Africa Warns Against COVID-19 Vaccine Wars: Pleads For Fair Distribution 25/03/2021 Paul Adepoju About 10 African countries have yet to receive any doses of a COVID vaccine, while at least one country, Rwanda, has already run out of the doses that it received through the WHO co-sponsored COVAX facility, said WHO’s African Regional Office on Thursday, citing this as evidence of the vaccine inequalities that continue to […] Continue reading -> India Investigates New SARS-CoV2 ‘Double Variant’ – Bearing Two Significant Spike Protein Mutations 25/03/2021 Menaka Rao NEW DELHI – Scientists have sequenced a new “double variant” of the coronavirus first identified in India – along with a handful of other variants of concern that are appearing during the second biggest wave of the virus since the pandemic began. The new double variant, bearing two significant mutations in the coronavirus spike protein, […] Continue reading -> New Oral MDR-TB Treatment Shows Positive Trial Results – Potential To Change Clinical Practice & Save Lives 24/03/2021 Chandre Prince A first-ever clinical trial of a new, all-oral, treatment regime for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has stopped enrolling patients after initial data provided positive results that the new treatment could potentially save thousands of lives, as well as improving peoples’ quality of life. Findings of the TB-PRACTECAL, Phase II/III clinical trial sponsored by Médecins Sans Frontières […] Continue reading -> Decolonizing Tuberculosis Care: A Perspective From The Global South On World TB Day 24/03/2021 Uzma Khan Tuberculosis care is quintessentially colonial, even in 2021. While many countries have been emancipated from their colonizers, the heritage of the colonial mindset, culture and even entire economies is deeply embedded within high burden TB countries in the post-colonial era. A disease of poverty, TB has historically been terribly neglected. Although the number one infectious […] Continue reading -> New TB Screening Tools Combine X-Rays & AI 23/03/2021 Menaka Rao NEW DELHI – Reversing decades of negative messages, the World Health Organisation is once again endorsing the use of X-rays as a TB screening tool in lower-income countries – this time in conjunction with the use of new artificial intelligence programmes that can read digital x-rays and identify suspected TB cases more accurately. For community-level […] Continue reading -> Norway Gives Up COVAX Doses Despite Domestic Pressure – ACT Accelerator proposes manufacturing task force 23/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan In a decisive act of global solidarity, Norway has offered almost a third of its allocation of COVAX vaccines to poorer countries, according to Dag-Inge Ulstein, Norway’s Minister of International Development. Norway has only fully vaccinated about 5% of its population – 260,000 people – and unlike many other European countries, it has not stockpiled […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization Appeals For Support To Address COVID-19 Health & Humanitarian Crisis In Syria 23/03/2021 Chandre Prince Syria needs $US 78-million to vaccinate 20% of its population against COVID-19 by the end of this year, and its pandemic response is being challenged by a worsening humanitarian crises in the country, including continued attacks on health care facilities. This is according to Akjemal Magtymova, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Syria, who […] Continue reading -> Brazil, India and Philippines Driving Global Increase in COVID-19 Cases – WHO 22/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan For the fifth week in a row, global COVID-19 cases have increased, with substantial increases in South-East Asia (49%) and the Western Pacific (29%), according to the World Health Organization (WHO). India is driving up numbers in South-East Asia, while the Philippines and Papua New Guinea are responsible for the Western Pacific increases, according to […] Continue reading -> The COVID Pandemic As “X-Ray” – Zeroing In On Urban Water & Sanitation Gaps 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin COVID has highlighted deep-seated weaknesses in urban water and sanitation systems that are vital to health – but the pandemic has also underlined how improvements can hit back at the SARS-CoV2 virus – as well as reducing other traditional waterborne diseases. That was a key message at a seminar Monday on “Water and Sanitation in […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Publishes Reassuring Trial Data, But Vaccine Hesitancy Remains Widespread In European Union 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin In news that should be reassuring for skeptics, the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was found to be 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization in results of a late-stage clinical trial, published today by the pharma company. What’s more, analysis of safety results by an independent board found no […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
