‘Get it Done’ or Don’t Block Consensus, Tedros Urges Pandemic Agreement Negotiators 03/05/2024 Kerry Cullinan “Get this done” – and if you disagree, don’t block consensus, was the heartfelt plea made by World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyessus to member states negotiating a pandemic agreement on Friday (3 May). Tedros was addressing the ‘stocktake’ in the middle of the final 10-day meeting of the intergovernmental negotiating body […] Continue reading -> Crucial Pandemic Agreement Stocktake Will Determine Direction of Talks 02/05/2024 Kerry Cullinan A crucial stocktake of the state-of-play of the World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic agreement talks on Friday afternoon (3 May) will determine the way forward for the final five days’ negotiations. But progress has been slow in the past four days, according to reports – with differing opinions about whether a skeleton agreement can or […] Continue reading -> Final Pandemic Agreement Talks Start Amid Gamble on Process and African Show of Unity 28/04/2024 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic agreement negotiations begin their final two-week stretch on Monday (28 April) amid a gamble with the process, a show of unity from African member states – and more suggestions for the draft text. This final intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) meeting will focus on finding “common ground and consensus”, according […] Continue reading -> Immunisation Saved At Least 154 Million Lives Over Past 50 Years – WHO 24/04/2024 Kerry Cullinan Immunisation has saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years, since the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974. Of the lives saved, 146 million were children under five, and 101 million were babies. Global infant deaths have reduced by 40% and more than halved in […] Continue reading -> On World Health Day, WHO Director General Decries Gaza Hospital Destruction, Blaming Israel 07/04/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Speaking out on World Health Day, WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus decried the destruction of Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital and blamed Israel for the devastation, saying that the “atrocity” of the Hamas attacks on Israeli communities 7 October, did not justify “the horrific ongoing bombardment, seige and health system demolition by Israel in Gaza.” […] Continue reading -> Time for Top Leaders to Join Pandemic Negotiations 15/03/2024 Kerry Cullinan Two final – and likely sleepless – weeks of negotiation on the pandemic agreement begin on Monday, and negotiators have been urged to bring in their principals to ensure speed up decision-making. The negotiations may well be extended but, for now, this ninth meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) is […] Continue reading -> ‘Convergence:’ How Host Countries are Improving Refugee Health Along with National Health Systems 04/03/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – In Lebanon, international donors are supporting a network of public primary health care centers to test for diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), offering treatment equally to Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees who are unlikely to return anytime soon to their war-torn homeland. In Kenya, a new national insurance law aims to make […] Continue reading -> A ‘Tsunami’ of Chronic Disease Challenges Confronts Health Sector Response to Humanitarian Crises 28/02/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – While conflict and natural disasters are usually played out in the media against dramatic scenes of mass casualty response and rescue teams, there’s an iceberg of chronic health conditions that can be even more life threatening and these need far greater attention in emergency response. That is the theme of a global high […] Continue reading -> WHO: ‘Stringent Conditions’ Govern Military Action Against Health Facilities 21/02/2024 Kerry Cullinan International humanitarian law is clear that “even if health care facilities are being used for military purposes, there are stringent conditions which apply to taking action against them, including a duty to warn and to wait after warning”, said Steven Solomon, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) principal legal officer. “Disproportionate attacks are strictly prohibited. All […] Continue reading -> A Year After Devastating Earthquake Hit Syria and Türkiye, Hundreds of Thousands Remain Displaced 09/02/2024 Sophia Samantaroy One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake wracked Türkiye and Syria, some 690,000 people remain displaced in southern Türkiye, out of the 3 million people that initially lost their homes when the natural disaster hit in the early morning of 6 February 2023. Another 40,000 Syrians remain internally displaced mainly in the northern region of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Crucial Pandemic Agreement Stocktake Will Determine Direction of Talks 02/05/2024 Kerry Cullinan A crucial stocktake of the state-of-play of the World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic agreement talks on Friday afternoon (3 May) will determine the way forward for the final five days’ negotiations. But progress has been slow in the past four days, according to reports – with differing opinions about whether a skeleton agreement can or […] Continue reading -> Final Pandemic Agreement Talks Start Amid Gamble on Process and African Show of Unity 28/04/2024 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic agreement negotiations begin their final two-week stretch on Monday (28 April) amid a gamble with the process, a show of unity from African member states – and more suggestions for the draft text. This final intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) meeting will focus on finding “common ground and consensus”, according […] Continue reading -> Immunisation Saved At Least 154 Million Lives Over Past 50 Years – WHO 24/04/2024 Kerry Cullinan Immunisation has saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years, since the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974. Of the lives saved, 146 million were children under five, and 101 million were babies. Global infant deaths have reduced by 40% and more than halved in […] Continue reading -> On World Health Day, WHO Director General Decries Gaza Hospital Destruction, Blaming Israel 07/04/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Speaking out on World Health Day, WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus decried the destruction of Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital and blamed Israel for the devastation, saying that the “atrocity” of the Hamas attacks on Israeli communities 7 October, did not justify “the horrific ongoing bombardment, seige and health system demolition by Israel in Gaza.” […] Continue reading -> Time for Top Leaders to Join Pandemic Negotiations 15/03/2024 Kerry Cullinan Two final – and likely sleepless – weeks of negotiation on the pandemic agreement begin on Monday, and negotiators have been urged to bring in their principals to ensure speed up decision-making. The negotiations may well be extended but, for now, this ninth meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) is […] Continue reading -> ‘Convergence:’ How Host Countries are Improving Refugee Health Along with National Health Systems 04/03/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – In Lebanon, international donors are supporting a network of public primary health care centers to test for diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), offering treatment equally to Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees who are unlikely to return anytime soon to their war-torn homeland. In Kenya, a new national insurance law aims to make […] Continue reading -> A ‘Tsunami’ of Chronic Disease Challenges Confronts Health Sector Response to Humanitarian Crises 28/02/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – While conflict and natural disasters are usually played out in the media against dramatic scenes of mass casualty response and rescue teams, there’s an iceberg of chronic health conditions that can be even more life threatening and these need far greater attention in emergency response. That is the theme of a global high […] Continue reading -> WHO: ‘Stringent Conditions’ Govern Military Action Against Health Facilities 21/02/2024 Kerry Cullinan International humanitarian law is clear that “even if health care facilities are being used for military purposes, there are stringent conditions which apply to taking action against them, including a duty to warn and to wait after warning”, said Steven Solomon, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) principal legal officer. “Disproportionate attacks are strictly prohibited. All […] Continue reading -> A Year After Devastating Earthquake Hit Syria and Türkiye, Hundreds of Thousands Remain Displaced 09/02/2024 Sophia Samantaroy One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake wracked Türkiye and Syria, some 690,000 people remain displaced in southern Türkiye, out of the 3 million people that initially lost their homes when the natural disaster hit in the early morning of 6 February 2023. Another 40,000 Syrians remain internally displaced mainly in the northern region of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Final Pandemic Agreement Talks Start Amid Gamble on Process and African Show of Unity 28/04/2024 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic agreement negotiations begin their final two-week stretch on Monday (28 April) amid a gamble with the process, a show of unity from African member states – and more suggestions for the draft text. This final intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) meeting will focus on finding “common ground and consensus”, according […] Continue reading -> Immunisation Saved At Least 154 Million Lives Over Past 50 Years – WHO 24/04/2024 Kerry Cullinan Immunisation has saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years, since the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974. Of the lives saved, 146 million were children under five, and 101 million were babies. Global infant deaths have reduced by 40% and more than halved in […] Continue reading -> On World Health Day, WHO Director General Decries Gaza Hospital Destruction, Blaming Israel 07/04/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Speaking out on World Health Day, WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus decried the destruction of Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital and blamed Israel for the devastation, saying that the “atrocity” of the Hamas attacks on Israeli communities 7 October, did not justify “the horrific ongoing bombardment, seige and health system demolition by Israel in Gaza.” […] Continue reading -> Time for Top Leaders to Join Pandemic Negotiations 15/03/2024 Kerry Cullinan Two final – and likely sleepless – weeks of negotiation on the pandemic agreement begin on