New Study Suggests Male Circumcision Curbs HIV Among MSM – Calls For Policy Action 22/03/2019 David Branigan The largest and most comprehensive study to date of the HIV prevention benefits of male circumcision for men who have sex with men (MSM) found that circumcision reduced the odds of HIV infection among this group by 42 percent in low- and middle-income countries, and overall by 23 percent. Image Credits: Avert/Gil Eilam/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Continue reading -> UNAIDS Reports Mixed Progress Towards Reaching The 2020 Target Of Reducing TB Deaths Among People Living With HIV By 75% 22/03/2019 Editorial team [Press Release by UNAIDS] Five countries met the target three years ahead of the 2020 deadline and 18 more are on track; however, most countries are lagging behind and risk missing the target completely. UNAIDS urges countries to step up action. GENEVA, 22 March 2019—Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day, on 24 March 2019, UNAIDS […] Continue reading -> WHO Stakeholders Meet To Establish A “Different Approach” For Post-2020 Vaccine Strategy 21/03/2019 David Branigan The World Health Organization and global partners wrapped up a meeting today to develop a vision and strategy prototype for the post-2020 decade of action on vaccines and immunizations. This new plan of action for 2021-2030 will take a different approach that is more “bottom up” and collaborative in engaging countries and other stakeholders to […] Continue reading -> New WHO Recommendations To Accelerate Progress On TB 20/03/2019 Editorial team [WHO Press Release] WHO has issued new guidance to improve treatment of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB). WHO is recommending shifting to fully oral regimens to treat people with MDR-TB. This new treatment course is more effective and is less likely to provoke adverse side effects. WHO recommends backing up treatment with active monitoring of drug safety and […] Continue reading -> Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation, Are ‘Basic Human Rights’: New UN Water Development Report 20/03/2019 Editorial team [By UN News] Safe water and access to proper sanitation are essential to eradicate poverty, build peaceful societies and ensure that no one is left behind on the path towards sustainable development, according to the 2019 UN World Water Development Report, launched on Tuesday in Geneva. Image Credits: UN Environment/ Hannah McNeish. Continue reading -> New Study Finds Better Sewage Management Critical To Combatting AMR 18/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Bacteria and other pathogens that are resistant to common anti-microbial medications appear to be most abundant in Africa, as well as parts of South-East Asia and other developing regions with a poor record of sewage and sanitation management, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. Continue reading -> “Is Sugar the New Tobacco?” BMJ Study Explores Tobacco’s Role In Marketing Children’s Sugary Drinks 15/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Tobacco industry giants built some of the leading sugary drink brands that have been marketed to children over the past 50 years, reveals a major study published in The BMJ yesterday. Image Credits: The BMJ. Continue reading -> DNDi-led Study Finds Safer, Shorter Treatment For Debilitating Chagas Disease 15/03/2019 Divya Schlesinger Severe side effects make the current course of prolonged drug treatment difficult for many patients with Chagas disease, but a Phase II clinical trial in Bolivia may have found an alternative treatment that is both quicker and significantly safer. Image Credits: Ana Ferreira/DNDi. Continue reading -> Landmark International Guidelines Launched On Human Rights, Drug Policy 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UNAIDS and UNDP in a press release: VIENNA/GENEVA, 15 March 2019—A coalition of United Nations Member States, United Nations entities and leading human rights experts meeting at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria, today launched a landmark set of international legal standards to transform and reshape global responses to the world drug […] Continue reading -> China To Host World Environment Day 2019 On Air Pollution 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UN Environment in a World Environment Day press release: Nairobi, 15 March 2019 – Today, the head of Chinese delegation, Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Joyce Msuya, Acting Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that China will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2019 with a theme […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
UNAIDS Reports Mixed Progress Towards Reaching The 2020 Target Of Reducing TB Deaths Among People Living With HIV By 75% 22/03/2019 Editorial team [Press Release by UNAIDS] Five countries met the target three years ahead of the 2020 deadline and 18 more are on track; however, most countries are lagging behind and risk missing the target completely. UNAIDS urges countries to step up action. GENEVA, 22 March 2019—Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day, on 24 March 2019, UNAIDS […] Continue reading -> WHO Stakeholders Meet To Establish A “Different Approach” For Post-2020 Vaccine Strategy 21/03/2019 David Branigan The World Health Organization and global partners wrapped up a meeting today to develop a vision and strategy prototype for the post-2020 decade of action on vaccines and immunizations. This new plan of action for 2021-2030 will take a different approach that is more “bottom up” and collaborative in engaging countries and other stakeholders to […] Continue reading -> New WHO Recommendations To Accelerate Progress On TB 20/03/2019 Editorial team [WHO Press Release] WHO has issued new guidance to improve treatment of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB). WHO is recommending shifting to fully oral regimens to treat people with MDR-TB. This new treatment course is more effective and is less likely to provoke adverse side effects. WHO recommends backing up treatment with active monitoring of drug safety and […] Continue reading -> Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation, Are ‘Basic Human Rights’: New UN Water Development Report 20/03/2019 Editorial team [By UN News] Safe water and access to proper sanitation are essential to eradicate poverty, build peaceful societies and ensure that no one is left behind on the path towards sustainable development, according to the 2019 UN World Water Development Report, launched on Tuesday in Geneva. Image Credits: UN Environment/ Hannah McNeish. Continue reading -> New Study Finds Better Sewage Management Critical To Combatting AMR 18/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Bacteria and other pathogens that are resistant to common anti-microbial medications appear to be most abundant in Africa, as well as parts of South-East Asia and other developing regions with a poor record of sewage and sanitation management, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. Continue reading -> “Is Sugar the New Tobacco?” BMJ Study Explores Tobacco’s Role In Marketing Children’s Sugary Drinks 15/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Tobacco industry giants built some of the leading sugary drink brands that have been marketed to children over the past 50 years, reveals a major study published in The BMJ yesterday. Image Credits: The BMJ. Continue reading -> DNDi-led Study Finds Safer, Shorter Treatment For Debilitating Chagas Disease 15/03/2019 Divya Schlesinger Severe side effects make the current course of prolonged drug treatment difficult for many patients with Chagas disease, but a Phase II clinical trial in Bolivia may have found an alternative treatment that is both quicker and significantly safer. Image Credits: Ana Ferreira/DNDi. Continue reading -> Landmark International Guidelines Launched On Human Rights, Drug Policy 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UNAIDS and UNDP in a press release: VIENNA/GENEVA, 15 March 2019—A coalition of United Nations Member States, United Nations entities and leading human rights experts meeting at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria, today launched a landmark set of international legal standards to transform and reshape global responses to the world drug […] Continue reading -> China To Host World Environment Day 2019 On Air Pollution 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UN Environment in a World Environment Day press release: Nairobi, 15 March 2019 – Today, the head of Chinese delegation, Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Joyce Msuya, Acting Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that China will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2019 with a theme […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Stakeholders Meet To Establish A “Different Approach” For Post-2020 Vaccine Strategy 21/03/2019 David Branigan The World Health Organization and global partners wrapped up a meeting today to develop a vision and strategy prototype for the post-2020 decade of action on vaccines and immunizations. This new plan of action for 2021-2030 will take a different approach that is more “bottom up” and collaborative in engaging countries and other stakeholders to […] Continue reading -> New WHO Recommendations To Accelerate Progress On TB 20/03/2019 Editorial team [WHO Press Release] WHO has issued new guidance to improve treatment of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB). WHO is recommending shifting to fully oral regimens to treat people with MDR-TB. This new treatment course is more effective and is less likely to provoke adverse side effects. WHO recommends backing up treatment with active monitoring of drug safety and […] Continue reading -> Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation, Are ‘Basic Human Rights’: New UN Water Development Report 20/03/2019 Editorial team [By UN News] Safe water and access to proper sanitation are essential to eradicate poverty, build peaceful societies and ensure that no one is left behind on the path towards sustainable development, according to the 2019 UN World Water Development Report, launched on Tuesday in Geneva. Image Credits: UN Environment/ Hannah McNeish. Continue reading -> New Study Finds Better Sewage Management Critical To Combatting AMR 18/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Bacteria and other pathogens that are resistant to common anti-microbial medications appear to be most abundant in Africa, as well as parts of South-East Asia and other developing regions with a poor record of sewage and sanitation management, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. Continue reading -> “Is Sugar the New Tobacco?” BMJ Study Explores Tobacco’s Role In Marketing Children’s Sugary Drinks 15/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Tobacco industry giants built some of the leading sugary drink brands that have been marketed to children over the past 50 years, reveals a major study published in The BMJ yesterday. Image Credits: The BMJ. Continue reading -> DNDi-led Study Finds Safer, Shorter Treatment For Debilitating Chagas Disease 15/03/2019 Divya Schlesinger Severe side effects make the current course of prolonged drug treatment difficult for many patients with Chagas disease, but a Phase II clinical trial in Bolivia may have found an alternative treatment that is both quicker and significantly safer. Image Credits: Ana Ferreira/DNDi. Continue reading -> Landmark International Guidelines Launched On Human Rights, Drug Policy 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UNAIDS and UNDP in a press release: VIENNA/GENEVA, 15 March 2019—A coalition of United Nations Member States, United Nations entities and leading human rights experts meeting at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria, today launched a landmark set of international legal standards to transform and reshape global responses to the world drug […] Continue reading -> China To Host World Environment Day 2019 On Air Pollution 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UN Environment in a World Environment Day press release: Nairobi, 15 March 2019 – Today, the head of Chinese delegation, Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Joyce Msuya, Acting Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that China will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2019 with a theme […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
New WHO Recommendations To Accelerate Progress On TB 20/03/2019 Editorial team [WHO Press Release] WHO has issued new guidance to improve treatment of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB). WHO is recommending shifting to fully oral regimens to treat people with MDR-TB. This new treatment course is more effective and is less likely to provoke adverse side effects. WHO recommends backing up treatment with active monitoring of drug safety and […] Continue reading -> Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation, Are ‘Basic Human Rights’: New UN Water Development Report 20/03/2019 Editorial team [By UN News] Safe water and access to proper sanitation are essential to eradicate poverty, build peaceful societies and ensure that no one is left behind on the path towards sustainable development, according to the 2019 UN World Water Development Report, launched on Tuesday in Geneva. Image Credits: UN Environment/ Hannah McNeish. Continue reading -> New Study Finds Better Sewage Management Critical To Combatting AMR 18/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Bacteria and other pathogens that are resistant to common anti-microbial medications appear to be most abundant in Africa, as well as parts of South-East Asia and other developing regions with a poor record of sewage and sanitation management, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. Continue reading -> “Is Sugar the New Tobacco?” BMJ Study Explores Tobacco’s Role In Marketing Children’s Sugary Drinks 15/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Tobacco industry giants built some of the leading sugary drink brands that have been marketed to children over the past 50 years, reveals a major study published in The BMJ yesterday. Image Credits: The BMJ. Continue reading -> DNDi-led Study Finds Safer, Shorter Treatment For Debilitating Chagas Disease 15/03/2019 Divya Schlesinger Severe side effects make the current course of prolonged drug treatment difficult for many patients with Chagas disease, but a Phase II clinical trial in Bolivia may have found an alternative treatment that is both quicker and significantly safer. Image Credits: Ana Ferreira/DNDi. Continue reading -> Landmark International Guidelines Launched On Human Rights, Drug Policy 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UNAIDS and UNDP in a press release: VIENNA/GENEVA, 15 March 2019—A coalition of United Nations Member States, United Nations entities and leading human rights experts meeting at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria, today launched a landmark set of international legal standards to transform and reshape global responses to the world drug […] Continue reading -> China To Host World Environment Day 2019 On Air Pollution 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UN Environment in a World Environment Day press release: Nairobi, 15 March 2019 – Today, the head of Chinese delegation, Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Joyce Msuya, Acting Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that China will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2019 with a theme […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation, Are ‘Basic Human Rights’: New UN Water Development Report 20/03/2019 Editorial team [By UN News] Safe water and access to proper sanitation are essential to eradicate poverty, build peaceful societies and ensure that no one is left behind on the path towards sustainable development, according to the 2019 UN World Water Development Report, launched on Tuesday in Geneva. Image Credits: UN Environment/ Hannah McNeish. Continue reading -> New Study Finds Better Sewage Management Critical To Combatting AMR 18/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Bacteria and other pathogens that are resistant to common anti-microbial medications appear to be most abundant in Africa, as well as parts of South-East Asia and other developing regions with a poor record of sewage and sanitation management, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. Continue reading -> “Is Sugar the New Tobacco?” BMJ Study Explores Tobacco’s Role In Marketing Children’s Sugary Drinks 15/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Tobacco industry giants built some of the leading sugary drink brands that have been marketed to children over the past 50 years, reveals a major study published in The BMJ yesterday. Image Credits: The BMJ. Continue reading -> DNDi-led Study Finds Safer, Shorter Treatment For Debilitating Chagas Disease 15/03/2019 Divya Schlesinger Severe side effects make the current course of prolonged drug treatment difficult for many patients with Chagas disease, but a Phase II clinical trial in Bolivia may have found an alternative treatment that is both quicker and significantly safer. Image Credits: Ana Ferreira/DNDi. Continue reading -> Landmark International Guidelines Launched On Human Rights, Drug Policy 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UNAIDS and UNDP in a press release: VIENNA/GENEVA, 15 March 2019—A coalition of United Nations Member States, United Nations entities and leading human rights experts meeting at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria, today launched a landmark set of international legal standards to transform and reshape global responses to the world drug […] Continue reading -> China To Host World Environment Day 2019 On Air Pollution 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UN Environment in a World Environment Day press release: Nairobi, 15 March 2019 – Today, the head of Chinese delegation, Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Joyce Msuya, Acting Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that China will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2019 with a theme […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
New Study Finds Better Sewage Management Critical To Combatting AMR 18/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Bacteria and other pathogens that are resistant to common anti-microbial medications appear to be most abundant in Africa, as well as parts of South-East Asia and other developing regions with a poor record of sewage and sanitation management, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. Continue reading -> “Is Sugar the New Tobacco?” BMJ Study Explores Tobacco’s Role In Marketing Children’s Sugary Drinks 15/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Tobacco industry giants built some of the leading sugary drink brands that have been marketed to children over the past 50 years, reveals a major study published in The BMJ yesterday. Image Credits: The BMJ. Continue reading -> DNDi-led Study Finds Safer, Shorter Treatment For Debilitating Chagas Disease 15/03/2019 Divya Schlesinger Severe side effects make the current course of prolonged drug treatment difficult for many patients with Chagas disease, but a Phase II clinical trial in Bolivia may have found an alternative treatment that is both quicker and significantly safer. Image Credits: Ana Ferreira/DNDi. Continue reading -> Landmark International Guidelines Launched On Human Rights, Drug Policy 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UNAIDS and UNDP in a press release: VIENNA/GENEVA, 15 March 2019—A coalition of United Nations Member States, United Nations entities and leading human rights experts meeting at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria, today launched a landmark set of international legal standards to transform and reshape global responses to the world drug […] Continue reading -> China To Host World Environment Day 2019 On Air Pollution 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UN Environment in a World Environment Day press release: Nairobi, 15 March 2019 – Today, the head of Chinese delegation, Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Joyce Msuya, Acting Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that China will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2019 with a theme […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
“Is Sugar the New Tobacco?” BMJ Study Explores Tobacco’s Role In Marketing Children’s Sugary Drinks 15/03/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Tobacco industry giants built some of the leading sugary drink brands that have been marketed to children over the past 50 years, reveals a major study published in The BMJ yesterday. Image Credits: The BMJ. Continue reading -> DNDi-led Study Finds Safer, Shorter Treatment For Debilitating Chagas Disease 15/03/2019 Divya Schlesinger Severe side effects make the current course of prolonged drug treatment difficult for many patients with Chagas disease, but a Phase II clinical trial in Bolivia may have found an alternative treatment that is both quicker and significantly safer. Image Credits: Ana Ferreira/DNDi. Continue reading -> Landmark International Guidelines Launched On Human Rights, Drug Policy 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UNAIDS and UNDP in a press release: VIENNA/GENEVA, 15 March 2019—A coalition of United Nations Member States, United Nations entities and leading human rights experts meeting at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria, today launched a landmark set of international legal standards to transform and reshape global responses to the world drug […] Continue reading -> China To Host World Environment Day 2019 On Air Pollution 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UN Environment in a World Environment Day press release: Nairobi, 15 March 2019 – Today, the head of Chinese delegation, Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Joyce Msuya, Acting Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that China will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2019 with a theme […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
DNDi-led Study Finds Safer, Shorter Treatment For Debilitating Chagas Disease 15/03/2019 Divya Schlesinger Severe side effects make the current course of prolonged drug treatment difficult for many patients with Chagas disease, but a Phase II clinical trial in Bolivia may have found an alternative treatment that is both quicker and significantly safer. Image Credits: Ana Ferreira/DNDi. Continue reading -> Landmark International Guidelines Launched On Human Rights, Drug Policy 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UNAIDS and UNDP in a press release: VIENNA/GENEVA, 15 March 2019—A coalition of United Nations Member States, United Nations entities and leading human rights experts meeting at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria, today launched a landmark set of international legal standards to transform and reshape global responses to the world drug […] Continue reading -> China To Host World Environment Day 2019 On Air Pollution 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UN Environment in a World Environment Day press release: Nairobi, 15 March 2019 – Today, the head of Chinese delegation, Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Joyce Msuya, Acting Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that China will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2019 with a theme […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Landmark International Guidelines Launched On Human Rights, Drug Policy 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UNAIDS and UNDP in a press release: VIENNA/GENEVA, 15 March 2019—A coalition of United Nations Member States, United Nations entities and leading human rights experts meeting at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria, today launched a landmark set of international legal standards to transform and reshape global responses to the world drug […] Continue reading -> China To Host World Environment Day 2019 On Air Pollution 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UN Environment in a World Environment Day press release: Nairobi, 15 March 2019 – Today, the head of Chinese delegation, Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Joyce Msuya, Acting Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that China will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2019 with a theme […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
China To Host World Environment Day 2019 On Air Pollution 15/03/2019 Editorial team As posted by UN Environment in a World Environment Day press release: Nairobi, 15 March 2019 – Today, the head of Chinese delegation, Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Joyce Msuya, Acting Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that China will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2019 with a theme […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts