO’s 194 member states. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Human Rights, Inclusiveness – Key Themes At UN Multi-Stakeholder Meeting On UHC 30/04/2019 David Branigan New York – Strengthening references to sexual and reproductive health and rights, marginalised people, and public-private partnerships that ensure rights and inclusion, were among the core proposals pitched yesterday at a United Nations multi-stakeholder meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), involving representatives of government, UN agencies, civil society and the private sector. The milestone meeting […] Continue reading -> “No Time To Wait” – AMR Could Cause 10 Million Deaths Annually By 2050, Warns UN Report 29/04/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Deaths from infections resistant to common antibiotics, antivirals and anti-parasitic drugs could increase more than ten-fold to 10 million deaths annually by 2050, warns a ground-breaking United Nations report released today. Image Credits: WHO/Quinn Mattingly, UN. Continue reading -> New Study Maps Vaccine Coverage Disparities, Helps Explain Why Targets Are Being Missed 26/04/2019 Maina Waruru Child vaccination targets of at least 80 percent coverage in low- and middle-income countries, are regularly being missed. To better understand why this is happening, a new study created high resolution maps of vaccine coverage to identify disparities within countries and to inform effective strategies to increase coverage and access. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Stepping Up The Fight Against Severe Malaria In Zambia: An Innovative Approach Scales Up 25/04/2019 David Branigan As leaders from across the globe met in Paris today to renew commitments against malaria on World Malaria Day, a Geneva-based group announced the scale-up of a project in rural Zambia that reduced severe malaria fatality by 96 percent. The innovative project administers life-saving drugs to children with malaria in rural communities, and provides immediate […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHA 2019 Top Issues: Budget, UHC, Access To Medicines, Emergencies, Environment 09/05/2019 William New This year’s World Health Assembly will provide perhaps the best measure to date of the World Health Organization director-general’s policies since taking office nearly two years ago. But it will also reflect changing times for country relationships and for the state of global health. Image Credits: Photo: WHO/Antoine Tardy, WHO/Antoine Tardy, WHO, WHO/J. D. Kannah. Continue reading -> Global Fund Panel Stresses Strengthening Health Systems, Community Engagement Vital To Delivering UHC 08/05/2019 Divya Schlesinger Stamping out HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria can play a major role in helping to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), said a high-level panel of leaders and supporters of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, convened yesterday in the lead-up to the World Health Assembly later this month. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Loss Of Biodiversity In Nature: “A Truly Global, Generational Threat To Human Well-Being” 07/05/2019 David Branigan Loss of biodiversity around the world is happening at an unprecedented rate, damaging ecosystems and threatening grave impacts to human well-being, a new landmark report warns. But it’s not too late to make a difference, it says, through transformative, system-wide change across technological, economic and social factors. Image Credits: IPBES/Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, IPBES. Continue reading -> New Polio Eradication Strategy Faces Challenges Of “Missing Children” Due To Geographic Isolation, Migration, Insecurity 03/05/2019 David Branigan The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) this week launched its new five-year strategy that aims to overcome final hurdles in eradicating polio transmission. However, remaining pockets of transmission in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria pose challenges of geographic isolation, migration and insecurity, leading to “missing children” in polio vaccination efforts. Image Credits: Jean-Marc Giboux, GPEI. Continue reading -> World Health Assembly Agenda, Technical Briefings, Side Events – Online Links To The Big Moments Ahead 03/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first “World Health Assembly Journal” for the upcoming World Health Assembly, 20-28 May, has been published online, together with the provisional agenda for the 72nd WHA and links to some 50 progress reports, strategy plans and updates that will shape the face of the meeting between WHO’s 194 member states. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Human Rights, Inclusiveness – Key Themes At UN Multi-Stakeholder Meeting On UHC 30/04/2019 David Branigan New York – Strengthening references to sexual and reproductive health and rights, marginalised people, and public-private partnerships that ensure rights and inclusion, were among the core proposals pitched yesterday at a United Nations multi-stakeholder meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), involving representatives of government, UN agencies, civil society and the private sector. The milestone meeting […] Continue reading -> “No Time To Wait” – AMR Could Cause 10 Million Deaths Annually By 2050, Warns UN Report 29/04/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Deaths from infections resistant to common antibiotics, antivirals and anti-parasitic drugs could increase more than ten-fold to 10 million deaths annually by 2050, warns a ground-breaking United Nations report released today. Image Credits: WHO/Quinn Mattingly, UN. Continue reading -> New Study Maps Vaccine Coverage Disparities, Helps Explain Why Targets Are Being Missed 26/04/2019 Maina Waruru Child vaccination targets of at least 80 percent coverage in low- and middle-income countries, are regularly being missed. To better understand why this is happening, a new study created high resolution maps of vaccine coverage to identify disparities within countries and to inform effective strategies to increase coverage and access. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Stepping Up The Fight Against Severe Malaria In Zambia: An Innovative Approach Scales Up 25/04/2019 David Branigan As leaders from across the globe met in Paris today to renew commitments against malaria on World Malaria Day, a Geneva-based group announced the scale-up of a project in rural Zambia that reduced severe malaria fatality by 96 percent. The innovative project administers life-saving drugs to children with malaria in rural communities, and provides immediate […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Global Fund Panel Stresses Strengthening Health Systems, Community Engagement Vital To Delivering UHC 08/05/2019 Divya Schlesinger Stamping out HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria can play a major role in helping to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), said a high-level panel of leaders and supporters of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, convened yesterday in the lead-up to the World Health Assembly later this month. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Loss Of Biodiversity In Nature: “A Truly Global, Generational Threat To Human Well-Being” 07/05/2019 David Branigan Loss of biodiversity around the world is happening at an unprecedented rate, damaging ecosystems and threatening grave impacts to human well-being, a new landmark report warns. But it’s not too late to make a difference, it says, through transformative, system-wide change across technological, economic and social factors. Image Credits: IPBES/Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, IPBES. Continue reading -> New Polio Eradication Strategy Faces Challenges Of “Missing Children” Due To Geographic Isolation, Migration, Insecurity 03/05/2019 David Branigan The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) this week launched its new five-year strategy that aims to overcome final hurdles in eradicating polio transmission. However, remaining pockets of transmission in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria pose challenges of geographic isolation, migration and insecurity, leading to “missing children” in polio vaccination efforts. Image Credits: Jean-Marc Giboux, GPEI. Continue reading -> World Health Assembly Agenda, Technical Briefings, Side Events – Online Links To The Big Moments Ahead 03/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first “World Health Assembly Journal” for the upcoming World Health Assembly, 20-28 May, has been published online, together with the provisional agenda for the 72nd WHA and links to some 50 progress reports, strategy plans and updates that will shape the face of the meeting between WHO’s 194 member states. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Human Rights, Inclusiveness – Key Themes At UN Multi-Stakeholder Meeting On UHC 30/04/2019 David Branigan New York – Strengthening references to sexual and reproductive health and rights, marginalised people, and public-private partnerships that ensure rights and inclusion, were among the core proposals pitched yesterday at a United Nations multi-stakeholder meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), involving representatives of government, UN agencies, civil society and the private sector. The milestone meeting […] Continue reading -> “No Time To Wait” – AMR Could Cause 10 Million Deaths Annually By 2050, Warns UN Report 29/04/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Deaths from infections resistant to common antibiotics, antivirals and anti-parasitic drugs could increase more than ten-fold to 10 million deaths annually by 2050, warns a ground-breaking United Nations report released today. Image Credits: WHO/Quinn Mattingly, UN. Continue reading -> New Study Maps Vaccine Coverage Disparities, Helps Explain Why Targets Are Being Missed 26/04/2019 Maina Waruru Child vaccination targets of at least 80 percent coverage in low- and middle-income countries, are regularly being missed. To better understand why this is happening, a new study created high resolution maps of vaccine coverage to identify disparities within countries and to inform effective strategies to increase coverage and access. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Stepping Up The Fight Against Severe Malaria In Zambia: An Innovative Approach Scales Up 25/04/2019 David Branigan As leaders from across the globe met in Paris today to renew commitments against malaria on World Malaria Day, a Geneva-based group announced the scale-up of a project in rural Zambia that reduced severe malaria fatality by 96 percent. The innovative project administers life-saving drugs to children with malaria in rural communities, and provides immediate […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Loss Of Biodiversity In Nature: “A Truly Global, Generational Threat To Human Well-Being” 07/05/2019 David Branigan Loss of biodiversity around the world is happening at an unprecedented rate, damaging ecosystems and threatening grave impacts to human well-being, a new landmark report warns. But it’s not too late to make a difference, it says, through transformative, system-wide change across technological, economic and social factors. Image Credits: IPBES/Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, IPBES. Continue reading -> New Polio Eradication Strategy Faces Challenges Of “Missing Children” Due To Geographic Isolation, Migration, Insecurity 03/05/2019 David Branigan The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) this week launched its new five-year strategy that aims to overcome final hurdles in eradicating polio transmission. However, remaining pockets of transmission in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria pose challenges of geographic isolation, migration and insecurity, leading to “missing children” in polio vaccination efforts. Image Credits: Jean-Marc Giboux, GPEI. Continue reading -> World Health Assembly Agenda, Technical Briefings, Side Events – Online Links To The Big Moments Ahead 03/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first “World Health Assembly Journal” for the upcoming World Health Assembly, 20-28 May, has been published online, together with the provisional agenda for the 72nd WHA and links to some 50 progress reports, strategy plans and updates that will shape the face of the meeting between WHO’s 194 member states. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Human Rights, Inclusiveness – Key Themes At UN Multi-Stakeholder Meeting On UHC 30/04/2019 David Branigan New York – Strengthening references to sexual and reproductive health and rights, marginalised people, and public-private partnerships that ensure rights and inclusion, were among the core proposals pitched yesterday at a United Nations multi-stakeholder meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), involving representatives of government, UN agencies, civil society and the private sector. The milestone meeting […] Continue reading -> “No Time To Wait” – AMR Could Cause 10 Million Deaths Annually By 2050, Warns UN Report 29/04/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Deaths from infections resistant to common antibiotics, antivirals and anti-parasitic drugs could increase more than ten-fold to 10 million deaths annually by 2050, warns a ground-breaking United Nations report released today. Image Credits: WHO/Quinn Mattingly, UN. Continue reading -> New Study Maps Vaccine Coverage Disparities, Helps Explain Why Targets Are Being Missed 26/04/2019 Maina Waruru Child vaccination targets of at least 80 percent coverage in low- and middle-income countries, are regularly being missed. To better understand why this is happening, a new study created high resolution maps of vaccine coverage to identify disparities within countries and to inform effective strategies to increase coverage and access. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Stepping Up The Fight Against Severe Malaria In Zambia: An Innovative Approach Scales Up 25/04/2019 David Branigan As leaders from across the globe met in Paris today to renew commitments against malaria on World Malaria Day, a Geneva-based group announced the scale-up of a project in rural Zambia that reduced severe malaria fatality by 96 percent. The innovative project administers life-saving drugs to children with malaria in rural communities, and provides immediate […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
