Fatal Outcomes for Two Confirmed Ebola Cases in DRC as Africa Strives to Reboot Immunization Strategies for COVID and Beyond 29/04/2022 Paul Adepoju In DR Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak, the two people with confirmed cases are dead and response is focusing on identifying and vaccinating contacts – because of insufficient doses to conduct a mass vaccination campaign in the outbreak area. Meanwhile, public health officials are trying to reboot Africa’s mainstream immunization programmes, which saw setbacks during the […] Continue reading -> Senior WHO Leadership Reshuffle Expected after Member States Agree on New Financing Formula for Global Health Agency 28/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A core group of WHO member states have agreed on a landmark move to boost their annual “assessed” contributions to the global health organization to cover 50% of its core budget needs by 2028-2029 – but contingent on internal WHO reforms to boost efficiency and transparency. Partly in response to the reform call, a reshuffle […] Continue reading -> Smart Cervical Cancer Screening Devices Could Make Early Detection a Global Reality 28/04/2022 Maayan Hoffman Qalansawe, Israel – The women, heads covered in hijabs, sat outside a small purple aluminium mobile health station parked in a residential neighbourhood here, shooing away any men who happened to pass by. Plastic chairs formed a small and intimate circle for the women waiting to be screened for cervical cancer – some for the […] Continue reading -> 79% Rise In Measles Cases Stokes Fears of Global Outbreak; ‘Perfect Storm’ of Conditions 27/04/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar A 79% rise in the reported measles cases in the first two months of 2022, compared to the same period last year, has raised concerns over the possibility of an outbreak that could affect millions of children this year. Pandemic-related disruptions, increasing inequalities in access to vaccines, and the diversion of resources from routine immunization […] Continue reading -> WHO Warns of Dangers of Health Misinformation Across Social Media Following Elon Musk’s $44 bn Twitter Acquisition 27/04/2022 Raisa Santos Following the purchase of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk on Monday, the World Health Organization warned about the dangers of health and vaccine misinformation on social media, and expressed hope that the acquisition would lead to an ‘improvement of quality information’. “There is misinformation and disinformation out there across whatever platform you wish to go […] Continue reading -> WHO Supports DRC with Ebola Outbreak and Continues Investigation of Unexplained Acute Hepatitis Cases in US and Europe 27/04/2022 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization has announced an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its continued investigation of almost 200 cases of unexplained acute hepatitis in the US and Europe in a media briefing Tuesday afternoon. Two cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting health […] Continue reading -> Finding Legal and Financial Pathways for Universal Health Coverage Should Be at the Heart of a Pandemic Treaty 22/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Discussions about the creation of a new global convention on pandemic preparedness and response have already become a bit like a Christmas tree. Last week’s WHO-convened public hearings, saw a wide array of interest groups trying to attach a number of features to the proposed international pandemic instrument, ranging from stronger accountability and transparency measures […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Makes Slow Progress, Reaching Only 16.3% 21/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan Only 10 of Africa’s 54 countries have vaccinated more than a third of their citizens, although the continent has administered over two-thirds of the vaccine doses it has procured. The top 10 vaccinators are Seychelles (81%), Mauritius (76%), Rwanda (64%), Morocco (63%), Cape Verde (55%), Botswana (54%), Tunisia (53%), Mozambique (43%), São Tomé and Príncipe […] Continue reading -> Data-Sharing in the Time of COVID – Could Researchers Agree to Use a Common Clinical Trial ‘Repository’? 15/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, a senior scientist at the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi) has a vision that could be critical to halting the next pandemic – but is esoteric, difficult to organize and even more challenging to build the trust and buy-in needed to make it really work. The vision is of a common clinical-trial […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Senior WHO Leadership Reshuffle Expected after Member States Agree on New Financing Formula for Global Health Agency 28/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A core group of WHO member states have agreed on a landmark move to boost their annual “assessed” contributions to the global health organization to cover 50% of its core budget needs by 2028-2029 – but contingent on internal WHO reforms to boost efficiency and transparency. Partly in response to the reform call, a reshuffle […] Continue reading -> Smart Cervical Cancer Screening Devices Could Make Early Detection a Global Reality 28/04/2022 Maayan Hoffman Qalansawe, Israel – The women, heads covered in hijabs, sat outside a small purple aluminium mobile health station parked in a residential neighbourhood here, shooing away any men who happened to pass by. Plastic chairs formed a small and intimate circle for the women waiting to be screened for cervical cancer – some for the […] Continue reading -> 79% Rise In Measles Cases Stokes Fears of Global Outbreak; ‘Perfect Storm’ of Conditions 27/04/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar A 79% rise in the reported measles cases in the first two months of 2022, compared to the same period last year, has raised concerns over the possibility of an outbreak that could affect millions of children this year. Pandemic-related disruptions, increasing inequalities in access to vaccines, and the diversion of resources from routine immunization […] Continue reading -> WHO Warns of Dangers of Health Misinformation Across Social Media Following Elon Musk’s $44 bn Twitter Acquisition 27/04/2022 Raisa Santos Following the purchase of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk on Monday, the World Health Organization warned about the dangers of health and vaccine misinformation on social media, and expressed hope that the acquisition would lead to an ‘improvement of quality information’. “There is misinformation and disinformation out there across whatever platform you wish to go […] Continue reading -> WHO Supports DRC with Ebola Outbreak and Continues Investigation of Unexplained Acute Hepatitis Cases in US and Europe 27/04/2022 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization has announced an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its continued investigation of almost 200 cases of unexplained acute hepatitis in the US and Europe in a media briefing Tuesday afternoon. Two cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting health […] Continue reading -> Finding Legal and Financial Pathways for Universal Health Coverage Should Be at the Heart of a Pandemic Treaty 22/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Discussions about the creation of a new global convention on pandemic preparedness and response have already become a bit like a Christmas tree. Last week’s WHO-convened public hearings, saw a wide array of interest groups trying to attach a number of features to the proposed international pandemic instrument, ranging from stronger accountability and transparency measures […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Makes Slow Progress, Reaching Only 16.3% 21/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan Only 10 of Africa’s 54 countries have vaccinated more than a third of their citizens, although the continent has administered over two-thirds of the vaccine doses it has procured. The top 10 vaccinators are Seychelles (81%), Mauritius (76%), Rwanda (64%), Morocco (63%), Cape Verde (55%), Botswana (54%), Tunisia (53%), Mozambique (43%), São Tomé and Príncipe […] Continue reading -> Data-Sharing in the Time of COVID – Could Researchers Agree to Use a Common Clinical Trial ‘Repository’? 15/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, a senior scientist at the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi) has a vision that could be critical to halting the next pandemic – but is esoteric, difficult to organize and even more challenging to build the trust and buy-in needed to make it really work. The vision is of a common clinical-trial […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Smart Cervical Cancer Screening Devices Could Make Early Detection a Global Reality 28/04/2022 Maayan Hoffman Qalansawe, Israel – The women, heads covered in hijabs, sat outside a small purple aluminium mobile health station parked in a residential neighbourhood here, shooing away any men who happened to pass by. Plastic chairs formed a small and intimate circle for the women waiting to be screened for cervical cancer – some for the […] Continue reading -> 79% Rise In Measles Cases Stokes Fears of Global Outbreak; ‘Perfect Storm’ of Conditions 27/04/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar A 79% rise in the reported measles cases in the first two months of 2022, compared to the same period last year, has raised concerns over the possibility of an outbreak that could affect millions of children this year. Pandemic-related disruptions, increasing inequalities in access to vaccines, and the diversion of resources from routine immunization […] Continue reading -> WHO Warns of Dangers of Health Misinformation Across Social Media Following Elon Musk’s $44 bn Twitter Acquisition 27/04/2022 Raisa Santos Following the purchase of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk on Monday, the World Health Organization warned about the dangers of health and vaccine misinformation on social media, and expressed hope that the acquisition would lead to an ‘improvement of quality information’. “There is misinformation and disinformation out there across whatever platform you wish to go […] Continue reading -> WHO Supports DRC with Ebola Outbreak and Continues Investigation of Unexplained Acute Hepatitis Cases in US and Europe 27/04/2022 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization has announced an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its continued investigation of almost 200 cases of unexplained acute hepatitis in the US and Europe in a media briefing Tuesday afternoon. Two cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting health […] Continue reading -> Finding Legal and Financial Pathways for Universal Health Coverage Should Be at the Heart of a Pandemic Treaty 22/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Discussions about the creation of a new global convention on pandemic preparedness and response have already become a bit like a Christmas tree. Last week’s WHO-convened public hearings, saw a wide array of interest groups trying to attach a number of features to the proposed international pandemic instrument, ranging from stronger accountability and transparency measures […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Makes Slow Progress, Reaching Only 16.3% 21/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan Only 10 of Africa’s 54 countries have vaccinated more than a third of their citizens, although the continent has administered over two-thirds of the vaccine doses it has procured. The top 10 vaccinators are Seychelles (81%), Mauritius (76%), Rwanda (64%), Morocco (63%), Cape Verde (55%), Botswana (54%), Tunisia (53%), Mozambique (43%), São Tomé and Príncipe […] Continue reading -> Data-Sharing in the Time of COVID – Could Researchers Agree to Use a Common Clinical Trial ‘Repository’? 15/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, a senior scientist at the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi) has a vision that could be critical to halting the next pandemic – but is esoteric, difficult to organize and even more challenging to build the trust and buy-in needed to make it really work. The vision is of a common clinical-trial […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
79% Rise In Measles Cases Stokes Fears of Global Outbreak; ‘Perfect Storm’ of Conditions 27/04/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar A 79% rise in the reported measles cases in the first two months of 2022, compared to the same period last year, has raised concerns over the possibility of an outbreak that could affect millions of children this year. Pandemic-related disruptions, increasing inequalities in access to vaccines, and the diversion of resources from routine immunization […] Continue reading -> WHO Warns of Dangers of Health Misinformation Across Social Media Following Elon Musk’s $44 bn Twitter Acquisition 27/04/2022 Raisa Santos Following the purchase of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk on Monday, the World Health Organization warned about the dangers of health and vaccine misinformation on social media, and expressed hope that the acquisition would lead to an ‘improvement of quality information’. “There is misinformation and disinformation out there across whatever platform you wish to go […] Continue reading -> WHO Supports DRC with Ebola Outbreak and Continues Investigation of Unexplained Acute Hepatitis Cases in US and Europe 27/04/2022 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization has announced an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its continued investigation of almost 200 cases of unexplained acute hepatitis in the US and Europe in a media briefing Tuesday afternoon. Two cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting health […] Continue reading -> Finding Legal and Financial Pathways for Universal Health Coverage Should Be at the Heart of a Pandemic Treaty 22/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Discussions about the creation of a new global convention on pandemic preparedness and response have already become a bit like a Christmas tree. Last week’s WHO-convened public hearings, saw a wide array of interest groups trying to attach a number of features to the proposed international pandemic instrument, ranging from stronger accountability and transparency measures […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Makes Slow Progress, Reaching Only 16.3% 21/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan Only 10 of Africa’s 54 countries have vaccinated more than a third of their citizens, although the continent has administered over two-thirds of the vaccine doses it has procured. The top 10 vaccinators are Seychelles (81%), Mauritius (76%), Rwanda (64%), Morocco (63%), Cape Verde (55%), Botswana (54%), Tunisia (53%), Mozambique (43%), São Tomé and Príncipe […] Continue reading -> Data-Sharing in the Time of COVID – Could Researchers Agree to Use a Common Clinical Trial ‘Repository’? 15/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, a senior scientist at the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi) has a vision that could be critical to halting the next pandemic – but is esoteric, difficult to organize and even more challenging to build the trust and buy-in needed to make it really work. The vision is of a common clinical-trial […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Warns of Dangers of Health Misinformation Across Social Media Following Elon Musk’s $44 bn Twitter Acquisition 27/04/2022 Raisa Santos Following the purchase of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk on Monday, the World Health Organization warned about the dangers of health and vaccine misinformation on social media, and expressed hope that the acquisition would lead to an ‘improvement of quality information’. “There is misinformation and disinformation out there across whatever platform you wish to go […] Continue reading -> WHO Supports DRC with Ebola Outbreak and Continues Investigation of Unexplained Acute Hepatitis Cases in US and Europe 27/04/2022 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization has announced an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its continued investigation of almost 200 cases of unexplained acute hepatitis in the US and Europe in a media briefing Tuesday afternoon. Two cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting health […] Continue reading -> Finding Legal and Financial Pathways for Universal Health Coverage Should Be at the Heart of a Pandemic Treaty 22/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Discussions about the creation of a new global convention on pandemic preparedness and response have already become a bit like a Christmas tree. Last week’s WHO-convened public hearings, saw a wide array of interest groups trying to attach a number of features to the proposed international pandemic instrument, ranging from stronger accountability and transparency measures […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Makes Slow Progress, Reaching Only 16.3% 21/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan Only 10 of Africa’s 54 countries have vaccinated more than a third of their citizens, although the continent has administered over two-thirds of the vaccine doses it has procured. The top 10 vaccinators are Seychelles (81%), Mauritius (76%), Rwanda (64%), Morocco (63%), Cape Verde (55%), Botswana (54%), Tunisia (53%), Mozambique (43%), São Tomé and Príncipe […] Continue reading -> Data-Sharing in the Time of COVID – Could Researchers Agree to Use a Common Clinical Trial ‘Repository’? 15/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, a senior scientist at the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi) has a vision that could be critical to halting the next pandemic – but is esoteric, difficult to organize and even more challenging to build the trust and buy-in needed to make it really work. The vision is of a common clinical-trial […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Supports DRC with Ebola Outbreak and Continues Investigation of Unexplained Acute Hepatitis Cases in US and Europe 27/04/2022 Raisa Santos The World Health Organization has announced an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its continued investigation of almost 200 cases of unexplained acute hepatitis in the US and Europe in a media briefing Tuesday afternoon. Two cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting health […] Continue reading -> Finding Legal and Financial Pathways for Universal Health Coverage Should Be at the Heart of a Pandemic Treaty 22/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Discussions about the creation of a new global convention on pandemic preparedness and response have already become a bit like a Christmas tree. Last week’s WHO-convened public hearings, saw a wide array of interest groups trying to attach a number of features to the proposed international pandemic instrument, ranging from stronger accountability and transparency measures […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Makes Slow Progress, Reaching Only 16.3% 21/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan Only 10 of Africa’s 54 countries have vaccinated more than a third of their citizens, although the continent has administered over two-thirds of the vaccine doses it has procured. The top 10 vaccinators are Seychelles (81%), Mauritius (76%), Rwanda (64%), Morocco (63%), Cape Verde (55%), Botswana (54%), Tunisia (53%), Mozambique (43%), São Tomé and Príncipe […] Continue reading -> Data-Sharing in the Time of COVID – Could Researchers Agree to Use a Common Clinical Trial ‘Repository’? 15/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, a senior scientist at the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi) has a vision that could be critical to halting the next pandemic – but is esoteric, difficult to organize and even more challenging to build the trust and buy-in needed to make it really work. The vision is of a common clinical-trial […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Finding Legal and Financial Pathways for Universal Health Coverage Should Be at the Heart of a Pandemic Treaty 22/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Discussions about the creation of a new global convention on pandemic preparedness and response have already become a bit like a Christmas tree. Last week’s WHO-convened public hearings, saw a wide array of interest groups trying to attach a number of features to the proposed international pandemic instrument, ranging from stronger accountability and transparency measures […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Makes Slow Progress, Reaching Only 16.3% 21/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan Only 10 of Africa’s 54 countries have vaccinated more than a third of their citizens, although the continent has administered over two-thirds of the vaccine doses it has procured. The top 10 vaccinators are Seychelles (81%), Mauritius (76%), Rwanda (64%), Morocco (63%), Cape Verde (55%), Botswana (54%), Tunisia (53%), Mozambique (43%), São Tomé and Príncipe […] Continue reading -> Data-Sharing in the Time of COVID – Could Researchers Agree to Use a Common Clinical Trial ‘Repository’? 15/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, a senior scientist at the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi) has a vision that could be critical to halting the next pandemic – but is esoteric, difficult to organize and even more challenging to build the trust and buy-in needed to make it really work. The vision is of a common clinical-trial […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Makes Slow Progress, Reaching Only 16.3% 21/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan Only 10 of Africa’s 54 countries have vaccinated more than a third of their citizens, although the continent has administered over two-thirds of the vaccine doses it has procured. The top 10 vaccinators are Seychelles (81%), Mauritius (76%), Rwanda (64%), Morocco (63%), Cape Verde (55%), Botswana (54%), Tunisia (53%), Mozambique (43%), São Tomé and Príncipe […] Continue reading -> Data-Sharing in the Time of COVID – Could Researchers Agree to Use a Common Clinical Trial ‘Repository’? 15/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, a senior scientist at the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi) has a vision that could be critical to halting the next pandemic – but is esoteric, difficult to organize and even more challenging to build the trust and buy-in needed to make it really work. The vision is of a common clinical-trial […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Data-Sharing in the Time of COVID – Could Researchers Agree to Use a Common Clinical Trial ‘Repository’? 15/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, a senior scientist at the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi) has a vision that could be critical to halting the next pandemic – but is esoteric, difficult to organize and even more challenging to build the trust and buy-in needed to make it really work. The vision is of a common clinical-trial […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts