Vaccinate Our World campaign needs your support to slow Covid spread
published : 13 May 2021 at 04:00 The digital advocacy campaign is aimed to urge world leaders to ensure vaccine equity worldwide. vaccinateourworld.org
While many of us are obsessed with the side effects of certain Covid-19 vaccines and feel hesitant to get vaccinated, the Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has recently launched the VOW Vaccinate Our World campaign to fight for vaccine access for all.
The digital campaign is aimed at world leaders to ensure vaccine equity worldwide. photos courtesy of vaccinateourworld.org
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world has seen over 150 million cases and more than 3.3 million deaths. This has consequently caused social and economic crises around the world and it s believed that the only way to stop it is to provide vaccinations globally as fast as possible.
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Paris: Education is not giving students sufficient knowledge to adapt, act and respond to climate change and environmental crises, according to a new report published by UNESCO on the eve of the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, which will take place on line from Berlin (Germany), from 17 to 19 May.
The study, Learn for Our Planet, analyzed educational plans and curricula frameworks in close to 50 countries across all regions. More than half make no reference to climate change while only 19% speak about biodiversity. The study notes a lack of attention to socio-emotional skills and action-oriented competences that are central to environmental and climate action. In an on-line survey of some 1,600 teachers and education leaders conducted for the study, one third of respondents indicated that environment-related issues were not part of teacher training.
11 The governments of South Africa, India, and dozens of other developing countries are calling for the rights on intellectual property (IP), including Covid vaccine patents, to be waived to accelerate the worldwide production of supplies to fight COVID-19.
The governments of South Africa, India, and dozens of other developing countries are calling for intellectual property (IP) rights, including vaccine patents, to be waived to accelerate the worldwide production of supplies to fight Covid-19. They are absolutely correct. IP for fighting Covid-19 should be waived, and indeed actively shared among scientists, companies and nations.
The pharmaceutical industry and the governments of several vaccine-producing countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as the European Commission, have been resisting the IP waiver, while 150 public leaders and experts have sent an open letter to US President Joe Biden in support of it. There is no l
Category Also Considered Inclusiveness, Internationalization
by Julia Ann Easley
May 05, 2021
The University of California, Davis, has taken top spot among universities in the nation for its inclusiveness, diversity and internationalization in rankings released today (May 5).
In the second annual QS USA University Rankings, UC Davis ranked sixth overall among public universities (34th among all institutions) in the nation and fourth among public universities (seventh among all universities) in California. In the diversity and internationalization category, the campus tied for top spot with the private New York University; last year it also tied for first in the category with New York University and UCLA.