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WORLD POPULATION:  7,932,922,456 POLITICS & POLICIES February 17th: Efforts to strengthen global health security will only succeed if the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) is enhanced, the agency’s head said on Thursday, as its biggest donor, Washington, proposed a new global pandemic prevention fund. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-must-be-bolstered-strengthen-global-health-security-says-tedros-2022-02-17/ PROGRAMS, CONFERENCES, GRANTS, AWARDS & EVENTS February 2nd: … Continue reading News Round Up

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World Population:  7,925,799,538            Politics & Policies December 27, 2021: The UN could have been forgiven for saying ‘I told you so’ when it became clear in November that a fast-spreading COVID-19 variant, named after the Greek letter Omicron, was a cause for concern, seemingly spreading far more quickly than the dominant Delta variant.  But whilst … Continue reading News Round Up

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Politics & Policies The World Health Organization’s annual oversight convention was held by teleconference recently, as the worst pandemic in modern history continues around the globe. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/05/17/857206256/unprecedented-world-health-assembly-convenes-online-as-pandemic-rages World Health Organization (WHO) member states have agreed to set up an independent inquiry into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. The resolution, approved without objection by … Continue reading News Round Up

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Politics & Policies Health care can shift so that organizations across borders collaborate to help solve health care problems. Organizations can better solve problems related to access to care, research, training and development if they work together, not competitively. It was the ambitious sanitation campaign aimed at giving almost half of India’s 1.3 billion population … Continue reading Global News Round Up