This roundtable at the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly will provide the opportunity for Member States to discuss the growing crisis of resistance to antimicrobial medicines and to consider human health and multi-sectoral actions to save millions of lives, safeguard economies, and ensure food safety and food security against AMR.
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Bringing together expertise from around the world and challenging old ways of working are key to improving the global response to disease outbreaks, according to the directors of a new centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Global Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition: Launch With this public high-level event, LSHTM and a partnership of donors including the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Dubai Cares, will launch the Global Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition.
In January 2020, nearly one in every two primary school children worldwide received a meal every day at school. Once the COVID-19 pandemic began, by April 2020 some 370 million children were missing out on what had often been their only dependable meal of the day.
There is a growing Global Coalition to help countries re-establish, increase, and improve school health and nutrition programmes, the health and well-being of all children, provide a safety net for a generation, create human capital, support national growth, and promote economic development. Within and informing the Coalition is the Global Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition – a 10-year collaboration of academic
Community engagement and ownership is vital to make sure people accept the vaccine.
In low-income countries, addressing all of these issues is no easy task. For many African states, the challenges of preparedness to receive vaccines and implement strategies to fund both vaccine procurement and delivery are steep.
Finance, information and technical assistance are therefore urgently needed to support the practical and effective delivery of COVID-19 vaccines across Africa. Furthermore, the 20% of vaccines pledged to Africa is way off the 60% needed for populations to reach herd immunity.
The global community, while currently collaborating in inspiring and productive new ways, needs to do more to support Africa to equitably deliver vaccines including to vulnerable and marginalized populations. The now oft-quoted saying “