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What If COVID-19 Had Emerged Not in Wuhan, China But in Lagos or Dhaka?

Posted By: adminon: February 29, 2020In: FlashbackTags: CHINA, Dhaka, Dr. Li Wenliang, Iran, LAGOS, WHONo CommentsViews:

This article, extracted from Prospects, (Feb 28th, 2020) touches on two of the most complicated or delicate issues in global health governance. By its original title – “The Unpalatable... Read more

Lagos Seems to Get It Right So Far But COVID-19 Presents Nigeria Additional Security Challenges

Posted By: adminon: February 28, 2020In: FlashbackTags: Chloroquine, COVID-19, Vitamin C, WHONo CommentsViews:

Nigeria’s insecurity challenges are widening with the confirmation of COVID-19 in the country by Federal health authorities. Lagos State where the first victim was identified appeared not to... Read more

Coronavirus Epidemic Turns Chinese City of Wuhan Upside Down in Rare Pictures

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2020In: FlashbackTags: CHINA, Coronavirus, Global Governance, WHO, Wuhan1 CommentViews:

They are hard to get sort of pictures which reveal the degree of tension but also the massive nature of response of the Chinese State to the medical emergency. According to the intro... Read more

Gates Foundation Steps up Global Poverty and Health Intervention

Posted By: adminon: September 14, 2017In: FlashbackTags: David Fidler, SDGs, UNGA, WHONo CommentsViews:

Ahead of this year’s United Nations General Assembly, (UNGA) featuring world leaders from presidents, prime and foreign ministers to chief executives of non-governmental organisations and su... Read more

Is Malaria About to be Finally Crushed?

Posted By: adminon: April 25, 2017In: FlashbackTags: AU, Devex, Glaxosmithkline, PATH, Plasmodium fulciparun, UNICEF, WHONo CommentsViews:

“We finally have a vaccine against malaria and that in itself shows this can be done and that funding and research must continue because it’s possible”— Mary Hamel, WHO lead for the Malaria... Read more

Who Succeeds Margaret Chan as WHO Leader? Asks Lyndal Rowlands

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2016In: FlashbackTags: AIDS/HIV, CHINA, Dr David Nabarro, Dr Flavia Bustreo, Dr Miklós Szócska, Dr Sania Nishtar, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ebola, Esperanza Martinez, Ethiopia, France, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Hungary, ICRC, IPS, Italy, Lyndal Rowlands, Margaret Chan, Norway, Pakistan, Professor Philippe Douste-Blazy, Sierra Leone, Susannah Sirkin, Syria, tuberculosis, UN, WHO, ZikaNo CommentsViews:

Written and published originally by Inter Press Service News Agency, (IPS) under the title “Who Should Lead the WHO Next?”, the author pries into the question of successor of Dr Margaret Cha... Read more

Africa: Next After the Essential Drugs List

Posted By: adminon: October 26, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Ebola, Johns Hopkins University, Kampala, Michigan, Uganda, West Africa, WHO, Zika virusesNo CommentsViews:

Published originally under the title “Africa has an essential medicines list. Now it needs one for diagnostics” in The Conversation, (October 25th, 2016) this piece is being republished here... Read more

The Return of Polio and Yellow Fever in Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 19, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African, DRC, NIGERIA, UN, WHONo CommentsViews:

Polio is back in Nigeria at the same time that the World Health Organisation, (WHO) is embarking on a Yellow Fever campaign in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.T The conversation... Read more