Country: World Source: World Health Organization The fund has raised more than US$ 242 million from more than 661 000 individuals, corporations, and other organizations to support WHO and partners’ global COVID-19 response.

Research Post March 15, 2021 The heat never bothered me anyway: Gender-specific response of agricultural labor to climatic shocks in Tanzania Yeyoung Lee Carlo Azzarri Claudia Ringler Heat stress exerts heterogeneous effects by gender, agricultural activity, and household structure.

Country: World Source: Global Polio Eradication Initiative Although Africa is free of wild poliovirus, another form of the virus, known as cVDPV2, continues to affect countries; however, a modified vaccine is now being rolled out to completely eliminate all polio strains.

For all the sorrow it brings, the COVID-19 pandemic is driving innovation and one UK-based startup is ready to move forward with a medical device that’s a potential gamechanger for the developing world. Five newly designed oxygen ventilators are on their way to Lagos, Nigeria in April after successful trials […]

ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION The European Commission Accepts Commitments from a Pharma Company to Stop Its Excessive Prices On 15 May 2017, the European Commission (Commission) announced that it had opened formal proceedings to investigate whether a pharma company abused its dominant position by charging excessive prices for certain off-patent cancer […]