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To Improve Access To Diagnostics, Countries Must Adapt The WHO Essential Diagnostics List
Last week, WHO released the third edition of its Model List of Essential In Vitro Diagnostics (EDL). This edition includes Covid-19 tests, and expands the suite of tests for non-communicable diseases. Country governments must now adopt and adapt the WH…
A New Roadmap To End Neglected Diseases Of Poverty
The World NTD Day aims to raise global awareness about the urgent need to end Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). Dr Mwele Malecela, Director, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO, spoke about a new WHO roadmap to help end NTDs.
As America Engages With WHO Again, An Overwhelming Sense Of Relief And Hope
In an Executive Order signed on 20th January, on the day of the Presidential Inauguration, President Biden has taken steps to engage with and strengthen the WHO and pledged to provide US leadership on global health and security. US experts received thi…
A Pandemic Defined By Failures: Who Can Hold Nations Accountable?
This week, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response published its second progress report. It points to a sequence of failures at every step of the pandemic – by many countries, the WHO and the international system at large – and the…
What India Can Learn From Covid-19 To Build A Healthier Nation
With the Covid-19 incidence declining over the past few weeks, and with the launch of an ambitious vaccination campaign, 2021 could be a better year for India. But only if the country learnt from the experience of Covid-19 and addressed some big gaps i…
People Power, Not Powerful People, Can Help End Inequality
One of the biggest challenges for humanity is not to just recover from the devastating pandemic and the global recession, but also address the serious inequities that the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed. This will require people power, not powerful peopl…
How Prestige Journals Remain Elite, Exclusive And Exclusionary
By charging €9,500 to make research papers free to read, Nature journals have chosen to remain elite, exclusive and out of reach for most scientists in low- and middle-income countries
With Access To Testing, Women Can Take Charge Of Their Own Health And Deliver Testing
When women have access to screening and accurate diagnosis through testing, they have more control over their health and can also deliver testing, according to a new report by Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics (FIND) and Women in Global Health (WGH)
Pandemic Or Not, Experts Need To Be Self-Aware And Humble
“Epistemic trespassing” is used to label situations where someone with competence or expertise in one field moves into a different field and passes judgment—despite lacking knowledge and skill in the other field. Nathan Ballantyne cautions that trespas…
Time To Tap Covid-19 Innovations & Systems To Reimagine TB Care
The TB epidemic is worsening because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Given the massive setback to progress in reaching any of the TB targets, it’s time for the TB community to ask: are there Covid-19 innovations and systems that can be effectively leveraged …
