World’s Biggest Malaria Bed-net Campaign Unfurls in Nigeria 08/12/2022 Orji Sunday A massive campaign is underway to distribute at least 8.8 million nets to 16 million residents of Kano State in Nigeria to prevent malaria Morning sunlight, bright as a dazzling diamond, sets Mazangudu village in Kano, northern Nigeria, awake. Motorcycle rumbles mix with the boom of microphones calling Muslims to salat prayer. A gentle breeze […] Continue reading -> Homicide Charges for Those Making Harmful Fake Medicine? 07/12/2022 Kerry Cullinan There should be much harsher penalties, including homicide charges, for those who intentionally falsify medicine and include harmful ingredients, according to Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO of the International Alliance of Patients’ Organisations (IAPO). Sehmi was speaking at an event hosted by Fight the Fakes Alliance in Geneva on Wednesday to highlight the global proliferation of fake […] Continue reading -> In Talk on UHC, NY Senator Raises Concern Over Commoditization of Healthcare 07/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A New York lawmaker warned fellow parliamentarians on Wednesday to “stay as far away from the private sector as you can” when it comes to healthcare. “The main issue in the United States is that healthcare is commodified,” said New York State Senator Jose Gustavo Rivera. “It is true, the best healthcare is available in […] Continue reading -> In Heated UNITE Event Session, African MPs Call for Greater Inclusion in Global Fund 07/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A group of African parliamentarians raised a red flag on Tuesday at the UNITE Global Summit when they told representatives that they felt neglected by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which funds billions of dollars of health services in their countries. “Do African parliamentarians only get involved when we have to […] Continue reading -> MPs to WHO: If You Want Pandemic Treaty Implemented, Engage with Us 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman Parliamentarians from around the world have called on the World Health Organization to engage civil society in the establishment of a “pandemic treaty,” if the organization hopes to have such a document not only ratified but also implemented. “The current process remains exclusionary,” said Giada Girelli, a senior analyst on human rights and justice at […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Translated into Three Years of ‘Human Rights Violations’ 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman “Every aspect of the COVID-19 response, beginning with the origins of the pandemic in Wuhan to China’s current Zero-COVID strategy, has had severe restrictions on human rights,” according to Prof Lawrence Gostin, a member of the independent Panel for a Global Health Convention. Speaking Monday afternoon at the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, he called […] Continue reading -> MPs Are Urged to Redirect Funding Towards Prevention and Primary Care 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development called on parliamentarians to redirect health funding towards prevention and primary care to help improve health outcomes. Speaking Monday at the opening session of the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, Francesca Colombo said that a basic health analysis proves the need […] Continue reading -> UN Environment: Investments in ‘Nature-Based’ Climate Solutions Must Double by 2025 02/12/2022 Stefan Anderson A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme warns that investment in nature-based solutions must double by 2025 if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5°C, as well as halting biodiversity loss and progressively increasing land degradation. The report comes a week before world leaders will gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference […] Continue reading -> How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Linked to Nearly Half of all Stillbirths 01/12/2022 Stefan Anderson In 2020, UNICEF estimated that “a stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds somewhere in the world.” A new study has linked air pollution to nearly half of them. The study of 137 countries is the first global analysis to assess the number of fetal deaths, putting into numbers the already documented link between fine particulate matter […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Homicide Charges for Those Making Harmful Fake Medicine? 07/12/2022 Kerry Cullinan There should be much harsher penalties, including homicide charges, for those who intentionally falsify medicine and include harmful ingredients, according to Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO of the International Alliance of Patients’ Organisations (IAPO). Sehmi was speaking at an event hosted by Fight the Fakes Alliance in Geneva on Wednesday to highlight the global proliferation of fake […] Continue reading -> In Talk on UHC, NY Senator Raises Concern Over Commoditization of Healthcare 07/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A New York lawmaker warned fellow parliamentarians on Wednesday to “stay as far away from the private sector as you can” when it comes to healthcare. “The main issue in the United States is that healthcare is commodified,” said New York State Senator Jose Gustavo Rivera. “It is true, the best healthcare is available in […] Continue reading -> In Heated UNITE Event Session, African MPs Call for Greater Inclusion in Global Fund 07/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A group of African parliamentarians raised a red flag on Tuesday at the UNITE Global Summit when they told representatives that they felt neglected by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which funds billions of dollars of health services in their countries. “Do African parliamentarians only get involved when we have to […] Continue reading -> MPs to WHO: If You Want Pandemic Treaty Implemented, Engage with Us 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman Parliamentarians from around the world have called on the World Health Organization to engage civil society in the establishment of a “pandemic treaty,” if the organization hopes to have such a document not only ratified but also implemented. “The current process remains exclusionary,” said Giada Girelli, a senior analyst on human rights and justice at […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Translated into Three Years of ‘Human Rights Violations’ 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman “Every aspect of the COVID-19 response, beginning with the origins of the pandemic in Wuhan to China’s current Zero-COVID strategy, has had severe restrictions on human rights,” according to Prof Lawrence Gostin, a member of the independent Panel for a Global Health Convention. Speaking Monday afternoon at the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, he called […] Continue reading -> MPs Are Urged to Redirect Funding Towards Prevention and Primary Care 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development called on parliamentarians to redirect health funding towards prevention and primary care to help improve health outcomes. Speaking Monday at the opening session of the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, Francesca Colombo said that a basic health analysis proves the need […] Continue reading -> UN Environment: Investments in ‘Nature-Based’ Climate Solutions Must Double by 2025 02/12/2022 Stefan Anderson A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme warns that investment in nature-based solutions must double by 2025 if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5°C, as well as halting biodiversity loss and progressively increasing land degradation. The report comes a week before world leaders will gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference […] Continue reading -> How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Linked to Nearly Half of all Stillbirths 01/12/2022 Stefan Anderson In 2020, UNICEF estimated that “a stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds somewhere in the world.” A new study has linked air pollution to nearly half of them. The study of 137 countries is the first global analysis to assess the number of fetal deaths, putting into numbers the already documented link between fine particulate matter […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
In Talk on UHC, NY Senator Raises Concern Over Commoditization of Healthcare 07/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A New York lawmaker warned fellow parliamentarians on Wednesday to “stay as far away from the private sector as you can” when it comes to healthcare. “The main issue in the United States is that healthcare is commodified,” said New York State Senator Jose Gustavo Rivera. “It is true, the best healthcare is available in […] Continue reading -> In Heated UNITE Event Session, African MPs Call for Greater Inclusion in Global Fund 07/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A group of African parliamentarians raised a red flag on Tuesday at the UNITE Global Summit when they told representatives that they felt neglected by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which funds billions of dollars of health services in their countries. “Do African parliamentarians only get involved when we have to […] Continue reading -> MPs to WHO: If You Want Pandemic Treaty Implemented, Engage with Us 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman Parliamentarians from around the world have called on the World Health Organization to engage civil society in the establishment of a “pandemic treaty,” if the organization hopes to have such a document not only ratified but also implemented. “The current process remains exclusionary,” said Giada Girelli, a senior analyst on human rights and justice at […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Translated into Three Years of ‘Human Rights Violations’ 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman “Every aspect of the COVID-19 response, beginning with the origins of the pandemic in Wuhan to China’s current Zero-COVID strategy, has had severe restrictions on human rights,” according to Prof Lawrence Gostin, a member of the independent Panel for a Global Health Convention. Speaking Monday afternoon at the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, he called […] Continue reading -> MPs Are Urged to Redirect Funding Towards Prevention and Primary Care 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development called on parliamentarians to redirect health funding towards prevention and primary care to help improve health outcomes. Speaking Monday at the opening session of the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, Francesca Colombo said that a basic health analysis proves the need […] Continue reading -> UN Environment: Investments in ‘Nature-Based’ Climate Solutions Must Double by 2025 02/12/2022 Stefan Anderson A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme warns that investment in nature-based solutions must double by 2025 if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5°C, as well as halting biodiversity loss and progressively increasing land degradation. The report comes a week before world leaders will gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference […] Continue reading -> How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Linked to Nearly Half of all Stillbirths 01/12/2022 Stefan Anderson In 2020, UNICEF estimated that “a stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds somewhere in the world.” A new study has linked air pollution to nearly half of them. The study of 137 countries is the first global analysis to assess the number of fetal deaths, putting into numbers the already documented link between fine particulate matter […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
In Heated UNITE Event Session, African MPs Call for Greater Inclusion in Global Fund 07/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A group of African parliamentarians raised a red flag on Tuesday at the UNITE Global Summit when they told representatives that they felt neglected by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which funds billions of dollars of health services in their countries. “Do African parliamentarians only get involved when we have to […] Continue reading -> MPs to WHO: If You Want Pandemic Treaty Implemented, Engage with Us 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman Parliamentarians from around the world have called on the World Health Organization to engage civil society in the establishment of a “pandemic treaty,” if the organization hopes to have such a document not only ratified but also implemented. “The current process remains exclusionary,” said Giada Girelli, a senior analyst on human rights and justice at […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Translated into Three Years of ‘Human Rights Violations’ 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman “Every aspect of the COVID-19 response, beginning with the origins of the pandemic in Wuhan to China’s current Zero-COVID strategy, has had severe restrictions on human rights,” according to Prof Lawrence Gostin, a member of the independent Panel for a Global Health Convention. Speaking Monday afternoon at the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, he called […] Continue reading -> MPs Are Urged to Redirect Funding Towards Prevention and Primary Care 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development called on parliamentarians to redirect health funding towards prevention and primary care to help improve health outcomes. Speaking Monday at the opening session of the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, Francesca Colombo said that a basic health analysis proves the need […] Continue reading -> UN Environment: Investments in ‘Nature-Based’ Climate Solutions Must Double by 2025 02/12/2022 Stefan Anderson A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme warns that investment in nature-based solutions must double by 2025 if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5°C, as well as halting biodiversity loss and progressively increasing land degradation. The report comes a week before world leaders will gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference […] Continue reading -> How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Linked to Nearly Half of all Stillbirths 01/12/2022 Stefan Anderson In 2020, UNICEF estimated that “a stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds somewhere in the world.” A new study has linked air pollution to nearly half of them. The study of 137 countries is the first global analysis to assess the number of fetal deaths, putting into numbers the already documented link between fine particulate matter […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
MPs to WHO: If You Want Pandemic Treaty Implemented, Engage with Us 06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman Parliamentarians from around the world have called on the World Health Organization to engage civil society in the establishment of a “pandemic treaty,” if the organization hopes to have such a document not only ratified but also implemented. “The current process remains exclusionary,” said Giada Girelli, a senior analyst on human rights and justice at […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Translated into Three Years of ‘Human Rights Violations’ 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman “Every aspect of the COVID-19 response, beginning with the origins of the pandemic in Wuhan to China’s current Zero-COVID strategy, has had severe restrictions on human rights,” according to Prof Lawrence Gostin, a member of the independent Panel for a Global Health Convention. Speaking Monday afternoon at the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, he called […] Continue reading -> MPs Are Urged to Redirect Funding Towards Prevention and Primary Care 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development called on parliamentarians to redirect health funding towards prevention and primary care to help improve health outcomes. Speaking Monday at the opening session of the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, Francesca Colombo said that a basic health analysis proves the need […] Continue reading -> UN Environment: Investments in ‘Nature-Based’ Climate Solutions Must Double by 2025 02/12/2022 Stefan Anderson A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme warns that investment in nature-based solutions must double by 2025 if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5°C, as well as halting biodiversity loss and progressively increasing land degradation. The report comes a week before world leaders will gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference […] Continue reading -> How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Linked to Nearly Half of all Stillbirths 01/12/2022 Stefan Anderson In 2020, UNICEF estimated that “a stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds somewhere in the world.” A new study has linked air pollution to nearly half of them. The study of 137 countries is the first global analysis to assess the number of fetal deaths, putting into numbers the already documented link between fine particulate matter […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
COVID-19 Translated into Three Years of ‘Human Rights Violations’ 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman “Every aspect of the COVID-19 response, beginning with the origins of the pandemic in Wuhan to China’s current Zero-COVID strategy, has had severe restrictions on human rights,” according to Prof Lawrence Gostin, a member of the independent Panel for a Global Health Convention. Speaking Monday afternoon at the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, he called […] Continue reading -> MPs Are Urged to Redirect Funding Towards Prevention and Primary Care 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development called on parliamentarians to redirect health funding towards prevention and primary care to help improve health outcomes. Speaking Monday at the opening session of the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, Francesca Colombo said that a basic health analysis proves the need […] Continue reading -> UN Environment: Investments in ‘Nature-Based’ Climate Solutions Must Double by 2025 02/12/2022 Stefan Anderson A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme warns that investment in nature-based solutions must double by 2025 if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5°C, as well as halting biodiversity loss and progressively increasing land degradation. The report comes a week before world leaders will gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference […] Continue reading -> How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Linked to Nearly Half of all Stillbirths 01/12/2022 Stefan Anderson In 2020, UNICEF estimated that “a stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds somewhere in the world.” A new study has linked air pollution to nearly half of them. The study of 137 countries is the first global analysis to assess the number of fetal deaths, putting into numbers the already documented link between fine particulate matter […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
MPs Are Urged to Redirect Funding Towards Prevention and Primary Care 05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman The head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development called on parliamentarians to redirect health funding towards prevention and primary care to help improve health outcomes. Speaking Monday at the opening session of the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, Francesca Colombo said that a basic health analysis proves the need […] Continue reading -> UN Environment: Investments in ‘Nature-Based’ Climate Solutions Must Double by 2025 02/12/2022 Stefan Anderson A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme warns that investment in nature-based solutions must double by 2025 if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5°C, as well as halting biodiversity loss and progressively increasing land degradation. The report comes a week before world leaders will gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference […] Continue reading -> How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Linked to Nearly Half of all Stillbirths 01/12/2022 Stefan Anderson In 2020, UNICEF estimated that “a stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds somewhere in the world.” A new study has linked air pollution to nearly half of them. The study of 137 countries is the first global analysis to assess the number of fetal deaths, putting into numbers the already documented link between fine particulate matter […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
UN Environment: Investments in ‘Nature-Based’ Climate Solutions Must Double by 2025 02/12/2022 Stefan Anderson A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme warns that investment in nature-based solutions must double by 2025 if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5°C, as well as halting biodiversity loss and progressively increasing land degradation. The report comes a week before world leaders will gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference […] Continue reading -> How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Linked to Nearly Half of all Stillbirths 01/12/2022 Stefan Anderson In 2020, UNICEF estimated that “a stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds somewhere in the world.” A new study has linked air pollution to nearly half of them. The study of 137 countries is the first global analysis to assess the number of fetal deaths, putting into numbers the already documented link between fine particulate matter […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Air Pollution Linked to Nearly Half of all Stillbirths 01/12/2022 Stefan Anderson In 2020, UNICEF estimated that “a stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds somewhere in the world.” A new study has linked air pollution to nearly half of them. The study of 137 countries is the first global analysis to assess the number of fetal deaths, putting into numbers the already documented link between fine particulate matter […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Air Pollution Linked to Nearly Half of all Stillbirths 01/12/2022 Stefan Anderson In 2020, UNICEF estimated that “a stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds somewhere in the world.” A new study has linked air pollution to nearly half of them. The study of 137 countries is the first global analysis to assess the number of fetal deaths, putting into numbers the already documented link between fine particulate matter […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts