COVID-19 Therapeutics Must be Shared to Avoid Replicating Vaccine Inequality, Warns DNDi 06/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan Much more global attention needs to be paid to developing early therapeutics to protect patients with COVID-19 from “hospitalisation, intensive care, or worse”, according to a report from Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) released on Thursday. In addition, the few innovative treatments that exist are mostly available in high-income countries, and DNDi warns that […] Continue reading -> Planetary ‘Vital Signs’ Indicate that Climate Tipping Point is Imminent 05/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new study, conducted by an international group of scientists, found that key indicators of the state of the climate crisis were reaching critical tipping points. The study, published in the journal BioScience, measured some 31 planetary vital signs, ranging from coal, oil, and gas consumption to carbon dioxide emissions to ocean acidity to fossil […] Continue reading -> Hundreds of Health Workers and Patients Killed in Attacks on Health Facilities Since 2017 04/08/2021 Raisa Santos More than 700 healthcare workers and patients have died, and more than 2000 have been injured in attacks on health facilities across 17 emergency-affected countries and fragile settings since December 2017, according to a new WHO report released on Tuesday. Countries at risk included Ethiopia, Yemen, Syria, Mozambique, Nigeria, occupied Palestinian territory, Myanmar and the […] Continue reading -> WHO Calls for G20 Support for Moratorium on COVID Vaccine Boosters Until End of September 04/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September to enable a minimum of 10% of the population of every country to be vaccinated. Making the appeal at the WHO’s COVID-19 media briefing on Wednesday, Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreysus said support for […] Continue reading -> US Donation Enables New Nigerian Rollout Where Only 0,6% Are Vaccinated Against COVID 04/08/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN – On Sunday 1 August, two planes carrying four million doses of the Moderna vaccine from the US touched down in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. With the arrival of the new doses, Nigeria will be able to resume its COVID-19 vaccination programme which was suspended on 22 July when the Nigeria Primary Healthcare Development […] Continue reading -> Boosters: Laboratory Evidence Needs to be Balanced with Field-based Data 03/08/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay This article is the third in a three-part series on COVID-19 booster vaccines, which is an evolving discussion as more evidence emerges about the performance of vaccines against variants. Alongside the heated policy debate over the disproportionate consumption of COVID vaccines in rich countries, a handful of senior scientists are pushing back against the scientific […] Continue reading -> Delta Variant Warning for Unvaccinated Pregnant Women 03/08/2021 Raisa Santos Unvaccinated pregnant women infected with the Delta variant run a greater risk of contracting severe COVID-19, according to a UK study of 3371 pregnant women admitted to the hospital with symptomatic COVID-19. The study, conducted by the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS), found that 24% of pregnant women admitted in the first wave had moderate […] Continue reading -> WHO Sets up Special Initiative to Address Delta Variant, as Africa Set to Miss Vaccine Targets 30/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan A special global initiative to respond to the Delta variant has been set up, as COVID-19 cases are expected to reach 200 million within the next two weeks. Meanwhile, 70% of African countries will miss the World Health Organization’s (WHO) target to vaccinate 10% of their populations against COVID-19 by the end of September, and […] Continue reading -> Rome Meeting Proposes ‘People-Centred and Nature-Positive Change’ to Food System 29/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan World leaders have been given clear pointers on how to transform the global food system to be more equitable, nourishing and resistant to climate change, at the end of a three-day United Nations pre-summit attended by over 17,000 delegates. Focus now shifts to the Head of State-level summit in New York in September, but UN […] Continue reading -> Africa Grapples With How to Support Women Farmers at UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 28/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change exacerbate global food insecurity, African countries are committed to giving more support to small farmers – particularly women. This emerged at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in Italy, which opened on Monday as a precursor to a formal UN summit planned for September. Rwandan President Paul Kagame […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Planetary ‘Vital Signs’ Indicate that Climate Tipping Point is Imminent 05/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new study, conducted by an international group of scientists, found that key indicators of the state of the climate crisis were reaching critical tipping points. The study, published in the journal BioScience, measured some 31 planetary vital signs, ranging from coal, oil, and gas consumption to carbon dioxide emissions to ocean acidity to fossil […] Continue reading -> Hundreds of Health Workers and Patients Killed in Attacks on Health Facilities Since 2017 04/08/2021 Raisa Santos More than 700 healthcare workers and patients have died, and more than 2000 have been injured in attacks on health facilities across 17 emergency-affected countries and fragile settings since December 2017, according to a new WHO report released on Tuesday. Countries at risk included Ethiopia, Yemen, Syria, Mozambique, Nigeria, occupied Palestinian territory, Myanmar and the […] Continue reading -> WHO Calls for G20 Support for Moratorium on COVID Vaccine Boosters Until End of September 04/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September to enable a minimum of 10% of the population of every country to be vaccinated. Making the appeal at the WHO’s COVID-19 media briefing on Wednesday, Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreysus said support for […] Continue reading -> US Donation Enables New Nigerian Rollout Where Only 0,6% Are Vaccinated Against COVID 04/08/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN – On Sunday 1 August, two planes carrying four million doses of the Moderna vaccine from the US touched down in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. With the arrival of the new doses, Nigeria will be able to resume its COVID-19 vaccination programme which was suspended on 22 July when the Nigeria Primary Healthcare Development […] Continue reading -> Boosters: Laboratory Evidence Needs to be Balanced with Field-based Data 03/08/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay This article is the third in a three-part series on COVID-19 booster vaccines, which is an evolving discussion as more evidence emerges about the performance of vaccines against variants. Alongside the heated policy debate over the disproportionate consumption of COVID vaccines in rich countries, a handful of senior scientists are pushing back against the scientific […] Continue reading -> Delta Variant Warning for Unvaccinated Pregnant Women 03/08/2021 Raisa Santos Unvaccinated pregnant women infected with the Delta variant run a greater risk of contracting severe COVID-19, according to a UK study of 3371 pregnant women admitted to the hospital with symptomatic COVID-19. The study, conducted by the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS), found that 24% of pregnant women admitted in the first wave had moderate […] Continue reading -> WHO Sets up Special Initiative to Address Delta Variant, as Africa Set to Miss Vaccine Targets 30/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan A special global initiative to respond to the Delta variant has been set up, as COVID-19 cases are expected to reach 200 million within the next two weeks. Meanwhile, 70% of African countries will miss the World Health Organization’s (WHO) target to vaccinate 10% of their populations against COVID-19 by the end of September, and […] Continue reading -> Rome Meeting Proposes ‘People-Centred and Nature-Positive Change’ to Food System 29/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan World leaders have been given clear pointers on how to transform the global food system to be more equitable, nourishing and resistant to climate change, at the end of a three-day United Nations pre-summit attended by over 17,000 delegates. Focus now shifts to the Head of State-level summit in New York in September, but UN […] Continue reading -> Africa Grapples With How to Support Women Farmers at UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 28/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change exacerbate global food insecurity, African countries are committed to giving more support to small farmers – particularly women. This emerged at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in Italy, which opened on Monday as a precursor to a formal UN summit planned for September. Rwandan President Paul Kagame […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Hundreds of Health Workers and Patients Killed in Attacks on Health Facilities Since 2017 04/08/2021 Raisa Santos More than 700 healthcare workers and patients have died, and more than 2000 have been injured in attacks on health facilities across 17 emergency-affected countries and fragile settings since December 2017, according to a new WHO report released on Tuesday. Countries at risk included Ethiopia, Yemen, Syria, Mozambique, Nigeria, occupied Palestinian territory, Myanmar and the […] Continue reading -> WHO Calls for G20 Support for Moratorium on COVID Vaccine Boosters Until End of September 04/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September to enable a minimum of 10% of the population of every country to be vaccinated. Making the appeal at the WHO’s COVID-19 media briefing on Wednesday, Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreysus said support for […] Continue reading -> US Donation Enables New Nigerian Rollout Where Only 0,6% Are Vaccinated Against COVID 04/08/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN – On Sunday 1 August, two planes carrying four million doses of the Moderna vaccine from the US touched down in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. With the arrival of the new doses, Nigeria will be able to resume its COVID-19 vaccination programme which was suspended on 22 July when the Nigeria Primary Healthcare Development […] Continue reading -> Boosters: Laboratory Evidence Needs to be Balanced with Field-based Data 03/08/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay This article is the third in a three-part series on COVID-19 booster vaccines, which is an evolving discussion as more evidence emerges about the performance of vaccines against variants. Alongside the heated policy debate over the disproportionate consumption of COVID vaccines in rich countries, a handful of senior scientists are pushing back against the scientific […] Continue reading -> Delta Variant Warning for Unvaccinated Pregnant Women 03/08/2021 Raisa Santos Unvaccinated pregnant women infected with the Delta variant run a greater risk of contracting severe COVID-19, according to a UK study of 3371 pregnant women admitted to the hospital with symptomatic COVID-19. The study, conducted by the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS), found that 24% of pregnant women admitted in the first wave had moderate […] Continue reading -> WHO Sets up Special Initiative to Address Delta Variant, as Africa Set to Miss Vaccine Targets 30/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan A special global initiative to respond to the Delta variant has been set up, as COVID-19 cases are expected to reach 200 million within the next two weeks. Meanwhile, 70% of African countries will miss the World Health Organization’s (WHO) target to vaccinate 10% of their populations against COVID-19 by the end of September, and […] Continue reading -> Rome Meeting Proposes ‘People-Centred and Nature-Positive Change’ to Food System 29/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan World leaders have been given clear pointers on how to transform the global food system to be more equitable, nourishing and resistant to climate change, at the end of a three-day United Nations pre-summit attended by over 17,000 delegates. Focus now shifts to the Head of State-level summit in New York in September, but UN […] Continue reading -> Africa Grapples With How to Support Women Farmers at UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 28/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change exacerbate global food insecurity, African countries are committed to giving more support to small farmers – particularly women. This emerged at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in Italy, which opened on Monday as a precursor to a formal UN summit planned for September. Rwandan President Paul Kagame […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Calls for G20 Support for Moratorium on COVID Vaccine Boosters Until End of September 04/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September to enable a minimum of 10% of the population of every country to be vaccinated. Making the appeal at the WHO’s COVID-19 media briefing on Wednesday, Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreysus said support for […] Continue reading -> US Donation Enables New Nigerian Rollout Where Only 0,6% Are Vaccinated Against COVID 04/08/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN – On Sunday 1 August, two planes carrying four million doses of the Moderna vaccine from the US touched down in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. With the arrival of the new doses, Nigeria will be able to resume its COVID-19 vaccination programme which was suspended on 22 July when the Nigeria Primary Healthcare Development […] Continue reading -> Boosters: Laboratory Evidence Needs to be Balanced with Field-based Data 03/08/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay This article is the third in a three-part series on COVID-19 booster vaccines, which is an evolving discussion as more evidence emerges about the performance of vaccines against variants. Alongside the heated policy debate over the disproportionate consumption of COVID vaccines in rich countries, a handful of senior scientists are pushing back against the scientific […] Continue reading -> Delta Variant Warning for Unvaccinated Pregnant Women 03/08/2021 Raisa Santos Unvaccinated pregnant women infected with the Delta variant run a greater risk of contracting severe COVID-19, according to a UK study of 3371 pregnant women admitted to the hospital with symptomatic COVID-19. The study, conducted by the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS), found that 24% of pregnant women admitted in the first wave had moderate […] Continue reading -> WHO Sets up Special Initiative to Address Delta Variant, as Africa Set to Miss Vaccine Targets 30/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan A special global initiative to respond to the Delta variant has been set up, as COVID-19 cases are expected to reach 200 million within the next two weeks. Meanwhile, 70% of African countries will miss the World Health Organization’s (WHO) target to vaccinate 10% of their populations against COVID-19 by the end of September, and […] Continue reading -> Rome Meeting Proposes ‘People-Centred and Nature-Positive Change’ to Food System 29/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan World leaders have been given clear pointers on how to transform the global food system to be more equitable, nourishing and resistant to climate change, at the end of a three-day United Nations pre-summit attended by over 17,000 delegates. Focus now shifts to the Head of State-level summit in New York in September, but UN […] Continue reading -> Africa Grapples With How to Support Women Farmers at UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 28/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change exacerbate global food insecurity, African countries are committed to giving more support to small farmers – particularly women. This emerged at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in Italy, which opened on Monday as a precursor to a formal UN summit planned for September. Rwandan President Paul Kagame […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
