Dengue Cases Approach Historic Highs Worldwide; Local Transmission Seen In Europe 22/12/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Incidence of dengue virus has soared in 2023 to near historically high levels, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday, with more than 5 million cases worldwide and 5,000 deaths from the virus that still lacks an effective treatment or vaccine. Moreover, formerly dengue-free countries in southern Europe, such as France, Italy and Spain […] Continue reading -> WHO Adds Second Malaria Vaccine to UN Procurement List; ‘Milestone’ for Prevention 21/12/2023 Editorial team The World Health Organization (WHO) has added the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine to its list of ‘prequalified’ vaccines, paving the way for bulk procurement and mass deployment of the new vaccine across malaria-endemic countries by UNICEF and other global health agencies. The prequalification of the world’s second malaria vaccine, developed by Oxford University and manufactured by […] Continue reading -> Tuberculosis and Inequality: How Race, Caste, and Class Impact Access to Medicines 16/12/2023 Maayan Hoffman The elimination of tuberculosis cannot be achieved if medicines are locked in a “patent panoply,” according to Indian author and journalist Vidya Kishnan. Speaking to Garry Aslanyan on the most recent episode of Dialogues, a new series from the Global Health Matters podcast, the author of “Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History” said that “everything […] Continue reading -> Climate Change, Conflict and Disease Outbreaks All Loom as Global Health Threats at Close of 2023 15/12/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher In the wake of COP28, WHO will press ahead with calls for fossil fuel phase out, stepped up commitments for health sector decarbonization, and a new resolution on Climate and Health, set to go before the World Health Assembly in May 2024. Those were key takeaways from an end-year WHO global press briefing by WHO […] Continue reading -> Southeast Asia Reintroduces Airport Screening Following COVID-19 Spike 14/12/2023 Kerry Cullinan A spike in COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia has prompted Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia to reintroduce screening for travellers at airports. In the past week, Indonesia has installed thermal body scanners at Jakarta International Airport and the main ferry line. The Bali Port Health Office has also implemented thermal checks at three border entry points: […] Continue reading -> WHO Governing Board Approves Consensus Resolution on Gaza Health and Humanitarian Situation 10/12/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher In a fragile show of unity, the World Health Organization Executive Board approved a draft resolution calling for “immediate, sustained and unimpeded” humanitarian relief to beleaguered Gaza, including safe passage of health personnel and supplies, as well as ambulances and patients. The WHO EB move, which will clear the resolution for approval by the May World […] Continue reading -> It Is Time to Streamline the Global HIV/AIDS Architecture 01/12/2023 Mukesh Kapila I endured a dreary weekend in a Paris hotel while others rushed home. As the junior English speaker of a task force of United Nations (UN) member states, it fell to me to finalise our report. It was the early 1990s and we had travelled across Asia, Africa and Latin America collating confusing evidence and […] Continue reading -> UNAIDS Urges Investment in Community Leadership to End AIDS 28/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan As donors withdraw from HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has chosen to focus on the importance of community-led interventions to end the AIDS pandemic for World AIDS Day on 1 December. “There has been an unprecedented backsliding in financial commitments to community-led organisations, and it is costing lives,” according to UNAIDS […] Continue reading -> Increasing Africa’s Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity Will Bring ‘Second Independence’ for the Continent 27/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan LUSAKA, Zambia – Ensuring that Africa can manufacture its own vaccines will represent “the second independence of Africa”, Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said at the start of the Conference for Public Health in Africa 2023 (CPHIA) on Monday. “Many African countries got their […] Continue reading -> WHO Asks China for ‘Detailed Information’ About Spike in Child Respiratory Illnesses 23/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan Unusual outbreaks of respiratory illness and pneumonia in Chinese children have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to ask the country for detailed information. Children’s hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning Province, some 800km apart, are “overwhelmed with sick children, and schools and classes were on the verge of suspension”, according to local Chinese media, as […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Adds Second Malaria Vaccine to UN Procurement List; ‘Milestone’ for Prevention 21/12/2023 Editorial team The World Health Organization (WHO) has added the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine to its list of ‘prequalified’ vaccines, paving the way for bulk procurement and mass deployment of the new vaccine across malaria-endemic countries by UNICEF and other global health agencies. The prequalification of the world’s second malaria vaccine, developed by Oxford University and manufactured by […] Continue reading -> Tuberculosis and Inequality: How Race, Caste, and Class Impact Access to Medicines 16/12/2023 Maayan Hoffman The elimination of tuberculosis cannot be achieved if medicines are locked in a “patent panoply,” according to Indian author and journalist Vidya Kishnan. Speaking to Garry Aslanyan on the most recent episode of Dialogues, a new series from the Global Health Matters podcast, the author of “Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History” said that “everything […] Continue reading -> Climate Change, Conflict and Disease Outbreaks All Loom as Global Health Threats at Close of 2023 15/12/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher In the wake of COP28, WHO will press ahead with calls for fossil fuel phase out, stepped up commitments for health sector decarbonization, and a new resolution on Climate and Health, set to go before the World Health Assembly in May 2024. Those were key takeaways from an end-year WHO global press briefing by WHO […] Continue reading -> Southeast Asia Reintroduces Airport Screening Following COVID-19 Spike 14/12/2023 Kerry Cullinan A spike in COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia has prompted Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia to reintroduce screening for travellers at airports. In the past week, Indonesia has installed thermal body scanners at Jakarta International Airport and the main ferry line. The Bali Port Health Office has also implemented thermal checks at three border entry points: […] Continue reading -> WHO Governing Board Approves Consensus Resolution on Gaza Health and Humanitarian Situation 10/12/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher In a fragile show of unity, the World Health Organization Executive Board approved a draft resolution calling for “immediate, sustained and unimpeded” humanitarian relief to beleaguered Gaza, including safe passage of health personnel and supplies, as well as ambulances and patients. The WHO EB move, which will clear the resolution for approval by the May World […] Continue reading -> It Is Time to Streamline the Global HIV/AIDS Architecture 01/12/2023 Mukesh Kapila I endured a dreary weekend in a Paris hotel while others rushed home. As the junior English speaker of a task force of United Nations (UN) member states, it fell to me to finalise our report. It was the early 1990s and we had travelled across Asia, Africa and Latin America collating confusing evidence and […] Continue reading -> UNAIDS Urges Investment in Community Leadership to End AIDS 28/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan As donors withdraw from HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has chosen to focus on the importance of community-led interventions to end the AIDS pandemic for World AIDS Day on 1 December. “There has been an unprecedented backsliding in financial commitments to community-led organisations, and it is costing lives,” according to UNAIDS […] Continue reading -> Increasing Africa’s Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity Will Bring ‘Second Independence’ for the Continent 27/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan LUSAKA, Zambia – Ensuring that Africa can manufacture its own vaccines will represent “the second independence of Africa”, Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said at the start of the Conference for Public Health in Africa 2023 (CPHIA) on Monday. “Many African countries got their […] Continue reading -> WHO Asks China for ‘Detailed Information’ About Spike in Child Respiratory Illnesses 23/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan Unusual outbreaks of respiratory illness and pneumonia in Chinese children have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to ask the country for detailed information. Children’s hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning Province, some 800km apart, are “overwhelmed with sick children, and schools and classes were on the verge of suspension”, according to local Chinese media, as […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Tuberculosis and Inequality: How Race, Caste, and Class Impact Access to Medicines 16/12/2023 Maayan Hoffman The elimination of tuberculosis cannot be achieved if medicines are locked in a “patent panoply,” according to Indian author and journalist Vidya Kishnan. Speaking to Garry Aslanyan on the most recent episode of Dialogues, a new series from the Global Health Matters podcast, the author of “Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History” said that “everything […] Continue reading -> Climate Change, Conflict and Disease Outbreaks All Loom as Global Health Threats at Close of 2023 15/12/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher In the wake of COP28, WHO will press ahead with calls for fossil fuel phase out, stepped up commitments for health sector decarbonization, and a new resolution on Climate and Health, set to go before the World Health Assembly in May 2024. Those were key takeaways from an end-year WHO global press briefing by WHO […] Continue reading -> Southeast Asia Reintroduces Airport Screening Following COVID-19 Spike 14/12/2023 Kerry Cullinan A spike in COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia has prompted Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia to reintroduce screening for travellers at airports. In the past week, Indonesia has installed thermal body scanners at Jakarta International Airport and the main ferry line. The Bali Port Health Office has also implemented thermal checks at three border entry points: […] Continue reading -> WHO Governing Board Approves Consensus Resolution on Gaza Health and Humanitarian Situation 10/12/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher In a fragile show of unity, the World Health Organization Executive Board approved a draft resolution calling for “immediate, sustained and unimpeded” humanitarian relief to beleaguered Gaza, including safe passage of health personnel and supplies, as well as ambulances and patients. The WHO EB move, which will clear the resolution for approval by the May World […] Continue reading -> It Is Time to Streamline the Global HIV/AIDS Architecture 01/12/2023 Mukesh Kapila I endured a dreary weekend in a Paris hotel while others rushed home. As the junior English speaker of a task force of United Nations (UN) member states, it fell to me to finalise our report. It was the early 1990s and we had travelled across Asia, Africa and Latin America collating confusing evidence and […] Continue reading -> UNAIDS Urges Investment in Community Leadership to End AIDS 28/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan As donors withdraw from HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has chosen to focus on the importance of community-led interventions to end the AIDS pandemic for World AIDS Day on 1 December. “There has been an unprecedented backsliding in financial commitments to community-led organisations, and it is costing lives,” according to UNAIDS […] Continue reading -> Increasing Africa’s Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity Will Bring ‘Second Independence’ for the Continent 27/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan LUSAKA, Zambia – Ensuring that Africa can manufacture its own vaccines will represent “the second independence of Africa”, Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said at the start of the Conference for Public Health in Africa 2023 (CPHIA) on Monday. “Many African countries got their […] Continue reading -> WHO Asks China for ‘Detailed Information’ About Spike in Child Respiratory Illnesses 23/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan Unusual outbreaks of respiratory illness and pneumonia in Chinese children have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to ask the country for detailed information. Children’s hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning Province, some 800km apart, are “overwhelmed with sick children, and schools and classes were on the verge of suspension”, according to local Chinese media, as […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Climate Change, Conflict and Disease Outbreaks All Loom as Global Health Threats at Close of 2023 15/12/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher In the wake of COP28, WHO will press ahead with calls for fossil fuel phase out, stepped up commitments for health sector decarbonization, and a new resolution on Climate and Health, set to go before the World Health Assembly in May 2024. Those were key takeaways from an end-year WHO global press briefing by WHO […] Continue reading -> Southeast Asia Reintroduces Airport Screening Following COVID-19 Spike 14/12/2023 Kerry Cullinan A spike in COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia has prompted Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia to reintroduce screening for travellers at airports. In the past week, Indonesia has installed thermal body scanners at Jakarta International Airport and the main ferry line. The Bali Port Health Office has also implemented thermal checks at three border entry points: […] Continue reading -> WHO Governing Board Approves Consensus Resolution on Gaza Health and Humanitarian Situation 10/12/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher In a fragile show of unity, the World Health Organization Executive Board approved a draft resolution calling for “immediate, sustained and unimpeded” humanitarian relief to beleaguered Gaza, including safe passage of health personnel and supplies, as well as ambulances and patients. The WHO EB move, which will clear the resolution for approval by the May World […] Continue reading -> It Is Time to Streamline the Global HIV/AIDS Architecture 01/12/2023 Mukesh Kapila I endured a dreary weekend in a Paris hotel while others rushed home. As the junior English speaker of a task force of United Nations (UN) member states, it fell to me to finalise our report. It was the early 1990s and we had travelled across Asia, Africa and Latin America collating confusing evidence and […] Continue reading -> UNAIDS Urges Investment in Community Leadership to End AIDS 28/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan As donors withdraw from HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has chosen to focus on the importance of community-led interventions to end the AIDS pandemic for World AIDS Day on 1 December. “There has been an unprecedented backsliding in financial commitments to community-led organisations, and it is costing lives,” according to UNAIDS […] Continue reading -> Increasing Africa’s Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity Will Bring ‘Second Independence’ for the Continent 27/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan LUSAKA, Zambia – Ensuring that Africa can manufacture its own vaccines will represent “the second independence of Africa”, Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said at the start of the Conference for Public Health in Africa 2023 (CPHIA) on Monday. “Many African countries got their […] Continue reading -> WHO Asks China for ‘Detailed Information’ About Spike in Child Respiratory Illnesses 23/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan Unusual outbreaks of respiratory illness and pneumonia