Health Policy Watch

When 175 countries unanimously voted in Nairobi in March 2022 to negotiate a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, the move was hailed as the most significant step in global environmental negotiations since the Paris climate accord. Now, a year to the day after two weeks of talks and a 24-hour final negotiating marathon […]

More than 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan risk losing access to lifesaving food, nutrition and other assistance due to critical funding shortfalls, leaving families who fled war and hunger with nowhere else to turn, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday. Without a […]

Situated on the edge of the advancing Sahara Desert, Ngouri in western Chad is one of the most vulnerable places in the world to climate change. Heat is already rising in the region as the El Niño advances globally, with hotter sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean driving up land temperatures and triggering […]

Top World Health Organization (WHO) officials are concerned that the United States President Donald Trump’s move to alter his country’s childhood vaccinations via an executive order will endanger children. “WHO is concerned that the changes to immunisation policy in the US are not aligned with the best science,” Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a […]

Over 2000 people have died so far in the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the only way to break the chains of transmission is via scaled-up local surveillance, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “Most concerningly, we see a high proportion of deaths in communities instead of treatment […]