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The biggest killer you never considered
Oped, Bjorn Lomborg, Published on 28/06/2024
» Some of the world's big challenges get a lot of attention. Climate change, war and immigration are constantly in the news and receive large funding from states and private philanthropies. Other significant problems like tuberculosis and nutrition receive less airtime and awareness but count among major global priorities, with funding allocated.
AI could help eliminate tuberculosis
News, Mohammed Yassin, Published on 25/03/2024
» Groundbreaking new technologies seem to be emerging with increasing frequency nowadays. Since its launch in November 2022, OpenAI's generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, has become a global sensation, attracting more than 100 million users and inspiring numerous imitators. The technology's fast-evolving capabilities have also commanded the attention of world leaders, dominating discussions at both COP28 in Dubai and the annual meeting of the WEF in Davos.
Act on neglected tropical diseases
Oped, Samia Suluhu Hassan, Published on 21/06/2022
» Earlier this year, world leaders began the process of committing to and endorsing the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases. The declaration is a high-level statement meant to mobilise the necessary political will, community commitment, financial resources, and individual action to end NTDs. The Kigali Declaration will be launched at the Kigali Summit on Malaria and NTDs, held on the sidelines of this month's 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Rwanda.
Leprosy mustn't be forgotten amid Covid crisis
Oped, Yohei Sasakawa, Published on 01/06/2021
» The 74th World Health Assembly (WHA) takes place from May 24 to June 1. This year's gathering is likely to be dominated by Covid-19, but here I want to talk about a different disease -- leprosy -- and a resolution that was adopted at the WHA exactly 30 years ago. This resolution called for the elimination of leprosy as a public health problem at the global level by the year 2000, with elimination defined as a prevalence rate of less than one case per 10,000 population. It was a landmark resolution for the time.
Fighting Covid-19 with clean hearts
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 01/04/2020
» Covid-19 is a test for humanity on many levels -- health, management, economy, innovation and more importantly, morality.