Stricter Laws Needed to Fight Child Labour on Tobacco Farms 18/06/2021 Geoffrey Kamadi Children’s rights activists and anti-tobacco campaigners called on governments this week to implement stricter laws, impose hefty fines and carry out public campaigns to eradicate child labor in tobacco value chains. With an estimated 1.3 million children working in tobacco fields around the world, Adriana Blanco Marquizo, head of the Secretariat of WHO’s Framework Convention […] Continue reading -> Five Virus Variants Fuel Second Wave of COVID-19 in Uganda 18/06/2021 Esther Nakkazi Uganda is suffering an acute shortage of oxygen and intensive care beds as the country grapples with a deadly second wave of the pandemic that is being fuelled by five different virus variants. Regional referral hospitals and the country’s biggest hospital, Mulago National Referral Hospital, have run out of oxygen or have reported acute shortages, […] Continue reading -> Tanzania Joins COVAX Vaccine Facility as Africa Enters Deadly COVID-19 Third Wave 17/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Tanzania, which for months denied the existence of COVID-19 until vaccine-sceptic President John Magufuli finally succumbed to the virus in March – is now trying to belatedly join the WHO co-sponsored COVAX facility to acquire COVID vaccines. The news comes as the African continent experiences a deadly third wave of COVID-19 infections – affecting eastern […] Continue reading -> Latin America Plagued by Slow Vaccine Rollouts, While Region Remains Major COVID Epicenter 17/06/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin & Raisa Santos Despite the global decline in COVID-19 cases by 12% over the last week, countries in Central and South America continue to be epicenters of pandemic, with high mortality rates and insufficient access to vaccines. Over 1.1 million new COVID-19 cases and 31,000 deaths were reported in the Americas over the last week, officials from the […] Continue reading -> Pakistan Introduces Single-Use Syringes as it Battles Fast-Rising HIV/AIDS Infections 16/06/2021 Rahul Basharat Rajput & Muhammed Nadeem Chaudhry ISLAMABAD – Faced with one of the sharpest increases in HIV/AIDS rates in Asia, Pakistan will ban the manufacture and import of conventional syringes from next month, government officials have told Health Policy Watch. The move is in an effort to stem a three-year increase in HIV cases – 39% of which are estimated to […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rollouts Falter as Third Wave Grips Parts of the Continent 15/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan Twenty-two African countries are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections, yet the vaccination rollouts on the continent have ground to a halt because of lack of supply. African vaccination figures, as recorded by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are dismal. Apart from the tiny island state of Seychelles, only Morocco’s vaccination rate […] Continue reading -> How Our Old Computers, TVs And Other Electronics Are Making Children Sick 15/06/2021 Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah Electronic waste (e-waste) is increasing at three times the pace of the world population, impacting badly on the health of those wading through electronic dump sites, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) landmark report – Children and Digital Dumpsites – released on Tuesday. Led by Marie-Noël Bruné Drisse, a children’s health expert of the […] Continue reading -> WHO to Study Social Measures That Keep COVID-19 at Bay – in Case of No Vaccines in Future Pandemics 14/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to study the public health and social measures that countries have used to keep COVID-19 at bay successfully – in case there is no quick vaccine for the next pandemic. A special working group has been set up with the support of Norway to study these measures, WHO […] Continue reading -> Novavax could make 100 million monthly doses of COVID-19 vaccine by October 14/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Biotech manufacturer Novavax announced on Monday it would be able to manufacture 100 million doses of its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine every month by the end of the third quarter of 2021 and 150 million doses per month by the end of the year – once it has secured regulatory approval for its vaccine. This follows […] Continue reading -> To End Child Labour, the UN Must Cut Ties with Tobacco Industry 14/06/2021 Mary Assunta Over the past several decades, the tobacco industry has tried to influence policy by partnering with various United Nations (UN) agencies. Many of these agencies, however, have since cut ties with the industry, thus safeguarding their initiatives and policies from Big Tobacco’s commercial interests. One notable exception remains and must be addressed: the continued membership […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Five Virus Variants Fuel Second Wave of COVID-19 in Uganda 18/06/2021 Esther Nakkazi Uganda is suffering an acute shortage of oxygen and intensive care beds as the country grapples with a deadly second wave of the pandemic that is being fuelled by five different virus variants. Regional referral hospitals and the country’s biggest hospital, Mulago National Referral Hospital, have run out of oxygen or have reported acute shortages, […] Continue reading -> Tanzania Joins COVAX Vaccine Facility as Africa Enters Deadly COVID-19 Third Wave 17/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Tanzania, which for months denied the existence of COVID-19 until vaccine-sceptic President John Magufuli finally succumbed to the virus in March – is now trying to belatedly join the WHO co-sponsored COVAX facility to acquire COVID vaccines. The news comes as the African continent experiences a deadly third wave of COVID-19 infections – affecting eastern […] Continue reading -> Latin America Plagued by Slow Vaccine Rollouts, While Region Remains Major COVID Epicenter 17/06/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin & Raisa Santos Despite the global decline in COVID-19 cases by 12% over the last week, countries in Central and South America continue to be epicenters of pandemic, with high mortality rates and insufficient access to vaccines. Over 1.1 million new COVID-19 cases and 31,000 deaths were reported in the Americas over the last week, officials from the […] Continue reading -> Pakistan Introduces Single-Use Syringes as it Battles Fast-Rising HIV/AIDS Infections 16/06/2021 Rahul Basharat Rajput & Muhammed Nadeem Chaudhry ISLAMABAD – Faced with one of the sharpest increases in HIV/AIDS rates in Asia, Pakistan will ban the manufacture and import of conventional syringes from next month, government officials have told Health Policy Watch. The move is in an effort to stem a three-year increase in HIV cases – 39% of which are estimated to […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rollouts Falter as Third Wave Grips Parts of the Continent 15/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan Twenty-two African countries are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections, yet the vaccination rollouts on the continent have ground to a halt because of lack of supply. African vaccination figures, as recorded by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are dismal. Apart from the tiny island state of Seychelles, only Morocco’s vaccination rate […] Continue reading -> How Our Old Computers, TVs And Other Electronics Are Making Children Sick 15/06/2021 Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah Electronic waste (e-waste) is increasing at three times the pace of the world population, impacting badly on the health of those wading through electronic dump sites, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) landmark report – Children and Digital Dumpsites – released on Tuesday. Led by Marie-Noël Bruné Drisse, a children’s health expert of the […] Continue reading -> WHO to Study Social Measures That Keep COVID-19 at Bay – in Case of No Vaccines in Future Pandemics 14/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to study the public health and social measures that countries have used to keep COVID-19 at bay successfully – in case there is no quick vaccine for the next pandemic. A special working group has been set up with the support of Norway to study these measures, WHO […] Continue reading -> Novavax could make 100 million monthly doses of COVID-19 vaccine by October 14/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Biotech manufacturer Novavax announced on Monday it would be able to manufacture 100 million doses of its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine every month by the end of the third quarter of 2021 and 150 million doses per month by the end of the year – once it has secured regulatory approval for its vaccine. This follows […] Continue reading -> To End Child Labour, the UN Must Cut Ties with Tobacco Industry 14/06/2021 Mary Assunta Over the past several decades, the tobacco industry has tried to influence policy by partnering with various United Nations (UN) agencies. Many of these agencies, however, have since cut ties with the industry, thus safeguarding their initiatives and policies from Big Tobacco’s commercial interests. One notable exception remains and must be addressed: the continued membership […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Tanzania Joins COVAX Vaccine Facility as Africa Enters Deadly COVID-19 Third Wave 17/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Tanzania, which for months denied the existence of COVID-19 until vaccine-sceptic President John Magufuli finally succumbed to the virus in March – is now trying to belatedly join the WHO co-sponsored COVAX facility to acquire COVID vaccines. The news comes as the African continent experiences a deadly third wave of COVID-19 infections – affecting eastern […] Continue reading -> Latin America Plagued by Slow Vaccine Rollouts, While Region Remains Major COVID Epicenter 17/06/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin & Raisa Santos Despite the global decline in COVID-19 cases by 12% over the last week, countries in Central and South America continue to be epicenters of pandemic, with high mortality rates and insufficient access to vaccines. Over 1.1 million new COVID-19 cases and 31,000 deaths were reported in the Americas over the last week, officials from the […] Continue reading -> Pakistan Introduces Single-Use Syringes as it Battles Fast-Rising HIV/AIDS Infections 16/06/2021 Rahul Basharat Rajput & Muhammed Nadeem Chaudhry ISLAMABAD – Faced with one of the sharpest increases in HIV/AIDS rates in Asia, Pakistan will ban the manufacture and import of conventional syringes from next month, government officials have told Health Policy Watch. The move is in an effort to stem a three-year increase in HIV cases – 39% of which are estimated to […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rollouts Falter as Third Wave Grips Parts of the Continent 15/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan Twenty-two African countries are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections, yet the vaccination rollouts on the continent have ground to a halt because of lack of supply. African vaccination figures, as recorded by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are dismal. Apart from the tiny island state of Seychelles, only Morocco’s vaccination rate […] Continue reading -> How Our Old Computers, TVs And Other Electronics Are Making Children Sick 15/06/2021 Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah Electronic waste (e-waste) is increasing at three times the pace of the world population, impacting badly on the health of those wading through electronic dump sites, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) landmark report – Children and Digital Dumpsites – released on Tuesday. Led by Marie-Noël Bruné Drisse, a children’s health expert of the […] Continue reading -> WHO to Study Social Measures That Keep COVID-19 at Bay – in Case of No Vaccines in Future Pandemics 14/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to study the public health and social measures that countries have used to keep COVID-19 at bay successfully – in case there is no quick vaccine for the next pandemic. A special working group has been set up with the support of Norway to study these measures, WHO […] Continue reading -> Novavax could make 100 million monthly doses of COVID-19 vaccine by October 14/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Biotech manufacturer Novavax announced on Monday it would be able to manufacture 100 million doses of its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine every month by the end of the third quarter of 2021 and 150 million doses per month by the end of the year – once it has secured regulatory approval for its vaccine. This follows […] Continue reading -> To End Child Labour, the UN Must Cut Ties with Tobacco Industry 14/06/2021 Mary Assunta Over the past several decades, the tobacco industry has tried to influence policy by partnering with various United Nations (UN) agencies. Many of these agencies, however, have since cut ties with the industry, thus safeguarding their initiatives and policies from Big Tobacco’s commercial interests. One notable exception remains and must be addressed: the continued membership […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Latin America Plagued by Slow Vaccine Rollouts, While Region Remains Major COVID Epicenter 17/06/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin & Raisa Santos Despite the global decline in COVID-19 cases by 12% over the last week, countries in Central and South America continue to be epicenters of pandemic, with high mortality rates and insufficient access to vaccines. Over 1.1 million new COVID-19 cases and 31,000 deaths were reported in the Americas over the last week, officials from the […] Continue reading -> Pakistan Introduces Single-Use Syringes as it Battles Fast-Rising HIV/AIDS Infections 16/06/2021 Rahul Basharat Rajput & Muhammed Nadeem Chaudhry ISLAMABAD – Faced with one of the sharpest increases in HIV/AIDS rates in Asia, Pakistan will ban the manufacture and import of conventional syringes from next month, government officials have told Health Policy Watch. The move is in an effort to stem a three-year increase in HIV cases – 39% of which are estimated to […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rollouts Falter as Third Wave Grips Parts of the Continent 15/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan Twenty-two African countries are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections, yet the vaccination rollouts on the continent have ground to a halt because of lack of supply. African vaccination figures, as recorded by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are dismal. Apart from the tiny island state of Seychelles, only Morocco’s vaccination rate […] Continue reading -> How Our Old Computers, TVs And Other Electronics Are Making Children Sick 15/06/2021 Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah Electronic waste (e-waste) is increasing at three times the pace of the world population, impacting badly on the health of those wading through electronic dump sites, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) landmark report – Children and Digital Dumpsites – released on Tuesday. Led by Marie-Noël Bruné Drisse, a children’s health expert of the […] Continue reading -> WHO to Study Social Measures That Keep COVID-19 at Bay – in Case of No Vaccines in Future Pandemics 14/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to study the public health and social measures that countries have used to keep COVID-19 at bay successfully – in case there is no quick vaccine for the next pandemic. A special working group has been set up with the support of Norway to study these measures, WHO […] Continue reading -> Novavax could make 100 million monthly doses of COVID-19 vaccine by October 14/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Biotech manufacturer Novavax announced on Monday it would be able to manufacture 100 million doses of its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine every month by the end of the third quarter of 2021 and 150 million doses per month by the end of the year – once it has secured regulatory approval for its vaccine. This follows […] Continue reading -> To End Child Labour, the UN Must Cut Ties with Tobacco Industry 14/06/2021 Mary Assunta Over the past several decades, the tobacco industry has tried to influence policy by partnering with various United Nations (UN) agencies. Many of these agencies, however, have since cut ties with the industry, thus safeguarding their initiatives and policies from Big Tobacco’s commercial interests. One notable exception remains and must be addressed: the continued membership […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Pakistan Introduces Single-Use Syringes as it Battles Fast-Rising HIV/AIDS Infections 16/06/2021 Rahul Basharat Rajput & Muhammed Nadeem Chaudhry ISLAMABAD – Faced with one of the sharpest increases in HIV/AIDS rates in Asia, Pakistan will ban the manufacture and import of conventional syringes from next month, government officials have told Health Policy Watch. The move is in an effort to stem a three-year increase in HIV cases – 39% of which are estimated to […] Continue reading -> Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rollouts Falter as Third Wave Grips Parts of the Continent 15/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan Twenty-two African countries are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections, yet the vaccination rollouts on the continent have ground to a halt because of lack of supply. African vaccination figures, as recorded by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are dismal. Apart from the tiny island state of Seychelles, only Morocco’s vaccination rate […] Continue reading -> How Our Old Computers, TVs And Other Electronics Are Making Children Sick 15/06/2021 Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah Electronic waste (e-waste) is increasing at three times the pace of the world population, impacting badly on the health of those wading through electronic dump sites, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) landmark report – Children and Digital Dumpsites – released on Tuesday. Led by Marie-Noël Bruné Drisse, a children’s health expert of the […] Continue reading -> WHO to Study Social Measures That Keep COVID-19 at Bay – in Case of No Vaccines in Future Pandemics 14/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to study the public health and social measures that countries have used to keep COVID-19 at bay successfully – in case there is no quick vaccine for the next pandemic. A special working group has been set up with the support of Norway to study these measures, WHO […] Continue reading -> Novavax could make 100 million monthly doses of COVID-19 vaccine by October 14/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Biotech manufacturer Novavax announced on Monday it would be able to manufacture 100 million doses of its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine every month by the end of the third quarter of 2021 and 150 million doses per month by the end of the year – once it has secured regulatory approval for its vaccine. This follows […] Continue reading -> To End Child Labour, the UN Must Cut Ties with Tobacco Industry 14/06/2021 Mary Assunta Over the past several decades, the tobacco industry has tried to influence policy by partnering with various United Nations (UN) agencies. Many of these agencies, however, have since cut ties with the industry, thus safeguarding their initiatives and policies from Big Tobacco’s commercial interests. One notable exception remains and must be addressed: the continued membership […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rollouts Falter as Third Wave Grips Parts of the Continent 15/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan Twenty-two African countries are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections, yet the vaccination rollouts on the continent have ground to a halt because of lack of supply. African vaccination figures, as recorded by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are dismal. Apart from the tiny island state of Seychelles, only Morocco’s vaccination rate […] Continue reading -> How Our Old Computers, TVs And Other Electronics Are Making Children Sick 15/06/2021 Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah Electronic waste (e-waste) is increasing at three times the pace of the world population, impacting badly on the health of those wading through electronic dump sites, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) landmark report – Children and Digital Dumpsites – released on Tuesday. Led by Marie-Noël Bruné Drisse, a children’s health expert of the […] Continue reading -> WHO to Study Social Measures That Keep COVID-19 at Bay – in Case of No Vaccines in Future Pandemics 14/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to study the public health and social measures that countries have used to keep COVID-19 at bay successfully – in case there is no quick vaccine for the next pandemic. A special working group has been set up with the support of Norway to study these measures, WHO […] Continue reading -> Novavax could make 100 million monthly doses of COVID-19 vaccine by October 14/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Biotech manufacturer Novavax announced on Monday it would be able to manufacture 100 million doses of its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine every month by the end of the third quarter of 2021 and 150 million doses per month by the end of the year – once it has secured regulatory approval for its vaccine. This follows […] Continue reading -> To End Child Labour, the UN Must Cut Ties with Tobacco Industry 14/06/2021 Mary Assunta Over the past several decades, the tobacco industry has tried to influence policy by partnering with various United Nations (UN) agencies. Many of these agencies, however, have since cut ties with the industry, thus safeguarding their initiatives and policies from Big Tobacco’s commercial interests. One notable exception remains and must be addressed: the continued membership […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
