ANTALYA – France is rallying countries to write near-zero methane targets for oil and gas into the COP31 climate deal, as leaders at a summit on Thursday said it was time to move beyond the voluntary pledges on track to deliver little more than a third of the cuts promised under the 2021 Global Methane […] Continue reading ->
Armed conflict is one of the biggest obstacles to containing the Ebola Bundibugyo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), warns the World Health Organization (WHO) on the eve of the outbreak’s sixth month. Some 11,114 cases and 5,433 deaths have been confirmed, with a death rate of 48% in the DRC, since the outbreak […] Continue reading ->
A coalition of senior medical professors and anti-corruption watchdogs from Indonesia has formally petitioned the World Health Organization’s Executive Board to reject Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin’s candidacy for Director-General. As health minister since 2020, Sadikin has pursued “a pattern of actions that have marginalized or penalized physicians, academics and health professionals who expressed […] Continue reading ->
ANTALYA – In his last climate summit address as UN secretary-general, António Guterres accused fossil fuel interests of “making a killing while killing our planet”, and warned that a world set to blow past 1.5°C of warming was on a “path to mutually assured destruction.” “Fossil fuels must go the way of the dinosaurs,” Guterres […] Continue reading ->
ANTALYA – In a tale of America at a crossroads, former US Secretary of State John Kerry declared at COP31 on Tuesday that the country would soon return to a leadership role in the global response to the climate crisis, as a new report found President Donald Trump’s war on Iran had inadvertently tipped global […] Continue reading ->
ANTALYA – The 31st United Nations (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 […] 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 ->
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 ->
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 see 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 that […] 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 ->