The World Bank Group will build on its initial COVID-19 response with $12 billion to help developing countries purchase vaccines, set up vaccination systems, and move quickly to vaccinate their people.
US President Joe Biden has appointed Indian-origin Raj Panjabi to lead his Malaria Initiative, which is mainly in African and Asian countries.
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Joe Biden has appointed Indian-origin Raj Panjabi to lead his Malaria Initiative, which is mainly in African and Asian countries.
“After being sworn in this morning, I’m honored to share that I’ve been appointed by” Joe Biden as the president’s Malaria Coordinator to lead the US president’s Malaria Initiative, Raj Panjabi said on twitter. “I’m grateful for this chance to serve,” he added.
Born in Liberia, Raj Panjabi and his family fled the county during its civil war and arrived in the United States as refugees in the 1990s.
Politicians must justify for mishandling COVID-19 pandemic, argues senior editor
Politicians around the world must be held to account for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic, argues a senior editor at
The BMJ today.
Executive Editor, Dr Kamran Abbasi, argues that at the very least, COVID-19 might be classified as social murder that requires redress.
Today social murder may describe a lack of political attention to the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age that exacerbates the pandemic.
When politicians and experts say that they are willing to allow tens of thousands of premature deaths, for the sake of population immunity or in the hope of propping up the economy, is that not premeditated and reckless indifference to human life, he asks?
4 February 2021By AFP
1 min 33Approximate reading time Politicians around the world must be held accountable for the “social murder” inflicted on populations by their mishandling of the pandemic, the executive editor of the BMJ medical journal said Thursday. With more than two million deaths from Covid-19 so far the majority in richer, developed nations in Europe and the Americas Kamran Abbasi argued that world leaders had ensured needless death and suffering through a string of policy missteps. “Politicians must be held to account by legal and electoral means, indeed by any national and international constitutional means necessary,” the British Medical Journal’s top editor said.