Cholera Vaccine Shortage to Continue Through 2025
As a wave of cholera outbreaks spreads around the world, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance said it expects the global shortage of oral cholera vaccines to continue until the end of 2025. Supply of oral...
View ArticleExclusive: Updated Pandemic Accord Draft Sees Watered Down Text on...
A new “Zero+” version of a proposed World Health Organization pandemic accord being negotiated by member states has dropped previously strong language that conditioned use of public R&D funds to...
View ArticleSmall Island Developing States at Nexus of Climate, Unhealthy Foods and...
The burgeoning health issues of small island developing states – which are on the front lines of climate change, but also awash in handguns and ultra-processed food imports – is the focus of a high...
View ArticleWater and Sanitation Crises Hit Women and Girls Harder than Men
Water and sanitation crises across the world affect women and girls more than men and boys, particularly since the responsibility to collect water in seven out of 10 households without individual water...
View ArticleUN Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage: Ambitious Aspirations...
NEW YORK CITY – There has been little progress in expanding universal health service coverage (UHC) since the last UN High Level Meeting (HLM) meeting on the issue in 2019, and trends in financial...
View ArticleUrgent Call to Action: Why Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Deserves...
The global health community must stop treating water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as a little issue because it is not, according to Annie Msosa, the advocacy advisor for WaterAid in Malawi. Speaking...
View ArticleDengue Cases Approach Historic Highs Worldwide; Local Transmission Seen In...
Incidence of dengue virus has soared in 2023 to near historically high levels, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday, with more than 5 million cases worldwide and 5,000 deaths from the...
View ArticleThe Campaign to Recognize Noma as an NTD: How Inclusion Can Drive Research to...
A milestone World Health Organization (WHO) decision to recognise noma (cancrum oris or gangrenous stomatitis) as a neglected tropical disease (NTD) is the result of a longstanding campaign waged...
View ArticleAs Cholera Surges, WHO Publishes Safe Drinking Water Guidelines for Small...
From a community well in east Africa to a standpipe in an urban slum, small water operators furnish vital supplies for billions of people the world over. Now, for the first time in nearly 30 years,...
View ArticleShortage of Cholera Vaccines Spurs Africa CDC’s Quest for Local Manufacturing...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) needs at least five million cholera vaccines to address the worst outbreak of the disease on the African continent – but it has received none so far. Meanwhile,...
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