Monday, December 7, 2020
The National AIDS Authority (NAA) is working with the Ministry of Planning to include families of people living with HIV in the social protection system. National Centre for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD (NCHADS) deputy director Hor Bun Leng told The...
Friday, September 18, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF today signed a new collaborative framework which will accelerate joint public health efforts that put the most marginalized and vulnerable populations first. The new Strategic Collaboration Framework builds...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Ante las consecuencias socioeconómicas de la pandemia de COVID-19, las principales agencias de la ONU pidieron este miércoles los países que aumenten los programas de protección social para ayudar a las personas en mayor riesgo. Las personas con...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
The current global spread of Covid-19 offers the latest clarion call for building universal systems as a cornerstone of health policy. The outbreak highlights that effective containment policies must provide ready access to quality healthcare for all,...
Monday, May 18, 2020
As the world continues to grapple with the unfolding COVID-19 crisis, many in Africa are worried not only about its spread but about the pandemic's long-term economic consequences as well. But long before our attention was captured by this virus, African...
Monday, December 30, 2019
Universal Healthcare will be launched early 2020, incorporating lessons from four pilot projects.President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the Universal Health Coverage pilot in Kisumu on December 13, last year, after year-long preparations, making Kenya the...
Friday, December 20, 2019
BLOG: A community-led baseline study on the ‘Extent of social inclusion and access to social welfare schemes and basic services for urban poor’, released here on Thursday, has found that 16% of the respondents did not have a voter identity card, 42% did...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
During a meeting of heads of State, ministers, health leaders, policy-makers, and universal health coverage champions, the UN chief called UHC “the most comprehensive agreement ever reached on global health – a vision for Universal Health...
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Daily prevention pill was available previously but it was not covered, and high prices made it inaccessible.People at high risk of becoming infected with the HIV virus will soon be able to access free medication to protect against it in B.C....
Monday, November 20, 2017
Almost 21 million people around the world are now getting life-prolonging AIDS drugs, according to a report issued by UNAIDS on Monday. But another 16 million people infected with H.I.V. are not yet on medication.