Top economists call for ‘radical redirection’ focusing on healthcare |
Released on Tuesday, the WHO Economic Council’s new brief, Financing Health for All, points to three main actions: create fiscal space, direct investments, and the administration of public and private finance. On public spending, the experts say that easing constraints imposed by outdated economic assumptions and reversing reforms that lead to big health care cuts, would...
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COVID-19 deaths at lowest level in nearly a year, WHO reports |
Agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported that the death toll from the disease is now at its lowest level in almost a year. “Reaching 40% needs a whole of government and whole of society approach, which depends on political and...
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Taliban backs WHO polio vaccination campaign across Afghanistan next month |
The vaccination campaign will begin on 8 November, and will be the first in over three years to reach all children in Afghanistan. This includes more than three million children in parts of the country who have previously remained inaccessible to inoculation campaigns against the infectious disease, which...
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UN-backed show highlights lifesaving benefits of ‘edutainment’ in South Africa |
A new report, conducted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, indicates that, after watching the episodes, young people were twice as likely to get tested for HIV. They were also twice as likely to know their status...
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Up to 180,000 health workers may have died from COVID-19 |
That grim estimate features in a new WHO working paper based on the 3.45 million coronavirus-related deaths reported globally to the UN health agency up to May; a figure that WHO said may well be at least 60 per cent lower than the actual number of victims. To highlight...
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WHO announces plan for ‘profound transformation’ following sexual abuse allegations in DR Congo |
The assurance came this Thursday from WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, while announcing a Management Response Plan to address the findings of an independent commission. “This plan outlines the changes we will make as an organisation to make good on this commitment and to create a culture in which there is no opportunity...
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Restore sexual, reproductive health rights lost during COVID, rights expert urges |
“Millions of women globally had limited or no access to maternal and new-born healthcare, some 14 million women lost access to contraception, and specialized services for victims of gender-based violence became inaccessible, when they were needed most”, said Dr. Tlaleng...
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Yemen war reaches ‘shameful milestone’ – 10,000 children now killed or maimed
Another “shameful milestone” has been reached in the conflict in Yemen with 10,000 children killed or maimed since fighting started in March 2015, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. Source link …
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