Senegal has eliminated trachoma, becoming the 9th African nation to do so! A 25-year effort has helped spare millions from blindness.
Next targets? Sleeping sickness and river blindness.
Senegal has eliminated trachoma, becoming the 9th African nation to do so! A 25-year effort has helped spare millions from blindness.
Next targets? Sleeping sickness and river blindness.
New study alert!
We assessed malaria care among children under 5 and pregnant women during the #COVID19 pandemic in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Findings show delays across the care cascade—but trust, messaging & Antenatal Care visits helped increase testing.
Full paper: https://gh.bmj.com/content/10/7/e018368
"Nearly 800,000 mpox vaccine doses the U.S. government had promised to donate to African countries experiencing an outbreak of the rash-causing disease cannot be shipped because they’re expiring in less than six months, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention."
#PublicHealth #mpox #vaccines #immunizations #CDC #GlobalHealth ##WHO #ForeignAid #ForeignAssistance #ForeignPolicy #food #nutrition
"PEPFAR, the popular global HIV/AIDS program credited with saving millions of lives, has been spared from a package of billions of dollars in spending cuts that Congress sent to President Donald Trump early Friday morning to sign into law."
"Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is headed for a showdown this week with a group of Republican senators over a House-passed package that claws back $9.4 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and global public health programs."
Call your senator and tell them no: 202-224-3121
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5397671-thune-senate-appropriations-packages/
This week's highlight: Malaria vaccine prices will be slashed! At Gavi's summit, manufacturers committed to significant cuts, freeing up $130 million for immunisation efforts, which will reach 50 million more African children by 2030.
Tobacco control measures now shield three-quarters of humanity and have averted an estimated 300 million additional smokers since 2007.
Graphic pack warnings have led the charge: only nine countries required them in 2007, today it's 110, covering 62% of the world’s population.
Closing the policy gap in the 40 holdouts, turbo-charging tax hikes and regulating vaping is now essential to extend these life-saving gains. #health #globalhealth #world #tobacco #smoking #news
Gavi has secured $9 billion to vaccinate 500 million children! Despite challenges, this funding highlights global collaboration for health.
With this, Gavi aims to deploy 24 vaccines and establish 150 outbreak stockpiles by 2030! #GlobalHealth #Vaccines
Gavi has secured $9 billion to vaccinate 500 million children! Despite challenges, this funding highlights global collaboration for health.
With this, Gavi aims to deploy 24 vaccines and establish 150 outbreak stockpiles by 2030! #GlobalHealth #Vaccines
Switzerland approves first anti-malaria drug for infants https://www.byteseu.com/1176715/ #access #africa #antimalarial #Babies #Baby #CanBabiesGetMalaria #country #disease #drug #FirstAntiMalariaDrug #GlobalHealth #GoodNews #Health #infant #infants #ldnd #malaria #MalariaCure #MalariaInfants #MalariaMedicine #MalariaTreatment #Medicine #mosquitoes #OldChild #OtherAgeGroup #part #Pharmaceuticals #Switzerland #treatment #way #WestNileVirus #year
Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of UNAids, said that if the funding permanently disappeared, the world faced an additional 6 million HIV infections and 4 million Aids-related deaths by 2029.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/04/us-aid-cuts-kill-millions-unaids-head-winnie-byanyima
“It is a deadly funding crisis, a global response knocked totally off course. This is a pandemic, and pandemics have no borders,” she said in an interview with the Guardian at the UN international development funding summit this week in Seville, Spain.
#accessmeds #UNAIDS #globalhealth #SDGs v @glynmoody
"The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you" Truly gruesome & horrific. Difficult to stomach that Israel knowingly destroyed Gaza's health system, all hospitals, has incarcerated & tortured medics & killed about 1400 health care workers. A strategy designed to cripple Gaza forever, with using water & food as weapons of war.
John Amato raises alarming concerns about a report from The Lancet Medical Journal. Significant funding cuts to USAID under the Trump administration could lead to 14 million additional deaths by 2030, with 4.5 million of those among children under five. The importance of USAID's initiatives can't be overstated, having previously prevented over 91 million deaths. Discover the full implications here: https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/trumps-holocaust-14-million-may-die-usaid #USAID #Lancet #PublicHealth #TrumpAdministration #ChildMortality #GlobalHealth
"They are also the first indication that the U.S.’s rejection of global vaccine campaigns stems from the Trump administration’s opposition not only to foreign aid, but to vaccination itself. For the first time, Kennedy has managed to use the anti-vaccine agenda to guide American foreign policy."
New publication out!
Our social network analysis explores how #malaria stakeholders in Guinea &
Sierra Leone collaborated during #COVID19 showing how pre-existing networks supported both pandemic response & essential malaria services. #globalhealth
Read more in PLOS ONE: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0325597
Egypt has hit the WHO's target for controlling hepatitis B in children under five - the first country in the Eastern Mediterranean to do so.
Hepatitis B used to be a persistent threat, but a birth-dose vaccination policy, universal screening, and a drive to reach undocumented children has helped bring prevalence below 2%. #egypt #health #world #news #globalhealth
West Africa: Lagos Nears Malaria Elimination, Set to Become First in West Africa: [Vanguard] The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the state is on the verge of making history, positioning itself to become the first West African geopolitical zone to eliminate malaria. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TLW5W5 #MalariaElimination #LagosHealth #WestAfrica #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
Wie kann #PublicHealth durch Daten gestärkt werden?
Die Antworten lieferte das Robert Koch Colloquium 2025 u.a. mit spannenden Impulsen zu KI, Wearables, #OneHealth und #GlobalHealth.
Alle Beiträge und Themen jetzt kompakt im #EpidBull:
https://www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles/Publikationen/Epidemiologisches-Bulletin/2025/25_25
New paper on possible #ClimateChange deaths in #Chile:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2025.101151
"Estimating the effects of temperature on #mortality and #hospitalisations under RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 scenarios in the short- and long-term by region in Chile: a population-based, modelling study".
#ClimateHealth #HealthClimate #Health #GlobalHealth #Climate #CCA #Adaptation #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateChangeAdaptation #PublicHealth #PlanetaryHealth #OneHealth #EcoHealth