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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
It’s hard to gauge how much of the world’s attention is focused on the World Health Assembly this week. It does, after all, coincide with the launch of Chapter 5, Season 3 of Fortnite, the popular online shoot ‘em up video game. I imagine most people under the age of twenty care more about that than they do about global health. For the uni...
In recent decades, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) has become a global public health concern. That is no different in my country, India. As per the 2019 Global Burden of Disease study, India now has the highest number of deaths due to CKD, followed by China and Japan. True, we do have a lot of people in India, but there’s more to it, unfortunate...
On March 5th and 6th, 2024, ReACT Africa officially launched the African Youth AMR Alliance Task Force in Nairobi, Kenya, at an inaugural workshop. ReACT Africa, which brings together experts and key stakeholders to form technical working groups on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), convened the workshop with participation from the Food and Agri...
In the aftermath of their various coups d’état, the military juntas in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger had perhaps hoped that Technical and Financial Partners (TFPs) would continue to cover a big chunk of the health expenditure, given their own focus on the security crisis and the already low state budget allocation to the health sector in ordinar...
While progress has been made, AIDS remains a significant challenge. Last year, globally, 630,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses, 1.3 million were newly infected with HIV, and 9.2 million lacked access to life-saving HIV treatment. In Zimbabwe in 2022 alone, there were 20,000 AIDS-related deaths and 17,000 new HIV infections. Against tha...
In the 2023 Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), governments missed the opportunity to truly advance gender-responsive UHC, particularly regarding the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women, girls, gender-diverse and marginalized groups. The Alliance for Gender Equality and UHC has consistently called on g...
Africa, today, has one of the youngest population demographics in the world, with the median age at around 19 years. Nearly 60% of its population is younger than 25 years, it is projected to be home to nearly 42% of the world’s youth by 2030. The 2022 Africa New Public Health Order laid out a roadmap for improving health outcomes and health se...
It appears the UN development system, as well as ongoing multi-pronged reform attempts in global health governance to prevent and deal with a pandemic, have a blind spot for the potentially pernicious impact of the world travel and tourism industry. Indeed, as New York is gearing up for its annual high-level week and the 78th session of the UN ...
An alarming outbreak of meningitis has been gripping the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) since mid-April. Reminiscent of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the lack of information and transparency surrounding the disease has hindered efforts to understand its causes and the affected population. Informal reports suggest that the ...