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.🇿🇦 https://t.co/EyBR534PJu
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1 month ago |
healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan
From hospitals facing up to 80% antibiotic resistance to gonorrhoea that is resistant to almost all treatment, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious and growing problem, countries told the World Health Assembly (WHA) on Tuesday. But it has been 10 years since the global action plan on antimicrobial resistance was adopted, and the WHA endorsed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) proposal to present an updated plan to next year’s assembly.
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healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan
The World Health Assembly has finally closed a loophole used by infant formula manufacturers to market their product: digital marketing. Back in 1981, when the International code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, digital marketing did not exist. Updated regulations were introduced in 2012 , but this too was before the widespread targeting of consumers via social media platforms and their targeted algorithms.
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healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan
Several countries at the World Health Assembly (WHA) called for enforcement clauses to be included in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) code on international recruitment as wealthier countries continue to recruit health workers from poorer countries. Regions will take up discussion on how to strengthen the code, based on an expert advisory group’s assessment, and their suggestions will be tabled at next year’s WHA, delegates at the current WHA resolved on Monday (26 May).
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healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan
“We don’t need faster horses, we need a new model of global health,” says Professor Helen Rees, who received the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2025 Dr Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize on Friday for her “outstanding contribution to public health”. “If there isn’t going to be money, we shouldn’t be trying to run the same things on a third of a budget.
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healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan
“This is the most important year in the history of non-communicable diseases (NCDs),” declared Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, at the World Heart Federation’s (WHF) summit on the eve of the World Health Assembly (WHA). In September, the United Nations (UN) hosts a High-Level Meeting on NCDs and mental health, and the world’s biggest killer is a major focus of the WHA.
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