COVID-19 Forced Us to Talk About Mortality Data. We Can’t Afford to Stop 21/08/2025 Farnaz Malik Thinking back to five years ago, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was living around the corner from the Brooklyn Hospital Center. Each day, I’d take a walk through the neighborhood, but those walks became hauntingly different as I started passing refrigerated trucks parked outside – temporary morgues, there to handle the overwhelming […] Continue reading -> Private Hospitals Suspend Services for India’s Health Insurance Members, Leaving Millions Without Care 19/08/2025 Arsalan Bukhari ROHTAK (Haryana), India – When 22-year-old Sunita* rushed her father to a private hospital in for a cardiac emergency earlier this month, she expected her government health insurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat–Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (known as PM-JAY), which promises to cover hospital expenses up to ₹5 lakh (around $5,725) per family, would spare her family […] Continue reading -> US Non-profits Vow to Fight on After Court Rules They Can’t Challenge Trump Aid Freeze 15/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan US non-profit groups have vowed to fight on after losing their court bid this week to compel the Trump administration to restore Congress-approved foreign aid it had stopped in January. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to overturn a District Court ruling that compelled the US government to restore some […] Continue reading -> ‘A Mockery’: Nations Unite in Outrage at Plastics Treaty Draft 13/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – A new draft of the global plastics treaty published Wednesday found a clever solution to answering the difficult questions facing nations seeking the historic treaty: delete them from the text. The long-awaited draft arrived at a tense moment in negotiations over what many hoped would be a watershed treaty to address the crisis […] Continue reading -> Global Plastics Treaty Talks Near Collapse With Days to Deadline 11/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA — The world’s attempt to forge a plastics treaty billed as the most important environmental deal since the Paris climate accord is falling apart after three years of talks. With negotiations due to end Thursday evening, 184 nations gathered in Geneva remain deadlocked over basic definitions, the scope of the treaty and whether to […] Continue reading -> WHO Awards Top-Level Recognition to Regulatory Authorities in Canada, UK and Japan 08/08/2025 Editorial team The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated government regulatory authorities in Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom as WHO-Listed Authorities (WLAs), a status granted to national authorities that meet the highest international regulatory standards for medical products. The recognition widens the pool of WHO-recognized authorities significantly beyond the previously recognized authorities in Europe, the United […] Continue reading -> WHO Decries US Cancellation of mRNA Vaccine Research as ‘Unfortunate and Untimely’ 06/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan & Elaine Ruth Fletcher WHO says mRNA technology holds particular potential in developing vaccines against emerging epidemic threats. Scientists in the United States and abroad called on US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to release the data that informed his decision to cancel the US investments in mRNA vaccine research. The World Health Organization […] Continue reading -> Grassroots Groups in Uganda Keep GBV Services Going Despite Aid Cuts 01/08/2025 Nanfuka Fatuma Uganda has been hard-hit by the withdrawal of aid by the United States, but women’s groups are helping to support crucial gender-based violence initiatives in refugee settlements. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. The small clinic in northern Uganda’s Obongi District sits at the end of a dusty road, its tin roof […] Continue reading -> Health Organizations Must Cut Ties with Fossil-Fueled Public Relations and Advertising Firms 31/07/2025 Edward Maibach & Jemilah Mahmood As health actors meet this week in Brasilia to refine a Health Action Plan for COP30, ending relationships with PR firms that engage with fossil fuel producers is one concrete step both civil society and UN actors could take now, two leading global health actors argue. The call is the more urgent in light of […] Continue reading -> Hunger Declines Globally, but Rises in Africa 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The proportion of the world’s population suffering acute hunger declined globally in 2024 to about 673 million people, but continued to rise in most African regions as well as western Asia, according to the new UN State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) report, launched Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global hunger levels have remained […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Private Hospitals Suspend Services for India’s Health Insurance Members, Leaving Millions Without Care 19/08/2025 Arsalan Bukhari ROHTAK (Haryana), India – When 22-year-old Sunita* rushed her father to a private hospital in for a cardiac emergency earlier this month, she expected her government health insurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat–Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (known as PM-JAY), which promises to cover hospital expenses up to ₹5 lakh (around $5,725) per family, would spare her family […] Continue reading -> US Non-profits Vow to Fight on After Court Rules They Can’t Challenge Trump Aid Freeze 15/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan US non-profit groups have vowed to fight on after losing their court bid this week to compel the Trump administration to restore Congress-approved foreign aid it had stopped in January. