Items tagged with Global health
Dr Tereza Kasaeva: World No Tobacco Day message (post)
Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director of the World Health Organization Global TB Program, released a message on World No Tobacco Day 2019 (May 31) with a focus on tobacco and lung health. Tobacco smoking more than doubles the risk of developing TB and increases the risk of dying from respiratory failure.
As global markets for generic drugs fail, poor people pay the price (post)
Healthy competition from generic drugs is often held up as a “cure” for high drug prices — a shared concern across rich and developing countries alike. For many low- and middle-income countries, however, a new report from the Center for Global Development that we co-authored shows that global markets for generic medicines are failing, leaving the poorest patients without safe and affordable essential medicines.
WHO Director-General calls on world leaders to support Universal Health Coverage High-Level Meeting (post)
I have just returned from a visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to review the response to the Ebola outbreak. I was reminded once again that Ebola is just one symptom of a deeper problem: when people don’t have access to health services, or those services are of poor quality or don’t meet their needs, diseases can spread and lives can be lost.
India makes commitment of US$22 million to Global Fund (post)
NEW DELHI, 03 September 2019 - The Government of India today announced an increased commitment of US$22 million to the Global Fund for the next three years, highlighting India’s leadership in global efforts to end AIDS, TB and malaria as epidemics and to build stronger health systems.
Resurgence: Could AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Make Comebacks? (post)
Friends of the Global Fight released a report, Resurgence: Could AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Make Comebacks?, demonstrating why it is crucial for U.S. policymakers to invest in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Global Fund partnership has saved 32 million lives (post)
GENEVA, 19 September 2019 – Programs supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have saved 32 million lives, according to a report released today. The Results Report 2019 shows great progress against some of the biggest challenges in the fight against the three diseases, while highlighting new threats.
UN adopts political declaration on health coverage for all – financing a big challenge (post)
On 23 September 2019, United Nations (UN) members adopted a high-level political declaration raising the stakes in the global push to ensure everyone in the world has affordable access to health a decade from now.
Multilateral agencies launch a joint plan to boost global health goals (post)
24 September 2019: Today at the United Nations General Assembly, 12 multilateral agencies launched a joint plan to better support countries over the next 10 years to accelerate progress towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Johnson & Johnson commits $500 million investment over four years to help end the epidemics of HIV and TB (post)
Johnson & Johnson announced it has committed to ensuring more than $500 million dedicated to world class research & development and delivery programs over the next four years to accelerate global efforts to eliminate HIV and TB by 2030.
TB and Universal Health Coverage: A policy report from Kenya and 31 other countries (post)
RESULTS UK released a report on TB and Universal Health Coverage (UHC), 'Tuberculosis and Universal* Health Coverage. *Terms and Conditions Apply'.
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