How Our Old Computers, TVs And Other Electronics Are Making Children Sick 15/06/2021 Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah Electronic waste (e-waste) is increasing at three times the pace of the world population, impacting badly on the health of those wading through electronic dump sites, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) landmark report – Children and Digital Dumpsites – released on Tuesday. Led by Marie-Noël Bruné Drisse, a children’s health expert of the […] Continue reading -> WHO to Study Social Measures That Keep COVID-19 at Bay – in Case of No Vaccines in Future Pandemics 14/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to study the public health and social measures that countries have used to keep COVID-19 at bay successfully – in case there is no quick vaccine for the next pandemic. A special working group has been set up with the support of Norway to study these measures, WHO […] Continue reading -> Novavax could make 100 million monthly doses of COVID-19 vaccine by October 14/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Biotech manufacturer Novavax announced on Monday it would be able to manufacture 100 million doses of its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine every month by the end of the third quarter of 2021 and 150 million doses per month by the end of the year – once it has secured regulatory approval for its vaccine. This follows […] Continue reading -> To End Child Labour, the UN Must Cut Ties with Tobacco Industry 14/06/2021 Mary Assunta Over the past several decades, the tobacco industry has tried to influence policy by partnering with various United Nations (UN) agencies. Many of these agencies, however, have since cut ties with the industry, thus safeguarding their initiatives and policies from Big Tobacco’s commercial interests. One notable exception remains and must be addressed: the continued membership […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
WHO to Study Social Measures That Keep COVID-19 at Bay – in Case of No Vaccines in Future Pandemics 14/06/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to study the public health and social measures that countries have used to keep COVID-19 at bay successfully – in case there is no quick vaccine for the next pandemic. A special working group has been set up with the support of Norway to study these measures, WHO […] Continue reading -> Novavax could make 100 million monthly doses of COVID-19 vaccine by October 14/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Biotech manufacturer Novavax announced on Monday it would be able to manufacture 100 million doses of its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine every month by the end of the third quarter of 2021 and 150 million doses per month by the end of the year – once it has secured regulatory approval for its vaccine. This follows […] Continue reading -> To End Child Labour, the UN Must Cut Ties with Tobacco Industry 14/06/2021 Mary Assunta Over the past several decades, the tobacco industry has tried to influence policy by partnering with various United Nations (UN) agencies. Many of these agencies, however, have since cut ties with the industry, thus safeguarding their initiatives and policies from Big Tobacco’s commercial interests. One notable exception remains and must be addressed: the continued membership […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Novavax could make 100 million monthly doses of COVID-19 vaccine by October 14/06/2021 Paul Adepoju Biotech manufacturer Novavax announced on Monday it would be able to manufacture 100 million doses of its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine every month by the end of the third quarter of 2021 and 150 million doses per month by the end of the year – once it has secured regulatory approval for its vaccine. This follows […] Continue reading -> To End Child Labour, the UN Must Cut Ties with Tobacco Industry 14/06/2021 Mary Assunta Over the past several decades, the tobacco industry has tried to influence policy by partnering with various United Nations (UN) agencies. Many of these agencies, however, have since cut ties with the industry, thus safeguarding their initiatives and policies from Big Tobacco’s commercial interests. One notable exception remains and must be addressed: the continued membership […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
To End Child Labour, the UN Must Cut Ties with Tobacco Industry 14/06/2021 Mary Assunta Over the past several decades, the tobacco industry has tried to influence policy by partnering with various United Nations (UN) agencies. Many of these agencies, however, have since cut ties with the industry, thus safeguarding their initiatives and policies from Big Tobacco’s commercial interests. One notable exception remains and must be addressed: the continued membership […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts