Landmark Malaria Vaccine Launched In Malawi – Kenya, Ghana Next

23/04/2019 David Branigan

The World Health Organization today announced that a new vaccine for malaria, which has been in development for 30 years and recently passed clinical trials, is being introduced as part of the routine childhood immunization programmes of Malawi, soon to be followed by Kenya and Ghana. Image Credits: WHO/M. Nieuwenhof. Continue reading ->

Access To Essential Medicines – Charles Gore Speaks About MPP’s Expanding Role

25/03/2019 William New

Charles Gore took over the role of Executive Director at the Medicines Patent Pool in July 2018, just after its board decided to greatly expand its mandate into essential medicines. Nine months into his term, IP-Watch’s William New talked with him about his role and how the expansion is going. Continue reading ->

Unitaid Calls For Proposals To Develop Technologies To Treat Malaria, HIV, TB

13/02/2019 David Branigan

Unitaid has launched two separate calls for proposals for the development of improved technologies to better diagnose and treat Plasmodium vivax malaria, and to more effectively treat HIV and its coinfections, including tuberculosis and malaria, in low and middle-income countries. Continue reading ->

On World AIDS Day: Big Breakthroughs On HIV Self-Testing

30/11/2018 Health Policy Watch

A report launched jointly today by Population Services International (PSI), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the World Health Organization shows that people’s knowledge of their HIV status in sub-Saharan African countries nearly doubled just four years after self-testing programmes were introduced. Separately, a group of French NGOs called on the French President to lead elimination of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria by 2030. Continue reading ->

World Health Summit: 11 Groups Sign Collaboration; Civil Society Sees Lack Of NGOs

16/10/2018 Monika Ermert

BERLIN -- Answering the call by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg for a global action plan for pushing global health, heads of 11 major health organisations today signed “a commitment to find new ways of working together to accelerate progress towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals” at the close of the World Health Summit in Berlin. Continue reading ->

Unitaid Calls For Proposals On TB, Hails New Insecticide

07/05/2018 Damilola Adepeju

Unitaid has issued a call for proposals to fund innovative projects that would combat the drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, and has announced progress in development of a new anti-malaria insecticide against mosquitoes. Continue reading ->