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WHO declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency

15 Aug 2024

Healthcare

Can the UN impose sanctions on SA? You bet it can… and One Health may be the tipping point

Katja Hamilton 15 Mar 2024

Source: Nobel Prize/Youtube

Healthcare

Nobel Prize for mRNA pioneers amid jab controversy

Katja Hamilton 6 Oct 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

WHO recommends malaria vaccine that will be rolled out next year

4 Oct 2023

Charlize Theron, Chris Rock, and Nomzamo Mbatha to take the Global Citizen Festival stage on 23 September

ESG & Sustainability

Charlize Theron, Chris Rock, and Nomzamo Mbatha to take the Global Citizen Festival stage on 23 September

Issued by OnPoint PR 19 Sep 2023

Source: @WHOSouthSudan

Finance

Banks and WHO launch investment platform to strengthen primary healthcare services

26 Jun 2023

More talent joins Global Citizen's 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Lifestyle

More talent joins Global Citizen's 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Issued by OnPoint PR 8 Jun 2023

Global Citizen announces 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Lifestyle

Global Citizen announces 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Issued by OnPoint PR 24 May 2023

Healthcare

Covid-19 global health emergency over, but pandemic not over - Health Dept

8 May 2023

Healthcare

Consortium sparks debate over intellectual property of mRNA vaccines manufactured in SA

Katja Hamilton 21 Apr 2023

Adequate dental medical scheme cover is key for one's dental health

Healthcare

Adequate dental medical scheme cover is key for one's dental health

Issued by Stone 22 Mar 2023

Healthcare

African leaders pledge to drive routine immunisation and polio eradication

20 Mar 2023

Healthcare

Africa's reliance on imported Covid-19 test kits threatens right to health

1 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters. Uganda health minister Jane Ruth Aceng addresses the media after receiving a shipment of 1,200 doses for Ebola vaccine candidates set to be used in a clinical trial at the National Medical Stores in Entebbe, Uganda, 8 December, 2022.

Healthcare

Uganda declares itself Ebola-free after swiftly turning tide on outbreak

11 Jan 2023

Healthcare

World Health Organization to phase out use of the term "monkeypox"

29 Nov 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Serum Institute to produce Ebola vaccine for use in Uganda outbreak

Aaron Ross 17 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Vaccine trials on Sudan Ebola strain to start in weeks - WHO chief

Elias Biryabarema 14 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Africa CDC head: Covid still a threat given low vaccination rates

Alexander Winning 15 Sep 2022

Global stars join thousands of youth voices at Kigali Summit to demand urgent action to end malaria

Marketing & Media

Global stars join thousands of youth voices at Kigali Summit to demand urgent action to end malaria

Issued by Dentsu 28 Jun 2022

Healthcare

WHO Pandemic Treaty: The makings of a New World Order?

Katja Hamilton 8 Mar 2022

Healthcare

Facing backlash, EU says import of J&J vaccines from South Africa is temporary

20 Aug 2021

Global Citizen Live line-ups revealed for Lagos, Paris and NYC events

Lifestyle

Global Citizen Live line-ups revealed for Lagos, Paris and NYC events

Issued by OnPoint PR 11 Aug 2021

Source: ©luiscarceller

Healthcare

Vaccine inequality makes a case for African pharma opportunities

Julie Oppenheim, Daniel Mwathe & Micael Sehul 28 Jul 2021

Africa needs fairness, vaccines to revive its tourism sector - Kenya tourism minister

Tourism & Travel

Africa needs fairness, vaccines to revive its tourism sector - Kenya tourism minister

Duncan Miriri 19 Jul 2021

Source: ©Sebastien decoret

Healthcare

Equity and access need to be at the forefront of innovation in human genome editing

Jantina de Vries & Françoise Baylis 14 Jul 2021

World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks as he attends the World Health Assembly (WHA) amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Geneva, Switzerland, 24 May 2021. Christopher Black/World Health Organisation/Handout via Reuters

Healthcare

WHO setting up hub to make Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa - Tedros

22 Jun 2021

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Healthcare

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Sonia Elks 6 May 2021

Professor Abdool Karim appointed to WHO Science Council

Healthcare

Professor Abdool Karim appointed to WHO Science Council

30 Apr 2021

Global Citizen urges wealthy nations to pledge 'dollars for doses' to vaccinate 6.5m African health workers

ESG & Sustainability

Global Citizen urges wealthy nations to pledge 'dollars for doses' to vaccinate 6.5m African health workers

Issued by OnPoint PR 14 Apr 2021

Health minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize

Healthcare

Pandemic highlights health inequalities

8 Apr 2021

Africa poised to benefit from strong European backing in its recovery

Finance

Africa poised to benefit from strong European backing in its recovery

Issued by Optimize Agency 30 Nov 2020

Kickstarting the post-Covid-19 economic recovery, the big focus of the 2020 Southern Africa Europe CEO Dialogue

Finance

Kickstarting the post-Covid-19 economic recovery, the big focus of the 2020 Southern Africa Europe CEO Dialogue

Issued by Optimize Agency 24 Nov 2020

WHO surge team expected in SA

Healthcare

WHO surge team expected in SA

5 Aug 2020

Gravediggers are exhuming old graves in Brazil to open new spaces. Brazil is currently second in the world for cases and deaths, and many consider it the new global epicentre. Sebastiao Moreira/EPA

Healthcare

In many countries the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, not slowing

Adam Kamradt-Scott 1 Jul 2020

Steroid shows promise in treating serious Covid-19 cases

Healthcare

Steroid shows promise in treating serious Covid-19 cases

17 Jun 2020

We are because of others

ESG & Sustainability

We are because of others

Amy Pieterse, Issued by Ginkgo Agency 15 May 2020

#Covid19: Mitigating the impact on global food trade

Agriculture

#Covid19: Mitigating the impact on global food trade

1 Apr 2020

An aerial view of a new isolation and treatment centre established by the Lagos State government at the main bowl of the state-owned Stadium.
Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

Covid-19: To test or not to test

31 Mar 2020

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom at an Ebola treatment centre in Itipo. Getty images/ Junior D. Kannah

Healthcare

The DRC is on the road to being Ebola free: how it got here

5 Mar 2020

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

ESG & Sustainability

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

20 Feb 2020

Tedros Ghebreyesus, embarrassed to only talk about Ebola. Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA

Healthcare

Over 3,000 killed by deadly virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo this year - and it's not Ebola

Jeremy Rossman & Matthew Badham 19 Sep 2019

Photo: World Economic Forum

Healthcare

20-million children miss out on lifesaving measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccines in 2018

16 Jul 2019

ESG & Sustainability

4 new WHO goodwill ambassadors appointed

21 May 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Healthcare

WHO puts influenza plan in place

12 Mar 2019

International push to improve food safety

Retail

International push to improve food safety

18 Feb 2019

Global Citizen Festival announces partnerships with top South African broadcasters

Marketing & Media

Global Citizen Festival announces partnerships with top South African broadcasters

Issued by OnPoint PR 19 Oct 2018

Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams and Oprah to appear at Global Citizen Festival in South Africa

Lifestyle

Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams and Oprah to appear at Global Citizen Festival in South Africa

9 Jul 2018

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general

Healthcare

WHO calls for urgent action against NCDs

4 Jun 2018

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general at the WHO

Healthcare

One billion yellow fever vaccinations in Africa by 2026

11 Apr 2018

Report: 100 million still pushed into extreme poverty because of health expenses

Healthcare

Report: 100 million still pushed into extreme poverty because of health expenses

29 Dec 2017