‘Constructive Tone’ Now Emerging Among World Trade Organization Members On IP Waiver for COVID Health Products 07/10/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Discussions over a controversial World Trade Organization waiver on intellectual property related to COVID vaccines, treatments and other tools, have become more “constructive” said a senior WTO spokesman on Thursday, in a press briefing on the first day of the WTO’s two-day General Council meeting. There has been a “subtle shifting in the direction of […] Continue reading -> African Countries are the Focus of New Maternal Mortality Targets 05/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Nineteen countries have been prioritised for support to implement new global targets aimed at preventing maternal and newborn deaths. This emerged at the launch on Tuesday of the new targets, which were developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and their partners in the Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) initiative. UNFPA […] Continue reading -> New Social Contract and One Health Approach Critical to Resilient Recovery from COVID Pandemic 01/10/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new social contract between European governments and their citizens is needed to lay the foundation for a resilient and sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, with health at the center, said panelists at the closing session of the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) on Friday. A focus on ensuring social protection and equitable access […] Continue reading -> New WHO Essential Medicines List Includes Controversial Insulin Analogues; Recommends Action on High Medicines Prices 01/10/2021 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization published the latest edition of its Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) on Friday, making a sweeping move this time to include long-lasting insulin analogues as essential drugs that national health systems should incorporate into their services. The decision reverses the EML Expert Committee’s 2019 decision, rejecting the inclusion of insulin […] Continue reading -> New UK COVID Travel Policies that Discriminate Against African Vaccine Recipients Condemned – Leaders Call for Clarifications 30/09/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN – Following new travel policies that discriminate against vaccinated travellers from African countries, as compared to their European, Asian and Middle Eastern counterparts, African health officials have demanded clarifications, and accused the UK government of potentially festering vaccine hesitancy on the continent. A British government’ plan to drop a 10-day quarantine requirement for fully-vaccinated […] Continue reading -> ‘Humbled and horrified’: WHO Reacts to Findings on DR Congo Sexual Abuse – But Will High-level WHO Officials be Investigated Too? 28/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A WHO independent commission concluded that 83 emergency responders to DR-Congo’s 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, including some 21 WHO employees and consultants, had likely abused dozens of Congolese women, obtaining sex in exchange for promises of jobs – also raping nine women outright. But the panel’s findings, which validate reports first published in September 2020 in […] Continue reading -> WHO Academy in Lyon Will Promote Global Digital Learning for Health Workers 27/09/2021 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreyesus and French President Emmanuel Macron today broke ground at the launch of the first WHO Academy in the French city of Lyon. The Academy fulfills a commitment by the two leaders to make WHO training more widely available to member states, and more systematically offered […] Continue reading -> Post COVID-19 Summit: WHO Demands ‘Action Now’ on Promised Donations; Civil Society Says Charity Not Enough 24/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher US President Joe Biden has reaped praise for convening a Global COVID-19 Summit on the margins of this year’s United Nations General Assembly that placed vaccine shortfalls in low- and middle-income countries front and center of GA debates. But it remains to be seen if the big commitments repeated once more this week can break […] Continue reading -> As India Lifts its Vaccine Export Ban – will 600 Million India-made Doses of J&J Vaccine be Shipped to Rich Western Countries? 24/09/2021 Vidya Kirshnan In the coming months, 600 million doses of single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines, manufactured in Hyderabad, are likely to be exported to Europe or the United States, at a time when India grapples with vaccinating its own citizens. Civil-society organisations are concerned that millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine may end up in the […] Continue reading -> Summit Needs to Restore Control of Our Food Systems to Local Producers and Communities 23/09/2021 Dina Mired Home-cooked food is a serious matter in the Middle East and family mealtimes are sacrosanct. We are known for our hospitality. We go all out for our guests. People have strong and definite opinions about food, and family recipes are secrets handed down from generation to generation. As a child, I took our cuisine for […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
African Countries are the Focus of New Maternal Mortality Targets 05/10/2021 Kerry Cullinan Nineteen countries have been prioritised for support to implement new global targets aimed at preventing maternal and newborn deaths. This emerged at the launch on Tuesday of the new targets, which were developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and their partners in the Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) initiative. UNFPA […] Continue reading -> New Social Contract and One Health Approach Critical to Resilient Recovery from COVID Pandemic 01/10/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new social contract between European governments and their citizens is needed to lay the foundation for a resilient and sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, with health at the center, said panelists at the closing session of the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) on Friday. A focus on ensuring social protection and equitable access […] Continue reading -> New WHO Essential Medicines List Includes Controversial Insulin Analogues; Recommends Action on High Medicines Prices 01/10/2021 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization published the latest edition of its Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) on Friday, making a sweeping move this time to include long-lasting insulin analogues as essential drugs that national health systems should incorporate into their services. The decision reverses the EML Expert Committee’s 2019 decision, rejecting the inclusion of insulin […] Continue reading -> New UK COVID Travel Policies that Discriminate Against African Vaccine Recipients Condemned – Leaders Call for Clarifications 30/09/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN – Following new travel policies that discriminate against vaccinated travellers from African countries, as compared to their European, Asian and Middle Eastern counterparts, African health officials have demanded clarifications, and accused the UK government of potentially festering vaccine hesitancy on the continent. A British government’ plan to drop a 10-day quarantine requirement for fully-vaccinated […] Continue reading -> ‘Humbled and horrified’: WHO Reacts to Findings on DR Congo Sexual Abuse – But Will High-level WHO Officials be Investigated Too? 28/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A WHO independent commission concluded that 83 emergency responders to DR-Congo’s 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, including some 21 WHO employees and consultants, had likely abused dozens of Congolese women, obtaining sex in exchange for promises of jobs – also raping nine women outright. But the panel’s findings, which validate reports first published in September 2020 in […] Continue reading -> WHO Academy in Lyon Will Promote Global Digital Learning for Health Workers 27/09/2021 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreyesus and French President Emmanuel Macron today broke ground at the launch of the first WHO Academy in the French city of Lyon. The Academy fulfills a commitment by the two leaders to make WHO training more widely available to member states, and more systematically offered […] Continue reading -> Post COVID-19 Summit: WHO Demands ‘Action Now’ on Promised Donations; Civil Society Says Charity Not Enough 24/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher US President Joe Biden has reaped praise for convening a Global COVID-19 Summit on the margins of this year’s United Nations General Assembly that placed vaccine shortfalls in low- and middle-income countries front and center of GA debates. But it remains to be seen if the big commitments repeated once more this week can break […] Continue reading -> As India Lifts its Vaccine Export Ban – will 600 Million India-made Doses of J&J Vaccine be Shipped to Rich Western Countries? 24/09/2021 Vidya Kirshnan In the coming months, 600 million doses of single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines, manufactured in Hyderabad, are likely to be exported to Europe or the United States, at a time when India grapples with vaccinating its own citizens. Civil-society organisations are concerned that millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine may end up in the […] Continue reading -> Summit Needs to Restore Control of Our Food Systems to Local Producers and Communities 23/09/2021 Dina Mired Home-cooked food is a serious matter in the Middle East and family mealtimes are sacrosanct. We are known for our hospitality. We go all out for our guests. People have strong and definite opinions about food, and family recipes are secrets handed down from generation to generation. As a child, I took our cuisine for […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
New Social Contract and One Health Approach Critical to Resilient Recovery from COVID Pandemic 01/10/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new social contract between European governments and their citizens is needed to lay the foundation for a resilient and sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, with health at the center, said panelists at the closing session of the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) on Friday. A focus on ensuring social protection and equitable access […] Continue reading -> New WHO Essential Medicines List Includes Controversial Insulin Analogues; Recommends Action on High Medicines Prices 01/10/2021 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization published the latest edition of its Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) on Friday, making a sweeping move this time to include long-lasting insulin analogues as essential drugs that national health systems should incorporate into their services. The decision reverses the EML Expert Committee’s 2019 decision, rejecting the inclusion of insulin […] Continue reading -> New UK COVID Travel Policies that Discriminate Against African Vaccine Recipients Condemned – Leaders Call for Clarifications 30/09/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN – Following new travel policies that discriminate against vaccinated travellers from African countries, as compared to their European, Asian and Middle Eastern counterparts, African health officials have demanded clarifications, and accused the UK government of potentially festering vaccine hesitancy on the continent. A British government’ plan to drop a 10-day quarantine requirement for fully-vaccinated […] Continue reading -> ‘Humbled and horrified’: WHO Reacts to Findings on DR Congo Sexual Abuse – But Will High-level WHO Officials be Investigated Too? 28/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A WHO independent commission concluded that 83 emergency responders to DR-Congo’s 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, including some 21 WHO employees and consultants, had likely abused dozens of Congolese women, obtaining sex in exchange for promises of jobs – also raping nine women outright. But the panel’s findings, which validate reports first published in September 2020 in […] Continue reading -> WHO Academy in Lyon Will Promote Global Digital Learning for Health Workers 27/09/2021 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreyesus and French President Emmanuel Macron today broke ground at the launch of the first WHO Academy in the French city of Lyon. The Academy fulfills a commitment by the two leaders to make WHO training more widely available to member states, and more systematically offered […] Continue reading -> Post COVID-19 Summit: WHO Demands ‘Action Now’ on Promised Donations; Civil Society Says Charity Not Enough 24/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher US President Joe Biden has reaped praise for convening a Global COVID-19 Summit on the margins of this year’s United Nations General Assembly that placed vaccine shortfalls in low- and middle-income countries front and center of GA debates. But it remains to be seen if the big commitments repeated once more this week can break […] Continue reading -> As India Lifts its Vaccine Export Ban – will 600 Million India-made Doses of J&J Vaccine be Shipped to Rich Western Countries? 24/09/2021 Vidya Kirshnan In the coming months, 600 million doses of single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines, manufactured in Hyderabad, are likely to be exported to Europe or the United States, at a time when India grapples with vaccinating its own citizens. Civil-society organisations are concerned that millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine may end up in the […] Continue reading -> Summit Needs to Restore Control of Our Food Systems to Local Producers and Communities 23/09/2021 Dina Mired Home-cooked food is a serious matter in the Middle East and family mealtimes are sacrosanct. We are known for our hospitality. We go all out for our guests. People have strong and definite opinions about food, and family recipes are secrets handed down from generation to generation. As a child, I took our cuisine for […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
New WHO Essential Medicines List Includes Controversial Insulin Analogues; Recommends Action on High Medicines Prices 01/10/2021 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization published the latest edition of its Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) on Friday, making a sweeping move this time to include long-lasting insulin analogues as essential drugs that national health systems should incorporate into their services. The decision reverses the EML Expert Committee’s 2019 decision, rejecting the inclusion of insulin […] Continue reading -> New UK COVID Travel Policies that Discriminate Against African Vaccine Recipients Condemned – Leaders Call for Clarifications 30/09/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN – Following new travel policies that discriminate against vaccinated travellers from African countries, as compared to their European, Asian and Middle Eastern counterparts, African health officials have demanded clarifications, and accused the UK government of potentially festering vaccine hesitancy on the continent. A British government’ plan to drop a 10-day quarantine requirement for fully-vaccinated […] Continue reading -> ‘Humbled and horrified’: WHO Reacts to Findings on DR Congo Sexual Abuse – But Will High-level WHO Officials be Investigated Too? 28/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A WHO independent commission concluded that 83 emergency responders to DR-Congo’s 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, including some 21 WHO employees and consultants, had likely abused dozens of Congolese women, obtaining sex in exchange for promises of jobs – also raping nine women outright. But the panel’s findings, which validate reports first published in September 2020 in […] Continue reading -> WHO Academy in Lyon Will Promote Global Digital Learning for Health Workers 27/09/2021 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreyesus and French President Emmanuel Macron today broke ground at the launch of the first WHO Academy in the French city of Lyon. The Academy fulfills a commitment by the two leaders to make WHO training more widely available to member states, and more systematically offered […] Continue reading -> Post COVID-19 Summit: WHO Demands ‘Action Now’ on Promised Donations; Civil Society Says Charity Not Enough 24/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher US President Joe Biden has reaped praise for convening a Global COVID-19 Summit on the margins of this year’s United Nations General Assembly that placed vaccine shortfalls in low- and middle-income countries front and center of GA debates. But it remains to be seen if the big commitments repeated once more this week can break […] Continue reading -> As India Lifts its Vaccine Export Ban – will 600 Million India-made Doses of J&J Vaccine be Shipped to Rich Western Countries? 24/09/2021 Vidya Kirshnan In the coming months, 600 million doses of single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines, manufactured in Hyderabad, are likely to be exported to Europe or the United States, at a time when India grapples with vaccinating its own citizens. Civil-society organisations are concerned that millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine may end up in the […] Continue reading -> Summit Needs to Restore Control of Our Food Systems to Local Producers and Communities 23/09/2021 Dina Mired Home-cooked food is a serious matter in the Middle East and family mealtimes are sacrosanct. We are known for our hospitality. We go all out for our guests. People have strong and definite opinions about food, and family recipes are secrets handed down from generation to generation. As a child, I took our cuisine for […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
