Twenty years ago, Hazel Tau, a young South African living with HIV, and her peers had little chance of getting antiretroviral (ARV) treatment because it was completely unaffordable. The South African price for just one of the three ARV drugs she needed, AZT, was 665% higher than the best-priced generic available elsewhere in the world. […] Continue reading ->
In the past decade, Africa’s progress against maternal and infant mortality has flatlined, and it will need to reduce maternal deaths by a massive 86%, and more than halve the deaths of babies to reach global targets by 2030. This is according to the Atlas of African Health Statistics 2022 released by the World Health […] Continue reading ->
South Korea became the first country in the world to achieve the highest level, “maturity level 4” (ML4), in regulating medicines and vaccines. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) in the Republic of Korea is the only national regulatory authority to be recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO) to have advanced oversight […] Continue reading ->
A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Samuel Kumwanje was diagnosed with a kidney disorder in 2004, his home country Malawi had only one dialysis unit located in the capital Lilongwe, about 330 km from the city of Balaka where he lived. “This is the time […] Continue reading ->
A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more For many years, Betsy Rodriguez was terrified that she could lose her daughter Carmen to hypoglycemia at any moment. As a girl, Carmen was diagnosed as having type 1 diabetes. “I cannot count the hours I’ve spent dealing with insurance […] Continue reading ->
A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Brenda Chitindi was growing up, one of many children in a family in a rural village of Zambia, she had no idea that her father’s habit of smoking would have a negative effect on her health. “We lived in […] Continue reading ->
A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more In March 2011, Seema Bali, a mother of two from India, was recovering from a hysterectomy. However, just as she went back to work, her husband Anand’s health suddenly deteriorated. In the following months, this crisis forced her to assume […] Continue reading ->
Stronger international rules and cooperation mechanisms on health are at the heart of the European Union’s new global health strategy, which was launched on Wednesday. The strategy is based on three priorities: ensuring that people stay well throughout their lives, strengthening health systems particularly by advancing universal health coverage, and applying a ‘One Health’ approach […] Continue reading ->
WHO’s Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced the “interim” appointment of five new senior leaders to replace outgoing members of his senior team, whose departure was announced internally just last week, Health Policy Watch has learned. The new appointments were also revealed in a second internal email sent by Tedros to WHO staff […] Continue reading ->
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has extended quarantine measures in the two districts at the epicentre of the country’s Ebola epidemic for another 21 days, citing the need to protect gains in the fight against the virus. This marks the third renewal of lockdowns in Kassanda and Mubende, and authorities are hopeful it will be the […] Continue reading ->