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to overturn a District Court ruling that compelled the US government to restore some […] Continue reading -> ‘A Mockery’: Nations Unite in Outrage at Plastics Treaty Draft 13/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – A new draft of the global plastics treaty published Wednesday found a clever solution to answering the difficult questions facing nations seeking the historic treaty: delete them from the text. The long-awaited draft arrived at a tense moment in negotiations over what many hoped would be a watershed treaty to address the crisis […] Continue reading -> Global Plastics Treaty Talks Near Collapse With Days to Deadline 11/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA — The world’s attempt to forge a plastics treaty billed as the most important environmental deal since the Paris climate accord is falling apart after three years of talks. With negotiations due to end Thursday evening, 184 nations gathered in Geneva remain deadlocked over basic definitions, the scope of the treaty and whether to […] Continue reading -> WHO Awards Top-Level Recognition to Regulatory Authorities in Canada, UK and Japan 08/08/2025 Editorial team The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated government regulatory authorities in Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom as WHO-Listed Authorities (WLAs), a status granted to national authorities that meet the highest international regulatory standards for medical products. The recognition widens the pool of WHO-recognized authorities significantly beyond the previously recognized authorities in Europe, the United […] Continue reading -> WHO Decries US Cancellation of mRNA Vaccine Research as ‘Unfortunate and Untimely’ 06/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan & Elaine Ruth Fletcher WHO says mRNA technology holds particular potential in developing vaccines against emerging epidemic threats. Scientists in the United States and abroad called on US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to release the data that informed his decision to cancel the US investments in mRNA vaccine research. The World Health Organization […] Continue reading -> Grassroots Groups in Uganda Keep GBV Services Going Despite Aid Cuts 01/08/2025 Nanfuka Fatuma Uganda has been hard-hit by the withdrawal of aid by the United States, but women’s groups are helping to support crucial gender-based violence initiatives in refugee settlements. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. The small clinic in northern Uganda’s Obongi District sits at the end of a dusty road, its tin roof […] Continue reading -> Health Organizations Must Cut Ties with Fossil-Fueled Public Relations and Advertising Firms 31/07/2025 Edward Maibach & Jemilah Mahmood As health actors meet this week in Brasilia to refine a Health Action Plan for COP30, ending relationships with PR firms that engage with fossil fuel producers is one concrete step both civil society and UN actors could take now, two leading global health actors argue. The call is the more urgent in light of […] Continue reading -> Hunger Declines Globally, but Rises in Africa 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The proportion of the world’s population suffering acute hunger declined globally in 2024 to about 673 million people, but continued to rise in most African regions as well as western Asia, according to the new UN State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) report, launched Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global hunger levels have remained […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
US Non-profits Vow to Fight on After Court Rules They Can’t Challenge Trump Aid Freeze 15/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan US non-profit groups have vowed to fight on after losing their court bid this week to compel the Trump administration to restore Congress-approved foreign aid it had stopped in January. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to overturn a District Court ruling that compelled the US government to restore some […] Continue reading -> ‘A Mockery’: Nations Unite in Outrage at Plastics Treaty Draft 13/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – A new draft of the global plastics treaty published Wednesday found a clever solution to answering the difficult questions facing nations seeking the historic treaty: delete them from the text. The long-awaited draft arrived at a tense moment in negotiations over what many hoped would be a watershed treaty to address the crisis […] Continue reading -> Global Plastics Treaty Talks Near Collapse With Days to Deadline 11/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA — The world’s attempt to forge a plastics treaty billed as the most important environmental deal since the Paris climate accord is falling apart after three years of talks. With negotiations due to end Thursday evening, 184 nations gathered in Geneva remain deadlocked over basic definitions, the scope of the treaty and whether to […] Continue reading -> WHO Awards Top-Level