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Health Policy

Oxfam Kit A Sole Acknowledgement of An ASHA’s Work During COVID-19 Pandemic

The nature of Vinita’s job took a drastic turn as she went door-to-door while people stayed indoors — some fearing a police crackdown; others...

OWSA Contributor - 6 July 2022

Health

Relief: Monkeypox Not a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, Says WHO

The Emergency Committee pointed out that disease has been circulating in a number of African countries for decades and has been neglected in terms...

OWSA Contributor - 27 June 2022

Civil society

A Major Retrogression: UN Rights Experts on US Supreme Court Striking Down Roe v. Wade

The decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down a nearly fifty-year-old legal precedent that has protected women’s right to...

OWSA Contributor - 26 June 2022

Civil society

Disappointment Over COVID-19 Vaccines Patents Deal

Global health campaigners have expressed their disappointment in the decision by the World Trade Organization to waive certain intellectual property rules on vaccine exports...

SciDevNet - 24 June 2022

Health Policy

Improve Antibiotics Access to Beat ‘Silent Pandemic’

The WHO says after decades of careless exposure to antibiotics, superbugs are now widespread and represent a “global crisis that threatens a century of...

SciDevNet - 10 June 2022

Accountability

Why Profit-Making Has No Place in Care

Care is a human right first and foremost. Providing good quality care is challenging even in the best conditions. However, when care providers look...

OWSA Contributor - 8 June 2022

Agriculture

One-Time Boost With Cow, Cash Eases Poverty, Says Study

Transfer of assets such as cows to rural Bangladeshi households can help them rise from poverty, according to a study that says that details...

SciDevNet - 28 May 2022

COVID-19

World Health Assembly: Focus On Food Safety, Oral Health, Tuberculosis, Innovations

The health assembly is WHO’s highest decision-making body, setting out the Organisation’s policy and approving its budget. WHA is attended by delegations from all...

Policy Circle - 26 May 2022

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