WHO will have terminated, retired or separated by agreement an estimated 2371 staff worldwide by mid-2026 – shedding about 25% of a workforce that numbered 9,457 in December 2024 – a 15-year peak. That’s according to a new report that is to be presented and discussed with WHO member states on Wednesday. Despite the huge […] Continue reading ->
This week, the world marks World Antimicrobial Awareness Week and malaria parasites, though often forgotten, are part of the range of microbes preventing us from achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Good Health and Well-being. Malaria remains an immense public health burden, especially in Africa. It mainly affects the poor, and remains an immense health […] Continue reading ->
South Africa aims to become the first African country to manufacture a cholera vaccine with the launch this week of a clinical trial of an oral vaccine developed by local company Biovac. The vaccine candidate was developed thanks to a technology transfer partnership between Biovac and the International Vaccine Institute in South Korea in 2022. […] Continue reading ->
Last year, the global battle to reduce tuberculosis infections and deaths showed small signs of recovery following three disruptive COVID-19 years – but this year’s precipitous drop in development aid is likely to cause new setbacks, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). TB killed 1.23 million people in 2024 and made 10.7 million people […] Continue reading ->
In August, African leaders gathered in Accra, Ghana, to chart a path for the continent’s future in public health. Their message was unequivocal: Africa’s political independence is incomplete without the power to shape its own development – including the health of its people. The Africa Health Sovereignty Summit was a demand to break free from […] Continue reading ->
DELHI, India – The Delhi police detained nearly 100 people Sunday evening in a protest against high levels of air pollution in India’s capital – which has consistently ranked as the biggest pollution hot spot in the world over the past month. The protest, one of the largest since the COVID pandemic and coincided with […] Continue reading ->
Armenia’s first deputy health minister, Lena Nanushyan, says the country’s tougher tobacco controls, and a coming universal health insurance reform, are designed to reinforce each other by cutting disease and protecting households from catastrophic medical bills. “Public health and universal health coverage are inseparable,” Nanushyan told Garry Aslanyan in an interview for his Trailblazers series […] Continue reading ->
“Inadequate” and “unbalanced” were some of the complaints levelled against the first draft of a Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) system when World Health Organization (WHO) member states met for text-based negotiations in Geneva on Monday. Once agreed, the PABS system will be an annex to the Pandemic Agreement, but several member states at the Intergovernmental […] Continue reading ->
The poorest people and countries suffer the most during pandemics, setting in motion a “vicious cycle” of inequality where those who suffer the most are least equipped to address disease outbreaks, according to the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics in a report released on Monday (3 November). The COVID-19 pandemic pushed 165 million […] Continue reading ->
As the G-20 Health Ministers meeting takes place next week in Johannesburg, South Africa, a new global coalition is trying to put Alzheimer’s and dementia-related diseases on the priority list of the world’s major economies; and there’s one man who stands out as a driving force behind this movement. In his video “Leadership Lessons from […] Continue reading ->