Joyce Mulama NAIROBI, Apr 7 2007 (IPS) – Just two months remain before the international community is scheduled to take a critical step forward in addressing global health threats, marked by the entry into force of the updated International Health Regulations . Described by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a key milestone in public […]
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Corporate Profits Trumping Public Health
Elizabeth Whitman UNITED NATIONS, Sep 21 2011 (IPS) – There is a well-documented and shameful history of certain players in industry who put public health at risk to protect their own profits, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told world leaders Monday as they met to address the issue of non-communicable diseases at the 66th U.N. General […]
To Build Back Better from the Pandemic, We Must Overhaul the Way We Deal with Development Finance
The author is Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland LONDON, Jun 25 2021 (IPS) – Over the past 18 months, the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have transformed our lives and prompted a period of deep reflection as a global community. In some sense, we are only now starting to understand our vulnerabilities, and in particular, […]
To Beat Covid, Beat HIV, & Beat Inequality, Find the Money
The writer is Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. A woman is vaccinated against COVID-19 in the indigenous community of Concordia, Colombia. Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres repeated his call for the G20 to establish a Task Force “able to deal with the pharmaceutical companies and other key stakeholders”, which would […]
To End AIDS, We Need to End Punitive Laws Perpetuating the Pandemic
The 24th International AIDS Conference is taking place in Montreal, July 29 to August 2. A man is tested for HIV at a health centre in Odienné, Côte d’Ivoire. Credit: UNICEF/Frank Dejongh MONTREAL, Aug 2 2022 (IPS) – This week, the global HIV response community is to address the crisis of stalling progress that is […]
Parliamentarians Tackle Youth Employment, SRHR in Post-COVID Asia and Pacific
Delegates at the Youth Empowerment: Education, Employment and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights forum held in Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia. Credit: APDA JOHANNESBURG, Mar 8 2023 (IPS) – With more than 600 million youth aged between 18 and 24 in the Asia and Pacific region, putting their issues front and center is crucial. […]