DRC Finally Launches COVID-19 Vaccinations After Investigating Concerns About AstraZeneca 19/04/2021 Kerry Cullinan Six weeks after receiving 1.7 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from COVAX, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) finally started to vaccinate people on Monday. The delay followed concerns about the safety of the vaccine amid reports about possible links between the vaccine and blood clotting. In a bid to build public confidence, […] Continue reading -> Delhi State to Mobilise Public to Tackle Air Pollution, Says Environment Minister 19/04/2021 Jyoti Pande Lavakare NEW DELHI, India – Delhi State aims to fight air pollution as a “mass movement” with public participation, according to Environment Minister Gopal Rai – but a recent conference he called with experts on the issue concluded with no firm commitments. Rai convened the two-day virtual conference with air pollution experts and clean air advocates […] Continue reading -> Kenya’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: All Ready to Go, But No Doses Available 16/04/2021 Geoffrey Kamadi NAIROBI – Kenya has developed an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination rollout plan – but it has only received enough doses for a million of its 50 million citizens, and dispensed slightly more than half of these – 565,000 – to health workers. Kenya is currently in the third wave of the pandemic and estimates that 4 […] Continue reading -> Gavi Receives $400 Million in Donations at High-Level Event To Expand Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines 15/04/2021 Editorial team In a vital step forward that will help accelerate global access to COVID-19 vaccines, Gavi, the vaccine alliance raised some $400 million in donations at a high-level event on Thursday, just a week after the global COVAX facility reached 100 countries with almost 40 million vaccine doses. The event was hosted by US Secretary of […] Continue reading -> Growing Consensus Emerging At WTO – Strengthen Supply Chain & Tech Transfer To Expand Vaccine Access 15/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay A growing consensus seems to be emerging out of this week’s high-level WTO meeting that glaring inequities in access to vaccines can be remedied by strengthening supply chains, avoiding export bans across borders, and ensuring that big pharma voluntarily transfers its vaccine technologies to poorer countries so they can produce their own vaccines. “The significant […] Continue reading -> ‘Unexamined Prejudices’: COVID-19 And Patents 15/04/2021 Sir Robin Jacob This past few weeks has seen a flurry of open letters from academics, politicians and NGOs dispatched to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden and other heads of state, urging their governments to support a proposal to the World Trade Organization to for a proposed “waiver” suspending intellectual property (IP) rights, and […] Continue reading -> Gates Foundation: Technology Transfer, Not Patents Is Main Roadblock To Expanding Vaccine Production 14/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Patents are not the main roadblock to producing enough coronavirus vaccines for the world – rather the challenge is technology transfer with manufacturers, said a top official at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) on Wednesday. His comments joined those of pharma voices in what seems to be a growing counter-trend to that of […] Continue reading -> WHO Calls For Expanding Access To Insulin At Launch of Global Diabetes Compact 14/04/2021 Chandre Prince It is “unacceptable” that millions of people diagnosed with diabetes do not have access to insulin because of financial hardship – 100 years after the lifesaving medication was discovered. World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a Global Diabetes Summit that saw the launch of a new Global Diabetes Compact […] Continue reading -> India Set To Become Major Manufacturing Hub Of Sputnik V COVID Vaccine – Regulatory Approval Comes As COVID Cases Spike 14/04/2021 Menaka Rao India has greenlighted Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use following a severe shortage of vaccines against the coronavirus and a massive spike in cases, and is now poised to become one of the world’s largest manufacturing hubs for the vaccine with 50 million doses produced by July. India’s aproval of a third COVID vaccine […] Continue reading -> Six Steps To Pivot From Pandemic To Golden Era For Global Health R&D 14/04/2021 Jamie Bay Nishi The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration and its allies in Congress have already posted an impressive track record of early efforts to revive and champion U.S. leadership in global health. The American Rescue Plan, proposed by President Biden in January and passed in March, includes significant emergency funding to support the international COVID-19 response through initiatives […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Delhi State to Mobilise Public to Tackle Air Pollution, Says Environment Minister 19/04/2021 Jyoti Pande Lavakare NEW DELHI, India – Delhi State aims to fight air pollution as a “mass movement” with public participation, according to Environment Minister Gopal Rai – but a recent conference he called with experts on the issue concluded with no firm commitments. Rai convened the two-day virtual conference with air pollution experts and clean air advocates […] Continue reading -> Kenya’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: All Ready to Go, But No Doses Available 16/04/2021 Geoffrey Kamadi NAIROBI – Kenya has developed an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination rollout plan – but it has only received enough doses for a million of its 50 million citizens, and dispensed slightly more than half of these – 565,000 – to health workers. Kenya is currently in the third wave of the pandemic and estimates that 4 […] Continue reading -> Gavi Receives $400 Million in Donations at High-Level Event To Expand Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines 15/04/2021 Editorial team In a vital step forward that will help accelerate global access to COVID-19 vaccines, Gavi, the vaccine alliance raised some $400 million in donations at a high-level event on Thursday, just a week after the global COVAX facility reached 100 countries with almost 40 million vaccine doses. The event was hosted by US Secretary of […] Continue reading -> Growing Consensus Emerging At WTO – Strengthen Supply Chain & Tech Transfer To Expand Vaccine Access 15/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay A growing consensus seems to be emerging out of this week’s high-level WTO meeting that glaring inequities in access to vaccines can be remedied by strengthening supply chains, avoiding export bans across borders, and ensuring that big pharma voluntarily transfers its vaccine technologies to poorer countries so they can produce their own vaccines. “The significant […] Continue reading -> ‘Unexamined Prejudices’: COVID-19 And Patents 15/04/2021 Sir Robin Jacob This past few weeks has seen a flurry of open letters from academics, politicians and NGOs dispatched to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden and other heads of state, urging their governments to support a proposal to the World Trade Organization to for a proposed “waiver” suspending intellectual property (IP) rights, and […] Continue reading -> Gates Foundation: Technology Transfer, Not Patents Is Main Roadblock To Expanding Vaccine Production 14/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Patents are not the main roadblock to producing enough coronavirus vaccines for the world – rather the challenge is technology transfer with manufacturers, said a top official at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) on Wednesday. His comments joined those of pharma voices in what seems to be a growing counter-trend to that of […] Continue reading -> WHO Calls For Expanding Access To Insulin At Launch of Global Diabetes Compact 14/04/2021 Chandre Prince It is “unacceptable” that millions of people diagnosed with diabetes do not have access to insulin because of financial hardship – 100 years after the lifesaving medication was discovered. World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a Global Diabetes Summit that saw the launch of a new Global Diabetes Compact […] Continue reading -> India Set To Become Major Manufacturing Hub Of Sputnik V COVID Vaccine – Regulatory Approval Comes As COVID Cases Spike 14/04/2021 Menaka Rao India has greenlighted Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use following a severe shortage of vaccines against the coronavirus and a massive spike in cases, and is now poised to become one of the world’s largest manufacturing hubs for the vaccine with 50 million doses produced by July. India’s aproval of a third COVID vaccine […] Continue reading -> Six Steps To Pivot From Pandemic To Golden Era For Global Health R&D 14/04/2021 Jamie Bay Nishi The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration and its allies in Congress have already posted an impressive track record of early efforts to revive and champion U.S. leadership in global health. The American Rescue Plan, proposed by President Biden in January and passed in March, includes significant emergency funding to support the international COVID-19 response through initiatives […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Kenya’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: All Ready to Go, But No Doses Available 16/04/2021 Geoffrey Kamadi NAIROBI – Kenya has developed an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination rollout plan – but it has only received enough doses for a million of its 50 million citizens, and dispensed slightly more than half of these – 565,000 – to health workers. Kenya is currently in the third wave of the pandemic and estimates that 4 […] Continue reading -> Gavi Receives $400 Million in Donations at High-Level Event To Expand Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines 15/04/2021 Editorial team In a vital step forward that will help accelerate global access to COVID-19 vaccines, Gavi, the vaccine alliance raised some $400 million in donations at a high-level event on Thursday, just a week after the global COVAX facility reached 100 countries with almost 40 million vaccine doses. The event was hosted by US Secretary of […] Continue reading -> Growing Consensus Emerging At WTO – Strengthen Supply Chain & Tech Transfer To Expand Vaccine Access 15/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay A growing consensus seems to be emerging out of this week’s high-level WTO meeting that glaring inequities in access to vaccines can be remedied by strengthening supply chains, avoiding export bans across borders, and ensuring that big pharma voluntarily transfers its vaccine technologies to poorer countries so they can produce their own vaccines. “The significant […] Continue reading -> ‘Unexamined Prejudices’: COVID-19 And Patents 15/04/2021 Sir Robin Jacob This past few weeks has seen a flurry of open letters from academics, politicians and NGOs dispatched to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden and other heads of state, urging their governments to support a proposal to the World Trade Organization to for a proposed “waiver” suspending intellectual property (IP) rights, and […] Continue reading -> Gates Foundation: Technology Transfer, Not Patents Is Main Roadblock To Expanding Vaccine Production 14/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Patents are not the main roadblock to producing enough coronavirus vaccines for the world – rather the challenge is technology transfer with manufacturers, said a top official at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) on Wednesday. His comments joined those of pharma voices in what seems to be a growing counter-trend to that of […] Continue reading -> WHO Calls For Expanding Access To Insulin At Launch of Global Diabetes Compact 14/04/2021 Chandre Prince It is “unacceptable” that millions of people diagnosed with diabetes do not have access to insulin because of financial hardship – 100 years after the lifesaving medication was discovered. World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a Global Diabetes Summit that saw the launch of a new Global Diabetes Compact […] Continue reading -> India Set To Become Major Manufacturing Hub Of Sputnik V COVID Vaccine – Regulatory Approval Comes As COVID Cases Spike 14/04/2021 Menaka Rao India has greenlighted Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use following a severe shortage of vaccines against the coronavirus and a massive spike in cases, and is now poised to become one of the world’s largest manufacturing hubs for the vaccine with 50 million doses produced by July. India’s aproval of a third COVID vaccine […] Continue reading -> Six Steps To Pivot From Pandemic To Golden Era For Global Health R&D 14/04/2021 Jamie Bay Nishi The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration and its allies in Congress have already posted an impressive track record of early efforts to revive and champion U.S. leadership in global health. The American Rescue Plan, proposed by President Biden in January and passed in March, includes significant emergency funding to support the international COVID-19 response through initiatives […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Gavi Receives $400 Million in Donations at High-Level Event To Expand Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines 15/04/2021 Editorial team In a vital step forward that will help accelerate global access to COVID-19 vaccines, Gavi, the vaccine alliance raised some $400 million in donations at a high-level event on Thursday, just a week after the global COVAX facility reached 100 countries with almost 40 million vaccine doses. The event was hosted by US Secretary of […] Continue reading -> Growing Consensus Emerging At WTO – Strengthen Supply Chain & Tech Transfer To Expand Vaccine Access 15/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay A growing consensus seems to be emerging out of this week’s high-level WTO meeting that glaring inequities in access to vaccines can be remedied by strengthening supply chains, avoiding export bans across borders, and ensuring that big pharma voluntarily transfers its vaccine technologies to poorer countries so they can produce their own vaccines. “The significant […] Continue reading -> ‘Unexamined Prejudices’: COVID-19 And Patents 15/04/2021 Sir Robin Jacob This past few weeks has seen a flurry of open letters from academics, politicians and NGOs dispatched to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden and other heads of state, urging their governments to support a proposal to the World Trade Organization to for a proposed “waiver” suspending intellectual property (IP) rights, and […] Continue reading -> Gates Foundation: Technology Transfer, Not Patents Is Main Roadblock To Expanding Vaccine Production 14/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Patents are not the main roadblock to producing enough coronavirus vaccines for the world – rather the challenge is technology transfer with manufacturers, said a top official at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) on Wednesday. His comments joined those of pharma voices in what seems to be a growing counter-trend to that of […] Continue reading -> WHO Calls For Expanding Access To Insulin At Launch of Global Diabetes Compact 14/04/2021 Chandre Prince It is “unacceptable” that millions of people diagnosed with diabetes do not have access to insulin because of financial hardship – 100 years after the lifesaving medication was discovered. World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a Global Diabetes Summit that saw the launch of a new Global Diabetes Compact […] Continue reading -> India Set To Become Major Manufacturing Hub Of Sputnik V COVID Vaccine – Regulatory Approval Comes As COVID Cases Spike 14/04/2021 Menaka Rao India has greenlighted Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use following a severe shortage of vaccines against the coronavirus and a massive spike in cases, and is now poised to become one of the world’s largest manufacturing hubs for the vaccine with 50 million doses produced by July. India’s aproval of a third COVID vaccine […] Continue reading -> Six Steps To Pivot From Pandemic To Golden Era For Global Health R&D 14/04/2021 Jamie Bay Nishi The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration and its allies in Congress have already posted an impressive track record of early efforts to revive and champion U.S. leadership in global health. The American Rescue Plan, proposed by President Biden in January and passed in March, includes significant emergency funding to support the international COVID-19 response through initiatives […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Growing Consensus Emerging At WTO – Strengthen Supply Chain & Tech Transfer To Expand Vaccine Access 15/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay A growing consensus seems to be emerging out of this week’s high-level WTO meeting that glaring inequities in access to vaccines can be remedied by strengthening supply chains, avoiding export bans across borders, and ensuring that big pharma voluntarily transfers its vaccine technologies to poorer countries so they can produce their own vaccines. “The significant […] Continue reading -> ‘Unexamined Prejudices’: COVID-19 And Patents 15/04/2021 Sir Robin Jacob This past few weeks has seen a flurry of open letters from academics, politicians and NGOs dispatched to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden and other heads of state, urging their governments to support a proposal to the World Trade Organization to for a proposed “waiver” suspending intellectual property (IP) rights, and […] Continue reading -> Gates Foundation: Technology Transfer, Not Patents Is Main Roadblock To Expanding Vaccine Production 14/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Patents are not the main roadblock to producing enough coronavirus vaccines for the world – rather the challenge is technology transfer with manufacturers, said a top official at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) on Wednesday. His comments joined those of pharma voices in what seems to be a growing counter-trend to that of […] Continue reading -> WHO Calls For Expanding Access To Insulin At Launch of Global Diabetes Compact 14/04/2021 Chandre Prince It is “unacceptable” that millions of people diagnosed with diabetes do not have access to insulin because of financial hardship – 100 years after the lifesaving medication was discovered. World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a Global Diabetes Summit that saw the launch of a new Global Diabetes Compact […] Continue reading -> India Set To Become Major Manufacturing Hub Of Sputnik V COVID Vaccine – Regulatory Approval Comes As COVID Cases Spike 14/04/2021 Menaka Rao India has greenlighted Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use following a severe shortage of vaccines against the coronavirus and a massive spike in cases, and is now poised to become one of the world’s largest manufacturing hubs for the vaccine with 50 million doses produced by July. India’s aproval of a third COVID vaccine […] Continue reading -> Six Steps To Pivot From Pandemic To Golden Era For Global Health R&D 14/04/2021 Jamie Bay Nishi The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration and its allies in Congress have already posted an impressive track record of early efforts to revive and champion U.S. leadership in global health. The American Rescue Plan, proposed by President Biden in January and passed in March, includes significant emergency funding to support the international COVID-19 response through initiatives […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘Unexamined Prejudices’: COVID-19 And Patents 15/04/2021 Sir Robin Jacob This past few weeks has seen a flurry of open letters from academics, politicians and NGOs dispatched to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden and other heads of state, urging their governments to support a proposal to the World Trade Organization to for a proposed “waiver” suspending intellectual property (IP) rights, and […] Continue reading -> Gates Foundation: Technology Transfer, Not Patents Is Main Roadblock To Expanding Vaccine Production 14/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Patents are not the main roadblock to producing enough coronavirus vaccines for the world – rather the challenge is technology transfer with manufacturers, said a top official at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) on Wednesday. His comments joined those of pharma voices in what seems to be a growing counter-trend to that of […] Continue reading -> WHO Calls For Expanding Access To Insulin At Launch of Global Diabetes Compact 14/04/2021 Chandre Prince It is “unacceptable” that millions of people diagnosed with diabetes do not have access to insulin because of financial hardship – 100 years after the lifesaving medication was discovered. World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a Global Diabetes Summit that saw the launch of a new Global Diabetes Compact […] Continue reading -> India Set To Become Major Manufacturing Hub Of Sputnik V COVID Vaccine – Regulatory Approval Comes As COVID Cases Spike 14/04/2021 Menaka Rao India has greenlighted Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use following a severe shortage of vaccines against the coronavirus and a massive spike in cases, and is now poised to become one of the world’s largest manufacturing hubs for the vaccine with 50 million doses produced by July. India’s aproval of a third COVID vaccine […] Continue reading -> Six Steps To Pivot From Pandemic To Golden Era For Global Health R&D 14/04/2021 Jamie Bay Nishi The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration and its allies