UNGA Guide 2023“Research Networks for Health Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa” (RHISSA) has been a major funding initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since 2016. Working in 14 sub-Saharan countries and Germany, five networks have improved treatments and diagnostic tests for tropical diseases, contributed to several WHO guidelines and participated in the local...
Pandemic preparedness is vital for protecting public health, maintaining economic stability, ensuring global health security, strengthening healthcare systems, fostering scientific advancements, reducing risks, and engaging communities. By investing in preparedness, we can minimize the impact of pandemics and build a more resilient world as a key pillar of SDG 3. The world's response to the...
The world is not on track as we approach the mid-point of implementing the 2030 Agenda. The converging crises of climate change, a deadly global pandemic, worsening social and economic inequality, unchecked corruption and the devastating consequences of the war in Ukraine have caused unprecedented disruption and global transformation. Now more than ever, there is...
Join Devex on Sept. 19-21, for a series of events in New York City on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and the UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage. This year marks the halfway point in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, a blueprint for a better...
The UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) will be convened by the President of the United Nations General Assembly on 20 September 2023, the second day of the general debate of the Assembly at its 78th session. The overall theme of the HLM will be “Making the world safer: Creating...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most disruptive events on a global scale in recent decades. Its effects on the social and epidemiological level are only just beginning to be known and systematized for the development of public health strategies that allow populations and health systems to recover from the serious impacts they...
As the world emerges from COVID-19 and works to strengthen pandemic preparedness, new threats, environmental factors, and inequity are posing significant challenges to worldwide health initiatives. On September 20th, Foreign Policy will host a series of conversations on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City to take a critical look...
As the world emerges from the COVID-19 global pandemic, we face another global crisis that is decimating millions of people, including children. The global food crisis is the largest in modern history. Almost 350 million people around the world are experiencing the most extreme form of hunger right now. Children are at the heart of...
Since 2015, when the SDG was adopted by the Heads of State in the UN General Assembly, there has been a global paradigm shift in communicable diseases from control to elimination. South-East Asia Region was already moving towards the elimination of various communicable diseases as it was part of the Regional Director’s flagship priority programme....
One of the lessons we learned from COVID-19 is lack of equality in global health is a hindrance to proper management of health issues. Health inequalities do not occur randomly. However, they are socially determined by circumstances that people in the affected areas do not control. Health inequalities have therefore become an unjust global scenario...