According to the WHO and Interpol, over one million people die annually from counterfeit medicines. Such medicines have a serious impact on population health, including treatment failure, toxicity, and contribution to antimicrobial ...
Just a few weeks ago, the world’s leaders gathered for the first United Nations High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), issuing a forceful call to place the Sustainable ...
This blog post was written by Sophie Allcock, with approval from Zipline. Worldwide, millions of people die every year because they are unable to receive life-saving medicines and healthcare. This ...
This blog post was written by Mauricio Toyama, Francisco Diez-Canseco and J. Jaime Miranda. Mental illness is one of the leading causes of ill-health worldwide, with one in four people ...
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) more people die of cancer than malaria or tuberculosis each year.(1) The World Health Organization estimates that cancer deaths in the region will increase by 85% ...
Of the 1.1 billion people in the world who do not have a formal identity, 40% are children under the age of 18 and 78% are located in underdeveloped areas ...
This blog post was written by Michèle Ramsay, Clement Adebomowo and Nicola Mulder The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Consortium developed as a partnership among the African Society of ...
The investigation of public Web searches allows us to expand the boundaries of public health research. We call this tool infodemiology. This portmanteau of informatics and epidemiology can be defined ...
One in every 500 people has Parkinson’s disease, which equates to 10 million people globally with the condition. Patients often have infrequent contact with their doctors, so large gaps exist ...
The Safer Deliveries programme: a digital platform to help pregnant women in Zanzibar deliver safely
Despite comparatively good access to health facilities and high rates of antenatal care, over half of deliveries in Zanzibar occur at home. Safer Deliveries, a programme designed and implemented by ...