WHO and TikTok to collaborate on more science-based information on health and well-being

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The World Health Organization (WHO) and TikTok, a platform for short-form mobile videos, announced a year-long collaboration aimed at providing people with reliable, science-based health information. This reflects WHO’s commitment to leveraging multiple digital communication platforms to increase outreach to people globally, to promote health literacy, healthy behaviours and actions in an increasingly digitized world. Social media…

“It is a risk someone has to take”: the Catholic nun helping vaccinate thousands in Uganda’s Karamoja

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Karamoja has faced intracommunal violence for decades, and as climate change exacerbates water scarcity, it’s getting worse. But vaccinator Sister Virginia Virgo is not backing down.  18 September 2024 by John Agaba When Virginia Virgo packed her bags to join a monastery in northern Uganda in the 1980s, she had one thing in mind: to leave…

Gates Foundation Report Urges Targeted Global Health Investments to Combat Child Malnutrition and Disease

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Coletta Kemboi, a dairy farmer from Maili Nne, Kenya, is proof of how innovative farming practices can combat malnutrition. After receiving training from the MoreMilk program, she has seen her milk production improve significantly, and her family’s income has grown. “The extra money we are earning goes to the farm and paying my children’s school…

Global Health Organizations Unite at All Africa Anaesthesia Congress to Address Capnography Gap

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A coalition of global health organizations, including Lifebox, Smile Train, the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA), and the South African Society of Anaesthesiologists (SASA), have joined forces to address a critical gap in anesthesia safety: the lack of capnography in low-resource settings, a situation endangering countless lives. At a press conference during the…

US Calls for Integrated Approach to Combat Mpox Outbreak

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The US Global Aids Coordinator and Senior Bureau Official for Global Health Security and Diplomacy, Ambassador John Nkengasong, has emphasized the need for a coordinated global response to address the Mpox outbreak. During a press briefing, Nkengasong called for an integrated approach that includes testing, genetic sequencing, laboratory training, surveillance, and infection control to effectively…

USA Ambassador Applauds Community Pharmacy Model for Improving HIV/AIDS Treatment Access

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By Malik Jjingo The U.S. Ambassador to Uganda, His Excellency William W. Popp, has praised the innovators and implementers of the Community Retail Drug Distribution Point model, calling it a game changer for accessibility to HIV/AIDS treatment. During an official visit to the Masaka region, Ambassador Popp visited TASO Masaka headquarters and K Frank Pharmacy,…