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Report: Covid-19 Response in Africa and the COVAX Mechanism
COVID-19 RESPONSE IN AFRICA AND THE COVAX MECHANISM VOICES FROM THE FIELD: SIERRA LEONE, SUDAN, UGANDA The response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) was largely insufficient due to global vaccine inequality and systemic issues within healthcare structures. EMERGENCY’s latest report, produced together with Bocconi University’s CERGAS and DONDENA research centres,…
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World AIDS Day 2021: We Cannot Allow It to Happen Again With COVID-19.
There are striking parallels between COVID-19 and another deadly pandemic: HIV. In the AIDS crisis, pharma companies made vast profits as millions were left behind. History is repeating itself today. In Africa alone, it’s estimated up to 12 million people died needlessly in the time it took to make HIV treatment universally available. We cannot…
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G20 flash mob unleashed by activists from Oxfam, EMERGENCY and Amnesty International, members of the People’s Vaccine Alliance.
G20 flash mob unleashed by activists from Oxfam, EMERGENCY and Amnesty International, members of the People’s Vaccine Alliance. This was an appeal to world leaders to suspend monopolies on Covid vaccines and allow them to be produced in low-income countries, where just 1.8% of the population are currently vaccinated. Italy has made its stance clear…
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Since the Start of the Project, We Have Supported Over 5,000 Households in Italy.
Our project “Nessuno Escluso”, created to help the ‘new poor’ in Italy caused by the pandemic, has turned one year old. In Milan, Rome, Naples, Piacenza, Catanzaro, Varese and Catania we continue to pack and distribute parcels, working with local organisations to help those in need every week. Over this year, we have come to…
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World Health Summit Africa Regional Meeting 2021
27-30 June – SAVE THE DATE Kampala, Uganda. World Health Summit Africa Regional Meeting The World Health Summit Africa Regional Meeting will take place in Kampala this year. Experts in healthcare from all over the world will unite and discuss practical solutions for global healthcare provision. Academia, researchers, physicians, government officials, industry, civil society, and…
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A Third Wave of COVID-19 Has Overwhelmed Afghanistan
Since the beginning of June, a third wave of COVID-19 has overwhelmed Afghanistan’s state healthcare system, which is already under strain due to a deterioration in the conflict. According to sources, positives cases increased by 2,400 percent in June alone, while the ability to test the population is reduced: since the start of the pandemic,…
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Rossella Miccio, president of EMERGENCY, for the GOLA podcast
EMERGENCY’s president Rossella Miccio, joined the hosts of GOLA – an English-language podcast on Italian food – to discuss our support for vulnerable people in Italy during the COVID pandemic on an episode all about food, community and health. Whilst having always pursued the right to medical treatment around the world, “the COVID-19 reality has…
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How Can Strengthened Healthcare for Migrants Foster Health for All?
27 May, 10:00 – 12:00 CET Individual health can be guaranteed if collective health is safeguarded. Just, inclusive and sustainable public health policies can benefit the community as a whole. On 27 May, the M8 Alliance will launch a webinar as part of its Expert Meeting series: “How can strengthened healthcare for migrants foster Health…
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EMERGENCY is Delighted that the Biden Administration Has Heeded the Alliance’s Call.
As a proud member of the People’s Vaccine Alliance, EMERGENCY is delighted that the Biden Administration has heeded the Alliance’s call. This is the decision the world needed: by backing a waiver of intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines the Biden Administration can increase the global supply of vaccines and deal a deathblow to the…
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World Religious Leaders Call for a People’s Vaccine
COVID-19 is a global pandemic & it requires a global response ? This unprecedented public health crisis calls, above all, for global solidarity, for all people to stand together as brothers and sisters. EMERGENCY is a proud member of the People’s Vaccine Alliance, which has today received support from religious leaders calling on governments and pharmaceutical corporations…