Preventing the Next Health Crisis Depends on Health Workers. We Need 18 Million More
Over 115,000 health and care workers died during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a physician who’s cared for patients with COVID-19, malaria and Ebola, I’ve seen too many colleagues make the ultimate sacrifice on the frontlines. I’m not surprised experts responding to TIME’s survey ranked bolstering the world’s public health workforce, particularly in rural and remote regions, as one of the top five of nearly 50 strategies to prepare for the next pandemic. But I’m concerned they ranked this the least feasible strategy amongst the top five.
Experts ranked high the need for new systems to raise ...
Source: TIME: Health - June 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Raj Panjabi Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 health Magazine Source Type: news
A U.N. Declaration on Ending AIDS Should Have Been Easy. It Wasn ’t.
Even with U.N. ’s previous goals unmet, delegates tried to water down provisions regarding protections for vulnerable populations and patents for essential drugs. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - June 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Discrimination Inventions and Patents Vaccination and Immunization Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Intellectual Property Homosexuality and Bisexuality Prostitution Sex Education European Un Source Type: news
South Africa: Let's Seize the Moment of a Groundbreaking HIV Vaccine Approach and Covid-19 Immunisation Success
[Daily Maverick] For those affected by HIV, watching the stunningly swift development of not one but multiple successful Covid-19 vaccines in less than a year, has been partly inspirational, but also partly disheartening. If a Covid-19 vaccine can be developed so fast, many would understandably ask why, after decades, are we still so far from having a vaccine for HIV? Surely, more can be done to speed up and better finance the development of an effective vaccine against HIV/Aids. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 31, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Anthony Fauci, 100 Days Into the Biden Administration, Is Finally Getting to Do His Job
When Dr. Anthony Fauci arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for his first White House press briefing under the new Biden Administration, he could see things would be different.
It was the day after the Inauguration, and President Joe Biden was eager to get the country’s COVID-19 response back on track. Five minutes before he addressed the public, Fauci spoke with the new President. “He said, ‘I want you to just go and tell the science, explain to people that if we make mistakes, we’re going to fix the mistakes and we’re not going to dwell on the mistakes. Let science be communicated to the public...
Source: TIME: Health - May 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
South Africa: Finding an HIV Vaccine - Five Lessons From the Response to Covid-19
[Daily Maverick] The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that vaccine development and testing timelines can be shrunk from decades to months. Here's a look at what we can learn from the search for a Covid-19 vaccine. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - May 18, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Pneumococcal Vaccines Safe for Pregnant Women With HIV Pneumococcal Vaccines Safe for Pregnant Women With HIV
Pneumococcal vaccines PCV-10 and PPV-23 are equally safe and immunogenic in pregnant women with HIV, although PPV-23 administration might be more beneficial because it includes a wider range of serotypes, researchers say.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - May 12, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV/AIDS News Source Type: news
Novavax Vaccine Shows 51% Efficacy Against South African Variant, Study Finds Novavax Vaccine Shows 51% Efficacy Against South African Variant, Study Finds
Novavax ' s COVID-19 vaccine had efficacy of 51% against infections caused by the South African variant among people who were HIV negative, according to a new analysis published on Wednesday.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - May 7, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
The Most Important Thing Rich Countries Can Do to Help India Fight COVID-19
The Biden Administration is debating whether COVID-19 vaccine patents should be temporarily waived, given the devastating humanitarian crisis unfolding in India from the virus. There are two key factors that should drive the Biden team to agree to do so: first, there is strong precedent on waiving patents in the context of public health emergencies; second, the real-world effectiveness of most COVID-19 vaccines against symptomatic disease and transmission can temper the disaster. The Biden Administration will be making its decision on lifting some patent restrictions as early as May 5.
India faces a catastrophe, with ove...
Source: TIME: Health - May 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Monica Gandhi Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 India Source Type: news
Gates aids fundraising drive for global vaccine distribution
A new mass fundraising campaign aims to inspire 50 million people around the world to make small donations to Covax, the international effort to push for equitable global distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
COVID Vaccine Makers Have More Than Boosters in the Works COVID Vaccine Makers Have More Than Boosters in the Works
Vaccine developers are already coming up with new options to protect against COVID-19 no matter what happens next with the pandemic.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - April 20, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
US Parents Begin to Ask: Should My Child Get a COVID-19 Shot? US Parents Begin to Ask: Should My Child Get a COVID-19 Shot?
Health officials say vaccines are crucial to ending the pandemic. But many are concerned vaccine hesitancy in some adults will be even more pronounced when it comes to their children.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - April 19, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Biden Administration Ends Limit on Fetal Tissue Research
The decision reverses Trump administration rules and allows scientists to use tissue derived from elective abortions to develop treatments for diseases including cancer and AIDS. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Fetal Tissue Research Tissue (Human) Science and Technology Abortion Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Health and Human Services Department National Institutes of Health International Society for St Source Type: news
Africa: Biden Administration Warned That it is Courting Disaster on Global Covid-19 Vaccines
[AHF] AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today called on U.S. President Joseph R. Biden to support the temporary waiver of patent rights for COVID-19 vaccines as currently proposed at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Indian and South African governments, along with 175 former heads of state and governments, WTO member states, and Nobel laureates are calling on Biden to support the waiver that would relax patent rules in order to boost vaccine supplies for the world. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - April 16, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Overcoming COVID-19: World Leaders Must Finance a More Equal World to Beat Pandemics
High school graduation, Accra, Ghana, 2013. Credit: United NationsBy Winnie ByanyimaGENEVA, Apr 8 2021 (IPS) Leaders at this year’s World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings (April 5-11) will determine how best to recover from one of the biggest crises the institutions have faced since their founding in 1944—COVID-19’s impact and its economic aftermath.
Given the need to fund treatment and vaccines, there is pressure to scale back funding for social provisions. But doing so would prove a catastrophic—and costly—mistake. Instead, leaders must boldly finance a more equal world.
The issue isn’t just that COVID’s impact i...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Winnie Byanyima Tags: Development & Aid Education Environment Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity Poverty & SDGs Sustainability TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
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NIDCR & NIH Stand Against Structural Racism
NIDCR Director Rena D’Souza, DDS, MS, PhD, said in a statement that there is no place for structural racism in biomedical research, echoing remarks from NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, in his announcement of a new NIH initiative—called U...
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