Dear Global Health Community, here is this week's news selection for you! Read along:
Yemen health system ‘edging closer to collapse’ warns WHO (UN News, April 21, 2023)
> Yemen’s fragile health system is “severely overburdened” the World Health Organization’s (WHO) leading official for emergency operations in the country said on Friday, and more international funding is urgently needed to stop it deteriorating further. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/04/1135922
WHO Launches Largest Global Collection of Health Inequality Data (Health Policy Watch, April 20, 2023)
> The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the largest global collection of publicly available disaggregated data on health inequality, which aims to empower public health officials to conduct more targeted responses to health threats. https://healthpolicy-watch.news/who-launches-largest-global-collection-…
Study reveals alarming global burden of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial infections (News Medical & Life Sciences, April 23, 2023)
> In a recent article published in the Lancet journal, researchers quantified the global bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) burden to present deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) attributable to and associated with 23 pathogens, 12 major infectious syndromes, 18 drug categories, and 88 pathogen–drug combinations.
Study reveals alarming global burden of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial infections https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230423/Study-reveals-alarming-globa…
Human, economic, environmental toll of climate change on the rise: WMO (UN News, April 21, 2023)
> The relentless advance of climate change brought more drought, flooding and heatwaves to communities around the world last year, compounding threats to people’s lives and livelihoods, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/04/1135852
WHO’s New Leadership Team Is a Mixed Bag of Political Appointees and Specialists (Health Policy Watch, April 17, 2023)
> Nearly a year after his appointment to a second term as WHO’s Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has finished a revamp of his senior leadership team – keeping key loyalists in place, while adding new faces that are a clear nod to powerful member states such as China, France and Japan. https://healthpolicy-watch.news/whos-new-leadership-team-is-a-mixed-bag…
Protection from climate change requires strong health systems (World Meteorological Organization, April 11, 2023)
> The health impacts of climate change will not be addressed without strong public health systems. To mark World Health Day on 7 April, the joint WMO-WHO Office on Climate and Health took a look at the role of universal health care systems in protecting people from the myriad of growing health risks tied to our changing environment. https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/protection-from-climate-change-req…