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The world is witnessing a tale of two pandemics. France is unwinding lockdown measures, while in India, Nepal, Cambodia and Brazil, Covid-19 cases are ratcheting up. “What matters is the momentum," Health Minister Olivier Veran said earlier this month as he celebrated halving the seven-day moving average of new cases in France. But the global momentum is worrying. According to the World Health Organization, more cases were reported in the last two weeks of April than in the entire first six months of the pandemic. These trends are exacerbated by unconscionable global inequity in access to C...

Lessons In January, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, issued a blunt warning. The world was “on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure,” he said. Wealthy countries were buying up available COVID-19 vaccines, leaving tiny amounts for others—a replay of what happened during the 2009 influenza pandemic. “The price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries,” Tedros said. He was right. Today, some rich countries are vaccinating children as young as 12 years old, who ar...

The international community needs to step up at the WHA and strengthen local production of health technologies, Graduate Institute researchers argue.

English News and Press Release on World about Health and Epidemic; published on 24 May 2021 by WHO

A variety of short- and long-term plans could help end the pandemic—and prevent the next one