Items tagged with Global health
Not enough antibiotics in drug development – WHO’s latest ‘pipeline’ report (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has once more raised the red flag over the lack of new antibacterial treatments being developed to address the mounting threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Rich countries put billions into global COVID responses. Low-income countries wish they could spend it on bigger problems. (post)
Wealthy nations, including the United States, have treated the Covid-19 pandemic as a once-in-a-century threat to public health that necessitated an unprecedented response, both in sped-up vaccine development and counter-measures like lockdowns.
New Global Fund report shows 50 million lives saved over 20 years in fight against HIV, TB and malaria; Pandemic investments paying off (post)
GENEVA, 12 September 2022 – The Global Fund’s 2022 Results Report released today finds a significant rebound in 2021 for programs working to defeat HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on the fight against the three diseases, leading to the decline of key programmatic results across the three diseases for the first time in the history of the Global Fund. When the pandemic hit countries where the Global Fund works, the partnership rapidly mounted a response to deliver additional resources. This year, the new report shows those investments paid off and recovery is underway.
Global Fund partners pledge record level of support to end deadly diseases, prevent future pandemics (post)
NEW YORK / GENEVA, 21 September 2022 – The United States of America-hosted pledging conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria raised more than US$14.25 billion so far for the partnership’s work over the next three years. The conference in the margins of the UN General Assembly brought together more than 45 countries (including 18 Heads of State and Government), multilateral partners, private sector companies and civil society and community organizations. This support aims to save 20 million lives, avert 450 million new infections, and bring new hope for ending AIDS, TB and malaria. This investment will also strengthen health and community systems to leave no one behind and be resilient to future shocks.
Global Fund pledge: ‘It’s not too late to take action,’ NGOs urge UK (post)
03 November 2022: In two weeks, the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will be meeting to decide how much total grant funding will be made available to countries in the next three years. But that funding looks unlikely to include additional pledges from big donors such as the United Kingdom.
Dr. Fauci reflects on the perpetual challenge of infectious diseases (post)
Once considered a potentially static field of medicine, the discipline of studying infectious diseases has proven to be dynamic as emerging and reemerging infectious diseases present continuous challenges, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., writes in a perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the piece, Dr. Fauci, who since 1984 has directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, reflects on his career responding to infectious disease threats. Dr. Fauci will step down from his positions as NIAID director, chief of NIAID’s Laboratory of Immunoregulation and chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden in December 2022.
New TB vaccines needed to tackle AMR (post)
Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne global pandemic that kills 1.6 million people each year, causes over 10 million people to fall sick, and poses catastrophic costs for patients and rising costs for health systems. The growing threat of drug-resistant TB is a major contributor to the global burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and a significant cause of AMR deaths. New vaccines are urgently needed to tackle this crisis. Yet, despite the huge threat posed by drug-resistant TB, political and financial support falls dangerously short of what is needed to effectively address this threat.
Publication demonstrates how equitable deals for access to medicines can be signed with pharmaceutical industry (post)
12 Apr 2023 — A new article published today by the Oxford University Press Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice shows how fair deals on medical research that ensure equitable access to life-saving medicines can be signed with pharmaceutical companies.
WHO and the Global Fund announce commitment for enhanced collaboration (post)
8 June 2023 | Geneva -- Today the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) signed a new and revised Strategic Framework for Collaboration, designed to build stronger and more resilient health systems and maximize collaboration and impact in support of country, regional and global responses to major communicable diseases.
Global efforts to reduce infectious diseases must extend beyond early childhood (post)
Global efforts to reduce infectious disease rates must have a greater focus on older children and adolescents after a shift in disease burden onto this demographic, according to a new study.
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