in Chinese children have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to ask the country for detailed information. Children’s hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning Province, some 800km apart, are “overwhelmed with sick children, and schools and classes were on the verge of suspension”, according to local Chinese media, as […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Southeast Asia Reintroduces Airport Screening Following COVID-19 Spike 14/12/2023 Kerry Cullinan A spike in COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia has prompted Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia to reintroduce screening for travellers at airports. In the past week, Indonesia has installed thermal body scanners at Jakarta International Airport and the main ferry line. The Bali Port Health Office has also implemented thermal checks at three border entry points: […] Continue reading -> WHO Governing Board Approves Consensus Resolution on Gaza Health and Humanitarian Situation 10/12/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher In a fragile show of unity, the World Health Organization Executive Board approved a draft resolution calling for “immediate, sustained and unimpeded” humanitarian relief to beleaguered Gaza, including safe passage of health personnel and supplies, as well as ambulances and patients. The WHO EB move, which will clear the resolution for approval by the May World […] Continue reading -> It Is Time to Streamline the Global HIV/AIDS Architecture 01/12/2023 Mukesh Kapila I endured a dreary weekend in a Paris hotel while others rushed home. As the junior English speaker of a task force of United Nations (UN) member states, it fell to me to finalise our report. It was the early 1990s and we had travelled across Asia, Africa and Latin America collating confusing evidence and […] Continue reading -> UNAIDS Urges Investment in Community Leadership to End AIDS 28/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan As donors withdraw from HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has chosen to focus on the importance of community-led interventions to end the AIDS pandemic for World AIDS Day on 1 December. “There has been an unprecedented backsliding in financial commitments to community-led organisations, and it is costing lives,” according to UNAIDS […] Continue reading -> Increasing Africa’s Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity Will Bring ‘Second Independence’ for the Continent 27/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan LUSAKA, Zambia – Ensuring that Africa can manufacture its own vaccines will represent “the second independence of Africa”, Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said at the start of the Conference for Public Health in Africa 2023 (CPHIA) on Monday. “Many African countries got their […] Continue reading -> WHO Asks China for ‘Detailed Information’ About Spike in Child Respiratory Illnesses 23/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan Unusual outbreaks of respiratory illness and pneumonia in Chinese children have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to ask the country for detailed information. Children’s hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning Province, some 800km apart, are “overwhelmed with sick children, and schools and classes were on the verge of suspension”, according to local Chinese media, as […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Governing Board Approves Consensus Resolution on Gaza Health and Humanitarian Situation 10/12/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher In a fragile show of unity, the World Health Organization Executive Board approved a draft resolution calling for “immediate, sustained and unimpeded” humanitarian relief to beleaguered Gaza, including safe passage of health personnel and supplies, as well as ambulances and patients. The WHO EB move, which will clear the resolution for approval by the May World […] Continue reading -> It Is Time to Streamline the Global HIV/AIDS Architecture 01/12/2023 Mukesh Kapila I endured a dreary weekend in a Paris hotel while others rushed home. As the junior English speaker of a task force of United Nations (UN) member states, it fell to me to finalise our report. It was the early 1990s and we had travelled across Asia, Africa and Latin America collating confusing evidence and […] Continue reading -> UNAIDS Urges Investment in Community Leadership to End AIDS 28/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan As donors withdraw from HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has chosen to focus on the importance of community-led interventions to end the AIDS pandemic for World AIDS Day on 1 December. “There has been an unprecedented backsliding in financial commitments to community-led organisations, and it is costing lives,” according to UNAIDS […] Continue reading -> Increasing Africa’s Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity Will Bring ‘Second Independence’ for the Continent 27/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan LUSAKA, Zambia – Ensuring that Africa can manufacture its own vaccines will represent “the second independence of Africa”, Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said at the start of the Conference for Public Health in Africa 2023 (CPHIA) on Monday. “Many African countries got their […] Continue reading -> WHO Asks China for ‘Detailed Information’ About Spike in Child Respiratory Illnesses 23/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan Unusual outbreaks of respiratory illness and pneumonia in Chinese children have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to ask the country for detailed information. Children’s hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning Province, some 800km apart, are “overwhelmed with sick children, and schools and classes were on the verge of suspension”, according to local Chinese media, as […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
It Is Time to Streamline the Global HIV/AIDS Architecture 01/12/2023 Mukesh Kapila I endured a dreary weekend in a Paris hotel while others rushed home. As the junior English speaker of a task force of United Nations (UN) member states, it fell to me to finalise our report. It was the early 1990s and we had travelled across Asia, Africa and Latin America collating confusing evidence and […] Continue reading -> UNAIDS Urges Investment in Community Leadership to End AIDS 28/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan As donors withdraw from HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has chosen to focus on the importance of community-led interventions to end the AIDS pandemic for World AIDS Day on 1 December. “There has been an unprecedented backsliding in financial commitments to community-led organisations, and it is costing lives,” according to UNAIDS […] Continue reading -> Increasing Africa’s Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity Will Bring ‘Second Independence’ for the Continent 27/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan LUSAKA, Zambia – Ensuring that Africa can manufacture its own vaccines will represent “the second independence of Africa”, Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said at the start of the Conference for Public Health in Africa 2023 (CPHIA) on Monday. “Many African countries got their […] Continue reading -> WHO Asks China for ‘Detailed Information’ About Spike in Child Respiratory Illnesses 23/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan Unusual outbreaks of respiratory illness and pneumonia in Chinese children have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to ask the country for detailed information. Children’s hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning Province, some 800km apart, are “overwhelmed with sick children, and schools and classes were on the verge of suspension”, according to local Chinese media, as […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
UNAIDS Urges Investment in Community Leadership to End AIDS 28/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan As donors withdraw from HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has chosen to focus on the importance of community-led interventions to end the AIDS pandemic for World AIDS Day on 1 December. “There has been an unprecedented backsliding in financial commitments to community-led organisations, and it is costing lives,” according to UNAIDS […] Continue reading -> Increasing Africa’s Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity Will Bring ‘Second Independence’ for the Continent 27/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan LUSAKA, Zambia – Ensuring that Africa can manufacture its own vaccines will represent “the second independence of Africa”, Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said at the start of the Conference for Public Health in Africa 2023 (CPHIA) on Monday. “Many African countries got their […] Continue reading -> WHO Asks China for ‘Detailed Information’ About Spike in Child Respiratory Illnesses 23/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan Unusual outbreaks of respiratory illness and pneumonia in Chinese children have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to ask the country for detailed information. Children’s hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning Province, some 800km apart, are “overwhelmed with sick children, and schools and classes were on the verge of suspension”, according to local Chinese media, as […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Increasing Africa’s Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity Will Bring ‘Second Independence’ for the Continent 27/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan LUSAKA, Zambia – Ensuring that Africa can manufacture its own vaccines will represent “the second independence of Africa”, Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said at the start of the Conference for Public Health in Africa 2023 (CPHIA) on Monday. “Many African countries got their […] Continue reading -> WHO Asks China for ‘Detailed Information’ About Spike in Child Respiratory Illnesses 23/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan Unusual outbreaks of respiratory illness and pneumonia in Chinese children have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to ask the country for detailed information. Children’s hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning Province, some 800km apart, are “overwhelmed with sick children, and schools and classes were on the verge of suspension”, according to local Chinese media, as […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Asks China for ‘Detailed Information’ About Spike in Child Respiratory Illnesses 23/11/2023 Kerry Cullinan Unusual outbreaks of respiratory illness and pneumonia in Chinese children have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to ask the country for detailed information. Children’s hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning Province, some 800km apart, are “overwhelmed with sick children, and schools and classes were on the verge of suspension”, according to local Chinese media, as […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts