Ignoring Prison Health Can Come At A Cost For Public Health

21/11/2019 Grace Ren

Incarcerated people suffer from poorer health outcomes and limited access to health care, which can impact them and their communities even after release. However, prisoners’ health is not being monitored well, and there is a lack of evidence to inform policy making to improve the health of prison populations. These are the main findings of […] Continue reading ->

US$ 2.6 Billion Pledged To “Reach The Last Mile” To Eradicate Polio

20/11/2019 Editorial team

Global leaders pledged US$2.6 billion to the global fight to eradicate polio at the Reaching the Last Mile (RLM) forum in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, just one day ahead of World Children’s Day. The commitment fulfills part of the first phase of funding requested by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to finance their 2019 – […] Continue reading ->

US Rep At Nairobi Summit: No Support For Abortion In Family Planning

14/11/2019 Fredrick Nzwili and Elaine Ruth Fletcher

Nairobi, Kenya – The US has thrown considerable weight behind opponents of the Nairobi Summit on Population and Development (ICPD25), saying it will only support family planning programmes that offer alternatives to abortions. The statement by Valerie Huber, the US special representative for global women’s health, on the Summit’s closing day, added fuel to the […] Continue reading ->

Nairobi Population Summit Draws Attention & Debate Over Reproductive Health Rights

12/11/2019 Fredrick Nzwili

Nairobi, Kenya – A three day summit marking 25 years since the historic UN Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo opened here in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday, with a focus on actions that save mothers’ lives, make contraception and family planning more accessible, and end violence against women and girls. But as […] Continue reading ->

WHO & UNICEF Co-Host First Conference On Child And Adolescent Mental Health

11/11/2019 Grace Ren

With rates of self-harm, suicide and anxiety among children and young people growing around the world, UNICEF and the World Health Organization hosted the first ever “Leading Minds” Conference to tackle adolescent mental health on November 7-9. The forum highlighted the growing recognition of mental health as a global health problem, and follows moves made […] Continue reading ->

Global Eradication Of Wild Polio Virus Type 3 Declared On World Polio Day

24/10/2019 Grace Ren

Wild polio virus type 3 (WPV3) has been eradicated worldwide, the World Health Organization declared Thursday following a review of the global data by an independent commission of experts. The announcement about WPV3, coinciding with World Polio Day, comes after wild polio virus type 2 (WPV2) was declared eradicated in 2015. Although one other wild […] Continue reading ->

G20 Health Ministers Issue Detailed Declaration On Global Health Goals

22/10/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher

A G20 Health Ministers Declaration, issued after a two-day meeting of ministers in Okayama Japan, has endorsed rapid achievement of universal health coverage, a more effective support of healthy ageing, increased attention to health emergencies and their underlying causes such as poverty and weak health systems, and more forceful action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The […] Continue reading ->

New WHO Special Initiative Aims To Expand Mental Health Coverage To 100 Million More People By 2023

14/10/2019 Grace Ren

The World Health Organization aims to expand mental health coverage to 100 million more people in 12 priority countries by 2023 as part of a new Special Initiative for Mental Health launched Monday at start of the 11th World Mental Health Forum. Over 20 health ministers from around the world gathered in Geneva along with […] Continue reading ->

Measles Resurgence, Polio Persistence & HPV Vaccine Shortages Concern Health Experts

11/10/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher

Measles is undergoing a worrisome worldwide resurgence, and it has killed more people in the Democratic Republic of Congo than the current Ebola outbreak – which is finally showing signs of decline, said a panel of vaccine experts in a WHO press briefing on Thursday. Meanwhile, a worldwide shortage of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which […] Continue reading ->

Researchers & Policymakers Grapple With Medical Implications Of Cannabis

04/10/2019 Elaine Ruth Fletcher

Bad Hofgastein, Austria – A stronger research agenda for cannabis is urgently required to guide European health policymakers through a bewildering maze of medical and recreational cannabis and cannabinoid products that are fast emerging on the European market, said researchers and policymakers at a panel session of the 2019 European Health Forum (Gastein), which concluded […] Continue reading ->