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New COVID-19 Trackers in South Sudan Will Help Manage the Next Disease Outbreak
By Acaga Taban Ismail,
Former strategic information manager, IntraHealth InternationalDecember 14, 2022South Sudan has experienced numerous disease outbreaks before and after its independence in 2011, which have ranged from mild to severe. The South Sudan Ministry of Health continues to face several challenges managing and providing timely responses to emerging health threats.An underlying reason for this is the country’s shortage of health workers at the national and subnational levels. This is compounded by an untrained health workforce and a lack of data for informed decision-making. Many health workers don&rsqu...
Source: IntraHealth International - December 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Infectious Diseases COVID-19 Digital Health Global health security Source Type: news
This COVID-19 sleuth is making friends and foes advocating for African science
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This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
As Americans began to stir in the early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day 2021, a rapt international press corps was listening as a pony-tailed scientist in South Africa announced the identification of a worrisome new SARS-CoV-2 variant. Tulio de Oliveira, a Brazilian-born bioinformatician, explained that many of the variant’s dozens of mutations might make it more immune evasive and contagious—and that it was spreading “very fast” in South Africa.
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Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - October 6, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The Virus Hunters Trying to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Nobody saw SARS-CoV-2 coming. In the early days of the pandemic, researchers were scrambling to collect samples from people who had mysteriously developed fevers, coughs, and breathing problems. Pretty soon, they realized that the disease-causing culprit was a new virus humans hadn’t seen before.
And the world, lacking a coordinated global response, was unprepared. Some countries acted quickly to develop tests for the novel coronavirus, while others with fewer resources were left behind. With a virus oblivious to national borders, and with travel between countries and continents more common than it had been in previo...
Source: TIME: Health - August 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Video by Andrew D. Johnson Tags: Uncategorized Disease Frontiers of Medicine 2022 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Knowing the Origins of COVID-19 Won ’t Change Much
Over two years since the first cases started appearing in Wuhan, China, there is much we don’t know about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. But a quick resolution to that question is possible: scientists could find bats in a cave somewhere in China or in southeast Asia and trace a chain leading from those bats to the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Realistically, however, recent history offers little promise for this to happen quickly. For example, about 14 years elapsed between the identification of HIV as the virus that caused AIDS and a demonstration of its modern transition to humans from a speci...
Source: TIME: Health - February 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert C. Gallo and Dean T. Jamison Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Containment strategies for COVID-19 in India: lessons from the second wave
This article has significance to the researchers and government officials in understanding the gaps that led to COVID-19 second wave in India and provides an opportunity to improve on certain areas for handling the future waves with more vigilance.Abbreviations: COVID-19 - Coronavirus disease 2019; SARS-COV-2 - severe acute respiratory syndrome - Coronavirus 2; δ - Delta variant; δ+ - Delta plus variant; WHO - World Health Organization; RT -PCR - Reverse transcription PCR; IFN-1 - Interferon 1; VOCs - Variants of concern; HCWs - healthcare workers.PMID:35098855 | DOI:10.1080/14787210.2022.2036605
Source: Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy - January 31, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Purva Asrani Keshav Tiwari Mathew Suji Eapen M D Imtaiyaz Hassan Sukhwinder Singh Sohal Source Type: research
Antimicrobial Resistance Calls for Brainpower of a Space Agency and Campaigning Zeal of an NGO
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 17, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Global Headlines Health Source Type: news
2 Million People Have Died From COVID-19 Worldwide
In coming years, families around the world will be reminded of what happened in January 2021 by gaps in photo albums, saved video chats or text message threads, and in some cases, tragically, empty seats at future weddings. But in the history books, the pandemic’s impact will be traced in terms of milestones, including one passed on Friday: 2 million people have died from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. The novel coronavirus has caused the deadliest global epidemic since the emergence of HIV/AIDS 40 years ago, and the deadliest respiratory pandemic in a century.
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Source: TIME: Health - January 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Top Global Health Moments of 2020
By The Editorial Team,
IntraHealth International
Community Health Nurse Olivia Yeboah thoroughly washes her hands at the Akropong Clinic in Ghana. Photo by Emmanuel Attramah, PMI Impact Malaria/US President ' s Malaria Initiative.December 17, 2020If we wanted to, we could list a COVID-19 moment for every month of 2020. We all know that the onset of the coronavirus pandemic—first in China and then worldwide—overwhelmed news coverage this year. And with good reason. It’s the first large-scale global pandemic in 100 years. At the time this article was pu...
Source: IntraHealth International - December 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS COVID-19 Nutrition Policy Advocacy Health Workforce Systems Nursing Midwifery 2020 Health Workers Source Type: news
On World AIDS Day, Those Who Fought the 1980s Epidemic Find Striking Differences and Tragic Parallels in COVID-19
More than three decades after the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 1988, the world’s leading global health organization faces another public health crisis in COVID-19. On this World AIDS Day, those who raised awareness of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, find devastating similarities and haunting differences in America’s response to both crises.
In 1981, scientists recorded the first cases of a rare pneumonia, usually found among immunosuppressed patients, among a group of gay men in Los Angeles, and noticed more cases appearing among gay men in San Francisco and New ...
Source: TIME: Health - December 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Olivia B. Waxman Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature HIV/AIDS Source Type: news
Battles Won – and Lost – Against AIDS Hold Valuable Lessons for Managing COVID-19
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
The post Battles Won – and Lost – Against AIDS Hold Valuable Lessons for Managing COVID-19 appeared first on Inter Press Service.
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Global Headlines Health World AIDS Day Source Type: news
Japan Should Lead Charge for Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
Credit: United NationsBy Cecilia RussellJOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Nov 20 2020 (IPS) Japan should step up and play a role as a global facilitator for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, Dr Daisaku Higashi said at a recent Japan Parliamentarians Federation for Population (JPFP) study meeting.
The country should use the credibility developed in the post-Second World War era as a country with expertise in peacebuilding to ensure that developing countries are included in the vaccines’ rollout.
Higashi, a renowned commentator from Sophia University, warned that only an international effort could solve the problems caused...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Cecilia Russell Tags: Aid Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Economy & Trade Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) Source Type: news
Africa: Global Health Actors Forge a Common Front to Combat COVID-19
[GFO] On 24 April 2020, the Global Fund, the World Health Organization (WHO) and a range of global health actors launched the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, a global collaboration to speed up the development and production of vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for all who need them globally. The other global health actors in the partnership include the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEP
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 16, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Africa Waited for Solutions to Past Health Crises - Will It Be Different for COVID-19?
[The Conversation Africa] The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently noted that "researchers are working at break-neck speed" to understand SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19). They are also working to develop potential vaccines, medicines and other technologies that are affordable and equitable. By June 2020 - six months since it was first identified - thousands of therapeutic trials and dozens of vaccine development studies were under way, including one vaccine study each in South Africa and Nigeria
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 3, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
The Curious Case of Covid-19 in Africa
Eunice G. Kamwendo is an Economist and Strategic Advisor with UNDP Africa in New York. Chaltu Daniel Kalbessa is a UNDP Fellow and Strategic Analyst with UNDP Africa in New York.By Eunice G. Kamwendo and Chaltu Daniel KalbessaNEW YORK, Jun 3 2020 (IPS) With very weak health systems and overall capacity constraints to effectively respond to the deadly coronavirus disease, Africa’s fate against the invisible enemy, was going to be nothing short of catastrophic according to early predictions. Although Africa is yet to reach its peak, many countries are not seeing the exponential growth in case numbers, or in mortality rates...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Eunice G. Kamwendo and Chaltu Daniel Kalbessa Tags: Africa Aid Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
