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In Heated UNITE Event Session, African MPs Call for Greater Inclusion in Global Fund
07/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman
A group of African parliamentarians raised a red flag on Tuesday at the UNITE Global Summit when they told representatives that they felt neglected by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which funds billions of dollars of health services in their countries. “Do African parliamentarians only get involved when we have to […] Continue reading ->
MPs to WHO: If You Want Pandemic Treaty Implemented, Engage with Us
06/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman
Parliamentarians from around the world have called on the World Health Organization to engage civil society in the establishment of a “pandemic treaty,” if the organization hopes to have such a document not only ratified but also implemented. “The current process remains exclusionary,” said Giada Girelli, a senior analyst on human rights and justice at […] Continue reading ->
COVID-19 Translated into Three Years of ‘Human Rights Violations’
05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman
“Every aspect of the COVID-19 response, beginning with the origins of the pandemic in Wuhan to China’s current Zero-COVID strategy, has had severe restrictions on human rights,” according to Prof Lawrence Gostin, a member of the independent Panel for a Global Health Convention. Speaking Monday afternoon at the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, he called […] Continue reading ->
MPs Are Urged to Redirect Funding Towards Prevention and Primary Care
05/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman
The head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development called on parliamentarians to redirect health funding towards prevention and primary care to help improve health outcomes. Speaking Monday at the opening session of the UNITE Global Summit in Lisbon, Francesca Colombo said that a basic health analysis proves the need […] Continue reading ->
How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World?
02/12/2022 Editorial team
When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading ->
Air Pollution Linked to Nearly Half of all Stillbirths
01/12/2022 Stefan Anderson
In 2020, UNICEF estimated that “a stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds somewhere in the world.” A new study has linked air pollution to nearly half of them. The study of 137 countries is the first global analysis to assess the number of fetal deaths, putting into numbers the already documented link between fine particulate matter […] Continue reading ->
Parliamentarians Seek to Address Post-COVID ‘Tsunami’ of Health System Problems
28/11/2022 Maayan Hoffman
“There is this tsunami that is happening after the earthquake that was COVID-19 that is now coming to shore and hitting health systems across the world,” said Ricardo Baptista Leite, president and founder of UNITE, a global network of parliamentarians committed to addressing global health challenges. “The pandemic also led to a huge economic crisis […] Continue reading ->
More Than Five Women Killed Every Hour by Intimate Partners or Family: UN Women, UNODC report
25/11/2022 Megha Kaveri
Women and girls are more at risk of getting killed at home by intimate partners or family. A new report by UN Women and the UN Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) said that more than five women or girls are killed every hour across the world by their partners or families.  The report, released […] Continue reading ->
Oral Health Neglect: The Overlooked Crisis Affecting 3.5 Billion People
22/11/2022 Stefan Anderson
Oral diseases are the most common form of noncommunicable disease (NCD) in the world. Globally, these conditions affect almost 3.5 billion people – almost half of the world’s population. Long a neglected subject in global health circles, oral diseases affect about 1 billion more people than all five main NCDs – mental disorders, cardiovascular disease, […] Continue reading ->
One in Three People Use Antibiotics Without Prescription: WHO Study of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia
21/11/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher
A new survey of citizens in 14 WHO member states in the Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia found that one third of respondents questioned said that their last course of antibiotics was obtained with a medical prescription. This is at least three times more than that reported from a similar survey of 30 European Union […] Continue reading ->

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