in Congress have already posted an impressive track record of early efforts to revive and champion U.S. leadership in global health. The American Rescue Plan, proposed by President Biden in January and passed in March, includes significant emergency funding to support the international COVID-19 response through initiatives […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Gates Foundation: Technology Transfer, Not Patents Is Main Roadblock To Expanding Vaccine Production 14/04/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Patents are not the main roadblock to producing enough coronavirus vaccines for the world – rather the challenge is technology transfer with manufacturers, said a top official at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) on Wednesday. His comments joined those of pharma voices in what seems to be a growing counter-trend to that of […] Continue reading -> WHO Calls For Expanding Access To Insulin At Launch of Global Diabetes Compact 14/04/2021 Chandre Prince It is “unacceptable” that millions of people diagnosed with diabetes do not have access to insulin because of financial hardship – 100 years after the lifesaving medication was discovered. World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a Global Diabetes Summit that saw the launch of a new Global Diabetes Compact […] Continue reading -> India Set To Become Major Manufacturing Hub Of Sputnik V COVID Vaccine – Regulatory Approval Comes As COVID Cases Spike 14/04/2021 Menaka Rao India has greenlighted Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use following a severe shortage of vaccines against the coronavirus and a massive spike in cases, and is now poised to become one of the world’s largest manufacturing hubs for the vaccine with 50 million doses produced by July. India’s aproval of a third COVID vaccine […] Continue reading -> Six Steps To Pivot From Pandemic To Golden Era For Global Health R&D 14/04/2021 Jamie Bay Nishi The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration and its allies in Congress have already posted an impressive track record of early efforts to revive and champion U.S. leadership in global health. The American Rescue Plan, proposed by President Biden in January and passed in March, includes significant emergency funding to support the international COVID-19 response through initiatives […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Calls For Expanding Access To Insulin At Launch of Global Diabetes Compact 14/04/2021 Chandre Prince It is “unacceptable” that millions of people diagnosed with diabetes do not have access to insulin because of financial hardship – 100 years after the lifesaving medication was discovered. World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a Global Diabetes Summit that saw the launch of a new Global Diabetes Compact […] Continue reading -> India Set To Become Major Manufacturing Hub Of Sputnik V COVID Vaccine – Regulatory Approval Comes As COVID Cases Spike 14/04/2021 Menaka Rao India has greenlighted Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use following a severe shortage of vaccines against the coronavirus and a massive spike in cases, and is now poised to become one of the world’s largest manufacturing hubs for the vaccine with 50 million doses produced by July. India’s aproval of a third COVID vaccine […] Continue reading -> Six Steps To Pivot From Pandemic To Golden Era For Global Health R&D 14/04/2021 Jamie Bay Nishi The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration and its allies in Congress have already posted an impressive track record of early efforts to revive and champion U.S. leadership in global health. The American Rescue Plan, proposed by President Biden in January and passed in March, includes significant emergency funding to support the international COVID-19 response through initiatives […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
India Set To Become Major Manufacturing Hub Of Sputnik V COVID Vaccine – Regulatory Approval Comes As COVID Cases Spike 14/04/2021 Menaka Rao India has greenlighted Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use following a severe shortage of vaccines against the coronavirus and a massive spike in cases, and is now poised to become one of the world’s largest manufacturing hubs for the vaccine with 50 million doses produced by July. India’s aproval of a third COVID vaccine […] Continue reading -> Six Steps To Pivot From Pandemic To Golden Era For Global Health R&D 14/04/2021 Jamie Bay Nishi The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration and its allies in Congress have already posted an impressive track record of early efforts to revive and champion U.S. leadership in global health. The American Rescue Plan, proposed by President Biden in January and passed in March, includes significant emergency funding to support the international COVID-19 response through initiatives […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Six Steps To Pivot From Pandemic To Golden Era For Global Health R&D 14/04/2021 Jamie Bay Nishi The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration and its allies in Congress have already posted an impressive track record of early efforts to revive and champion U.S. leadership in global health. The American Rescue Plan, proposed by President Biden in January and passed in March, includes significant emergency funding to support the international COVID-19 response through initiatives […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts