Kerry Cullinan
Africa Editor at Health Policy Watch
Passionate about health, social justice & people's right to live with dignity. Deputy Editor, Health Policy Watch. Tweets my own.🇿🇦
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healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan
New weekly cases of mpox across Africa have dropped to around 2,000 for the first time this year giving hope that the outbreak may be waning, according to Dr Jean Kaseya, Director-General of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). In the mpox epicentre of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), new cases dropped to 1,453 – the first time this year that this has been below 2,000 – despite an increase in testing.
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healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan
At around 3am Wednesday, after three years of often intense negotiations, World Health Organization (WHO) member states agreed on a draft Pandemic Agreement, which sets out basic terms of engagement to prepare for, prevent and respond to pandemics. Bleary-eyed negotiators and co-chairs Precious Matsoso and Anne-Claire Amprou welcomed the“Now the real work begins,” said Matsoso, with the draft due to be presented to the World Health Assembly (WHA) next month.
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healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan
In the final hours of the pandemic agreement negotiations, the proposal by the European Union and some of its member states to qualify every mention of “technology transfer” in the agreement with the phrase “mutually agreed” is slowing progress on the talks, according to Health Policy Watch sources. However, member states and observers still believe it is possible to reach agreement.
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healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan
Germany’s contribution to global health has been transformative – and as its new coalition government takes shape, now is not the time for it to weaken this commitmentGermany has long stood as a global leader, not just in public health but also in shaping international cooperation on health through platforms like the G7 and G20.
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healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan
World Health Organization (WHO) member states are very close to agreeing on the entire pandemic agreement – and may even have been able to clinch a deal on Saturday had they not been exhausted after negotiating from Friday morning right through until 6am on Saturday morning, according to sources. Anne-Claire Amaprou, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), told AP that “we have an accord in principle” – and indeed they almost do.
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