Tag: Public Health

For China, the stakes in developing a successful vaccine are high after a year that saw the outbreak in Wuhan further roil relations with the U.S., Europe, India and Australia. Photographer: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Photographer: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Western politicians have faulted China for initial delays in providing information ...

Stay tuned for special Election Night editions of Balance of Power.Heading into the ninth month of the pandemic, governments in Europe are facing the unpleasant reality of forcing people back into lockdowns. There are three factors making those fresh restrictions much harder to put into effect.The first is intra-governmental. ...

When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long this will continue.Since the beginning of the pandemic, epidemiologists and public health specialists have been using mathematical ...

by Xinhua writer Shi Xiaomeng BEIJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- "The greatest ideal is to create a world truly shared by all," Chinese President Xi Jinping said five years ago in his debut at the solemn UN General Assembly Hall, citing an ancient adage that reflects the defining world ...

Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg Radically different opinions around the world on the safety, effectiveness and importance of vaccines highlight the challenge facing health officials once a Covid-19 shot arrives.In countries such as South Korea, Indonesia, Pakistan and Poland, confidence in vaccines has declined in recent ...

Gender disparity in India is a hard reality. (Representational image: Reuters)By Sanjay Zodpey & Preeti NegandhiAt a global level, India’s recent performance with respect to gender has been dismal. The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap global report of 2019 published country ranks on various parameters related to gender disparities ...

Global efforts to eradicate naturally-occurring "wild" poliovirus provide grounds for optimism. They have been successful so far. Only two countries in the world have yet to stop the spread of the disease — Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nigeria was the third in that ominous group until August 2019 when it crossed ...

Researchers have stressed that large forces of trained community health workers and standardised healthcare systems could reduce the number of maternal, newborn and foetal deaths in India. A meta-analysis of three studies, published in the journal Lancet, examined the outcomes of 70,000 women in Mozambique, Pakistan and India between ...

Photographer: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images Photographer: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images Early agreements to purchase Covid-19 vaccines are beginning to pay off for the likes of Britain, the U.S., Canada and the European Union, but much of the world is waiting. Although there are ambitious efforts to ensure ...