People with Severe Psychiatric Disorders are Twice as Likely to Die from COVID 02/05/2022 Maayan Hoffman Individuals who suffer from severe psychiatric disorders were at least twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than others who caught the virus, at least in the first year of the pandemic when the most deadly SARS-COV2 variants, including Delta, were predominant. That is the key finding in a new study published in Molecular Psychiatry, […] Continue reading -> Reducing Newborn Deaths in Uganda and Beyond Through Real-Time Temperature Monitoring 29/04/2022 Paul Adepoju Geneva Health Forum’s Global Health Lab 3-5 May will showcase over 100 new diagnostics and treatment tools designed for resource-constrained settings. The Autothermo device for continuous, real-time temperature monitoring is one of the innovations being featured there. Early detection of patients’ temperature changes, especially in the case of newborns who lack adequate temperature control, can […] 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 -> Record-breaking Heatwaves in India and Pakistan Affect Over Billion People 27/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More than a billion people in India and Pakistan are expected to face temperatures of over 40ºC in the next few days, peaking as high as 50Cº in Pakistan as record-breaking heatwaves that began in early March continue to affect South East Asia. The heat is also jeopardising India’s wheat exports, which are even more […] Continue reading -> Tigray’s Health System ‘Totally Collapsed’, say Health Workers 27/04/2022 Fred Harter, The New Humanitarian ADDIS ABABA – After nearly 18 months of conflict between the Ethiopian federal government and Tigray rebels, the health system of the beleaguered region has “totally collapsed”, according to health officials and doctors there. Health workers in Tigray told The New Humanitarian by phone that shortages are so acute they are using expired drugs to […] Continue reading -> Lack of COVID-19 Testing is Undermining Global Tracking – And Uptake of the New Antiviral Drugs 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan & Raisa Santos The precipitous drop in COVID-19 testing across the world since January has made it harder to track the evolution of variants, and is also undermining the potential of new antiviral drugs that have to be taken early to be effective. Testing was a major focus of Tuesday’s meeting of the Access to COVID Tools Accelerator […] Continue reading -> Drug-Resistant Infections Kill More Newborns as Doctors Run Out of Treatment Options 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More newborn babies with sepsis are dying because their infections are not responding to the usual antibiotics, according to the biggest global study on the subject yet. The study’s sponsor, the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), is now designing an interventional trial to identify better treatment regimens. to combat rising resistance. GARDP’s study, […] Continue reading -> Malaria, Polio, and COVID-19: Lessons for Existing and Future Pandemics 26/04/2022 Sarthak Das, Aidan O’Leary & Shekhar Mehta On the occasion of World Immunization Week, influential global health figures share lessons learned in the global fight against two age-old diseases, malaria and polio – and more recently, COVID-19 – and how we should tackle existing and future pandemics. While COVID-19 surprised and shocked the world, it should not have. For decades, infectious […] Continue reading -> The Dilemma of Vaccine ‘Charity’ vs Building Africa’s Production Capacity 25/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan CAPE TOWN – As the health sector celebrates World Immunisation Week, one of the most pressing related problems is Africa’s almost total dependence on imported vaccines – something that predates, but was highlighted by, the COVID-19 pandemic. But addressing this dependence will mean dismantling the ‘charity’ model that has underpinned many of Africa’s immunisation programmes […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Reducing Newborn Deaths in Uganda and Beyond Through Real-Time Temperature Monitoring 29/04/2022 Paul Adepoju Geneva Health Forum’s Global Health Lab 3-5 May will showcase over 100 new diagnostics and treatment tools designed for resource-constrained settings. The Autothermo device for continuous, real-time temperature monitoring is one of the innovations being featured there. Early detection of patients’ temperature changes, especially in the case of newborns who lack adequate temperature control, can […] 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 -> Record-breaking Heatwaves in India and Pakistan Affect Over Billion People 27/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More than a billion people in India and Pakistan are expected to face temperatures of over 40ºC in the next few days, peaking as high as 50Cº in Pakistan as record-breaking heatwaves that began in early March continue to affect South East Asia. The heat is also jeopardising India’s wheat exports, which are even more […] Continue reading -> Tigray’s Health System ‘Totally Collapsed’, say Health Workers 27/04/2022 Fred Harter, The New Humanitarian ADDIS ABABA – After nearly 18 months of conflict between the Ethiopian federal government and Tigray rebels, the health system of the beleaguered region has “totally collapsed”, according to health officials and doctors there. Health workers in Tigray told The New Humanitarian by phone that shortages are so acute they are using expired drugs to […] Continue reading -> Lack of COVID-19 Testing is Undermining Global Tracking – And Uptake of the New Antiviral Drugs 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan & Raisa Santos The precipitous drop in COVID-19 testing across the world since January has made it harder to track the evolution of variants, and is also undermining the potential of new antiviral drugs that have to be taken early to be effective. Testing was a major focus of Tuesday’s meeting of the Access to COVID Tools Accelerator […] Continue reading -> Drug-Resistant Infections Kill More Newborns as Doctors Run Out of Treatment Options 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More newborn babies with sepsis are dying because their infections are not responding to the usual antibiotics, according to the biggest global study on the subject yet. The study’s sponsor, the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), is now designing an interventional trial to identify better treatment regimens. to combat rising resistance. GARDP’s study, […] Continue reading -> Malaria, Polio, and COVID-19: Lessons for Existing and Future Pandemics 26/04/2022 Sarthak Das, Aidan O’Leary & Shekhar Mehta On the occasion of World Immunization Week, influential global health figures share lessons learned in the global fight against two age-old diseases, malaria and polio – and more recently, COVID-19 – and how we should tackle existing and future pandemics. While COVID-19 surprised and shocked the world, it should not have. For decades, infectious […] Continue reading -> The Dilemma of Vaccine ‘Charity’ vs Building Africa’s Production Capacity 25/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan CAPE TOWN – As the health sector celebrates World Immunisation Week, one of the most pressing related problems is Africa’s almost total dependence on imported vaccines – something that predates, but was highlighted by, the COVID-19 pandemic. But addressing this dependence will mean dismantling the ‘charity’ model that has underpinned many of Africa’s immunisation programmes […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer 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 -> Record-breaking Heatwaves in India and Pakistan Affect Over Billion People 27/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More than a billion people in India and Pakistan are expected to face temperatures of over 40ºC in the next few days, peaking as high as 50Cº in Pakistan as record-breaking heatwaves that began in early March continue to affect South East Asia. The heat is also jeopardising India’s wheat exports, which are even more […] Continue reading -> Tigray’s Health System ‘Totally Collapsed’, say Health Workers 27/04/2022 Fred Harter, The New Humanitarian ADDIS ABABA – After nearly 18 months of conflict between the Ethiopian federal government and Tigray rebels, the health system of the beleaguered region has “totally collapsed”, according to health officials and doctors there. Health workers in Tigray told The New Humanitarian by phone that shortages are so acute they are using expired drugs to […] Continue reading -> Lack of COVID-19 Testing is Undermining Global Tracking – And Uptake of the New Antiviral Drugs 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan & Raisa Santos The precipitous drop in COVID-19 testing across the world since January has made it harder to track the evolution of variants, and is also undermining the potential of new antiviral drugs that have to be taken early to be effective. Testing was a major focus of Tuesday’s meeting of the Access to COVID Tools Accelerator […] Continue reading -> Drug-Resistant Infections Kill More Newborns as Doctors Run Out of Treatment Options 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More newborn babies with sepsis are dying because their infections are not responding to the usual antibiotics, according to the biggest global study on the subject yet. The study’s sponsor, the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), is now designing an interventional trial to identify better treatment regimens. to combat rising resistance. GARDP’s study, […] Continue reading -> Malaria, Polio, and COVID-19: Lessons for Existing and Future Pandemics 26/04/2022 Sarthak Das, Aidan O’Leary & Shekhar Mehta On the occasion of World Immunization Week, influential global