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New research highlights risks of separating newborns from mothers during COVID-19 pandemic

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New research from WHO and partners shows that the COVID-19 pandemic is severely affecting the quality of care given to small and sick newborns, resulting in unnecessary suffering and deaths. A study published in the Lancet EclinicalMedicine highlights the critical importance of ensuring newborn babies have close contact with parents after birth, especially for those born too small (at low… Read More
Health Advice Lifestyle 

PUBLIC REVIEW of the 6th edition of the WHO laboratory manual for the examination and processing of human semen

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The WHO laboratory manual for the examination and processing of human semen (originally WHO laboratory manual for the examination of human semen and sperm–cervical mucus interaction) was first published in 1980, in response to a growing need for standardization of procedures for the examination of human semen. The manual was revised four times (Belsey, et al., 1980, World Health Organization,… Read More
Health Advice Lifestyle 

WHO publishes new clinical and service delivery recommendations for HIV prevention, treatment and care

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These guidelines provide new and updated recommendations on the use of point-of-care testing in children under 18 months of age and point-of-care tests to monitor treatment in people living with HIV; the treatment monitoring algorithm; and timing of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people living with HIV who are being treated for tuberculosis. New recommendations launched today outline key new actions… Read More
Health Advice Lifestyle 

Reframing child and adolescent health for the SDG era

Global Author
Over the past two decades, the epidemiology of global child health has changed markedly, alongside our understanding of what works to improve the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents. As countries seek to recover and rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic, a series of papers published today in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) supplement calls for a substantial evolution in… Read More
Development Health Advice 

First Person: Prepare for the next pandemic, says WHO scientist

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During the early ‘90s, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan successfully raised funds to get antiretroviral drugs to those affected by the HIV epidemic. Many of the children of those patients are still alive today thanks to her work. As part of the podcast series, Awake At Night, she shares her insights with the UN’s head of communications, Melissa Fleming. Getting vaccines to… Read More
Development Health Advice 

COVID-19: Virus variants, vaccine inequity, contribute to rising caseload

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After six weeks of decline in January and February, cases are now increasing in most regions of the world.  Meanwhile, deaths are falling, though at a slower rate.  “These are worrying trends as we continue to see the impact of variants, opening up of societies, and inequitable vaccine rollout”, said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking during his regular briefing… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Do not use weather as a basis to relax COVID-19 control measures, UN agency urges

Global Author
In a new report, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) highlighted that infections rose in warm seasons in 2020 – the first year of the pandemic – and that “there is no evidence” that this could not happen again in 2021.  “At this stage, evidence does not support the use of meteorological and air quality factors as a basis for… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Health experts give green light to Janssen COVID jab, allay clotting concerns

Global Author
In a virtual press conference from Geneva, SAGE hailed the one-dose Janssen shot – produced by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary – as a safe and lifesaving addition to the three other vaccines it has already approved for use: Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. The expert panel also noted that clotting episodes – also known as hypercoagulable events – were a… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Keep mothers and newborns together, new health research says

Global Author
In many countries, if COVID-19 infections are confirmed or suspected, newborn babies are being routinely separated from their mothers, putting them at higher risk of death and lifelong health complications, according to the agency.  Newborns need close contact with parents, especially mothers, after birth. However, in many countries, if #COVID19 infections are confirmed or suspected, newborn ? are separated from… Read More
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