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Dr. Fauci papers “novel ideas how HIV becomes AIDS”

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Most people read the more than 3.000 pages of emails from and to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in the context of the Wuhan lab hypothesis of SARS-CoV2. However, in an email from February 5, 2020, Dr. Robert L. Knobler, MD, PhD, informs Dr. Fauci that he, Dr. Knobler, has some “novel ideas how HIV… Read More
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G20 leaders boost support of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator but urgent and immediate action is needed to maintain momentum

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World leaders today met at the Global Health Summit, co-hosted by the European Commission and Italy as part of its G20 presidency, to adopt an agenda to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, and develop and endorse a Rome Declaration of principles, at a time when the virus is surging and spreading uncontrollably in many parts of the world. With nine people… Read More
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WHO and Switzerland launch global BioHub for pathogen storage, sharing and analysis

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The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Swiss Confederation today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to launch the first WHO BioHub Facility as part of the WHO BioHub System, which was announced in November 2020. This facility will enhance the rapid sharing of viruses and other pathogens between laboratories and partners globally. Based in Spiez, Switzerland, the facility will serve… Read More
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New WHO guidance aims to stamp out rights violations in mental health services

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Globally, mental health care mainly continues to be provided in psychiatric hospitals, and rights abuses and coercive practices remain all too common, according to the UN agency.  ‘A more holistic approach’  The guidance recommends that mental health provision should be located in the community and include support for daily living, such as facilitating access to accommodation, as well as education… Read More
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UN experts to G7: Production of safe COVID-19 vaccines must outweigh profit 

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“Everyone has a right to have access to a vaccine for COVID-19 that is safe, effective, timely and based on the application of the best scientific development”, the experts said ahead of the three-day Summit of the G7 intergovernmental group of leading countries in the United Kingdom, which begins on Friday.  No time for barriers  The nine independent experts said… Read More
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Opinion: Keeping Malawi’s Tripartite Elections Calendar Inviolable

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By Maxwell Chisala Although Malawi’s constitutional-experiment survived its biggest test arising from the now-confirmed bungled 2019 Presidential election, Malawi’s ballot-box democracy experiment will continue smarting from Parliament’s self-serving legislative decision to extend its current tenure beyond the constitutionally prescribed five-year term, long after books on ‘widespread, systematic and grave’ irregularities and anomalies that seriously compromised the integrity of the results… Read More
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Step up HIV fight, to end AIDS ‘epidemic of inequalities’ by 2030 

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“They are at greatest risk of being left behind as AIDS remains not just a health issue, but a broader development challenge”, said Volkan Bozkir, kicking off a three-day High-Level Meeting on the continuing epidemic.  The road well-travelled  While acknowledging that AIDS-related deaths have been reduced by 61 per cent since the peak in 2004, Mr. Bozkir warned that under-investment… Read More
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COVAX Joint Statement: Call to action to equip COVAX to deliver 2 billion doses in 2021

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Countries that are advanced in their vaccination programmes are seeing cases of COVID-19 decline, hospitalisations decrease and early signs of some kind of normality resume. However, the global picture is far more concerning. At no point in this pandemic have we seen such an acute need to look to the future challenges and not rest on the patchy achievements made… Read More
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Update from the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly – 27 May 2021

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New resolutions on diabetes, health for people with disabilities; malaria; oral health Decisions on eye care; HIV, Hepatitis and STIs; neglected tropical diseases, noncommunicable diseases WHO programme budget approved 2022-2023 RESOLUTIONS Diabetes A new  resolution urges Member States to raise the priority given to the prevention, diagnosis and control of diabetes as well as prevention and management of risk factors… Read More
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UNICEF and celebrities appeal to G7 countries: Donate COVID vaccinations ‘now’  

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“We’re asking you to make these urgent donations by August and to set out a roadmap to scale up donations as supplies increase”, wrote the celebrities, influencers and activists.  Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Billie Eilish were among those highlighting that the Summit provides a vital opportunity for the G7 intergovernmental group of leading countries to agree actions that will get… Read More
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