Monday, and negotiators have been urged to bring in their principals to ensure speed up decision-making. The negotiations may well be extended but, for now, this ninth meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) is […] Continue reading -> ‘Convergence:’ How Host Countries are Improving Refugee Health Along with National Health Systems 04/03/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – In Lebanon, international donors are supporting a network of public primary health care centers to test for diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), offering treatment equally to Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees who are unlikely to return anytime soon to their war-torn homeland. In Kenya, a new national insurance law aims to make […] Continue reading -> A ‘Tsunami’ of Chronic Disease Challenges Confronts Health Sector Response to Humanitarian Crises 28/02/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – While conflict and natural disasters are usually played out in the media against dramatic scenes of mass casualty response and rescue teams, there’s an iceberg of chronic health conditions that can be even more life threatening and these need far greater attention in emergency response. That is the theme of a global high […] Continue reading -> WHO: ‘Stringent Conditions’ Govern Military Action Against Health Facilities 21/02/2024 Kerry Cullinan International humanitarian law is clear that “even if health care facilities are being used for military purposes, there are stringent conditions which apply to taking action against them, including a duty to warn and to wait after warning”, said Steven Solomon, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) principal legal officer. “Disproportionate attacks are strictly prohibited. All […] Continue reading -> A Year After Devastating Earthquake Hit Syria and Türkiye, Hundreds of Thousands Remain Displaced 09/02/2024 Sophia Samantaroy One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake wracked Türkiye and Syria, some 690,000 people remain displaced in southern Türkiye, out of the 3 million people that initially lost their homes when the natural disaster hit in the early morning of 6 February 2023. Another 40,000 Syrians remain internally displaced mainly in the northern region of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Immunisation Saved At Least 154 Million Lives Over Past 50 Years – WHO 24/04/2024 Kerry Cullinan Immunisation has saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years, since the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974. Of the lives saved, 146 million were children under five, and 101 million were babies. Global infant deaths have reduced by 40% and more than halved in […] Continue reading -> On World Health Day, WHO Director General Decries Gaza Hospital Destruction, Blaming Israel 07/04/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Speaking out on World Health Day, WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus decried the destruction of Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital and blamed Israel for the devastation, saying that the “atrocity” of the Hamas attacks on Israeli communities 7 October, did not justify “the horrific ongoing bombardment, seige and health system demolition by Israel in Gaza.” […] Continue reading -> Time for Top Leaders to Join Pandemic Negotiations 15/03/2024 Kerry Cullinan Two final – and likely sleepless – weeks of negotiation on the pandemic agreement begin on Monday, and negotiators have been urged to bring in their principals to ensure speed up decision-making. The negotiations may well be extended but, for now, this ninth meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) is […] Continue reading -> ‘Convergence:’ How Host Countries are Improving Refugee Health Along with National Health Systems 04/03/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – In Lebanon, international donors are supporting a network of public primary health care centers to test for diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), offering treatment equally to Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees who are unlikely to return anytime soon to their war-torn homeland. In Kenya, a new national insurance law aims to make […] Continue reading -> A ‘Tsunami’ of Chronic Disease Challenges Confronts Health Sector Response to Humanitarian Crises 28/02/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – While conflict and natural disasters are usually played out in the media against dramatic scenes of mass casualty response and rescue teams, there’s an iceberg of chronic health conditions that can be even more life threatening and these need far greater attention in emergency response. That is the theme of a global high […] Continue reading -> WHO: ‘Stringent Conditions’ Govern Military Action Against Health Facilities 21/02/2024 Kerry Cullinan International humanitarian law is clear that “even if health care facilities are being used for military purposes, there are stringent conditions which apply to taking action against them, including a duty to warn and to wait after warning”, said Steven Solomon, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) principal legal officer. “Disproportionate attacks are strictly prohibited. All […] Continue reading -> A Year After Devastating Earthquake Hit Syria and Türkiye, Hundreds of Thousands Remain Displaced 09/02/2024 Sophia Samantaroy One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake wracked Türkiye and Syria, some 690,000 people remain displaced in southern Türkiye, out of the 3 million people that initially lost their homes when the natural disaster hit in the early morning of 6 February 2023. Another 40,000 Syrians remain internally displaced mainly in the northern region of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
