Friday, March 31, 2023
Zara Fauziah is a transgender woman from Indonesia. She learned she was living with HIV in 2017, but for four years coped with her diagnosis alone. The hospital where she could receive treatment wasn’t welcoming.
Rere Agistya, another...
Thursday, May 5, 2022
COVID-19 is having a devastating impact on the Jamaican economy. In 2020, the economy declined by more than 5%. According to the World Bank, the poverty rate increased from 19% in 2018 and 2019 to about 23% in 2020.
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...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
BLOG: El Programa Conjunto de la ONU sobre el VIH/SIDA (ONUSIDA) denunció este lunes que unos 100 millones de personas han caído en la pobreza extrema debido al pago de asistencia sanitaria y que más de 930 millones – alrededor del 12% de la población...
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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...