The 31st UN climate conference, COP31, got underway on Monday in the Turkish coastal city of Antalya, where some 100,000 people, including more than 90 heads of state and hundreds of ministers from nearly 200 countries, will gather over the next two weeks to decide what the world will or will not do to protect […] Continue reading ->
November’s US midterm elections swept Democrats into power in both the House and Senate, marking a shift in congressional leadership on key health policies. This comes as a former Trump administration official and a founder of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement accused the administration of catering to industry interests over the health of […] Continue reading ->
Budi Sadikin, Indonesia’s Minister of Health and the country’s nominee for WHO Director General, has in fact spent most of his career in finance – as a top executive at Indonesia’s largest bank, PT Bank Mandiri TBk. “Before, my job was to make my clients wealthy; now my job is to make my people healthy,” […] Continue reading ->
HARARE, Zimbabwe – As she opened and shut the doors of four giant refrigerators inside a dispensary at Budiriro Polyclinic in the capital of Harare, the nurse beamed. Since the clinic became linked to solar power, critical medicines that need refrigeration are no longer at risk of spoiling when the national power grid is unavailable. […] Continue reading ->
A child diagnosed with cancer in a wealthy country has more than an 80 percent chance of surviving. In Syria, one hospital has managed to bring survival rates to 76 percent, despite years of war and severe shortages, while in parts of Nigeria, survival remains around 30%. For Dr. Khaled Ghanem, a pediatric oncologist who […] Continue reading ->
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are moving to centre stage in global health financing, driven by collapsing bilateral aid and political momentum from initiatives like the Accra Reset. Experts view the shift as an opportunity to deliver the predictable, large-scale investment needed to strengthen domestic health systems – provided governments and lenders can ensure transparent terms […] Continue reading ->
A painkiller designed by artificial intelligence that beat morphine in animal tests; a “biological age” score on a government app. Smart-ring makers fighting each other in court while signing deals with the same health department. At its Future Health Summit, Abu Dhabi showed how hard it is to bet on the business of ageing, and […] Continue reading ->
The pledge to triple climate adaptation funding hammered out in the closing hours of last year’s UN climate summit in Brazil would still leave developing countries with less than a third of the money they need to protect people from deadly heat, rising seas, failing harvests and other mounting threats from the climate crisis. The […] Continue reading ->
WHO has greenlighted Phase 2/3 trials for two brand new vaccine candidates that specifically target the Ebola Bundibugyo virus species ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo. Actual trials could forseeably commence “within three to four weeks” – as soon as DRC regulators issue their own approval, said WHO’s Science Director Meg Doherty, at a Wednesday […] Continue reading ->
Scaling up six climate and health measures worldwide could prevent 1.6 million deaths a year and generate $3.9 trillion in economic benefits annually, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, days before the COP31 climate talks open in Antalya, Türkiye. Five of the six measures, from improved heat-health warning systems to cleaner household fuels, […] Continue reading ->