India Investigates New SARS-CoV2 ‘Double Variant’ – Bearing Two Significant Spike Protein Mutations 25/03/2021 Menaka Rao NEW DELHI – Scientists have sequenced a new “double variant” of the coronavirus first identified in India – along with a handful of other variants of concern that are appearing during the second biggest wave of the virus since the pandemic began. The new double variant, bearing two significant mutations in the coronavirus spike protein, […] Continue reading -> New Oral MDR-TB Treatment Shows Positive Trial Results – Potential To Change Clinical Practice & Save Lives 24/03/2021 Chandre Prince A first-ever clinical trial of a new, all-oral, treatment regime for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has stopped enrolling patients after initial data provided positive results that the new treatment could potentially save thousands of lives, as well as improving peoples’ quality of life. Findings of the TB-PRACTECAL, Phase II/III clinical trial sponsored by Médecins Sans Frontières […] Continue reading -> Decolonizing Tuberculosis Care: A Perspective From The Global South On World TB Day 24/03/2021 Uzma Khan Tuberculosis care is quintessentially colonial, even in 2021. While many countries have been emancipated from their colonizers, the heritage of the colonial mindset, culture and even entire economies is deeply embedded within high burden TB countries in the post-colonial era. A disease of poverty, TB has historically been terribly neglected. Although the number one infectious […] Continue reading -> New TB Screening Tools Combine X-Rays & AI 23/03/2021 Menaka Rao NEW DELHI – Reversing decades of negative messages, the World Health Organisation is once again endorsing the use of X-rays as a TB screening tool in lower-income countries – this time in conjunction with the use of new artificial intelligence programmes that can read digital x-rays and identify suspected TB cases more accurately. For community-level […] Continue reading -> Norway Gives Up COVAX Doses Despite Domestic Pressure – ACT Accelerator proposes manufacturing task force 23/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan In a decisive act of global solidarity, Norway has offered almost a third of its allocation of COVAX vaccines to poorer countries, according to Dag-Inge Ulstein, Norway’s Minister of International Development. Norway has only fully vaccinated about 5% of its population – 260,000 people – and unlike many other European countries, it has not stockpiled […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization Appeals For Support To Address COVID-19 Health & Humanitarian Crisis In Syria 23/03/2021 Chandre Prince Syria needs $US 78-million to vaccinate 20% of its population against COVID-19 by the end of this year, and its pandemic response is being challenged by a worsening humanitarian crises in the country, including continued attacks on health care facilities. This is according to Akjemal Magtymova, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Syria, who […] Continue reading -> Brazil, India and Philippines Driving Global Increase in COVID-19 Cases – WHO 22/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan For the fifth week in a row, global COVID-19 cases have increased, with substantial increases in South-East Asia (49%) and the Western Pacific (29%), according to the World Health Organization (WHO). India is driving up numbers in South-East Asia, while the Philippines and Papua New Guinea are responsible for the Western Pacific increases, according to […] Continue reading -> The COVID Pandemic As “X-Ray” – Zeroing In On Urban Water & Sanitation Gaps 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin COVID has highlighted deep-seated weaknesses in urban water and sanitation systems that are vital to health – but the pandemic has also underlined how improvements can hit back at the SARS-CoV2 virus – as well as reducing other traditional waterborne diseases. That was a key message at a seminar Monday on “Water and Sanitation in […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Publishes Reassuring Trial Data, But Vaccine Hesitancy Remains Widespread In European Union 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin In news that should be reassuring for skeptics, the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was found to be 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization in results of a late-stage clinical trial, published today by the pharma company. What’s more, analysis of safety results by an independent board found no […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
New Oral MDR-TB Treatment Shows Positive Trial Results – Potential To Change Clinical Practice & Save Lives 24/03/2021 Chandre Prince A first-ever clinical trial of a new, all-oral, treatment regime for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has stopped enrolling patients after initial data provided positive results that the new treatment could potentially save thousands of lives, as well as improving peoples’ quality of life. Findings of the TB-PRACTECAL, Phase II/III clinical trial sponsored by Médecins Sans Frontières […] Continue reading -> Decolonizing Tuberculosis Care: A Perspective From The Global South On World TB Day 24/03/2021 Uzma Khan Tuberculosis care is quintessentially colonial, even in 2021. While many countries have been emancipated from their colonizers, the heritage of the colonial mindset, culture and even entire economies is deeply embedded within high burden TB countries in the post-colonial era. A disease of poverty, TB has historically been terribly neglected. Although the number one infectious […] Continue reading -> New TB Screening Tools Combine X-Rays & AI 23/03/2021 Menaka Rao NEW DELHI – Reversing decades of negative messages, the World Health Organisation is once again endorsing the use of X-rays as a TB screening tool in lower-income countries – this time in conjunction with the use of new artificial intelligence programmes that can read digital x-rays and identify suspected TB cases more accurately. For community-level […] Continue reading -> Norway Gives Up COVAX Doses Despite Domestic Pressure – ACT Accelerator proposes manufacturing task force 23/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan In a decisive act of global solidarity, Norway has offered almost a third of its allocation of COVAX vaccines to poorer countries, according to Dag-Inge Ulstein, Norway’s Minister of International Development. Norway has only fully vaccinated about 5% of its population – 260,000 people – and unlike many other European countries, it has not stockpiled […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization Appeals For Support To Address COVID-19 Health & Humanitarian Crisis In Syria 23/03/2021 Chandre Prince Syria needs $US 78-million to vaccinate 20% of its population against COVID-19 by the end of this year, and its pandemic response is being challenged by a worsening humanitarian crises in the country, including continued attacks on health care facilities. This is according to Akjemal Magtymova, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Syria, who […] Continue reading -> Brazil, India and Philippines Driving Global Increase in COVID-19 Cases – WHO 22/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan For the fifth week in a row, global COVID-19 cases have increased, with substantial increases in South-East Asia (49%) and the Western Pacific (29%), according to the World Health Organization (WHO). India is driving up numbers in South-East Asia, while the Philippines and Papua New Guinea are responsible for the Western Pacific increases, according to […] Continue reading -> The COVID Pandemic As “X-Ray” – Zeroing In On Urban Water & Sanitation Gaps 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin COVID has highlighted deep-seated weaknesses in urban water and sanitation systems that are vital to health – but the pandemic has also underlined how improvements can hit back at the SARS-CoV2 virus – as well as reducing other traditional waterborne diseases. That was a key message at a seminar Monday on “Water and Sanitation in […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Publishes Reassuring Trial Data, But Vaccine Hesitancy Remains Widespread In European Union 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin In news that should be reassuring for skeptics, the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was found to be 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization in results of a late-stage clinical trial, published today by the pharma company. What’s more, analysis of safety results by an independent board found no […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Decolonizing Tuberculosis Care: A Perspective From The Global South On World TB Day 24/03/2021 Uzma Khan Tuberculosis care is quintessentially colonial, even in 2021. While many countries have been emancipated from their colonizers, the heritage of the colonial mindset, culture and even entire economies is deeply embedded within high burden TB countries in the post-colonial era. A disease of poverty, TB has historically been terribly neglected. Although the number one infectious […] Continue reading -> New TB Screening Tools Combine X-Rays & AI 23/03/2021 Menaka Rao NEW DELHI – Reversing decades of negative messages, the World Health Organisation is once again endorsing the use of X-rays as a TB screening tool in lower-income countries – this time in conjunction with the use of new artificial intelligence programmes that can read digital x-rays and identify suspected TB cases more accurately. For community-level […] Continue reading -> Norway Gives Up COVAX Doses Despite Domestic Pressure – ACT Accelerator proposes manufacturing task force 23/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan In a decisive act of global solidarity, Norway has offered almost a third of its allocation of COVAX vaccines to poorer countries, according to Dag-Inge Ulstein, Norway’s Minister of International Development. Norway has only fully vaccinated about 5% of its population – 260,000 people – and unlike many other European countries, it has not stockpiled […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization Appeals For Support To Address COVID-19 Health & Humanitarian Crisis In Syria 23/03/2021 Chandre Prince Syria needs $US 78-million to vaccinate 20% of its population against COVID-19 by the end of this year, and its pandemic response is being challenged by a worsening humanitarian crises in the country, including continued attacks on health care facilities. This is according to Akjemal Magtymova, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Syria, who […] Continue reading -> Brazil, India and Philippines Driving Global Increase in COVID-19 Cases – WHO 22/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan For the fifth week in a row, global COVID-19 cases have increased, with substantial increases in South-East Asia (49%) and the Western Pacific (29%), according to the World Health Organization (WHO). India is driving up numbers in South-East Asia, while the Philippines and Papua New Guinea are responsible for the Western Pacific increases, according to […] Continue reading -> The COVID Pandemic As “X-Ray” – Zeroing In On Urban Water & Sanitation Gaps 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin COVID has highlighted deep-seated weaknesses in urban water and sanitation systems that are vital to health – but the pandemic has also underlined how improvements can hit back at the SARS-CoV2 virus – as well as reducing other traditional waterborne diseases. That was a key message at a seminar Monday on “Water and Sanitation in […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Publishes Reassuring Trial Data, But Vaccine Hesitancy Remains Widespread In European Union 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin In news that should be reassuring for skeptics, the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was found to be 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization in results of a late-stage clinical trial, published today by the pharma company. What’s more, analysis of safety results by an independent board found no […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
New TB Screening Tools Combine X-Rays & AI 23/03/2021 Menaka Rao NEW DELHI – Reversing decades of negative messages, the World Health Organisation is once again endorsing the use of X-rays as a TB screening tool in lower-income countries – this time in conjunction with the use of new artificial intelligence programmes that can read digital x-rays and identify suspected TB cases more accurately. For community-level […] Continue reading -> Norway Gives Up COVAX Doses Despite Domestic Pressure – ACT Accelerator proposes manufacturing task force 23/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan In a decisive act of global solidarity, Norway has offered almost a third of its allocation of COVAX vaccines to poorer countries, according to Dag-Inge Ulstein, Norway’s Minister of International Development. Norway has only fully vaccinated about 5% of its population – 260,000 people – and unlike many other European countries, it has not stockpiled […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization Appeals For Support To Address COVID-19 Health & Humanitarian Crisis In Syria 23/03/2021 Chandre Prince Syria needs $US 78-million to vaccinate 20% of its population against COVID-19 by the end of this year, and its pandemic response is being challenged by a worsening humanitarian crises in the country, including continued attacks on health care facilities. This is according to Akjemal Magtymova, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Syria, who […] Continue reading -> Brazil, India and Philippines Driving Global Increase in COVID-19 Cases – WHO 22/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan For the fifth week in a row, global COVID-19 cases have increased, with substantial increases in South-East Asia (49%) and the Western Pacific (29%), according to the World Health Organization (WHO). India is driving up numbers in South-East Asia, while the Philippines and Papua New Guinea are responsible for the Western Pacific increases, according to […] Continue reading -> The COVID Pandemic As “X-Ray” – Zeroing In On Urban Water & Sanitation Gaps 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin COVID has highlighted deep-seated weaknesses in urban water and sanitation systems that are vital to health – but the pandemic has also underlined how improvements can hit back at the SARS-CoV2 virus – as well as reducing other traditional waterborne diseases. That was a key message at a seminar Monday on “Water and Sanitation in […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Publishes Reassuring Trial Data, But Vaccine Hesitancy Remains Widespread In European Union 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin In news that should be reassuring for skeptics, the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was found to be 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization in results of a late-stage clinical trial, published today by the pharma company. What’s more, analysis of safety results by an independent board found no […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Norway Gives Up COVAX Doses Despite Domestic Pressure – ACT Accelerator proposes manufacturing task force 23/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan In a decisive act of global solidarity, Norway has offered almost a third of its allocation of COVAX vaccines to poorer countries, according to Dag-Inge Ulstein, Norway’s Minister of International Development. Norway has only fully vaccinated about 5% of its population – 260,000 people – and unlike many other European countries, it has not stockpiled […] Continue reading -> World Health Organization Appeals For Support To Address COVID-19 Health & Humanitarian Crisis In Syria 23/03/2021 Chandre Prince Syria needs $US 78-million to vaccinate 20% of its population against COVID-19 by the end of this year, and its pandemic response is being challenged by a worsening humanitarian crises in the country, including continued attacks on health care facilities. This is according to Akjemal Magtymova, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Syria, who […] Continue reading -> Brazil, India and Philippines Driving Global Increase in COVID-19 Cases – WHO 22/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan For the fifth week in a row, global COVID-19 cases have increased, with substantial increases in South-East Asia (49%) and the Western Pacific (29%), according to the World Health Organization (WHO). India is driving up numbers in South-East Asia, while the Philippines and Papua New Guinea are responsible for the Western Pacific increases, according to […] Continue reading -> The COVID Pandemic As “X-Ray” – Zeroing In On Urban Water & Sanitation Gaps 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin COVID has highlighted deep-seated weaknesses in urban water and sanitation systems that are vital to health – but the pandemic has also underlined how improvements can hit back at the SARS-CoV2 virus – as well as reducing other traditional waterborne diseases. That was a key message at a seminar Monday on “Water and Sanitation in […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Publishes Reassuring Trial Data, But Vaccine Hesitancy Remains Widespread In European Union 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin In news that should be reassuring for skeptics, the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was found to be 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization in results of a late-stage clinical trial, published today by the pharma company. What’s more, analysis of safety results by an independent board found no […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
World Health Organization Appeals For Support To Address COVID-19 Health & Humanitarian Crisis In Syria 23/03/2021 Chandre Prince Syria needs $US 78-million to vaccinate 20% of its population against COVID-19 by the end of this year, and its pandemic response is being challenged by a worsening humanitarian crises in the country, including continued attacks on health care facilities. This is according to Akjemal Magtymova, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Syria, who […] Continue reading -> Brazil, India and Philippines Driving Global Increase in COVID-19 Cases – WHO 22/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan For the fifth week in a row, global COVID-19 cases have increased, with substantial increases in South-East Asia (49%) and the Western Pacific (29%), according to the World Health Organization (WHO). India is driving up numbers in South-East Asia, while the Philippines and Papua New Guinea are responsible for the Western Pacific increases, according to […] Continue reading -> The COVID Pandemic As “X-Ray” – Zeroing In On Urban Water & Sanitation Gaps 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin COVID has highlighted deep-seated weaknesses in urban water and sanitation systems that are vital to health – but the pandemic has also underlined how improvements can hit back at the SARS-CoV2 virus – as well as reducing other traditional waterborne diseases. That was a key message at a seminar Monday on “Water and Sanitation in […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Publishes Reassuring Trial Data, But Vaccine Hesitancy Remains Widespread In European Union 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin In news that should be reassuring for skeptics, the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was found to be 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization in results of a late-stage clinical trial, published today by the pharma company. What’s more, analysis of safety results by an independent board found no […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
Brazil, India and Philippines Driving Global Increase in COVID-19 Cases – WHO 22/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan For the fifth week in a row, global COVID-19 cases have increased, with substantial increases in South-East Asia (49%) and the Western Pacific (29%), according to the World Health Organization (WHO). India is driving up numbers in South-East Asia, while the Philippines and Papua New Guinea are responsible for the Western Pacific increases, according to […] Continue reading -> The COVID Pandemic As “X-Ray” – Zeroing In On Urban Water & Sanitation Gaps 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin COVID has highlighted deep-seated weaknesses in urban water and sanitation systems that are vital to health – but the pandemic has also underlined how improvements can hit back at the SARS-CoV2 virus – as well as reducing other traditional waterborne diseases. That was a key message at a seminar Monday on “Water and Sanitation in […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Publishes Reassuring Trial Data, But Vaccine Hesitancy Remains Widespread In European Union 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin In news that should be reassuring for skeptics, the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was found to be 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization in results of a late-stage clinical trial, published today by the pharma company. What’s more, analysis of safety results by an independent board found no […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
The COVID Pandemic As “X-Ray” – Zeroing In On Urban Water & Sanitation Gaps 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin COVID has highlighted deep-seated weaknesses in urban water and sanitation systems that are vital to health – but the pandemic has also underlined how improvements can hit back at the SARS-CoV2 virus – as well as reducing other traditional waterborne diseases. That was a key message at a seminar Monday on “Water and Sanitation in […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Publishes Reassuring Trial Data, But Vaccine Hesitancy Remains Widespread In European Union 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin In news that should be reassuring for skeptics, the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was found to be 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization in results of a late-stage clinical trial, published today by the pharma company. What’s more, analysis of safety results by an independent board found no […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts
AstraZeneca Publishes Reassuring Trial Data, But Vaccine Hesitancy Remains Widespread In European Union 22/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin In news that should be reassuring for skeptics, the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was found to be 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization in results of a late-stage clinical trial, published today by the pharma company. What’s more, analysis of safety results by an independent board found no […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts