Unequal Vaccine Distribution Self-Defeating, World Health Organization Chief Tells Economic and Social Council’s Special Ministerial Meeting
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Disparities, Inequity ‘Morally Unconscionable’, Says Head of World Trade Organization, Urging Practical Means to Tackle Hurdles
With the number of new COVID-19 cases around the world nearly doubling over the past two months approaching the highest infection rate observed during the pandemic the unequal distribution of vaccines is not only a moral outrage, but economically and epidemiologically self-defeating, the head of the United Nations health agency told a special ministerial meeting of the Economic and Social Council today.
“Vaccine equity is the challenge of our time,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), told the gathering in opening remarks. “And we are failing.”
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Toward the Elimination of Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), By Alfred Kwesi Manyeh
FGS is threatening the reproductive and sexual health of women and girls.
As we celebrate the World Health Day with the focus on “Building a Fairer, and Healthier World”, there is the need for more concerted effort toward awareness creation, detection, treatment and prevention of FGS, together with other concomitant women’s health challenges or else FGS will remain a neglected gynaecological disease.
Schistosomiasis is a water-borne parasitic disease caused by infection with
Schistosoma blood flukes that utilise freshwater snails as intermediate hosts
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Schistosomiasis, widely known as bilharzia, remains a public health problem in several parts of the world, particularly in Africa
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Benefits of continuing to provide life-saving HIV services outweigh risk of COVID-19 transmission by 100 to 1
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Disruption to HIV services as high as 75% has been reported in some countries-to prevent increased AIDS-related deaths, HIV services must continue during the COVID-19 pandemic
GENEVA, 13 April 2021-UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) have supported mathematical modelling to establish the benefits of continuing HIV services compared to the potential harm of additional COVID-19 transmission. The analysis shows that maintaining HIV services would avert between 19 and 146 AIDS-related deaths per 10 000 people over a 50-year time horizon, while the additional COVID-19-related deaths from exposures related to HIV services would be 0.002 to 0.15 per 10 000 people. The analysis demonstrates that the benefits of continuing to provide HIV services during the COVID-19 pandemic far outweigh the risk of additional COVID-19-related deaths.
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