Dear Global Health Community, please find below this week’s news selection!
FAO warns of potentially devastating Moroccan Locust outbreak in Afghanistan’s wheat basket (FAO News, May 10, 2023)
> The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned of a large-scale outbreak of the Moroccan Locust across eight provinces in North and Northeast Afghanistan, the country's wheat basket. https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/fao-warns-of-potentially-devastatin…
‘Silent emergency’: Premature births claim a million lives yearly (UN News, May 9, 2023)
> A “silent emergency” that is claiming one million tiny lives born premature each year requires concerted action to swiftly improve children’s health and survival, according to a new report released by UN agencies and partners on Wednesday. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136512
WHO Declares End to Mpox Global Health Emergency (Health Policy Watch, May 11, 2023)
> The announcement arrives just days after WHO declared the end of the global health emergency for COVID-19 last Friday, three years and 6.9 million lives after the virus was elevated to a global pandemic in January 2020. https://healthpolicy-watch.news/who-declares-end-to-mpox-global-health-…
OPINION: Does the end of Covid emergency declarations mean the pandemic is over? (STAT, May 8, 2023)
> The reality is that although battlefield metaphors are often employed to describe humankind’s struggle with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, there will be no 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month-like moment signaling that an armistice has been achieved. https://www.statnews.com/2023/05/08/is-the-covid19-pandemic-over/