WHO has ended its declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) for Mpox, announced in August 2024, saying that cases in the most affected areas of Africa had leveled off or were declining. However, continued vigilance in testing – along with regular supplies of vaccines and drug treatments remains essential to ensure […] Continue reading ->
WHO’s 2025 Essential Medicines Lists (EML), published Friday, has included the active ingredients in popular weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy – semaglutide or other comparable GLP-1 receptor agonists – in a recommendation that recognizes the growing importance of the drugs in clinical treatment of diabetes worldwide. These drugs, as well as new PD-1/PD-L1 […] Continue reading ->
A new White House “pocket rescission package” threatens to throw the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Americas branch of the World Health Organization, into a financial crisis – if it is not stopped by the US Congress before the end of September. The White House order, announced on the eve of the long US […] Continue reading ->
The key to managing diabetes, one of the world’s most prevalent non-communicable diseases (NCDs), lies more in self-care skills than pills. Leaders meeting at the United Nations next month to decide on how to address NCDs need to take note. In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the number of people living with […] Continue reading ->
There is mounting rage amongst World Health Organization’s (WHO) staff about planned workforce reductions, as new financial data suggests that low- and mid-level personnel are bearing the brunt of cuts—while high-ranking executives, whose real costs far exceed their published salaries, remain largely protected. In an email to WHO staff last week, WHO Director General Dr […] Continue reading ->
In the face of a financial crisis and converging health challenges, the Lusaka meeting is an opportunity for WHO AFRO and Health Ministers to show they can look beyond technical resolutions to address systemic issues The seventy-fifth session of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) regional committee for Africa (RC75) will open in Lusaka on Monday […] Continue reading ->
More than half a million people in Gaza City and its environs are now trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new report by a UN-supported food security assessment body, released on Friday. Famine conditions are projected to spread from Gaza Governorate, in the northern area of the […] Continue reading ->
Thinking back to five years ago, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was living around the corner from the Brooklyn Hospital Center. Each day, I’d take a walk through the neighborhood, but those walks became hauntingly different as I started passing refrigerated trucks parked outside – temporary morgues, there to handle the overwhelming […] Continue reading ->
ROHTAK (Haryana), India – When 22-year-old Sunita* rushed her father to a private hospital in for a cardiac emergency earlier this month, she expected her government health insurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat–Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (known as PM-JAY), which promises to cover hospital expenses up to ₹5 lakh (around $5,725) per family, would spare her family […] Continue reading ->
US non-profit groups have vowed to fight on after losing their court bid this week to compel the Trump administration to restore Congress-approved foreign aid it had stopped in January. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to overturn a District Court ruling that compelled the US government to restore some […] Continue reading ->
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