Items tagged with Global health
Essential medicines for universal health coverage (post)
Executive summary
Kaiser Family Foundation releases updated primer on U.S. engagement in global health (post)
Kaiser Family Foundation: The U.S. Government Engagement in Global Health: A Primer
WHO publishes list of bacteria for which new antibiotics are urgently needed (post)
27 February 2017 | GENEVA - WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens" – a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
German-backed report lays out strategy for R&D into new antibiotics (post)
In the face of the lack of attractiveness of investing in research for new antibiotics for the pharmaceutical industry, and the general lack of funding for research and development for novel antibiotics, a new report commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Health calls for countries to take action. In particular, the report proposes a global union for research and development, a global research fund, and a global launch reward. And access and pricing are key components of the strategy, it says.
Why Europe should lead on fight against disease (post)
The fight against diseases of poverty — HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other neglected diseases — may seem an unlikely battleground in our new era of foreign policy. But this is where the effects of the United States’ emerging isolationism will be most obvious. If Europe fails to fill the power vacuum, we will be abandoning millions of people in the world’s poorest countries.
UN announces interagency group to coordinate global fight against antimicrobial resistance (post)
16 March 2017 – The United Nations today announced the establishment of an Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, which will be co-chaired by Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan.
Antibiotic research priorities: ready, set, now go (post)
When faced with a medical emergency and limited resources, triage is essential. Deciding where needs are greatest helps to focus attention and provoke action, in line with a utilitarian aim of maximising gains and minimising harms for the greatest number of people. The importance of setting priorities applies equally to a global emergency as to a local one. With the threat of antimicrobial resistance now recognised at the highest political levels, WHO has compiled a list of pathogens on which research and development of new antimicrobials should be focused.
Regardless of the WHO snafu, TB should be a priority in the global AMR response (post)
On 27 February, the WHO published a list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens." The first of its kind, this list is intended to promote research, discovery and development (R&D) of new antibiotics, as part of WHO’s efforts to address the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and respond to an urgent public health need. The hope is that the list will catalyse governments to incentivize basic science and advanced R&D.
G20: Can the world’s richest economies innovate for global health? (post)
The term “neglected tropical diseases” is on the way out.
Antibiotic resistance has a language problem (post)
A failure to use words clearly undermines the global response to antimicrobials' waning usefulness. Standardize terminology, urge Marc Mendelson and colleagues in a comment published in Nature.
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