Remembering Judy Heumann's lasting contributions to disability rights
Judy Heumann, who has been called the “mother of the disability rights movement, has died at 75. Heumann, who lost her ability to walk at age 2 after contracting polio, lobbied for legislation that led to the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and the United Nations Convention on the Rights…#judyheumann #heumann (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Interactive map logs the biosecurity blunders of the last 100 years
From Birmingham's smallpox outbreak in the 1970s a Soviet cover up of 'Biological Chernobyl', to extinct polio being found in a Dutch sewer in lab leaks of pathogens are not as rare as you might think. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Research Uncovers Cheaper Diagnostic Tools For Chronic Hepatitis B in Africa
This study adds guidance as to when such earlier diagnosis may be attained.
“However, research is one thing, health systems strengthening another. Studies like this one add to the impetus and arm the policymakers to make the right decisions,” he says.
But he urges communities to take charge of these findings instead of leaving action in the hands of “sometimes incapacitated policymakers’ hands.”
“The question should be, what is the community saying about findings such as these? If we wait for policymakers to decide when they are going to invest in hepatitis B interventions, we will wait for the rest of our ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Charles Mpaka Tags: Africa Featured Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Malawi Source Type: news
Cameroon: Covid-19 Undermines Effort to Eliminate Polio
This article was supported by Global Health Strategies. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 1, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Africa's Fight for Equal Access to Rare Disease Treatment
[allAfrica] Johannesburg -- The Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) is the result of a long-standing partnership between His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, and Bill Gates, dating back to their pledge to fight diseases and put an end to polio in 2011. At the regional and national level, GLIDE partners with initiatives where they support and help accelerate programs to eliminate diseases. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 28, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Child Immunization Vaccine Shortage Hits Ghana
[VOA] Accra -- The Ghana Health Service says a shortage of routine vaccines for children blamed for a measles outbreak that infected 120 will be resolved within weeks. Health officials said the shortage of vaccines against polio, hepatitis B, and measles was caused by the depreciation of Ghana's currency, the cedi. The Pediatric Society of Ghana warned childhood diseases could quickly spread if the vaccines were not soon made available. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 28, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: How GIS Microplanning Is Revolutionising Immunisation Campaigns in Kano State
[Nigeria Health Watch] Technology is enhancing healthcare in Nigeria, as demonstrated by the use of GIS mapping in Kano State to improve vaccinators' performance and address the resurgence of polio cases. GRID3 has built on the success of the GIS intervention introduced in 2012, utilising maps for effective polio and non-polio campaigns in the state. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 28, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Pakistan ’s Free Healthcare Insurance Benefits Women, Poor
Universal Health Care priorities in Pakistan have been boosted by free healthcare insurance for the poor. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, Feb 22 2023 (IPS) A free health insurance initiative started in Pakistan has benefited poor patients, especially women who have outnumbered men in using the cashless health services under the Sehat Card Plus programme.
“The initiative is in line with the ICPD25 Programme of Action, under which 4.5 million people have received free services, with 62 percent of them women. In the last three years, we have been able to cut down maternal mortality rate from 186 d...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ashfaq Yusufzai Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Featured Gender Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Population TerraViva United Nations Women's Health IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Pakistan Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria Close to Eliminating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus - Experts
[Daily Trust] Nigeria has recorded an 85% drop in the incidence of circulating Vaccine derived Poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) , the Expert Review Committee on Polio and Routine Immunisation, has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 10, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Vaccine-Derived Polio Virus Reduces By 85% in Nigeria - Official
[Premium Times] Health experts, however, said the cases of cVDPV2 do not threaten the country's Wild Poliovirus-free certification. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 10, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Do you know who to talk to about your child's routine vaccinations?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), routine vaccinations for kindergarten in the U.S. fell to 93% during the 2021-2022 school year. That's the second year in a row routine vaccination rates decreased. The vaccines help prevent potentially fatal or severe illnesses, including diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis) and others. The CDC says there are several reasons for the decline, including the possibility that misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines may have played… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - February 9, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Africa: Statement of the Thirty-Fourth Polio IHR Emergency Committee
[WHO] The thirty-fourth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 25 January 2023 with committee members and advisers attending via video conference, supported by the WHO Secretariat. The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses (cVDPV) in the context of global target of eradication of WPV and cessation of outbre (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - February 3, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Poliovirus in Wastewater Linked to a Paralytic Polio Case Poliovirus in Wastewater Linked to a Paralytic Polio Case
Wastewater testing has identified circulating polioviruses genetically related to virus isolated from a Rockland County patient in at least five New York counties, according to this report.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news
WHO art competition for school students & quot;75 years of improving public health & quot;
Dear students,
On 7 April 2023 ̶ World Health Day ̶ the World Health Organization will observe its 75th birthday.
In 1948, countries of the world came together and founded WHO to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so everyone, everywhere could attain the highest level of health and well-being.
To advance the health and security of all people, WHO works with governments, communities, international organizations, foundations, advocates, researchers and health workers, and WHO’s 75th anniversary year is an opportunity to look back at the public health succe...
Source: WHO EMRO News - January 25, 2023 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
COVID disrupts measles and other vaccinations in Asia, elsewhere
TOKYO -- Many young children in Asia and elsewhere are missing out on routine vaccinations to protect them from measles and other diseases as their countries battle COVID-19 infections. In 2021, the rates of vaccination against measles, polio and other infectious diseases among 1-year-olds all…#tokyo #ourworld #universityofoxford (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news