Tag: Healthy News

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

Almost all international support came to a halt, and it seemed certain that for health workers in lifesaving facilities throughout the crisis-wracked nation, and the millions they serve, things would only get worse. But then, as one midwife* recalled, in testimony exclusively supplied to UN News, the support started coming, thanks to a groundbreaking new agreement led by the UN’s… Read More

Based on a scenario where around seven billion people need two doses of coronavirus vaccine between now and 2023, the UN health agency said that a shortage of at least one billion syringes “could occur”, if manufacturing does not pick up. Lisa Hedman, WHO Senior Advisor, from the Access to Medicines and Health Products division, warned that a generation of… Read More

The 2021 WHO health and climate change global survey report, which covers 95 countries, found only around a quarter have been able to fully implement national health and climate change plans or strategies.  Other major barriers to progress include the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as insufficient human resources.  Biggest threat to health  The report was launched at… Read More

The warning came from WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking to journalists in Geneva on Thursday.   More than 5 million deaths have now been reported, and WHO believes the real number is higher. More than 50,000 people are losing their lives every week.   In the last seven days, 56 countries, from all regions, reported an increase in deaths of more than 10 per cent.   Tedros highlighted… Read More

COVAXIN, made by Indian company Bharat Biotech, has received WHO emergency use listing (EUL), meaning it could soon be available to millions worldwide.  Glad to see one more vaccine, #Covaxin, being granted @WHO emergency use listing. The more products we have to fight #COVID19, the better, but we must keep up the pressure to deliver #VaccinEquity & prioritize access to… Read More