World Health Organization (WHO)

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Still Neglected and Still Not Gone: The Implications of COVID-19 for the WHO Policy of Elimination of Congenital Syphilis
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Godfrey Walker
March 15, 2021
In many low- and middle-income countries, the COVID-19 pandemic is limiting access to antenatal care and posing considerable challenges to global efforts to eliminate congenital syphilis. A review of the present WHO strategy to eliminate congenital syphilis is urgently neede...
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What Is the World Health Organization Without the United States?
May 26, 2020
The unilateral ultimatum issued by President Donald Trump to the World Health Organization—"reform or else” in 30 days—raises the real possibility of a WHO without funds or governance participation from the United States. What would that mean in practice?
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Never Let a Crisis Go To Waste
April 14, 2020
The coronavirus is spreading and for the first time in history virtually all people on earth are faced with the same, imminent common threat. With multifold stories of individual suffering and an unprecedented global lockdown, there is an intensifying call for an internationally coordinated response...
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Committing and Allocating Ebola Financing: What’s Next for the DRC?
August 02, 2019
As the World Health Organization declares the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, new funding has been mobilized. Our experts provide four recommendations on how to spend this money well. 
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As the World Health Assembly Convenes, Let’s Elevate Use of Economic Evidence on the UHC Agenda
May 23, 2019
Since Monday, leading health officials from around the world have been meeting in Geneva, Switzerland for the 72nd World Health Assembly. 
BRIEFS
Understanding the Opportunity Cost, Seizing the Opportunity: Key Takeaways for Evidence-Informed Universal Health Coverage
May 23, 2019
The World Health Organization routinely develops and issues guidelines on how best to prevent, diagnose, and treat particular medical conditions. The guidelines are developed through a process determined by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee—a key part of which involves systematic evidence ap...
REPORTS
Understanding the Opportunity Cost, Seizing the Opportunity: Report of the Working Group on Incorporating Economics and Modelling in Global Health Goals and Guidelines
May 23, 2019
Internationally set goals and guidelines directly influ­ence the setting of health care priorities at the national level, affecting how limited resources are generated and allocated across health care needs. The Working Group on Incorporating Economics and Modelling in Global Health Goals and Gu...