On World Health Day, WHO Director General Decries Gaza Hospital Destruction, Blaming Israel 07/04/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Speaking out on World Health Day, WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus decried the destruction of Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital and blamed Israel for the devastation, saying that the “atrocity” of the Hamas attacks on Israeli communities 7 October, did not justify “the horrific ongoing bombardment, seige and health system demolition by Israel in Gaza.” […] Continue reading -> Time for Top Leaders to Join Pandemic Negotiations 15/03/2024 Kerry Cullinan Two final – and likely sleepless – weeks of negotiation on the pandemic agreement begin on Monday, and negotiators have been urged to bring in their principals to ensure speed up decision-making. The negotiations may well be extended but, for now, this ninth meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) is […] Continue reading -> ‘Convergence:’ How Host Countries are Improving Refugee Health Along with National Health Systems 04/03/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – In Lebanon, international donors are supporting a network of public primary health care centers to test for diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), offering treatment equally to Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees who are unlikely to return anytime soon to their war-torn homeland. In Kenya, a new national insurance law aims to make […] Continue reading -> A ‘Tsunami’ of Chronic Disease Challenges Confronts Health Sector Response to Humanitarian Crises 28/02/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – While conflict and natural disasters are usually played out in the media against dramatic scenes of mass casualty response and rescue teams, there’s an iceberg of chronic health conditions that can be even more life threatening and these need far greater attention in emergency response. That is the theme of a global high […] Continue reading -> WHO: ‘Stringent Conditions’ Govern Military Action Against Health Facilities 21/02/2024 Kerry Cullinan International humanitarian law is clear that “even if health care facilities are being used for military purposes, there are stringent conditions which apply to taking action against them, including a duty to warn and to wait after warning”, said Steven Solomon, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) principal legal officer. “Disproportionate attacks are strictly prohibited. All […] Continue reading -> A Year After Devastating Earthquake Hit Syria and Türkiye, Hundreds of Thousands Remain Displaced 09/02/2024 Sophia Samantaroy One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake wracked Türkiye and Syria, some 690,000 people remain displaced in southern Türkiye, out of the 3 million people that initially lost their homes when the natural disaster hit in the early morning of 6 February 2023. Another 40,000 Syrians remain internally displaced mainly in the northern region of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Time for Top Leaders to Join Pandemic Negotiations 15/03/2024 Kerry Cullinan Two final – and likely sleepless – weeks of negotiation on the pandemic agreement begin on Monday, and negotiators have been urged to bring in their principals to ensure speed up decision-making. The negotiations may well be extended but, for now, this ninth meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) is […] Continue reading -> ‘Convergence:’ How Host Countries are Improving Refugee Health Along with National Health Systems 04/03/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – In Lebanon, international donors are supporting a network of public primary health care centers to test for diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), offering treatment equally to Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees who are unlikely to return anytime soon to their war-torn homeland. In Kenya, a new national insurance law aims to make […] Continue reading -> A ‘Tsunami’ of Chronic Disease Challenges Confronts Health Sector Response to Humanitarian Crises 28/02/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – While conflict and natural disasters are usually played out in the media against dramatic scenes of mass casualty response and rescue teams, there’s an iceberg of chronic health conditions that can be even more life threatening and these need far greater attention in emergency response. That is the theme of a global high […] Continue reading -> WHO: ‘Stringent Conditions’ Govern Military Action Against Health Facilities 21/02/2024 Kerry Cullinan International humanitarian law is clear that “even if health care facilities are being used for military purposes, there are stringent conditions which apply to taking action against them, including a duty to warn and to wait after warning”, said Steven Solomon, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) principal legal officer. “Disproportionate attacks are strictly prohibited. All […] Continue reading -> A Year After Devastating Earthquake Hit Syria and Türkiye, Hundreds of Thousands Remain Displaced 09/02/2024 Sophia Samantaroy One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake wracked Türkiye and Syria, some 690,000 people remain displaced in southern Türkiye, out of the 3 million people that initially lost their homes when the natural disaster hit in the early morning of 6 February 2023. Another 40,000 Syrians remain internally displaced mainly in the northern region of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘Convergence:’ How Host Countries are Improving Refugee Health Along with National Health Systems 04/03/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – In Lebanon, international donors are supporting a network of public primary health care centers to test for diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), offering treatment equally to Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees who are unlikely to return anytime soon to their war-torn homeland. In Kenya, a new national insurance law aims to make […] Continue reading -> A ‘Tsunami’ of Chronic Disease Challenges Confronts Health Sector Response to Humanitarian Crises 28/02/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – While conflict and natural disasters are usually played out in the media against dramatic scenes of mass casualty response and rescue teams, there’s an iceberg of chronic health conditions that can be even more life threatening and these need far greater attention in emergency response. That is the theme of a global high […] Continue reading -> WHO: ‘Stringent Conditions’ Govern Military Action Against Health Facilities 21/02/2024 Kerry Cullinan International humanitarian law is clear that “even if health care facilities are being used for military purposes, there are stringent conditions which apply to taking action against them, including a duty to warn and to wait after warning”, said Steven Solomon, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) principal legal officer. “Disproportionate attacks are strictly prohibited. All […] Continue reading -> A Year After Devastating Earthquake Hit Syria and Türkiye, Hundreds of Thousands Remain Displaced 09/02/2024 Sophia Samantaroy One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake wracked Türkiye and Syria, some 690,000 people remain displaced in southern Türkiye, out of the 3 million people that initially lost their homes when the natural disaster hit in the early morning of 6 February 2023. Another 40,000 Syrians remain internally displaced mainly in the northern region of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
A ‘Tsunami’ of Chronic Disease Challenges Confronts Health Sector Response to Humanitarian Crises 28/02/2024 Elaine Ruth Fletcher COPENHAGEN – While conflict and natural disasters are usually played out in the media against dramatic scenes of mass casualty response and rescue teams, there’s an iceberg of chronic health conditions that can be even more life threatening and these need far greater attention in emergency response. That is the theme of a global high […] Continue reading -> WHO: ‘Stringent Conditions’ Govern Military Action Against Health Facilities 21/02/2024 Kerry Cullinan International humanitarian law is clear that “even if health care facilities are being used for military purposes, there are stringent conditions which apply to taking action against them, including a duty to warn and to wait after warning”, said Steven Solomon, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) principal legal officer. “Disproportionate attacks are strictly prohibited. All […] Continue reading -> A Year After Devastating Earthquake Hit Syria and Türkiye, Hundreds of Thousands Remain Displaced 09/02/2024 Sophia Samantaroy One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake wracked Türkiye and Syria, some 690,000 people remain displaced in southern Türkiye, out of the 3 million people that initially lost their homes when the natural disaster hit in the early morning of 6 February 2023. Another 40,000 Syrians remain internally displaced mainly in the northern region of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO: ‘Stringent Conditions’ Govern Military Action Against Health Facilities 21/02/2024 Kerry Cullinan International humanitarian law is clear that “even if health care facilities are being used for military purposes, there are stringent conditions which apply to taking action against them, including a duty to warn and to wait after warning”, said Steven Solomon, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) principal legal officer. “Disproportionate attacks are strictly prohibited. All […] Continue reading -> A Year After Devastating Earthquake Hit Syria and Türkiye, Hundreds of Thousands Remain Displaced 09/02/2024 Sophia Samantaroy One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake wracked Türkiye and Syria, some 690,000 people remain displaced in southern Türkiye, out of the 3 million people that initially lost their homes when the natural disaster hit in the early morning of 6 February 2023. Another 40,000 Syrians remain internally displaced mainly in the northern region of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
A Year After Devastating Earthquake Hit Syria and Türkiye, Hundreds of Thousands Remain Displaced 09/02/2024 Sophia Samantaroy One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake wracked Türkiye and Syria, some 690,000 people remain displaced in southern Türkiye, out of the 3 million people that initially lost their homes when the natural disaster hit in the early morning of 6 February 2023. Another 40,000 Syrians remain internally displaced mainly in the northern region of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts