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Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress alone - WHO Join 200 policy and topic leaders to explore the health risks and impacts of climate change on healthcare SINGAPORE, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --Policymakers, health experts, climate experts, business leaders, academics and scientists from major corporations, will congregate online for an hour of discussion on Boosting healt...

Patrick Osewe, Chief of ADB’s Health Sector Group, discusses health challenges and how ADB is helping through financing and knowledge sharing.

Dr Osewe speaks to Angela Oketch on whether Africa is prepared to manufacture its own vaccines.

To ensure safe resumption of travel and tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic, harmonized health and safety guidelines should be observed in all points of transit.

Share Manila: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has joined with leading public health experts, vaccine regulators, and policy makers to form an advisory group to provide its developing member countries (DMCs) with expert technical and scientific advice on the quality, safety, and effectiveness of vaccines for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The Regional Vaccine Advisory Group held its first meeting today and will help ADB and its DMCs better understand the regulatory oversight, ris...

Recent good news on vaccines for COVID-19 brings us closer to ending the acute phase of this terrible pandemic. But the sense of collective relief must be accompanied by a healthy dose of reality.