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Health Policy

New Medicines May Help End AIDS – But High Prices and Monopolies Could Keep the Poor Locked Out

On the current trajectory, most people who need them will not be able to get them any time soon, because high prices and monopolies...

Inter Press Service - 25 May 2022

Accountability

COVID-19 Could Derail SDGs for Next Five Years, Says Report

The progress of SDGs was already lagging before the pandemic. Scientists have warned that COVID-19 will remain uncontrolled in many countries unless coordinated action...

SciDevNet - 24 May 2022

Health

Regulate Cross-Border Alcohol Trade, Says WHO

A new report from the World Health Organization WHO highlights glaring gaps in regulation of cross-border alcohol marketing that employs sophisticated online marketing techniques....

OWSA Contributor - 11 May 2022

Accountability

14.9 Million Excess Deaths Due To COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 and 2021: WHO Study

The methods were developed by the Technical Advisory Group for COVID-19 Mortality Assessment and rely on a statistical model derived using information from countries...

OWSA Staff - 5 May 2022

Accountability

Healthcare Inequities Exposed by COVID-19 Pandemic

While India has made great strides in reducing inequalities in healthcare, large access gaps by socioeconomic status remain. For instance, a study of outpatients...

Inter Press Service - 30 April 2022

Clean tech

Stonewalling Occupational Health Concerns of Agate Stone Workers

Workers of Gujarat’s agate industry continue to inhale silica dust – and dying painful deaths. But there has been little action from the government...

OWSA Contributor - 25 April 2022

Accountability

Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis Cripples Health Services

Until 2021 the country had a strong healthcare sector, but today, Sri Lanka has run out of hard currency to buy basic medicines. Medical...

SciDevNet - 23 April 2022

Asia Pacific

Climate Change a Major Threat to Global Health, says WHO

Annually, 3.5 million people across the WHO Western Pacific Region die from avoidable environmental causes such as air pollution, extreme weather events or waterborne...

SciDevNet - 14 April 2022

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