Category: Business

And according to the fourth WHO global tobacco trends report, that number is expected to continue to drop to 1.27 billion by 2025.    Sixty countries are now on track to achieving the voluntary global target of a 30% per cent reduction by 2025, an increase from two years ago, when only 32 countries were on course.  Encouraging news  For WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus, the numbers are very encouraging, but more work must be done.  “We still have a long way… Read More

The low cost is possible thanks to a new partnership between the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), MedAccess and SD Biosensor.  Each year, around 1.3 million women living with HIV become pregnant and just under one million pregnant women are infected with syphilis.    Despite affordable diagnostics and treatment being available, undiagnosed and untreated infections continue to affect the lives of many mothers and their children.  An exciting development  According to WHO, the rapid diagnostic… Read More

Almost 27 thousand deaths were reported in the continent last week, more than half of all COVID-19 deaths globally.   Speaking to journalists in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus explained that the virus is not only surging in countries with lower vaccination rates in Eastern Europe, but also in nations with some of the world’s highest vaccination rates in Western Europe.   “It’s another reminder, as we have said again and again,… Read More

Keeping the 100-year-old promise – making insulin access universal details the main barriers to accessing the lifesaving medicine, namely high prices, low availability of human insulin, a market dominated by just a few producers, and weak health systems.  Profit over solidarity  The 🆕 WHO report on global access to #insulin shows how a century after its discovery, insulin remains inaccessible or… Read More

The call was made this Wednesday by WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at a meeting with foreign ministers hosted by the United States.   “Nearly 80 countries, half of them in Africa, will not reach our 40% vaccination target without your help. To reach that target, we need an additional 550 million doses”, Tedros informed.   Urgent action  The WHO chief asked countries which have already reached high coverage rates, to give their place in the queue to COVAX and… Read More