US Donation Enables New Nigerian Rollout Where Only 0,6% Are Vaccinated Against COVID 04/08/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN – On Sunday 1 August, two planes carrying four million doses of the Moderna vaccine from the US touched down in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. With the arrival of the new doses, Nigeria will be able to resume its COVID-19 vaccination programme which was suspended on 22 July when the Nigeria Primary Healthcare Development […] Continue reading -> Boosters: Laboratory Evidence Needs to be Balanced with Field-based Data 03/08/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay This article is the third in a three-part series on COVID-19 booster vaccines, which is an evolving discussion as more evidence emerges about the performance of vaccines against variants. Alongside the heated policy debate over the disproportionate consumption of COVID vaccines in rich countries, a handful of senior scientists are pushing back against the scientific […] Continue reading -> Delta Variant Warning for Unvaccinated Pregnant Women 03/08/2021 Raisa Santos Unvaccinated pregnant women infected with the Delta variant run a greater risk of contracting severe COVID-19, according to a UK study of 3371 pregnant women admitted to the hospital with symptomatic COVID-19. The study, conducted by the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS), found that 24% of pregnant women admitted in the first wave had moderate […] Continue reading -> WHO Sets up Special Initiative to Address Delta Variant, as Africa Set to Miss Vaccine Targets 30/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan A special global initiative to respond to the Delta variant has been set up, as COVID-19 cases are expected to reach 200 million within the next two weeks. Meanwhile, 70% of African countries will miss the World Health Organization’s (WHO) target to vaccinate 10% of their populations against COVID-19 by the end of September, and […] Continue reading -> Rome Meeting Proposes ‘People-Centred and Nature-Positive Change’ to Food System 29/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan World leaders have been given clear pointers on how to transform the global food system to be more equitable, nourishing and resistant to climate change, at the end of a three-day United Nations pre-summit attended by over 17,000 delegates. Focus now shifts to the Head of State-level summit in New York in September, but UN […] Continue reading -> Africa Grapples With How to Support Women Farmers at UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 28/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change exacerbate global food insecurity, African countries are committed to giving more support to small farmers – particularly women. This emerged at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in Italy, which opened on Monday as a precursor to a formal UN summit planned for September. Rwandan President Paul Kagame […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Boosters: Laboratory Evidence Needs to be Balanced with Field-based Data 03/08/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay This article is the third in a three-part series on COVID-19 booster vaccines, which is an evolving discussion as more evidence emerges about the performance of vaccines against variants. Alongside the heated policy debate over the disproportionate consumption of COVID vaccines in rich countries, a handful of senior scientists are pushing back against the scientific […] Continue reading -> Delta Variant Warning for Unvaccinated Pregnant Women 03/08/2021 Raisa Santos Unvaccinated pregnant women infected with the Delta variant run a greater risk of contracting severe COVID-19, according to a UK study of 3371 pregnant women admitted to the hospital with symptomatic COVID-19. The study, conducted by the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS), found that 24% of pregnant women admitted in the first wave had moderate […] Continue reading -> WHO Sets up Special Initiative to Address Delta Variant, as Africa Set to Miss Vaccine Targets 30/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan A special global initiative to respond to the Delta variant has been set up, as COVID-19 cases are expected to reach 200 million within the next two weeks. Meanwhile, 70% of African countries will miss the World Health Organization’s (WHO) target to vaccinate 10% of their populations against COVID-19 by the end of September, and […] Continue reading -> Rome Meeting Proposes ‘People-Centred and Nature-Positive Change’ to Food System 29/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan World leaders have been given clear pointers on how to transform the global food system to be more equitable, nourishing and resistant to climate change, at the end of a three-day United Nations pre-summit attended by over 17,000 delegates. Focus now shifts to the Head of State-level summit in New York in September, but UN […] Continue reading -> Africa Grapples With How to Support Women Farmers at UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 28/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change exacerbate global food insecurity, African countries are committed to giving more support to small farmers – particularly women. This emerged at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in Italy, which opened on Monday as a precursor to a formal UN summit planned for September. Rwandan President Paul Kagame […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Delta Variant Warning for Unvaccinated Pregnant Women 03/08/2021 Raisa Santos Unvaccinated pregnant women infected with the Delta variant run a greater risk of contracting severe COVID-19, according to a UK study of 3371 pregnant women admitted to the hospital with symptomatic COVID-19. The study, conducted by the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS), found that 24% of pregnant women admitted in the first wave had moderate […] Continue reading -> WHO Sets up Special Initiative to Address Delta Variant, as Africa Set to Miss Vaccine Targets 30/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan A special global initiative to respond to the Delta variant has been set up, as COVID-19 cases are expected to reach 200 million within the next two weeks. Meanwhile, 70% of African countries will miss the World Health Organization’s (WHO) target to vaccinate 10% of their populations against COVID-19 by the end of September, and […] Continue reading -> Rome Meeting Proposes ‘People-Centred and Nature-Positive Change’ to Food System 29/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan World leaders have been given clear pointers on how to transform the global food system to be more equitable, nourishing and resistant to climate change, at the end of a three-day United Nations pre-summit attended by over 17,000 delegates. Focus now shifts to the Head of State-level summit in New York in September, but UN […] Continue reading -> Africa Grapples With How to Support Women Farmers at UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 28/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change exacerbate global food insecurity, African countries are committed to giving more support to small farmers – particularly women. This emerged at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in Italy, which opened on Monday as a precursor to a formal UN summit planned for September. Rwandan President Paul Kagame […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Sets up Special Initiative to Address Delta Variant, as Africa Set to Miss Vaccine Targets 30/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan A special global initiative to respond to the Delta variant has been set up, as COVID-19 cases are expected to reach 200 million within the next two weeks. Meanwhile, 70% of African countries will miss the World Health Organization’s (WHO) target to vaccinate 10% of their populations against COVID-19 by the end of September, and […] Continue reading -> Rome Meeting Proposes ‘People-Centred and Nature-Positive Change’ to Food System 29/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan World leaders have been given clear pointers on how to transform the global food system to be more equitable, nourishing and resistant to climate change, at the end of a three-day United Nations pre-summit attended by over 17,000 delegates. Focus now shifts to the Head of State-level summit in New York in September, but UN […] Continue reading -> Africa Grapples With How to Support Women Farmers at UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 28/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change exacerbate global food insecurity, African countries are committed to giving more support to small farmers – particularly women. This emerged at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in Italy, which opened on Monday as a precursor to a formal UN summit planned for September. Rwandan President Paul Kagame […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Rome Meeting Proposes ‘People-Centred and Nature-Positive Change’ to Food System 29/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan World leaders have been given clear pointers on how to transform the global food system to be more equitable, nourishing and resistant to climate change, at the end of a three-day United Nations pre-summit attended by over 17,000 delegates. Focus now shifts to the Head of State-level summit in New York in September, but UN […] Continue reading -> Africa Grapples With How to Support Women Farmers at UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 28/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change exacerbate global food insecurity, African countries are committed to giving more support to small farmers – particularly women. This emerged at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in Italy, which opened on Monday as a precursor to a formal UN summit planned for September. Rwandan President Paul Kagame […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Africa Grapples With How to Support Women Farmers at UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 28/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change exacerbate global food insecurity, African countries are committed to giving more support to small farmers – particularly women. This emerged at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in Italy, which opened on Monday as a precursor to a formal UN summit planned for September. Rwandan President Paul Kagame […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts