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 [...]
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 harbors around 1 million indigenous persons – an estimated 750,000 of whom live within indigenous lands and territories that occupy around 12% [...]
One of Ahimsa’s clearest messages is also the simplest: the potential power of partnership, cooperation and networking. It is a message important in all of Ahimsa’s work, but perhaps most obviously when addressing difficult questions of accessibility: how to [...]
Bangladesh is a country with a population of 180 million, three times that of France, yet is only a quarter of the size. A country in which a tiny minority of the population is very rich, often more so [...]
During my visit to Kenya and participation to the 2018 TBN Conference, March 2018, we saw that a much greater emphasis needs to be given to the part that business and enterprise can play in reducing poverty. Aids through [...]