Recognition to Regulatory Authorities in Canada, UK and Japan 08/08/2025 Editorial team The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated government regulatory authorities in Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom as WHO-Listed Authorities (WLAs), a status granted to national authorities that meet the highest international regulatory standards for medical products. The recognition widens the pool of WHO-recognized authorities significantly beyond the previously recognized authorities in Europe, the United […] Continue reading -> WHO Decries US Cancellation of mRNA Vaccine Research as ‘Unfortunate and Untimely’ 06/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan & Elaine Ruth Fletcher WHO says mRNA technology holds particular potential in developing vaccines against emerging epidemic threats. Scientists in the United States and abroad called on US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to release the data that informed his decision to cancel the US investments in mRNA vaccine research. The World Health Organization […] Continue reading -> Grassroots Groups in Uganda Keep GBV Services Going Despite Aid Cuts 01/08/2025 Nanfuka Fatuma Uganda has been hard-hit by the withdrawal of aid by the United States, but women’s groups are helping to support crucial gender-based violence initiatives in refugee settlements. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. The small clinic in northern Uganda’s Obongi District sits at the end of a dusty road, its tin roof […] Continue reading -> Health Organizations Must Cut Ties with Fossil-Fueled Public Relations and Advertising Firms 31/07/2025 Edward Maibach & Jemilah Mahmood As health actors meet this week in Brasilia to refine a Health Action Plan for COP30, ending relationships with PR firms that engage with fossil fuel producers is one concrete step both civil society and UN actors could take now, two leading global health actors argue. The call is the more urgent in light of […] Continue reading -> Hunger Declines Globally, but Rises in Africa 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The proportion of the world’s population suffering acute hunger declined globally in 2024 to about 673 million people, but continued to rise in most African regions as well as western Asia, according to the new UN State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) report, launched Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global hunger levels have remained […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘A Mockery’: Nations Unite in Outrage at Plastics Treaty Draft 13/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – A new draft of the global plastics treaty published Wednesday found a clever solution to answering the difficult questions facing nations seeking the historic treaty: delete them from the text. The long-awaited draft arrived at a tense moment in negotiations over what many hoped would be a watershed treaty to address the crisis […] Continue reading -> Global Plastics Treaty Talks Near Collapse With Days to Deadline 11/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA — The world’s attempt to forge a plastics treaty billed as the most important environmental deal since the Paris climate accord is falling apart after three years of talks. With negotiations due to end Thursday evening, 184 nations gathered in Geneva remain deadlocked over basic definitions, the scope of the treaty and whether to […] Continue reading -> WHO Awards Top-Level Recognition to Regulatory Authorities in Canada, UK and Japan 08/08/2025 Editorial team The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated government regulatory authorities in Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom as WHO-Listed Authorities (WLAs), a status granted to national authorities that meet the highest international regulatory standards for medical products. The recognition widens the pool of WHO-recognized authorities significantly beyond the previously recognized authorities in Europe, the United […] Continue reading -> WHO Decries US Cancellation of mRNA Vaccine Research as ‘Unfortunate and Untimely’ 06/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan & Elaine Ruth Fletcher WHO says mRNA technology holds particular potential in developing vaccines against emerging epidemic threats. Scientists in the United States and abroad called on US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to release the data that informed his decision to cancel the US investments in mRNA vaccine research. The World Health Organization […] Continue reading -> Grassroots Groups in Uganda Keep GBV Services Going Despite Aid Cuts 01/08/2025 Nanfuka Fatuma Uganda has been hard-hit by the withdrawal of aid by the United States, but women’s groups are helping to support crucial gender-based violence initiatives in refugee settlements. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. The small clinic in northern Uganda’s Obongi District sits at the end of a dusty road, its tin roof […] Continue reading -> Health Organizations Must Cut Ties with Fossil-Fueled Public Relations and Advertising Firms 31/07/2025 Edward Maibach & Jemilah Mahmood As health actors meet this week in Brasilia to refine a Health Action Plan for COP30, ending relationships with PR firms that engage with fossil fuel producers is one concrete step both civil society and UN actors could take now, two leading global health actors argue. The call is the more urgent in light of […] Continue reading -> Hunger Declines Globally, but Rises in Africa 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The proportion of the world’s population suffering acute hunger declined globally in 2024 to about 673 million people, but continued to rise in most African regions as well as western Asia, according to the new UN State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) report, launched Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global hunger levels have remained […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Global Plastics Treaty Talks Near Collapse With Days to Deadline 11/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA — The world’s attempt to forge a plastics treaty billed as the most important environmental deal since the Paris climate accord is falling apart after three years of talks. With negotiations due to end Thursday evening, 184 nations gathered in Geneva remain deadlocked over basic definitions, the scope of the treaty and whether to […] Continue reading -> WHO Awards Top-Level Recognition to Regulatory Authorities in Canada, UK and Japan 08/08/2025 Editorial team The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated government regulatory authorities in Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom as WHO-Listed Authorities (WLAs), a status granted to national authorities that meet the highest international regulatory standards for medical products. The recognition widens the pool of WHO-recognized authorities significantly beyond the previously recognized authorities in Europe, the United […] Continue reading -> WHO Decries US Cancellation of mRNA Vaccine Research as ‘Unfortunate and Untimely’ 06/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan & Elaine Ruth Fletcher WHO says mRNA technology holds particular potential in developing vaccines against emerging epidemic threats. Scientists in the United States and abroad called on US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to release the data that informed his decision to cancel the US investments in mRNA vaccine research. The World Health Organization […] Continue reading -> Grassroots Groups in Uganda Keep GBV Services Going Despite Aid Cuts 01/08/2025 Nanfuka Fatuma Uganda has been hard-hit by the withdrawal of aid by the United States, but women’s groups are helping to support crucial gender-based violence initiatives in refugee settlements. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. The small clinic in northern Uganda’s Obongi District sits at the end of a dusty road, its tin roof […] Continue reading -> Health Organizations Must Cut Ties with Fossil-Fueled Public Relations and Advertising Firms 31/07/2025 Edward Maibach & Jemilah Mahmood As health actors meet this week in Brasilia to refine a Health Action Plan for COP30, ending relationships with PR firms that engage with fossil fuel producers is one concrete step both civil society and UN actors could take now, two leading global health actors argue. The call is the more urgent in light of […] Continue reading -> Hunger Declines Globally, but Rises in Africa 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The proportion of the world’s population suffering acute hunger declined globally in 2024 to about 673 million people, but continued to rise in most African regions as well as western Asia, according to the new UN State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) report, launched Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global hunger levels have remained […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Awards Top-Level Recognition to Regulatory Authorities in Canada, UK and Japan 08/08/2025 Editorial team The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated government regulatory authorities in Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom as WHO-Listed Authorities (WLAs), a status granted to national authorities that meet the highest international regulatory standards for medical products. The recognition widens the pool of WHO-recognized authorities significantly beyond the previously recognized authorities in Europe, the United […] Continue reading -> WHO Decries US Cancellation of mRNA Vaccine Research as ‘Unfortunate and Untimely’ 06/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan & Elaine Ruth Fletcher WHO says mRNA technology holds particular potential in developing vaccines against emerging epidemic threats. Scientists in the United States and abroad called on US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to release the data that informed his decision to cancel the US investments in mRNA vaccine research. The World Health Organization […] Continue reading -> Grassroots Groups in Uganda Keep GBV Services Going Despite Aid Cuts 01/08/2025 Nanfuka Fatuma Uganda has been hard-hit by the withdrawal of aid by the United States, but women’s groups are helping to support crucial gender-based violence initiatives in refugee settlements. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. The small clinic in northern Uganda’s Obongi District sits at the end of a dusty road, its tin roof […] Continue reading -> Health Organizations Must Cut Ties with Fossil-Fueled Public Relations and Advertising Firms 31/07/2025 Edward Maibach & Jemilah Mahmood As health actors meet this week in Brasilia to refine a Health Action Plan for COP30, ending relationships with PR firms that engage with fossil fuel producers is one concrete step both civil society and UN actors could take now, two leading global health actors argue. The call is the more urgent in light of […] Continue reading -> Hunger Declines Globally, but Rises in Africa 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The proportion of the world’s population suffering acute hunger declined globally in 2024 to about 673 million people, but continued to rise in most African regions as well as western Asia, according to the new UN State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) report, launched Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global hunger levels have remained […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Decries US Cancellation of mRNA Vaccine Research as ‘Unfortunate and Untimely’ 06/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan & Elaine Ruth Fletcher WHO says mRNA technology holds particular potential in developing vaccines against emerging epidemic threats. Scientists in the United States and abroad called on US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to release the data that informed his decision to cancel the US investments in mRNA vaccine research. The World Health Organization […] Continue reading -> Grassroots Groups in Uganda Keep GBV Services Going Despite Aid Cuts 01/08/2025 Nanfuka Fatuma Uganda has been hard-hit by the withdrawal of aid by the United States, but women’s groups are helping to support crucial gender-based violence initiatives in refugee settlements. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. The small clinic in northern Uganda’s Obongi District sits at the end of a dusty road, its tin roof […] Continue reading -> Health Organizations Must Cut Ties with Fossil-Fueled Public Relations and Advertising Firms 31/07/2025 Edward Maibach & Jemilah Mahmood As health actors meet this week in Brasilia to refine a Health Action Plan for COP30, ending relationships with PR firms that engage with fossil fuel producers is one concrete step both civil society and UN actors could take now, two leading global health actors argue. The call is the more urgent in light of […] Continue reading -> Hunger Declines Globally, but Rises in Africa 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The proportion of the world’s population suffering acute hunger declined globally in 2024 to about 673 million people, but continued to rise in most African regions as well as western Asia, according to the new UN State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) report, launched Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global hunger levels have remained […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Grassroots Groups in Uganda Keep GBV Services Going Despite Aid Cuts 01/08/2025 Nanfuka Fatuma Uganda has been hard-hit by the withdrawal of aid by the United States, but women’s groups are helping to support crucial gender-based violence initiatives in refugee settlements. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. The small clinic in northern Uganda’s Obongi District sits at the end of a dusty road, its tin roof […] Continue reading -> Health Organizations Must Cut Ties with Fossil-Fueled Public Relations and Advertising Firms 31/07/2025 Edward Maibach & Jemilah Mahmood As health actors meet this week in Brasilia to refine a Health Action Plan for COP30, ending relationships with PR firms that engage with fossil fuel producers is one concrete step both civil society and UN actors could take now, two leading global health actors argue. The call is the more urgent in light of […] Continue reading -> Hunger Declines Globally, but Rises in Africa 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The proportion of the world’s population suffering acute hunger declined globally in 2024 to about 673 million people, but continued to rise in most African regions as well as western Asia, according to the new UN State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) report, launched Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global hunger levels have remained […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Health Organizations Must Cut Ties with Fossil-Fueled Public Relations and Advertising Firms 31/07/2025 Edward Maibach & Jemilah Mahmood As health actors meet this week in Brasilia to refine a Health Action Plan for COP30, ending relationships with PR firms that engage with fossil fuel producers is one concrete step both civil society and UN actors could take now, two leading global health actors argue. The call is the more urgent in light of […] Continue reading -> Hunger Declines Globally, but Rises in Africa 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The proportion of the world’s population suffering acute hunger declined globally in 2024 to about 673 million people, but continued to rise in most African regions as well as western Asia, according to the new UN State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) report, launched Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global hunger levels have remained […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Hunger Declines Globally, but Rises in Africa 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The proportion of the world’s population suffering acute hunger declined globally in 2024 to about 673 million people, but continued to rise in most African regions as well as western Asia, according to the new UN State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) report, launched Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global hunger levels have remained […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts