Equitable Drug Access and Finance Are Looming Issues in Talks on International Health Regulations 28/07/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The thorny and unresolved issues of how to incorporate health equity measures and supportive finance for low and middle income countries into revisions of the WHO International Health Regulations (IHR), are set to be two key items on the agenda of an IHR negotiating body when talks resume again in early October. This was one […] Continue reading -> World Needs to Dramatically Scale Up Hepatitis Testing and Treatment 28/07/2023 Mandi Smallhorne Viral hepatitis could become a more lethal killer than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV combined by 2040, if current trends in undetected infection and treatment continue, warned the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday, World Hepatitis Day. In observance of the day, WHO launched a call, under the title “One life, one liver”, to scale up […] Continue reading -> July Likely to be Hottest Month Ever Recorded 27/07/2023 Disha Shetty July 2023 may have experienced temperatures last seen in prehistoric times, as climate scientists confirm that once rare heatwaves are now routine events. Record heatwaves have been seen this year from the US to India, and according to the latest analysis, this July may be the hottest ever recorded. Dr Karsten Haustein, a climate scientist […] Continue reading -> The Cost of a Single COVID-Infected Health Worker 27/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan A single healthcare worker infected with COVID-19 cost the Kenyan economy over $33,000 – around 18 times the country’s per capita GDP. This is according to a new report on the economic cost of COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers in Eswatini, Colombia, Kenya and South Africa (the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape) during the […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Lawsuits Surge as Global Temperatures Hurtle Towards Levels Far Above 1.5°C 27/07/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of climate cases taken to court has more than doubled in the last five years, as people and communities turn to the legal system to hold governments and corporations accountable for their inaction on climate change, according to a new Global Climate Litigation Report, published Thursday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and […] Continue reading -> Some Cancer Drugs Excluded from New WHO Essential Medicines List Because of Cost 26/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan High cost has prevented some cancer drugs from being included in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated Essential Medicines List (EML) and Essential Medicines for List Children (EMLc) released on Wednesday. These include “patented, highly-priced” treatments for lung and breast cancer. “With the cancer medicines, we are facing now an issue where we have a […] Continue reading -> Drug-resistant Gonorrhoea on the Rise, WHO Warns 26/07/2023 Megha Kaveri The cases of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted disease, are on the rise in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The agency added that it considers Neisseria gonorrhoea a “priority microorganism” to be monitored for antimicrobial resistance. The new WHO guidance on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) requires countries to […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Fund Awards Over $330m in First Resilience-Building Grants 25/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan Thirty-seven countries have received grants worth $338 million from the Pandemic Fund to boost their resilience to pandemics in the first round of the fund’s disbursements. Three disbursements involve multi-country grants: to 12 Caribbean countries to strengthen their early warning surveillance, build laboratory systems and workforce development; to seven Latin American countries to engage communities […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: UN Draft Declaration on Pandemics Is Aspirational Rather Than Action-Oriented 24/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The final reading of the Political Declaration for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) is scheduled for Tuesday in New York – and while the revised text has a few more practical clauses than the bland zero-draft, it remains more aspirational than actionable. The draft Political Declaration, which has […] Continue reading -> Contradictions: The ‘Worst Outcome’ of Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulation Negotiations 21/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The worst outcome of the two World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic negotiations currently underway would be the adoption of contradictory definitions and processes, warned Dr Mike Ryan, the head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. “At the very minimum, the two instruments will need to be very aligned on the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
World Needs to Dramatically Scale Up Hepatitis Testing and Treatment 28/07/2023 Mandi Smallhorne Viral hepatitis could become a more lethal killer than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV combined by 2040, if current trends in undetected infection and treatment continue, warned the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday, World Hepatitis Day. In observance of the day, WHO launched a call, under the title “One life, one liver”, to scale up […] Continue reading -> July Likely to be Hottest Month Ever Recorded 27/07/2023 Disha Shetty July 2023 may have experienced temperatures last seen in prehistoric times, as climate scientists confirm that once rare heatwaves are now routine events. Record heatwaves have been seen this year from the US to India, and according to the latest analysis, this July may be the hottest ever recorded. Dr Karsten Haustein, a climate scientist […] Continue reading -> The Cost of a Single COVID-Infected Health Worker 27/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan A single healthcare worker infected with COVID-19 cost the Kenyan economy over $33,000 – around 18 times the country’s per capita GDP. This is according to a new report on the economic cost of COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers in Eswatini, Colombia, Kenya and South Africa (the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape) during the […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Lawsuits Surge as Global Temperatures Hurtle Towards Levels Far Above 1.5°C 27/07/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of climate cases taken to court has more than doubled in the last five years, as people and communities turn to the legal system to hold governments and corporations accountable for their inaction on climate change, according to a new Global Climate Litigation Report, published Thursday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and […] Continue reading -> Some Cancer Drugs Excluded from New WHO Essential Medicines List Because of Cost 26/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan High cost has prevented some cancer drugs from being included in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated Essential Medicines List (EML) and Essential Medicines for List Children (EMLc) released on Wednesday. These include “patented, highly-priced” treatments for lung and breast cancer. “With the cancer medicines, we are facing now an issue where we have a […] Continue reading -> Drug-resistant Gonorrhoea on the Rise, WHO Warns 26/07/2023 Megha Kaveri The cases of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted disease, are on the rise in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The agency added that it considers Neisseria gonorrhoea a “priority microorganism” to be monitored for antimicrobial resistance. The new WHO guidance on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) requires countries to […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Fund Awards Over $330m in First Resilience-Building Grants 25/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan Thirty-seven countries have received grants worth $338 million from the Pandemic Fund to boost their resilience to pandemics in the first round of the fund’s disbursements. Three disbursements involve multi-country grants: to 12 Caribbean countries to strengthen their early warning surveillance, build laboratory systems and workforce development; to seven Latin American countries to engage communities […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: UN Draft Declaration on Pandemics Is Aspirational Rather Than Action-Oriented 24/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The final reading of the Political Declaration for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) is scheduled for Tuesday in New York – and while the revised text has a few more practical clauses than the bland zero-draft, it remains more aspirational than actionable. The draft Political Declaration, which has […] Continue reading -> Contradictions: The ‘Worst Outcome’ of Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulation Negotiations 21/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The worst outcome of the two World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic negotiations currently underway would be the adoption of contradictory definitions and processes, warned Dr Mike Ryan, the head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. “At the very minimum, the two instruments will need to be very aligned on the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
July Likely to be Hottest Month Ever Recorded 27/07/2023 Disha Shetty July 2023 may have experienced temperatures last seen in prehistoric times, as climate scientists confirm that once rare heatwaves are now routine events. Record heatwaves have been seen this year from the US to India, and according to the latest analysis, this July may be the hottest ever recorded. Dr Karsten Haustein, a climate scientist […] Continue reading -> The Cost of a Single COVID-Infected Health Worker 27/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan A single healthcare worker infected with COVID-19 cost the Kenyan economy over $33,000 – around 18 times the country’s per capita GDP. This is according to a new report on the economic cost of COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers in Eswatini, Colombia, Kenya and South Africa (the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape) during the […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Lawsuits Surge as Global Temperatures Hurtle Towards Levels Far Above 1.5°C 27/07/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of climate cases taken to court has more than doubled in the last five years, as people and communities turn to the legal system to hold governments and corporations accountable for their inaction on climate change, according to a new Global Climate Litigation Report, published Thursday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and […] Continue reading -> Some Cancer Drugs Excluded from New WHO Essential Medicines List Because of Cost 26/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan High cost has prevented some cancer drugs from being included in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated Essential Medicines List (EML) and Essential Medicines for List Children (EMLc) released on Wednesday. These include “patented, highly-priced” treatments for lung and breast cancer. “With the cancer medicines, we are facing now an issue where we have a […] Continue reading -> Drug-resistant Gonorrhoea on the Rise, WHO Warns 26/07/2023 Megha Kaveri The cases of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted disease, are on the rise in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The agency added that it considers Neisseria gonorrhoea a “priority microorganism” to be monitored for antimicrobial resistance. The new WHO guidance on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) requires countries to […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Fund Awards Over $330m in First Resilience-Building Grants 25/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan Thirty-seven countries have received grants worth $338 million from the Pandemic Fund to boost their resilience to pandemics in the first round of the fund’s disbursements. Three disbursements involve multi-country grants: to 12 Caribbean countries to strengthen their early warning surveillance, build laboratory systems and workforce development; to seven Latin American countries to engage communities […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: UN Draft Declaration on Pandemics Is Aspirational Rather Than Action-Oriented 24/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The final reading of the Political Declaration for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) is scheduled for Tuesday in New York – and while the revised text has a few more practical clauses than the bland zero-draft, it remains more aspirational than actionable. The draft Political Declaration, which has […] Continue reading -> Contradictions: The ‘Worst Outcome’ of Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulation Negotiations 21/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The worst outcome of the two World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic negotiations currently underway would be the adoption of contradictory definitions and processes, warned Dr Mike Ryan, the head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. “At the very minimum, the two instruments will need to be very aligned on the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
The Cost of a Single COVID-Infected Health Worker 27/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan A single healthcare worker infected with COVID-19 cost the Kenyan economy over $33,000 – around 18 times the country’s per capita GDP. This is according to a new report on the economic cost of COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers in Eswatini, Colombia, Kenya and South Africa (the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape) during the […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Lawsuits Surge as Global Temperatures Hurtle Towards Levels Far Above 1.5°C 27/07/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of climate cases taken to court has more than doubled in the last five years, as people and communities turn to the legal system to hold governments and corporations accountable for their inaction on climate change, according to a new Global Climate Litigation Report, published Thursday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and […] Continue reading -> Some Cancer Drugs Excluded from New WHO Essential Medicines List Because of Cost 26/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan High cost has prevented some cancer drugs from being included in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated Essential Medicines List (EML) and Essential Medicines for List Children (EMLc) released on Wednesday. These include “patented, highly-priced” treatments for lung and breast cancer. “With the cancer medicines, we are facing now an issue where we have a […] Continue reading -> Drug-resistant Gonorrhoea on the Rise, WHO Warns 26/07/2023 Megha Kaveri The cases of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted disease, are on the rise in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The agency added that it considers Neisseria gonorrhoea a “priority microorganism” to be monitored for antimicrobial resistance. The new WHO guidance on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) requires countries to […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Fund Awards Over $330m in First Resilience-Building Grants 25/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan Thirty-seven countries have received grants worth $338 million from the Pandemic Fund to boost their resilience to pandemics in the first round of the fund’s disbursements. Three disbursements involve multi-country grants: to 12 Caribbean countries to strengthen their early warning surveillance, build laboratory systems and workforce development; to seven Latin American countries to engage communities […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: UN Draft Declaration on Pandemics Is Aspirational Rather Than Action-Oriented 24/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The final reading of the Political Declaration for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) is scheduled for Tuesday in New York – and while the revised text has a few more practical clauses than the bland zero-draft, it remains more aspirational than actionable. The draft Political Declaration, which has […] Continue reading -> Contradictions: The ‘Worst Outcome’ of Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulation Negotiations 21/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The worst outcome of the two World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic negotiations currently underway would be the adoption of contradictory definitions and processes, warned Dr Mike Ryan, the head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. “At the very minimum, the two instruments will need to be very aligned on the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Climate Change Lawsuits Surge as Global Temperatures Hurtle Towards Levels Far Above 1.5°C 27/07/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of climate cases taken to court has more than doubled in the last five years, as people and communities turn to the legal system to hold governments and corporations accountable for their inaction on climate change, according to a new Global Climate Litigation Report, published Thursday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and […] Continue reading -> Some Cancer Drugs Excluded from New WHO Essential Medicines List Because of Cost 26/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan High cost has prevented some cancer drugs from being included in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated Essential Medicines List (EML) and Essential Medicines for List Children (EMLc) released on Wednesday. These include “patented, highly-priced” treatments for lung and breast cancer. “With the cancer medicines, we are facing now an issue where we have a […] Continue reading -> Drug-resistant Gonorrhoea on the Rise, WHO Warns 26/07/2023 Megha Kaveri The cases of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted disease, are on the rise in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The agency added that it considers Neisseria gonorrhoea a “priority microorganism” to be monitored for antimicrobial resistance. The new WHO guidance on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) requires countries to […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Fund Awards Over $330m in First Resilience-Building Grants 25/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan Thirty-seven countries have received grants worth $338 million from the Pandemic Fund to boost their resilience to pandemics in the first round of the fund’s disbursements. Three disbursements involve multi-country grants: to 12 Caribbean countries to strengthen their early warning surveillance, build laboratory systems and workforce development; to seven Latin American countries to engage communities […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: UN Draft Declaration on Pandemics Is Aspirational Rather Than Action-Oriented 24/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The final reading of the Political Declaration for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) is scheduled for Tuesday in New York – and while the revised text has a few more practical clauses than the bland zero-draft, it remains more aspirational than actionable. The draft Political Declaration, which has […] Continue reading -> Contradictions: The ‘Worst Outcome’ of Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulation Negotiations 21/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The worst outcome of the two World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic negotiations currently underway would be the adoption of contradictory definitions and processes, warned Dr Mike Ryan, the head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. “At the very minimum, the two instruments will need to be very aligned on the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Some Cancer Drugs Excluded from New WHO Essential Medicines List Because of Cost 26/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan High cost has prevented some cancer drugs from being included in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated Essential Medicines List (EML) and Essential Medicines for List Children (EMLc) released on Wednesday. These include “patented, highly-priced” treatments for lung and breast cancer. “With the cancer medicines, we are facing now an issue where we have a […] Continue reading -> Drug-resistant Gonorrhoea on the Rise, WHO Warns 26/07/2023 Megha Kaveri The cases of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted disease, are on the rise in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The agency added that it considers Neisseria gonorrhoea a “priority microorganism” to be monitored for antimicrobial resistance. The new WHO guidance on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) requires countries to […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Fund Awards Over $330m in First Resilience-Building Grants 25/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan Thirty-seven countries have received grants worth $338 million from the Pandemic Fund to boost their resilience to pandemics in the first round of the fund’s disbursements. Three disbursements involve multi-country grants: to 12 Caribbean countries to strengthen their early warning surveillance, build laboratory systems and workforce development; to seven Latin American countries to engage communities […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: UN Draft Declaration on Pandemics Is Aspirational Rather Than Action-Oriented 24/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The final reading of the Political Declaration for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) is scheduled for Tuesday in New York – and while the revised text has a few more practical clauses than the bland zero-draft, it remains more aspirational than actionable. The draft Political Declaration, which has […] Continue reading -> Contradictions: The ‘Worst Outcome’ of Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulation Negotiations 21/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The worst outcome of the two World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic negotiations currently underway would be the adoption of contradictory definitions and processes, warned Dr Mike Ryan, the head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. “At the very minimum, the two instruments will need to be very aligned on the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Drug-resistant Gonorrhoea on the Rise, WHO Warns 26/07/2023 Megha Kaveri The cases of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted disease, are on the rise in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The agency added that it considers Neisseria gonorrhoea a “priority microorganism” to be monitored for antimicrobial resistance. The new WHO guidance on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) requires countries to […] Continue reading -> Pandemic Fund Awards Over $330m in First Resilience-Building Grants 25/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan Thirty-seven countries have received grants worth $338 million from the Pandemic Fund to boost their resilience to pandemics in the first round of the fund’s disbursements. Three disbursements involve multi-country grants: to 12 Caribbean countries to strengthen their early warning surveillance, build laboratory systems and workforce development; to seven Latin American countries to engage communities […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: UN Draft Declaration on Pandemics Is Aspirational Rather Than Action-Oriented 24/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The final reading of the Political Declaration for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) is scheduled for Tuesday in New York – and while the revised text has a few more practical clauses than the bland zero-draft, it remains more aspirational than actionable. The draft Political Declaration, which has […] Continue reading -> Contradictions: The ‘Worst Outcome’ of Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulation Negotiations 21/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The worst outcome of the two World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic negotiations currently underway would be the adoption of contradictory definitions and processes, warned Dr Mike Ryan, the head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. “At the very minimum, the two instruments will need to be very aligned on the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Pandemic Fund Awards Over $330m in First Resilience-Building Grants 25/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan Thirty-seven countries have received grants worth $338 million from the Pandemic Fund to boost their resilience to pandemics in the first round of the fund’s disbursements. Three disbursements involve multi-country grants: to 12 Caribbean countries to strengthen their early warning surveillance, build laboratory systems and workforce development; to seven Latin American countries to engage communities […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: UN Draft Declaration on Pandemics Is Aspirational Rather Than Action-Oriented 24/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The final reading of the Political Declaration for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) is scheduled for Tuesday in New York – and while the revised text has a few more practical clauses than the bland zero-draft, it remains more aspirational than actionable. The draft Political Declaration, which has […] Continue reading -> Contradictions: The ‘Worst Outcome’ of Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulation Negotiations 21/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The worst outcome of the two World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic negotiations currently underway would be the adoption of contradictory definitions and processes, warned Dr Mike Ryan, the head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. “At the very minimum, the two instruments will need to be very aligned on the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
EXCLUSIVE: UN Draft Declaration on Pandemics Is Aspirational Rather Than Action-Oriented 24/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The final reading of the Political Declaration for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) is scheduled for Tuesday in New York – and while the revised text has a few more practical clauses than the bland zero-draft, it remains more aspirational than actionable. The draft Political Declaration, which has […] Continue reading -> Contradictions: The ‘Worst Outcome’ of Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulation Negotiations 21/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The worst outcome of the two World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic negotiations currently underway would be the adoption of contradictory definitions and processes, warned Dr Mike Ryan, the head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. “At the very minimum, the two instruments will need to be very aligned on the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Contradictions: The ‘Worst Outcome’ of Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulation Negotiations 21/07/2023 Kerry Cullinan The worst outcome of the two World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic negotiations currently underway would be the adoption of contradictory definitions and processes, warned Dr Mike Ryan, the head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. “At the very minimum, the two instruments will need to be very aligned on the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts