WHO issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine and emphasizes need for equitable global access: The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine the first to receive emergency validation from WHO since the outbreak began a year ago. The WHO’s Emergency […]
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Things we know at the end of 2020 (part 2): From lockdowns and travels bans to isolation and testing queues, we’ve all experienced a very different year. So what do we know at the end of 2020 that we had absolutely no clue about before? While the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated our lives for almost […]
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistant diseases could be more challenging outside of the European Union: In a new report from the Microbiology Society, experts from around the UK explain the desperate need for long-term and ambitious funding for surveillance and research into antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The next pandemic is likely to be associated with antimicrobial resistance, […]
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2020, what a year! Melbourne University researchers, Zena Cumpston, Professor Andrew Dawson, Professor Peter Doherty AC, and Professor Guay Lim discuss a year in review from an Australian perspective on how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our way of life in 2020: “Things we know at the end of 2020 (part 1)”. First published in […]
With an Ebola outbreak ongoing in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2019, authorities in Uganda stepped up their health and response systems in readiness of possible important of the deadly virus. This investment in epidemic preparedness paid dividends, protecting Uganda citizens from an outbreak of Ebola. Transcript In 2019 the DRC (Democratic […]
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10 global health issues to track in 2021 from the World Health Organisation: 2020 was a devastating year for global health. A previously unknown virus raced around the world, rapidly emerging as one of its top killers, laying bare the inadequacies of health systems. Today, health services in all regions are struggling to both tackle […]
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Migrants and refugees say COVID-19 has dramatically worsened their lives: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a highly negative impact on the living and working conditions of refugees and migrants reveals a new WHO study, launched on International Migrants Day. More than 30,000 refugees and migrants from different regions around the world participated in the first ever […]
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My midwifery trip to Africa: elephants, lions and delivering six babies: Trip to Tanzania was privilege, says midwifery graduate Aneeqa Hussain has worked hard to get where she is today, at one point going back to college for a year to secure the grades she needed in order to continue her university studies. She graduates […]
‘Boss’ genes could save human hearts – and the reef: The chain of command inside human cells is similar to the way a factory is run, two University of Queensland researchers say. But Dr Nathan Palpant and Associate Professor Mikael Boden’s big news is that they have found the password to the chief executive’s computer – metaphorically speaking. […]
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Less than half of people currently willing to get a COVID-19 vaccine, international survey suggests: A new report on the public’s attitudes towards coronavirus vaccines has revealed that around half of those surveyed (51%) may be willing to get vaccinated next year. Findings from a survey of 13,500 people across 15 countries* in November suggest that […]
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