health figures share lessons learned in the global fight against two age-old diseases, malaria and polio – and more recently, COVID-19 – and how we should tackle existing and future pandemics. While COVID-19 surprised and shocked the world, it should not have. For decades, infectious […] Continue reading -> The Dilemma of Vaccine ‘Charity’ vs Building Africa’s Production Capacity 25/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan CAPE TOWN – As the health sector celebrates World Immunisation Week, one of the most pressing related problems is Africa’s almost total dependence on imported vaccines – something that predates, but was highlighted by, the COVID-19 pandemic. But addressing this dependence will mean dismantling the ‘charity’ model that has underpinned many of Africa’s immunisation programmes […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer 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 -> Record-breaking Heatwaves in India and Pakistan Affect Over Billion People 27/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More than a billion people in India and Pakistan are expected to face temperatures of over 40ºC in the next few days, peaking as high as 50Cº in Pakistan as record-breaking heatwaves that began in early March continue to affect South East Asia. The heat is also jeopardising India’s wheat exports, which are even more […] Continue reading -> Tigray’s Health System ‘Totally Collapsed’, say Health Workers 27/04/2022 Fred Harter, The New Humanitarian ADDIS ABABA – After nearly 18 months of conflict between the Ethiopian federal government and Tigray rebels, the health system of the beleaguered region has “totally collapsed”, according to health officials and doctors there. Health workers in Tigray told The New Humanitarian by phone that shortages are so acute they are using expired drugs to […] Continue reading -> Lack of COVID-19 Testing is Undermining Global Tracking – And Uptake of the New Antiviral Drugs 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan & Raisa Santos The precipitous drop in COVID-19 testing across the world since January has made it harder to track the evolution of variants, and is also undermining the potential of new antiviral drugs that have to be taken early to be effective. Testing was a major focus of Tuesday’s meeting of the Access to COVID Tools Accelerator […] Continue reading -> Drug-Resistant Infections Kill More Newborns as Doctors Run Out of Treatment Options 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More newborn babies with sepsis are dying because their infections are not responding to the usual antibiotics, according to the biggest global study on the subject yet. The study’s sponsor, the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), is now designing an interventional trial to identify better treatment regimens. to combat rising resistance. GARDP’s study, […] Continue reading -> Malaria, Polio, and COVID-19: Lessons for Existing and Future Pandemics 26/04/2022 Sarthak Das, Aidan O’Leary & Shekhar Mehta On the occasion of World Immunization Week, influential global health figures share lessons learned in the global fight against two age-old diseases, malaria and polio – and more recently, COVID-19 – and how we should tackle existing and future pandemics. While COVID-19 surprised and shocked the world, it should not have. For decades, infectious […] Continue reading -> The Dilemma of Vaccine ‘Charity’ vs Building Africa’s Production Capacity 25/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan CAPE TOWN – As the health sector celebrates World Immunisation Week, one of the most pressing related problems is Africa’s almost total dependence on imported vaccines – something that predates, but was highlighted by, the COVID-19 pandemic. But addressing this dependence will mean dismantling the ‘charity’ model that has underpinned many of Africa’s immunisation programmes […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Record-breaking Heatwaves in India and Pakistan Affect Over Billion People 27/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More than a billion people in India and Pakistan are expected to face temperatures of over 40ºC in the next few days, peaking as high as 50Cº in Pakistan as record-breaking heatwaves that began in early March continue to affect South East Asia. The heat is also jeopardising India’s wheat exports, which are even more […] Continue reading -> Tigray’s Health System ‘Totally Collapsed’, say Health Workers 27/04/2022 Fred Harter, The New Humanitarian ADDIS ABABA – After nearly 18 months of conflict between the Ethiopian federal government and Tigray rebels, the health system of the beleaguered region has “totally collapsed”, according to health officials and doctors there. Health workers in Tigray told The New Humanitarian by phone that shortages are so acute they are using expired drugs to […] Continue reading -> Lack of COVID-19 Testing is Undermining Global Tracking – And Uptake of the New Antiviral Drugs 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan & Raisa Santos The precipitous drop in COVID-19 testing across the world since January has made it harder to track the evolution of variants, and is also undermining the potential of new antiviral drugs that have to be taken early to be effective. Testing was a major focus of Tuesday’s meeting of the Access to COVID Tools Accelerator […] Continue reading -> Drug-Resistant Infections Kill More Newborns as Doctors Run Out of Treatment Options 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More newborn babies with sepsis are dying because their infections are not responding to the usual antibiotics, according to the biggest global study on the subject yet. The study’s sponsor, the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), is now designing an interventional trial to identify better treatment regimens. to combat rising resistance. GARDP’s study, […] Continue reading -> Malaria, Polio, and COVID-19: Lessons for Existing and Future Pandemics 26/04/2022 Sarthak Das, Aidan O’Leary & Shekhar Mehta On the occasion of World Immunization Week, influential global health figures share lessons learned in the global fight against two age-old diseases, malaria and polio – and more recently, COVID-19 – and how we should tackle existing and future pandemics. While COVID-19 surprised and shocked the world, it should not have. For decades, infectious […] Continue reading -> The Dilemma of Vaccine ‘Charity’ vs Building Africa’s Production Capacity 25/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan CAPE TOWN – As the health sector celebrates World Immunisation Week, one of the most pressing related problems is Africa’s almost total dependence on imported vaccines – something that predates, but was highlighted by, the COVID-19 pandemic. But addressing this dependence will mean dismantling the ‘charity’ model that has underpinned many of Africa’s immunisation programmes […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Tigray’s Health System ‘Totally Collapsed’, say Health Workers 27/04/2022 Fred Harter, The New Humanitarian ADDIS ABABA – After nearly 18 months of conflict between the Ethiopian federal government and Tigray rebels, the health system of the beleaguered region has “totally collapsed”, according to health officials and doctors there. Health workers in Tigray told The New Humanitarian by phone that shortages are so acute they are using expired drugs to […] Continue reading -> Lack of COVID-19 Testing is Undermining Global Tracking – And Uptake of the New Antiviral Drugs 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan & Raisa Santos The precipitous drop in COVID-19 testing across the world since January has made it harder to track the evolution of variants, and is also undermining the potential of new antiviral drugs that have to be taken early to be effective. Testing was a major focus of Tuesday’s meeting of the Access to COVID Tools Accelerator […] Continue reading -> Drug-Resistant Infections Kill More Newborns as Doctors Run Out of Treatment Options 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More newborn babies with sepsis are dying because their infections are not responding to the usual antibiotics, according to the biggest global study on the subject yet. The study’s sponsor, the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), is now designing an interventional trial to identify better treatment regimens. to combat rising resistance. GARDP’s study, […] Continue reading -> Malaria, Polio, and COVID-19: Lessons for Existing and Future Pandemics 26/04/2022 Sarthak Das, Aidan O’Leary & Shekhar Mehta On the occasion of World Immunization Week, influential global health figures share lessons learned in the global fight against two age-old diseases, malaria and polio – and more recently, COVID-19 – and how we should tackle existing and future pandemics. While COVID-19 surprised and shocked the world, it should not have. For decades, infectious […] Continue reading -> The Dilemma of Vaccine ‘Charity’ vs Building Africa’s Production Capacity 25/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan CAPE TOWN – As the health sector celebrates World Immunisation Week, one of the most pressing related problems is Africa’s almost total dependence on imported vaccines – something that predates, but was highlighted by, the COVID-19 pandemic. But addressing this dependence will mean dismantling the ‘charity’ model that has underpinned many of Africa’s immunisation programmes […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Lack of COVID-19 Testing is Undermining Global Tracking – And Uptake of the New Antiviral Drugs 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan & Raisa Santos The precipitous drop in COVID-19 testing across the world since January has made it harder to track the evolution of variants, and is also undermining the potential of new antiviral drugs that have to be taken early to be effective. Testing was a major focus of Tuesday’s meeting of the Access to COVID Tools Accelerator […] Continue reading -> Drug-Resistant Infections Kill More Newborns as Doctors Run Out of Treatment Options 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More newborn babies with sepsis are dying because their infections are not responding to the usual antibiotics, according to the biggest global study on the subject yet. The study’s sponsor, the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), is now designing an interventional trial to identify better treatment regimens. to combat rising resistance. GARDP’s study, […] Continue reading -> Malaria, Polio, and COVID-19: Lessons for Existing and Future Pandemics 26/04/2022 Sarthak Das, Aidan O’Leary & Shekhar Mehta On the occasion of World Immunization Week, influential global health figures share lessons learned in the global fight against two age-old diseases, malaria and polio – and more recently, COVID-19 – and how we should tackle existing and future pandemics. While COVID-19 surprised and shocked the world, it should not have. For decades, infectious […] Continue reading -> The Dilemma of Vaccine ‘Charity’ vs Building Africa’s Production Capacity 25/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan CAPE TOWN – As the health sector celebrates World Immunisation Week, one of the most pressing related problems is Africa’s almost total dependence on imported vaccines – something that predates, but was highlighted by, the COVID-19 pandemic. But addressing this dependence will mean dismantling the ‘charity’ model that has underpinned many of Africa’s immunisation programmes […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Drug-Resistant Infections Kill More Newborns as Doctors Run Out of Treatment Options 26/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan More newborn babies with sepsis are dying because their infections are not responding to the usual antibiotics, according to the biggest global study on the subject yet. The study’s sponsor, the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), is now designing an interventional trial to identify better treatment regimens. to combat rising resistance. GARDP’s study, […] Continue reading -> Malaria, Polio, and COVID-19: Lessons for Existing and Future Pandemics 26/04/2022 Sarthak Das, Aidan O’Leary & Shekhar Mehta On the occasion of World Immunization Week, influential global health figures share lessons learned in the global fight against two age-old diseases, malaria and polio – and more recently, COVID-19 – and how we should tackle existing and future pandemics. While COVID-19 surprised and shocked the world, it should not have. For decades, infectious […] Continue reading -> The Dilemma of Vaccine ‘Charity’ vs Building Africa’s Production Capacity 25/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan CAPE TOWN – As the health sector celebrates World Immunisation Week, one of the most pressing related problems is Africa’s almost total dependence on imported vaccines – something that predates, but was highlighted by, the COVID-19 pandemic. But addressing this dependence will mean dismantling the ‘charity’ model that has underpinned many of Africa’s immunisation programmes […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Malaria, Polio, and COVID-19: Lessons for Existing and Future Pandemics 26/04/2022 Sarthak Das, Aidan O’Leary & Shekhar Mehta On the occasion of World Immunization Week, influential global health figures share lessons learned in the global fight against two age-old diseases, malaria and polio – and more recently, COVID-19 – and how we should tackle existing and future pandemics. While COVID-19 surprised and shocked the world, it should not have. For decades, infectious […] Continue reading -> The Dilemma of Vaccine ‘Charity’ vs Building Africa’s Production Capacity 25/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan CAPE TOWN – As the health sector celebrates World Immunisation Week, one of the most pressing related problems is Africa’s almost total dependence on imported vaccines – something that predates, but was highlighted by, the COVID-19 pandemic. But addressing this dependence will mean dismantling the ‘charity’ model that has underpinned many of Africa’s immunisation programmes […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
The Dilemma of Vaccine ‘Charity’ vs Building Africa’s Production Capacity 25/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan CAPE TOWN – As the health sector celebrates World Immunisation Week, one of the most pressing related problems is Africa’s almost total dependence on imported vaccines – something that predates, but was highlighted by, the COVID-19 pandemic. But addressing this dependence will mean dismantling the ‘charity’ model that has underpinned many of Africa’s immunisation programmes […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts