The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused havoc across various sectors all over the world. The pandemic has strained healthcare systems and caused the loss of lives and livelihoods. However, the disruptions caused by the pandemic have catalyzed actions that will likely outlive the pandemic. Some of the interventions that most governments, private sectors, and civil societies, have put…
While the world is busy fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, some countries are facing an ‘epidemic’ called corruption. Concerns about the misuse of public funds, including those from international donors, have been reported in some countries, particularly in the emergency procurement of medical products for the COVID-19 response. Since COVID-19 found many countries ill prepared, most resorted to emergency procurement of…
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 set ambitious targets to transform and improve the lives of people by 2030. According to the 2020 Sustainable Development Goals Report, global progress to meet these ambitious goals was already off track at the end of 2019. Concerted efforts are required to set the…
I have just finished reading Hilary Mantel’s latest (nearly 900-page) book, The Mirror and the Light, the last in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. It is set during the reign of Henry VIII; it opens with the execution of Anne Boleyn and ends with Cromwell’s own beheading in 1540. I am halfway through George Alagiah’s book, The Burning Land, ‘a gripping, pacey thriller…
The COVID-19 pandemic is currently wreaking havoc in Western European countries and the United States of America (U.S.), according to the World Health Organization. As of 31 March, Corona Virus had infected more than 250 000 people in the U.S. and Italy combined, more than the 81 000 in China, where the epidemic originated in December 2019. Italy and Spain each…
GLOBAL FUND’S NEW TB AND MALARIA GRANT TO NORTH KOREA On 23 January 2020, the Global Fund announced that it had reached agreement with partners for a consolidated grant for tuberculosis and malaria in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Grant implementation began in January 2020, the Global Fund’s website says. There will be different grant implementers for different…
GLOBAL FUND’S NEW TB AND MALARIA GRANT TO NORTH KOREA On 23 January 2020, the Global Fund announced that it had reached agreement with partners for a consolidated grant for tuberculosis and malaria in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Grant implementation began in January 2020, the Global Fund’s website says. There will be different grant implementers for different…
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