New Polio Eradication Strategy Faces Challenges Of “Missing Children” Due To Geographic Isolation, Migration, Insecurity 03/05/2019 David Branigan The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) this week launched its new five-year strategy that aims to overcome final hurdles in eradicating polio transmission. However, remaining pockets of transmission in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria pose challenges of geographic isolation, migration and insecurity, leading to “missing children” in polio vaccination efforts. Image Credits: Jean-Marc Giboux, GPEI. Continue reading -> World Health Assembly Agenda, Technical Briefings, Side Events – Online Links To The Big Moments Ahead 03/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first “World Health Assembly Journal” for the upcoming World Health Assembly, 20-28 May, has been published online, together with the provisional agenda for the 72nd WHA and links to some 50 progress reports, strategy plans and updates that will shape the face of the meeting between WHO’s 194 member states. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Human Rights, Inclusiveness – Key Themes At UN Multi-Stakeholder Meeting On UHC 30/04/2019 David Branigan New York – Strengthening references to sexual and reproductive health and rights, marginalised people, and public-private partnerships that ensure rights and inclusion, were among the core proposals pitched yesterday at a United Nations multi-stakeholder meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), involving representatives of government, UN agencies, civil society and the private sector. The milestone meeting […] Continue reading -> “No Time To Wait” – AMR Could Cause 10 Million Deaths Annually By 2050, Warns UN Report 29/04/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Deaths from infections resistant to common antibiotics, antivirals and anti-parasitic drugs could increase more than ten-fold to 10 million deaths annually by 2050, warns a ground-breaking United Nations report released today. Image Credits: WHO/Quinn Mattingly, UN. Continue reading -> New Study Maps Vaccine Coverage Disparities, Helps Explain Why Targets Are Being Missed 26/04/2019 Maina Waruru Child vaccination targets of at least 80 percent coverage in low- and middle-income countries, are regularly being missed. To better understand why this is happening, a new study created high resolution maps of vaccine coverage to identify disparities within countries and to inform effective strategies to increase coverage and access. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Stepping Up The Fight Against Severe Malaria In Zambia: An Innovative Approach Scales Up 25/04/2019 David Branigan As leaders from across the globe met in Paris today to renew commitments against malaria on World Malaria Day, a Geneva-based group announced the scale-up of a project in rural Zambia that reduced severe malaria fatality by 96 percent. The innovative project administers life-saving drugs to children with malaria in rural communities, and provides immediate […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
World Health Assembly Agenda, Technical Briefings, Side Events – Online Links To The Big Moments Ahead 03/05/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first “World Health Assembly Journal” for the upcoming World Health Assembly, 20-28 May, has been published online, together with the provisional agenda for the 72nd WHA and links to some 50 progress reports, strategy plans and updates that will shape the face of the meeting between WHO’s 194 member states. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Human Rights, Inclusiveness – Key Themes At UN Multi-Stakeholder Meeting On UHC 30/04/2019 David Branigan New York – Strengthening references to sexual and reproductive health and rights, marginalised people, and public-private partnerships that ensure rights and inclusion, were among the core proposals pitched yesterday at a United Nations multi-stakeholder meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), involving representatives of government, UN agencies, civil society and the private sector. The milestone meeting […] Continue reading -> “No Time To Wait” – AMR Could Cause 10 Million Deaths Annually By 2050, Warns UN Report 29/04/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Deaths from infections resistant to common antibiotics, antivirals and anti-parasitic drugs could increase more than ten-fold to 10 million deaths annually by 2050, warns a ground-breaking United Nations report released today. Image Credits: WHO/Quinn Mattingly, UN. Continue reading -> New Study Maps Vaccine Coverage Disparities, Helps Explain Why Targets Are Being Missed 26/04/2019 Maina Waruru Child vaccination targets of at least 80 percent coverage in low- and middle-income countries, are regularly being missed. To better understand why this is happening, a new study created high resolution maps of vaccine coverage to identify disparities within countries and to inform effective strategies to increase coverage and access. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Stepping Up The Fight Against Severe Malaria In Zambia: An Innovative Approach Scales Up 25/04/2019 David Branigan As leaders from across the globe met in Paris today to renew commitments against malaria on World Malaria Day, a Geneva-based group announced the scale-up of a project in rural Zambia that reduced severe malaria fatality by 96 percent. The innovative project administers life-saving drugs to children with malaria in rural communities, and provides immediate […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Human Rights, Inclusiveness – Key Themes At UN Multi-Stakeholder Meeting On UHC 30/04/2019 David Branigan New York – Strengthening references to sexual and reproductive health and rights, marginalised people, and public-private partnerships that ensure rights and inclusion, were among the core proposals pitched yesterday at a United Nations multi-stakeholder meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), involving representatives of government, UN agencies, civil society and the private sector. The milestone meeting […] Continue reading -> “No Time To Wait” – AMR Could Cause 10 Million Deaths Annually By 2050, Warns UN Report 29/04/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Deaths from infections resistant to common antibiotics, antivirals and anti-parasitic drugs could increase more than ten-fold to 10 million deaths annually by 2050, warns a ground-breaking United Nations report released today. Image Credits: WHO/Quinn Mattingly, UN. Continue reading -> New Study Maps Vaccine Coverage Disparities, Helps Explain Why Targets Are Being Missed 26/04/2019 Maina Waruru Child vaccination targets of at least 80 percent coverage in low- and middle-income countries, are regularly being missed. To better understand why this is happening, a new study created high resolution maps of vaccine coverage to identify disparities within countries and to inform effective strategies to increase coverage and access. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Stepping Up The Fight Against Severe Malaria In Zambia: An Innovative Approach Scales Up 25/04/2019 David Branigan As leaders from across the globe met in Paris today to renew commitments against malaria on World Malaria Day, a Geneva-based group announced the scale-up of a project in rural Zambia that reduced severe malaria fatality by 96 percent. The innovative project administers life-saving drugs to children with malaria in rural communities, and provides immediate […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
“No Time To Wait” – AMR Could Cause 10 Million Deaths Annually By 2050, Warns UN Report 29/04/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Deaths from infections resistant to common antibiotics, antivirals and anti-parasitic drugs could increase more than ten-fold to 10 million deaths annually by 2050, warns a ground-breaking United Nations report released today. Image Credits: WHO/Quinn Mattingly, UN. Continue reading -> New Study Maps Vaccine Coverage Disparities, Helps Explain Why Targets Are Being Missed 26/04/2019 Maina Waruru Child vaccination targets of at least 80 percent coverage in low- and middle-income countries, are regularly being missed. To better understand why this is happening, a new study created high resolution maps of vaccine coverage to identify disparities within countries and to inform effective strategies to increase coverage and access. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Stepping Up The Fight Against Severe Malaria In Zambia: An Innovative Approach Scales Up 25/04/2019 David Branigan As leaders from across the globe met in Paris today to renew commitments against malaria on World Malaria Day, a Geneva-based group announced the scale-up of a project in rural Zambia that reduced severe malaria fatality by 96 percent. The innovative project administers life-saving drugs to children with malaria in rural communities, and provides immediate […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
New Study Maps Vaccine Coverage Disparities, Helps Explain Why Targets Are Being Missed 26/04/2019 Maina Waruru Child vaccination targets of at least 80 percent coverage in low- and middle-income countries, are regularly being missed. To better understand why this is happening, a new study created high resolution maps of vaccine coverage to identify disparities within countries and to inform effective strategies to increase coverage and access. Image Credits: WHO. Continue reading -> Stepping Up The Fight Against Severe Malaria In Zambia: An Innovative Approach Scales Up 25/04/2019 David Branigan As leaders from across the globe met in Paris today to renew commitments against malaria on World Malaria Day, a Geneva-based group announced the scale-up of a project in rural Zambia that reduced severe malaria fatality by 96 percent. The innovative project administers life-saving drugs to children with malaria in rural communities, and provides immediate […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Stepping Up The Fight Against Severe Malaria In Zambia: An Innovative Approach Scales Up 25/04/2019 David Branigan As leaders from across the globe met in Paris today to renew commitments against malaria on World Malaria Day, a Geneva-based group announced the scale-up of a project in rural Zambia that reduced severe malaria fatality by 96 percent. The innovative project administers life-saving drugs to children with malaria in rural communities, and provides immediate […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts