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 -> Data-Sharing in the Time of COVID – Could Researchers Agree to Use a Common Clinical Trial ‘Repository’? 15/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, a senior scientist at the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi) has a vision that could be critical to halting the next pandemic – but is esoteric, difficult to organize and even more challenging to build the trust and buy-in needed to make it really work. The vision is of a common clinical-trial […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Historic Public Hearings on WHO Pandemic Instrument; Some Unhappiness with Process 12/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) convened public hearings for only the second time in its history on Tuesday, asking interested parties what substantive issues should be contained in its proposed international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response. The first and only other WHO hearings were held 22 years ago in the run-up to the adoption […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Viral Hepatitis in Europe is Possible – Soon 25/02/2022 Maria Buti Somewhere between 10 and 14 million people are living with viral hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C (HCV) in WHO’s European region alone. And over three quarters of those people do not even know they have either disease. It’s no surprise then, that approximately 300 people die each day due to HBV and HCV -related […] Continue reading -> United States Publicly Expresses Support for Director General Tedros in Second Term at WHO’s Helm 23/02/2022 Peter Kenny & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The United States will support Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a second term as head of the World Health Organization – a move that is largely symbolic insofar as Tedros is running unopposed in the elections, scheduled for the 75th World Health Assembly, 22-28 May. Although over a dozen countries in Europe and elsewhere lined […] Continue reading -> WHO Recommends Tighter Restrictions on Formula Milk Marketing as Survey Exposes ‘Unethical’ Tactics 23/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar The formula milk industry is using ‘unethical’ marketing tactics to influence new parents and pregnant women to substitute breast milk for formula milk in breach of the international standards on infant feeding practices and is detrimental to child nutrition and health, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United […] Continue reading -> Championing Inclusivity at the Global Disability Summit 19/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar & Raisa Santos From barriers to treatment for people with hearing disabilities to preconceptions about albinism and inaccessible COVID testing for wheelchair users, participants in the Global Disability Summit took a fresh look at the wide range of discriminatory practices that an estimated 1 billion people – 15% of the world’s population – living with disabilities have to […] Continue reading -> More Clarity on Negotiators to Take Forward WHO Pandemic ‘Instrument’ Talks 04/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan Representatives from Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, and Thailand are to make up the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) on a future pandemic instrument, according to Knowledge Ecology International. The countries each represent a different region of the WHO, namely Africa (South Africa), the Americas, known as the Pan-American Health Organisation […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Data-Sharing in the Time of COVID – Could Researchers Agree to Use a Common Clinical Trial ‘Repository’? 15/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, a senior scientist at the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi) has a vision that could be critical to halting the next pandemic – but is esoteric, difficult to organize and even more challenging to build the trust and buy-in needed to make it really work. The vision is of a common clinical-trial […] Continue reading -> EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Historic Public Hearings on WHO Pandemic Instrument; Some Unhappiness with Process 12/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) convened public hearings for only the second time in its history on Tuesday, asking interested parties what substantive issues should be contained in its proposed international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response. The first and only other WHO hearings were held 22 years ago in the run-up to the adoption […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Viral Hepatitis in Europe is Possible – Soon 25/02/2022 Maria Buti Somewhere between 10 and 14 million people are living with viral hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C (HCV) in WHO’s European region alone. And over three quarters of those people do not even know they have either disease. It’s no surprise then, that approximately 300 people die each day due to HBV and HCV -related […] Continue reading -> United States Publicly Expresses Support for Director General Tedros in Second Term at WHO’s Helm 23/02/2022 Peter Kenny & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The United States will support Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a second term as head of the World Health Organization – a move that is largely symbolic insofar as Tedros is running unopposed in the elections, scheduled for the 75th World Health Assembly, 22-28 May. Although over a dozen countries in Europe and elsewhere lined […] Continue reading -> WHO Recommends Tighter Restrictions on Formula Milk Marketing as Survey Exposes ‘Unethical’ Tactics 23/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar The formula milk industry is using ‘unethical’ marketing tactics to influence new parents and pregnant women to substitute breast milk for formula milk in breach of the international standards on infant feeding practices and is detrimental to child nutrition and health, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United […] Continue reading -> Championing Inclusivity at the Global Disability Summit 19/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar & Raisa Santos From barriers to treatment for people with hearing disabilities to preconceptions about albinism and inaccessible COVID testing for wheelchair users, participants in the Global Disability Summit took a fresh look at the wide range of discriminatory practices that an estimated 1 billion people – 15% of the world’s population – living with disabilities have to […] Continue reading -> More Clarity on Negotiators to Take Forward WHO Pandemic ‘Instrument’ Talks 04/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan Representatives from Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, and Thailand are to make up the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) on a future pandemic instrument, according to Knowledge Ecology International. The countries each represent a different region of the WHO, namely Africa (South Africa), the Americas, known as the Pan-American Health Organisation […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
EXCLUSIVE: WHO Deleted India’s Air Pollution Data from its New Air Quality Database – Why? 14/04/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & Jyoti Pande Lavakare Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities – among the most polluted in the world – was deleted from the latest World Health Organization Air Quality database just before WHO published the report on 4 April 2022, Health Policy Watch has learned. The Indian air quality data, spanning the years […] Continue reading -> Historic Public Hearings on WHO Pandemic Instrument; Some Unhappiness with Process 12/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) convened public hearings for only the second time in its history on Tuesday, asking interested parties what substantive issues should be contained in its proposed international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response. The first and only other WHO hearings were held 22 years ago in the run-up to the adoption […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Viral Hepatitis in Europe is Possible – Soon 25/02/2022 Maria Buti Somewhere between 10 and 14 million people are living with viral hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C (HCV) in WHO’s European region alone. And over three quarters of those people do not even know they have either disease. It’s no surprise then, that approximately 300 people die each day due to HBV and HCV -related […] Continue reading -> United States Publicly Expresses Support for Director General Tedros in Second Term at WHO’s Helm 23/02/2022 Peter Kenny & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The United States will support Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a second term as head of the World Health Organization – a move that is largely symbolic insofar as Tedros is running unopposed in the elections, scheduled for the 75th World Health Assembly, 22-28 May. Although over a dozen countries in Europe and elsewhere lined […] Continue reading -> WHO Recommends Tighter Restrictions on Formula Milk Marketing as Survey Exposes ‘Unethical’ Tactics 23/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar The formula milk industry is using ‘unethical’ marketing tactics to influence new parents and pregnant women to substitute breast milk for formula milk in breach of the international standards on infant feeding practices and is detrimental to child nutrition and health, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United […] Continue reading -> Championing Inclusivity at the Global Disability Summit 19/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar & Raisa Santos From barriers to treatment for people with hearing disabilities to preconceptions about albinism and inaccessible COVID testing for wheelchair users, participants in the Global Disability Summit took a fresh look at the wide range of discriminatory practices that an estimated 1 billion people – 15% of the world’s population – living with disabilities have to […] Continue reading -> More Clarity on Negotiators to Take Forward WHO Pandemic ‘Instrument’ Talks 04/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan Representatives from Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, and Thailand are to make up the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) on a future pandemic instrument, according to Knowledge Ecology International. The countries each represent a different region of the WHO, namely Africa (South Africa), the Americas, known as the Pan-American Health Organisation […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Historic Public Hearings on WHO Pandemic Instrument; Some Unhappiness with Process 12/04/2022 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) convened public hearings for only the second time in its history on Tuesday, asking interested parties what substantive issues should be contained in its proposed international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response. The first and only other WHO hearings were held 22 years ago in the run-up to the adoption […] Continue reading -> Eliminating Viral Hepatitis in Europe is Possible – Soon 25/02/2022 Maria Buti Somewhere between 10 and 14 million people are living with viral hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C (HCV) in WHO’s European region alone. And over three quarters of those people do not even know they have either disease. It’s no surprise then, that approximately 300 people die each day due to HBV and HCV -related […] Continue reading -> United States Publicly Expresses Support for Director General Tedros in Second Term at WHO’s Helm 23/02/2022 Peter Kenny & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The United States will support Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a second term as head of the World Health Organization – a move that is largely symbolic insofar as Tedros is running unopposed in the elections, scheduled for the 75th World Health Assembly, 22-28 May. Although over a dozen countries in Europe and elsewhere lined […] Continue reading -> WHO Recommends Tighter Restrictions on Formula Milk Marketing as Survey Exposes ‘Unethical’ Tactics 23/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar The formula milk industry is using ‘unethical’ marketing tactics to influence new parents and pregnant women to substitute breast milk for formula milk in breach of the international standards on infant feeding practices and is detrimental to child nutrition and health, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United […] Continue reading -> Championing Inclusivity at the Global Disability Summit 19/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar & Raisa Santos From barriers to treatment for people with hearing disabilities to preconceptions about albinism and inaccessible COVID testing for wheelchair users, participants in the Global Disability Summit took a fresh look at the wide range of discriminatory practices that an estimated 1 billion people – 15% of the world’s population – living with disabilities have to […] Continue reading -> More Clarity on Negotiators to Take Forward WHO Pandemic ‘Instrument’ Talks 04/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan Representatives from Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, and Thailand are to make up the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) on a future pandemic instrument, according to Knowledge Ecology International. The countries each represent a different region of the WHO, namely Africa (South Africa), the Americas, known as the Pan-American Health Organisation […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Eliminating Viral Hepatitis in Europe is Possible – Soon 25/02/2022 Maria Buti Somewhere between 10 and 14 million people are living with viral hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C (HCV) in WHO’s European region alone. And over three quarters of those people do not even know they have either disease. It’s no surprise then, that approximately 300 people die each day due to HBV and HCV -related […] Continue reading -> United States Publicly Expresses Support for Director General Tedros in Second Term at WHO’s Helm 23/02/2022 Peter Kenny & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The United States will support Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a second term as head of the World Health Organization – a move that is largely symbolic insofar as Tedros is running unopposed in the elections, scheduled for the 75th World Health Assembly, 22-28 May. Although over a dozen countries in Europe and elsewhere lined […] Continue reading -> WHO Recommends Tighter Restrictions on Formula Milk Marketing as Survey Exposes ‘Unethical’ Tactics 23/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar The formula milk industry is using ‘unethical’ marketing tactics to influence new parents and pregnant women to substitute breast milk for formula milk in breach of the international standards on infant feeding practices and is detrimental to child nutrition and health, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United […] Continue reading -> Championing Inclusivity at the Global Disability Summit 19/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar & Raisa Santos From barriers to treatment for people with hearing disabilities to preconceptions about albinism and inaccessible COVID testing for wheelchair users, participants in the Global Disability Summit took a fresh look at the wide range of discriminatory practices that an estimated 1 billion people – 15% of the world’s population – living with disabilities have to […] Continue reading -> More Clarity on Negotiators to Take Forward WHO Pandemic ‘Instrument’ Talks 04/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan Representatives from Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, and Thailand are to make up the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) on a future pandemic instrument, according to Knowledge Ecology International. The countries each represent a different region of the WHO, namely Africa (South Africa), the Americas, known as the Pan-American Health Organisation […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
United States Publicly Expresses Support for Director General Tedros in Second Term at WHO’s Helm 23/02/2022 Peter Kenny & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The United States will support Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a second term as head of the World Health Organization – a move that is largely symbolic insofar as Tedros is running unopposed in the elections, scheduled for the 75th World Health Assembly, 22-28 May. Although over a dozen countries in Europe and elsewhere lined […] Continue reading -> WHO Recommends Tighter Restrictions on Formula Milk Marketing as Survey Exposes ‘Unethical’ Tactics 23/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar The formula milk industry is using ‘unethical’ marketing tactics to influence new parents and pregnant women to substitute breast milk for formula milk in breach of the international standards on infant feeding practices and is detrimental to child nutrition and health, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United […] Continue reading -> Championing Inclusivity at the Global Disability Summit 19/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar & Raisa Santos From barriers to treatment for people with hearing disabilities to preconceptions about albinism and inaccessible COVID testing for wheelchair users, participants in the Global Disability Summit took a fresh look at the wide range of discriminatory practices that an estimated 1 billion people – 15% of the world’s population – living with disabilities have to […] Continue reading -> More Clarity on Negotiators to Take Forward WHO Pandemic ‘Instrument’ Talks 04/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan Representatives from Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, and Thailand are to make up the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) on a future pandemic instrument, according to Knowledge Ecology International. The countries each represent a different region of the WHO, namely Africa (South Africa), the Americas, known as the Pan-American Health Organisation […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Recommends Tighter Restrictions on Formula Milk Marketing as Survey Exposes ‘Unethical’ Tactics 23/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar The formula milk industry is using ‘unethical’ marketing tactics to influence new parents and pregnant women to substitute breast milk for formula milk in breach of the international standards on infant feeding practices and is detrimental to child nutrition and health, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United […] Continue reading -> Championing Inclusivity at the Global Disability Summit 19/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar & Raisa Santos From barriers to treatment for people with hearing disabilities to preconceptions about albinism and inaccessible COVID testing for wheelchair users, participants in the Global Disability Summit took a fresh look at the wide range of discriminatory practices that an estimated 1 billion people – 15% of the world’s population – living with disabilities have to […] Continue reading -> More Clarity on Negotiators to Take Forward WHO Pandemic ‘Instrument’ Talks 04/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan Representatives from Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, and Thailand are to make up the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) on a future pandemic instrument, according to Knowledge Ecology International. The countries each represent a different region of the WHO, namely Africa (South Africa), the Americas, known as the Pan-American Health Organisation […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Championing Inclusivity at the Global Disability Summit 19/02/2022 Aishwarya Tendolkar & Raisa Santos From barriers to treatment for people with hearing disabilities to preconceptions about albinism and inaccessible COVID testing for wheelchair users, participants in the Global Disability Summit took a fresh look at the wide range of discriminatory practices that an estimated 1 billion people – 15% of the world’s population – living with disabilities have to […] Continue reading -> More Clarity on Negotiators to Take Forward WHO Pandemic ‘Instrument’ Talks 04/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan Representatives from Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, and Thailand are to make up the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) on a future pandemic instrument, according to Knowledge Ecology International. The countries each represent a different region of the WHO, namely Africa (South Africa), the Americas, known as the Pan-American Health Organisation […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
More Clarity on Negotiators to Take Forward WHO Pandemic ‘Instrument’ Talks 04/02/2022 Kerry Cullinan Representatives from Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, and Thailand are to make up the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) on a future pandemic instrument, according to Knowledge Ecology International. The countries each represent a different region of the WHO, namely Africa (South Africa), the Americas, known as the Pan-American Health Organisation […] Continue reading -> Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Non-state Actors Seek More Inclusion at WHO 01/02/2022 Paul Adepoju The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering changing how it relates to non-state actors (NSAs), but some of these organisations are concerned that the changes envisaged by the global body may weaken their voices. In 2016, the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a Framework for Engagement with NSAs – known as FENSA – to […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts