Global Fund Still Short of $18 Billion Target for Fighting HIV, TB and Malaria – But UK and Italy Have Yet to Announce Pledges 22/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan The Global Fund raised $14.25 billion at its seventh replenishment conference in New York on Wednesday – still some way short of its $18 billion target for the next three years, although the United Kingdom and Italy had yet to make their commitments at the end of a day of public pledges. US President Joe […] Continue reading -> WHO Unveils ‘Invisible Numbers’ of the NCD Crisis as Leaders Meet at United Nations 21/09/2022 Stefan Anderson Around two-thirds of Africans with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) die prematurely – before the age of 70. In Europe, less than a third of people living with NCDs die that early. This is just one of the stark statistics contained in the most extensive data-visualization tool yet produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) to assist […] Continue reading -> Uganda Detects Rare Ebola Strain With No Approved Vaccine, Marburg outbreak ends in Ghana 20/09/2022 Paul Adepoju Ugandan health officials have announced an Ebola outbreak following the confirmation of the relatively rare Sudan strain in the country’s Mubende district, while the government of Ghana has declared the end of the country’s first ever Marburg outbreak. According to the health authorities in Uganda, the Uganda Virus Research Institute confirmed Ebola in a 24-year-old […] Continue reading -> Ghana Faces New Challenge to Integrate Chronic Diseases into Universal Health Coverage 19/09/2022 Jessica Ahedor DIGYA, Ghana – Local farmer Precious Amewornu nearly died just before she could give birth to her second child and had to travel almost 500 kilometres for hospital care because her local clinic was not equipped to deal with her high blood pressure – one of the most common non-communicable diseases (NCDs). A nurse at […] Continue reading -> Closing the Treatment Gap for Children with Severe NCDs 16/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan Children with type 1 diabetes living in rural parts of the world’s poorest countries often struggle to get life-saving insulin as programmes addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) tend to be urban-based and adult-focused. But an initiative to address life-threatening NCDs affecting children and young adults – particularly type 1 diabetes, rheumatic and congenital heart disease, and […] Continue reading -> Shortage of Health Workers is a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ – Even in Europe 15/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – Ageing doctors and overworked staff are just two of the consequences of the severe shortage of health care workers, even in the comparatively wealthy Europe region of the World Health Organization (WHO). “In one out of three countries in the region, more than 40% of the doctors are older than 55 years […] Continue reading -> Call for Fossil Fuel ‘Nonproliferation’ Treaty Sets High Stakes for Climate Talks 14/09/2022 Stefan Anderson Nearly 200 health organizations and more than 1,400 health professionals have signed a letter published on Wednesday calling on governments to negotiate a legally binding international treaty that would phase out fossil fuels, which they blame for “severe threats to human and planetary health.” Among the treaty’s supporters is the World Health Organization (WHO), a […] Continue reading -> Long COVID Affected 17 Million in Europe in First Two Years of Pandemic 13/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – When Belgian Ann Li got sick with COVID in March 2020, she did not know that the disease would follow her for years. “Even though I’m standing here in front of you looking seemingly healthy, I still suffer the consequences of the initial infection,” she told the audience of a panel devoted […] Continue reading -> Global Fund Replenishment Gains Steam 13/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan As the push for adequate funds to address HIV, tuberculosis and malaria reaches its climax with next week’s replenishment meeting of the Global Fund, the fund’s latest report reveals it has saved 50 million lives between 2002 and 2021. The Global Fund raises money in three-year cycles and seeks $18 billion for its seventh replenishment, […] Continue reading -> TB, HIV, and Malaria Treatment Rebound to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Off Course 12/09/2022 Raisa Santos The number of people on tuberculosis treatment rebounded to 5.3 million in 2021 and is nearing pre-pandemic levels of 5.5 million, according to a new Global Fund report. That’s an encouraging sign of progress after treatment plummeted to just 4.5 million people in 2020, the report, released on Monday, notes. Overall, the new report shows […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Unveils ‘Invisible Numbers’ of the NCD Crisis as Leaders Meet at United Nations 21/09/2022 Stefan Anderson Around two-thirds of Africans with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) die prematurely – before the age of 70. In Europe, less than a third of people living with NCDs die that early. This is just one of the stark statistics contained in the most extensive data-visualization tool yet produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) to assist […] Continue reading -> Uganda Detects Rare Ebola Strain With No Approved Vaccine, Marburg outbreak ends in Ghana 20/09/2022 Paul Adepoju Ugandan health officials have announced an Ebola outbreak following the confirmation of the relatively rare Sudan strain in the country’s Mubende district, while the government of Ghana has declared the end of the country’s first ever Marburg outbreak. According to the health authorities in Uganda, the Uganda Virus Research Institute confirmed Ebola in a 24-year-old […] Continue reading -> Ghana Faces New Challenge to Integrate Chronic Diseases into Universal Health Coverage 19/09/2022 Jessica Ahedor DIGYA, Ghana – Local farmer Precious Amewornu nearly died just before she could give birth to her second child and had to travel almost 500 kilometres for hospital care because her local clinic was not equipped to deal with her high blood pressure – one of the most common non-communicable diseases (NCDs). A nurse at […] Continue reading -> Closing the Treatment Gap for Children with Severe NCDs 16/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan Children with type 1 diabetes living in rural parts of the world’s poorest countries often struggle to get life-saving insulin as programmes addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) tend to be urban-based and adult-focused. But an initiative to address life-threatening NCDs affecting children and young adults – particularly type 1 diabetes, rheumatic and congenital heart disease, and […] Continue reading -> Shortage of Health Workers is a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ – Even in Europe 15/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – Ageing doctors and overworked staff are just two of the consequences of the severe shortage of health care workers, even in the comparatively wealthy Europe region of the World Health Organization (WHO). “In one out of three countries in the region, more than 40% of the doctors are older than 55 years […] Continue reading -> Call for Fossil Fuel ‘Nonproliferation’ Treaty Sets High Stakes for Climate Talks 14/09/2022 Stefan Anderson Nearly 200 health organizations and more than 1,400 health professionals have signed a letter published on Wednesday calling on governments to negotiate a legally binding international treaty that would phase out fossil fuels, which they blame for “severe threats to human and planetary health.” Among the treaty’s supporters is the World Health Organization (WHO), a […] Continue reading -> Long COVID Affected 17 Million in Europe in First Two Years of Pandemic 13/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – When Belgian Ann Li got sick with COVID in March 2020, she did not know that the disease would follow her for years. “Even though I’m standing here in front of you looking seemingly healthy, I still suffer the consequences of the initial infection,” she told the audience of a panel devoted […] Continue reading -> Global Fund Replenishment Gains Steam 13/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan As the push for adequate funds to address HIV, tuberculosis and malaria reaches its climax with next week’s replenishment meeting of the Global Fund, the fund’s latest report reveals it has saved 50 million lives between 2002 and 2021. The Global Fund raises money in three-year cycles and seeks $18 billion for its seventh replenishment, […] Continue reading -> TB, HIV, and Malaria Treatment Rebound to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Off Course 12/09/2022 Raisa Santos The number of people on tuberculosis treatment rebounded to 5.3 million in 2021 and is nearing pre-pandemic levels of 5.5 million, according to a new Global Fund report. That’s an encouraging sign of progress after treatment plummeted to just 4.5 million people in 2020, the report, released on Monday, notes. Overall, the new report shows […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Uganda Detects Rare Ebola Strain With No Approved Vaccine, Marburg outbreak ends in Ghana 20/09/2022 Paul Adepoju Ugandan health officials have announced an Ebola outbreak following the confirmation of the relatively rare Sudan strain in the country’s Mubende district, while the government of Ghana has declared the end of the country’s first ever Marburg outbreak. According to the health authorities in Uganda, the Uganda Virus Research Institute confirmed Ebola in a 24-year-old […] Continue reading -> Ghana Faces New Challenge to Integrate Chronic Diseases into Universal Health Coverage 19/09/2022 Jessica Ahedor DIGYA, Ghana – Local farmer Precious Amewornu nearly died just before she could give birth to her second child and had to travel almost 500 kilometres for hospital care because her local clinic was not equipped to deal with her high blood pressure – one of the most common non-communicable diseases (NCDs). A nurse at […] Continue reading -> Closing the Treatment Gap for Children with Severe NCDs 16/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan Children with type 1 diabetes living in rural parts of the world’s poorest countries often struggle to get life-saving insulin as programmes addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) tend to be urban-based and adult-focused. But an initiative to address life-threatening NCDs affecting children and young adults – particularly type 1 diabetes, rheumatic and congenital heart disease, and […] Continue reading -> Shortage of Health Workers is a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ – Even in Europe 15/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – Ageing doctors and overworked staff are just two of the consequences of the severe shortage of health care workers, even in the comparatively wealthy Europe region of the World Health Organization (WHO). “In one out of three countries in the region, more than 40% of the doctors are older than 55 years […] Continue reading -> Call for Fossil Fuel ‘Nonproliferation’ Treaty Sets High Stakes for Climate Talks 14/09/2022 Stefan Anderson Nearly 200 health organizations and more than 1,400 health professionals have signed a letter published on Wednesday calling on governments to negotiate a legally binding international treaty that would phase out fossil fuels, which they blame for “severe threats to human and planetary health.” Among the treaty’s supporters is the World Health Organization (WHO), a […] Continue reading -> Long COVID Affected 17 Million in Europe in First Two Years of Pandemic 13/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – When Belgian Ann Li got sick with COVID in March 2020, she did not know that the disease would follow her for years. “Even though I’m standing here in front of you looking seemingly healthy, I still suffer the consequences of the initial infection,” she told the audience of a panel devoted […] Continue reading -> Global Fund Replenishment Gains Steam 13/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan As the push for adequate funds to address HIV, tuberculosis and malaria reaches its climax with next week’s replenishment meeting of the Global Fund, the fund’s latest report reveals it has saved 50 million lives between 2002 and 2021. The Global Fund raises money in three-year cycles and seeks $18 billion for its seventh replenishment, […] Continue reading -> TB, HIV, and Malaria Treatment Rebound to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Off Course 12/09/2022 Raisa Santos The number of people on tuberculosis treatment rebounded to 5.3 million in 2021 and is nearing pre-pandemic levels of 5.5 million, according to a new Global Fund report. That’s an encouraging sign of progress after treatment plummeted to just 4.5 million people in 2020, the report, released on Monday, notes. Overall, the new report shows […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Ghana Faces New Challenge to Integrate Chronic Diseases into Universal Health Coverage 19/09/2022 Jessica Ahedor DIGYA, Ghana – Local farmer Precious Amewornu nearly died just before she could give birth to her second child and had to travel almost 500 kilometres for hospital care because her local clinic was not equipped to deal with her high blood pressure – one of the most common non-communicable diseases (NCDs). A nurse at […] Continue reading -> Closing the Treatment Gap for Children with Severe NCDs 16/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan Children with type 1 diabetes living in rural parts of the world’s poorest countries often struggle to get life-saving insulin as programmes addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) tend to be urban-based and adult-focused. But an initiative to address life-threatening NCDs affecting children and young adults – particularly type 1 diabetes, rheumatic and congenital heart disease, and […] Continue reading -> Shortage of Health Workers is a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ – Even in Europe 15/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – Ageing doctors and overworked staff are just two of the consequences of the severe shortage of health care workers, even in the comparatively wealthy Europe region of the World Health Organization (WHO). “In one out of three countries in the region, more than 40% of the doctors are older than 55 years […] Continue reading -> Call for Fossil Fuel ‘Nonproliferation’ Treaty Sets High Stakes for Climate Talks 14/09/2022 Stefan Anderson Nearly 200 health organizations and more than 1,400 health professionals have signed a letter published on Wednesday calling on governments to negotiate a legally binding international treaty that would phase out fossil fuels, which they blame for “severe threats to human and planetary health.” Among the treaty’s supporters is the World Health Organization (WHO), a […] Continue reading -> Long COVID Affected 17 Million in Europe in First Two Years of Pandemic 13/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – When Belgian Ann Li got sick with COVID in March 2020, she did not know that the disease would follow her for years. “Even though I’m standing here in front of you looking seemingly healthy, I still suffer the consequences of the initial infection,” she told the audience of a panel devoted […] Continue reading -> Global Fund Replenishment Gains Steam 13/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan As the push for adequate funds to address HIV, tuberculosis and malaria reaches its climax with next week’s replenishment meeting of the Global Fund, the fund’s latest report reveals it has saved 50 million lives between 2002 and 2021. The Global Fund raises money in three-year cycles and seeks $18 billion for its seventh replenishment, […] Continue reading -> TB, HIV, and Malaria Treatment Rebound to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Off Course 12/09/2022 Raisa Santos The number of people on tuberculosis treatment rebounded to 5.3 million in 2021 and is nearing pre-pandemic levels of 5.5 million, according to a new Global Fund report. That’s an encouraging sign of progress after treatment plummeted to just 4.5 million people in 2020, the report, released on Monday, notes. Overall, the new report shows […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Closing the Treatment Gap for Children with Severe NCDs 16/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan Children with type 1 diabetes living in rural parts of the world’s poorest countries often struggle to get life-saving insulin as programmes addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) tend to be urban-based and adult-focused. But an initiative to address life-threatening NCDs affecting children and young adults – particularly type 1 diabetes, rheumatic and congenital heart disease, and […] Continue reading -> Shortage of Health Workers is a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ – Even in Europe 15/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – Ageing doctors and overworked staff are just two of the consequences of the severe shortage of health care workers, even in the comparatively wealthy Europe region of the World Health Organization (WHO). “In one out of three countries in the region, more than 40% of the doctors are older than 55 years […] Continue reading -> Call for Fossil Fuel ‘Nonproliferation’ Treaty Sets High Stakes for Climate Talks 14/09/2022 Stefan Anderson Nearly 200 health organizations and more than 1,400 health professionals have signed a letter published on Wednesday calling on governments to negotiate a legally binding international treaty that would phase out fossil fuels, which they blame for “severe threats to human and planetary health.” Among the treaty’s supporters is the World Health Organization (WHO), a […] Continue reading -> Long COVID Affected 17 Million in Europe in First Two Years of Pandemic 13/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – When Belgian Ann Li got sick with COVID in March 2020, she did not know that the disease would follow her for years. “Even though I’m standing here in front of you looking seemingly healthy, I still suffer the consequences of the initial infection,” she told the audience of a panel devoted […] Continue reading -> Global Fund Replenishment Gains Steam 13/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan As the push for adequate funds to address HIV, tuberculosis and malaria reaches its climax with next week’s replenishment meeting of the Global Fund, the fund’s latest report reveals it has saved 50 million lives between 2002 and 2021. The Global Fund raises money in three-year cycles and seeks $18 billion for its seventh replenishment, […] Continue reading -> TB, HIV, and Malaria Treatment Rebound to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Off Course 12/09/2022 Raisa Santos The number of people on tuberculosis treatment rebounded to 5.3 million in 2021 and is nearing pre-pandemic levels of 5.5 million, according to a new Global Fund report. That’s an encouraging sign of progress after treatment plummeted to just 4.5 million people in 2020, the report, released on Monday, notes. Overall, the new report shows […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Shortage of Health Workers is a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ – Even in Europe 15/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – Ageing doctors and overworked staff are just two of the consequences of the severe shortage of health care workers, even in the comparatively wealthy Europe region of the World Health Organization (WHO). “In one out of three countries in the region, more than 40% of the doctors are older than 55 years […] Continue reading -> Call for Fossil Fuel ‘Nonproliferation’ Treaty Sets High Stakes for Climate Talks 14/09/2022 Stefan Anderson Nearly 200 health organizations and more than 1,400 health professionals have signed a letter published on Wednesday calling on governments to negotiate a legally binding international treaty that would phase out fossil fuels, which they blame for “severe threats to human and planetary health.” Among the treaty’s supporters is the World Health Organization (WHO), a […] Continue reading -> Long COVID Affected 17 Million in Europe in First Two Years of Pandemic 13/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – When Belgian Ann Li got sick with COVID in March 2020, she did not know that the disease would follow her for years. “Even though I’m standing here in front of you looking seemingly healthy, I still suffer the consequences of the initial infection,” she told the audience of a panel devoted […] Continue reading -> Global Fund Replenishment Gains Steam 13/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan As the push for adequate funds to address HIV, tuberculosis and malaria reaches its climax with next week’s replenishment meeting of the Global Fund, the fund’s latest report reveals it has saved 50 million lives between 2002 and 2021. The Global Fund raises money in three-year cycles and seeks $18 billion for its seventh replenishment, […] Continue reading -> TB, HIV, and Malaria Treatment Rebound to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Off Course 12/09/2022 Raisa Santos The number of people on tuberculosis treatment rebounded to 5.3 million in 2021 and is nearing pre-pandemic levels of 5.5 million, according to a new Global Fund report. That’s an encouraging sign of progress after treatment plummeted to just 4.5 million people in 2020, the report, released on Monday, notes. Overall, the new report shows […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Call for Fossil Fuel ‘Nonproliferation’ Treaty Sets High Stakes for Climate Talks 14/09/2022 Stefan Anderson Nearly 200 health organizations and more than 1,400 health professionals have signed a letter published on Wednesday calling on governments to negotiate a legally binding international treaty that would phase out fossil fuels, which they blame for “severe threats to human and planetary health.” Among the treaty’s supporters is the World Health Organization (WHO), a […] Continue reading -> Long COVID Affected 17 Million in Europe in First Two Years of Pandemic 13/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – When Belgian Ann Li got sick with COVID in March 2020, she did not know that the disease would follow her for years. “Even though I’m standing here in front of you looking seemingly healthy, I still suffer the consequences of the initial infection,” she told the audience of a panel devoted […] Continue reading -> Global Fund Replenishment Gains Steam 13/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan As the push for adequate funds to address HIV, tuberculosis and malaria reaches its climax with next week’s replenishment meeting of the Global Fund, the fund’s latest report reveals it has saved 50 million lives between 2002 and 2021. The Global Fund raises money in three-year cycles and seeks $18 billion for its seventh replenishment, […] Continue reading -> TB, HIV, and Malaria Treatment Rebound to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Off Course 12/09/2022 Raisa Santos The number of people on tuberculosis treatment rebounded to 5.3 million in 2021 and is nearing pre-pandemic levels of 5.5 million, according to a new Global Fund report. That’s an encouraging sign of progress after treatment plummeted to just 4.5 million people in 2020, the report, released on Monday, notes. Overall, the new report shows […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Long COVID Affected 17 Million in Europe in First Two Years of Pandemic 13/09/2022 Rossella Tercatin TEL AVIV – When Belgian Ann Li got sick with COVID in March 2020, she did not know that the disease would follow her for years. “Even though I’m standing here in front of you looking seemingly healthy, I still suffer the consequences of the initial infection,” she told the audience of a panel devoted […] Continue reading -> Global Fund Replenishment Gains Steam 13/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan As the push for adequate funds to address HIV, tuberculosis and malaria reaches its climax with next week’s replenishment meeting of the Global Fund, the fund’s latest report reveals it has saved 50 million lives between 2002 and 2021. The Global Fund raises money in three-year cycles and seeks $18 billion for its seventh replenishment, […] Continue reading -> TB, HIV, and Malaria Treatment Rebound to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Off Course 12/09/2022 Raisa Santos The number of people on tuberculosis treatment rebounded to 5.3 million in 2021 and is nearing pre-pandemic levels of 5.5 million, according to a new Global Fund report. That’s an encouraging sign of progress after treatment plummeted to just 4.5 million people in 2020, the report, released on Monday, notes. Overall, the new report shows […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Global Fund Replenishment Gains Steam 13/09/2022 Kerry Cullinan As the push for adequate funds to address HIV, tuberculosis and malaria reaches its climax with next week’s replenishment meeting of the Global Fund, the fund’s latest report reveals it has saved 50 million lives between 2002 and 2021. The Global Fund raises money in three-year cycles and seeks $18 billion for its seventh replenishment, […] Continue reading -> TB, HIV, and Malaria Treatment Rebound to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Off Course 12/09/2022 Raisa Santos The number of people on tuberculosis treatment rebounded to 5.3 million in 2021 and is nearing pre-pandemic levels of 5.5 million, according to a new Global Fund report. That’s an encouraging sign of progress after treatment plummeted to just 4.5 million people in 2020, the report, released on Monday, notes. Overall, the new report shows […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
TB, HIV, and Malaria Treatment Rebound to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Off Course 12/09/2022 Raisa Santos The number of people on tuberculosis treatment rebounded to 5.3 million in 2021 and is nearing pre-pandemic levels of 5.5 million, according to a new Global Fund report. That’s an encouraging sign of progress after treatment plummeted to just 4.5 million people in 2020, the report, released on Monday, notes. Overall, the new report shows […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts