Resources from the WHO Clinical Care Severe Acute Respiratory Infection This course is intended for clinicians who are working in intensive care units (ICUs) in low and middle-income countries and managing adult and pediatric patients with severe forms [...]
Bringing together a variety of global health leaders, decision makers, investors and innovators. Leveraging innovation and technology is essential to fast-track progress to reach Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and other health-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets. While [...]
FIND Communications Earlier this month, WHO convened a forum to identify research gaps and priorities for COVID-19, co-hosted by GloPID-R. These priorities included the urgent need for access to accurate and standardized diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 (the causative agent of COVID-19), which can [...]
Every three months, this boat makes its way to a dozen or so islands lost in the Amazon estuary. Onboard are police officers, magistrates, lawyers, social workers, and psychologists. At each stopover, they judge neighbourhood conflicts, divorces, but [...]
Supporting social innovation in health in the global south by creating an enabling environment for research and partnerships TDR, the UN-based Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases in collaboration with the Social [...]
"Words are windows (or they are walls)" Marshall Rosenberg Ahimsa Fund wishes you a happy and healthy New Year 2020!
During the last Ahimsa Forum, which took place in June 2019, a focus was put on Faith Communities and Universal Health Coverage. Those two days of reflexion has been introduced by a presentation of the WHO Handbook on social [...]
Thank you to all participants for their precious contribution. The full report is available here.
When we talk of innovation, it is primarily in the context of developed countries, the countries for which it is accessible and that can afford to finance it, as innovation can be expensive. Innovation is based on significant profits [...]
by Adele Benzaken, Deputy Director, Department of AIDS, STI and Viral Hepatitis, Ministry of Health, Brazil Presently, Brazil harbours around 1 million indigenous persons – an estimated 750,000 of whom live within indigenous lands and territories that occupy around 12% [...]
