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Despite Industry Donations, Children With Diabetes Lack Secure, Long-term Access To Insulin

3 days ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan

Access to insulin remains elusive and expensive for many children and young people (CYP) living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), according to a report released Tuesday by the Access to Medicine Foundation. The report evaluates 11 company-supported initiatives targeting children and young people by the market’s three dominant insulin producers – Lilly, Sanofi, and Novo Nordisk – and biosimilar manufacturer Biocon.
Critical Global Shortage Of Nurses Undermines Universal Healthcare

4 days ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan

Although the international nurse workforce has increased by about two million between 2018 and 2023, there is still a huge global shortage concentrated in poorer nations, according to the State of the World’s Nursing 2025 report published on Monday. There was a global shortage of around 5.8 million nurses in 2023, an improvement on 2018 when there was a 6.2 million shortage, but the shortage is felt most acutely in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Nigerian Health Tech Firm Gets License To Produce South Korean Diagnostic Innovation In WHO And MPP-Brokered Deal

1 week ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher

A Nigerian Health Tech firm, Codix Bio, has been awarded a license to develop and manufacture a new generation of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) royalty-free for African consumers, using technology transferred from a South Korean firm.
A Better World For Our Changemakers: Nurses And Their Well-Being

1 week ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher

With declining global spending on health, as the world prepares to observe International Nurses Day, Monday 12 May, there is renewed urgency to build health systems that respond to the needs of nurses and the people they serve. Investing in nurses yields high returns. It improves maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and outbreak response for example, while strengthening primary healthcare systems.
Women’s Groups Sound Alarm As Prominent US Conservatives Headline 'African Family' Conferences

1 week ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan

Women’s groups have raised the alarm about two impending African anti-rights conferences, featuring prominent US conservatives, that have previously been used to mobilise for anti-LGBTQ laws and restrictions on sexual and reproductive rights on the continent.
Gates Foundation To Spend $200 Billion On 20-year Path To Closing Down

1 week ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan

On its 25th anniversary, the Gates Foundation has announced that it is winding down – but in 20 years’ time, during which it expects to spend $200 billion. “During the first 25 years of the Gates Foundation – powered in part by the generosity of Warren Buffett – we gave away more than $100 billion. Over the next two decades, we will double our giving,” said Bill Gates, foundation chair in post on Thursday.
WHO's Samira Asma Reportedly Leaving Tedros' Leadership Team - UNAIDS Scraps Merger Plan - Health Policy Watch

1 week ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher

Samira Asma, assistant director of Data, Analytics and Delivery since 2020, is reportedly leaving WHO in the first of an expected departure of five senior leadership team members as the Organisation sets out to dramatically shrinks its Geneva footprint and staffing. Of the existing 11-member team, only six would remain, if a plan shared by Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus with WHO Staff and Member States in late April is implemented in full.
UNAIDS And HIV Sector Struggle Amid Funding Cuts

1 week ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan

As countries dependent on United States aid for their HIV response report looming shortages of antiretroviral medicine, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is also fighting for survival. Meanwhile, more shocks may be ahead for the HIV sector as the US Health and Human Services plans to curtail research collaboration between US scientists and foreign researchers, a common occurrence in the HIV sector.
Desperate Afghans Resort To Holy Men And Shrines As Aid Cuts Affect Medicine Supplies

1 week ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan

Bibi Sharifa’s grandmother died of tuberculosis when there was no medicine available in her village in central Afghanistan and visiting shrines of the dead holy men was the only healing they could get. That was two decades ago when the country’s entire healthcare system was in shambles under the first term of a brutal Taliban regime in the late 1990s.
Range Of Social Issues Are More Important Than Genes For Citizens' Health

1 week ago | healthpolicy-watch.news | Kerry Cullinan

There is a 33-year gap in life expectancy between people born in the country with the highest life expectancy and those born in the country with the lowest life expectancy, while 94% of maternal deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), according to a World Health Organization global report on the social determinants of health released on Tuesday.