Global Fund to Fight AIDS hits $15.7 billion in fundraising
18/11/2022: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has obtained funding pledges that bring the total close to its target of $18 billion for the next three years. Last minute contributions from the UK and Italy were vital.
Source: Devex
Global disparity in access to essential vaccines
9/11/2022: Limited supply and unequal vaccine distribution means that lower-income countries consistently struggle to access essential inoculations, according to the latest Global Vaccine Market Report, released by the World Health Organization. Ten manufacturers alone provide 70 per cent of vaccine doses, excluding those for COVID-19.
Source: UN News
Global leaders commit $2.6 billion to end polio
18/10/2022: Global leaders have confirmed $2.6 billion in funding toward the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s 2022-2026 Strategy. There is concern about recent detections of polio in previously polio-free countries.
Source: World Health Organization
Let’s fight to end AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
15/9/2022: New data reveals a global faltering response to HIV. In 2021 there were 1.5 million new infections—over one million more than the global target. A successful replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is vital.
Source: Inter Press Service
The end of the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight
14/9/2022: As the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 plunged to its lowest since March 2020, the head of the World Health Organization has said that the end of the pandemic is now in sight. Governments are advised to continue vaccination of most at-risk groups.
Source: UN News
Millions more children to benefit from malaria vaccine
16/8/2022: UNICEF has awarded a contract to GSK for 18 million doses of the first ever supply of a malaria vaccine. In 2020, nearly half a million children died from malaria in Africa alone.
Source: UNICEF
Healthy life expectancy in Africa up by nearly 10 years
4/8/2022: Life-expectancy on the African continent increased from 46 to 56 years between 2000 and 2019, a rise greater than any other region in the world. The World Health Organization warned that the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic could undermine the improvement.
Source: UN News
Punitive laws perpetuate the AIDS pandemic
2/8/2022: In countries that criminalize consensual same-sex sexual activity, the evidence is clear that the risk of acquiring HIV is higher. Removal of such laws is essential to ending AIDS as a public health crisis by 2030.
Source: Inter Press Service
WHO updates global COVID-19 vaccination strategy
22/7/2022: Only 28% of older people and 37% of health care workers in low-income countries have received their primary course of Covid vaccine. The World Health Organization's latest strategy will seek greater priority for these at-risk groups within its overall 70% coverage target.
Source: World Health Organization
South Africa to develop first African-owned Covid-19 vaccine
23/6/2022: A South African biotech company has teamed up with a Belgium-based firm to develop an African Covid-19 vaccine. The partners said they will seek to develop vaccines that are cheaper to produce and easier to store and distribute in rural and remote locations.
Source: The East African