NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to launch a major initiative on universal health coverage (UHC) on 13 December, in the presence of World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, positioning Kenya as a regional leader in the race to meet health-related UN Sustainable Development Goals. Continue reading ->
A new report released today by PATH, the international global health NGO, shows that some 23,000 lives a year could be saved through more harmonised regulatory processes for health products in southern and eastern Africa – and this just for two essential medications that were subjected to the review. Continue reading ->
A new study has analysed antibiotic sales data from 70 middle-income and high-income countries, and found variation in the use of antibiotics to treat children, with some countries deviating from World Health Organization recommendations on antibiotic stewardship. Continue reading ->
NAIROBI, Kenya -- It was the first ever global conference focusing on the ‘blue economy’. The three-day Sustainable Blue Economy Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya and included a strong focus on environment and health. The East African nation co-hosted the event alongside Canada and Japan. Continue reading ->
Compulsory public finance remains a key mechanism for achieving universal health coverage (UHC), according to Professor Robert Yates of the Centre on Global Health Security at the London-based Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. Continue reading ->
The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the second largest ever, occurring in a “perfect storm” of a densely-populated conflict zone. Yet thanks in large part to a strong collaboration between the World Health Organization and the pharmaceutical industry, the outbreak has so far remained confined to two DRC provinces, says Peter Salama, WHO deputy director general for emergency preparedness and response. Continue reading ->
Meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep climate change below 2° C could save about a million lives a year by 2050 through reduced air pollution-related deaths alone, says a new World Health Organization Special Report on Health & Climate Change. Continue reading ->
Combating climate change will reduce the huge toll of 7 million deaths from air pollution as well as generating jobs in green energy, former California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a surprise appearance today at the opening plenary of the 24th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24), in Katowice, Poland. Continue reading ->
Global health reaped a weekend windfall of new international and bilateral commitments over the past two days, beginning with the close of the G20 meeting in Argentina on Saturday, followed by the Mandela 100 Global Citizen festival in Johannesburg yesterday, which saw stars like Beyoncé, Jay-Z and others perform in the name of health and development causes, reaping a historic commitment by the United States of more than US$1.2 billion for the fight against HIV/AIDS and some US$ 139 million for the fight against neglected tropical diseases. Continue reading ->
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 ->