New UK COVID Travel Policies that Discriminate Against African Vaccine Recipients Condemned – Leaders Call for Clarifications 30/09/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN – Following new travel policies that discriminate against vaccinated travellers from African countries, as compared to their European, Asian and Middle Eastern counterparts, African health officials have demanded clarifications, and accused the UK government of potentially festering vaccine hesitancy on the continent. A British government’ plan to drop a 10-day quarantine requirement for fully-vaccinated […] Continue reading -> ‘Humbled and horrified’: WHO Reacts to Findings on DR Congo Sexual Abuse – But Will High-level WHO Officials be Investigated Too? 28/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A WHO independent commission concluded that 83 emergency responders to DR-Congo’s 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, including some 21 WHO employees and consultants, had likely abused dozens of Congolese women, obtaining sex in exchange for promises of jobs – also raping nine women outright. But the panel’s findings, which validate reports first published in September 2020 in […] Continue reading -> WHO Academy in Lyon Will Promote Global Digital Learning for Health Workers 27/09/2021 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreyesus and French President Emmanuel Macron today broke ground at the launch of the first WHO Academy in the French city of Lyon. The Academy fulfills a commitment by the two leaders to make WHO training more widely available to member states, and more systematically offered […] Continue reading -> Post COVID-19 Summit: WHO Demands ‘Action Now’ on Promised Donations; Civil Society Says Charity Not Enough 24/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher US President Joe Biden has reaped praise for convening a Global COVID-19 Summit on the margins of this year’s United Nations General Assembly that placed vaccine shortfalls in low- and middle-income countries front and center of GA debates. But it remains to be seen if the big commitments repeated once more this week can break […] Continue reading -> As India Lifts its Vaccine Export Ban – will 600 Million India-made Doses of J&J Vaccine be Shipped to Rich Western Countries? 24/09/2021 Vidya Kirshnan In the coming months, 600 million doses of single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines, manufactured in Hyderabad, are likely to be exported to Europe or the United States, at a time when India grapples with vaccinating its own citizens. Civil-society organisations are concerned that millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine may end up in the […] Continue reading -> Summit Needs to Restore Control of Our Food Systems to Local Producers and Communities 23/09/2021 Dina Mired Home-cooked food is a serious matter in the Middle East and family mealtimes are sacrosanct. We are known for our hospitality. We go all out for our guests. People have strong and definite opinions about food, and family recipes are secrets handed down from generation to generation. As a child, I took our cuisine for […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘Humbled and horrified’: WHO Reacts to Findings on DR Congo Sexual Abuse – But Will High-level WHO Officials be Investigated Too? 28/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A WHO independent commission concluded that 83 emergency responders to DR-Congo’s 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, including some 21 WHO employees and consultants, had likely abused dozens of Congolese women, obtaining sex in exchange for promises of jobs – also raping nine women outright. But the panel’s findings, which validate reports first published in September 2020 in […] Continue reading -> WHO Academy in Lyon Will Promote Global Digital Learning for Health Workers 27/09/2021 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreyesus and French President Emmanuel Macron today broke ground at the launch of the first WHO Academy in the French city of Lyon. The Academy fulfills a commitment by the two leaders to make WHO training more widely available to member states, and more systematically offered […] Continue reading -> Post COVID-19 Summit: WHO Demands ‘Action Now’ on Promised Donations; Civil Society Says Charity Not Enough 24/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher US President Joe Biden has reaped praise for convening a Global COVID-19 Summit on the margins of this year’s United Nations General Assembly that placed vaccine shortfalls in low- and middle-income countries front and center of GA debates. But it remains to be seen if the big commitments repeated once more this week can break […] Continue reading -> As India Lifts its Vaccine Export Ban – will 600 Million India-made Doses of J&J Vaccine be Shipped to Rich Western Countries? 24/09/2021 Vidya Kirshnan In the coming months, 600 million doses of single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines, manufactured in Hyderabad, are likely to be exported to Europe or the United States, at a time when India grapples with vaccinating its own citizens. Civil-society organisations are concerned that millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine may end up in the […] Continue reading -> Summit Needs to Restore Control of Our Food Systems to Local Producers and Communities 23/09/2021 Dina Mired Home-cooked food is a serious matter in the Middle East and family mealtimes are sacrosanct. We are known for our hospitality. We go all out for our guests. People have strong and definite opinions about food, and family recipes are secrets handed down from generation to generation. As a child, I took our cuisine for […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Academy in Lyon Will Promote Global Digital Learning for Health Workers 27/09/2021 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreyesus and French President Emmanuel Macron today broke ground at the launch of the first WHO Academy in the French city of Lyon. The Academy fulfills a commitment by the two leaders to make WHO training more widely available to member states, and more systematically offered […] Continue reading -> Post COVID-19 Summit: WHO Demands ‘Action Now’ on Promised Donations; Civil Society Says Charity Not Enough 24/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher US President Joe Biden has reaped praise for convening a Global COVID-19 Summit on the margins of this year’s United Nations General Assembly that placed vaccine shortfalls in low- and middle-income countries front and center of GA debates. But it remains to be seen if the big commitments repeated once more this week can break […] Continue reading -> As India Lifts its Vaccine Export Ban – will 600 Million India-made Doses of J&J Vaccine be Shipped to Rich Western Countries? 24/09/2021 Vidya Kirshnan In the coming months, 600 million doses of single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines, manufactured in Hyderabad, are likely to be exported to Europe or the United States, at a time when India grapples with vaccinating its own citizens. Civil-society organisations are concerned that millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine may end up in the […] Continue reading -> Summit Needs to Restore Control of Our Food Systems to Local Producers and Communities 23/09/2021 Dina Mired Home-cooked food is a serious matter in the Middle East and family mealtimes are sacrosanct. We are known for our hospitality. We go all out for our guests. People have strong and definite opinions about food, and family recipes are secrets handed down from generation to generation. As a child, I took our cuisine for […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Post COVID-19 Summit: WHO Demands ‘Action Now’ on Promised Donations; Civil Society Says Charity Not Enough 24/09/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher US President Joe Biden has reaped praise for convening a Global COVID-19 Summit on the margins of this year’s United Nations General Assembly that placed vaccine shortfalls in low- and middle-income countries front and center of GA debates. But it remains to be seen if the big commitments repeated once more this week can break […] Continue reading -> As India Lifts its Vaccine Export Ban – will 600 Million India-made Doses of J&J Vaccine be Shipped to Rich Western Countries? 24/09/2021 Vidya Kirshnan In the coming months, 600 million doses of single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines, manufactured in Hyderabad, are likely to be exported to Europe or the United States, at a time when India grapples with vaccinating its own citizens. Civil-society organisations are concerned that millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine may end up in the […] Continue reading -> Summit Needs to Restore Control of Our Food Systems to Local Producers and Communities 23/09/2021 Dina Mired Home-cooked food is a serious matter in the Middle East and family mealtimes are sacrosanct. We are known for our hospitality. We go all out for our guests. People have strong and definite opinions about food, and family recipes are secrets handed down from generation to generation. As a child, I took our cuisine for […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
As India Lifts its Vaccine Export Ban – will 600 Million India-made Doses of J&J Vaccine be Shipped to Rich Western Countries? 24/09/2021 Vidya Kirshnan In the coming months, 600 million doses of single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines, manufactured in Hyderabad, are likely to be exported to Europe or the United States, at a time when India grapples with vaccinating its own citizens. Civil-society organisations are concerned that millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine may end up in the […] Continue reading -> Summit Needs to Restore Control of Our Food Systems to Local Producers and Communities 23/09/2021 Dina Mired Home-cooked food is a serious matter in the Middle East and family mealtimes are sacrosanct. We are known for our hospitality. We go all out for our guests. People have strong and definite opinions about food, and family recipes are secrets handed down from generation to generation. As a child, I took our cuisine for […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Summit Needs to Restore Control of Our Food Systems to Local Producers and Communities 23/09/2021 Dina Mired Home-cooked food is a serious matter in the Middle East and family mealtimes are sacrosanct. We are known for our hospitality. We go all out for our guests. People have strong and definite opinions about food, and family recipes are secrets handed down from generation to generation. As a child, I took our cuisine for […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts