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FHI 360 at the World Health Assembly: Innovative Responses to Combat Tuberculosis
On the occasion of this year’s World Health Assembly held in Geneva, FHI 360’s Krishnapada (Kishan) Chakraborty participated in a side event with Quadrilateral Security Dialogue countries hosted by the Permanent Mission of India in collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership.
Climate Change is Increasing Antimicrobial Resistance. Here’s What We Can Do.
Antibiotics are the first line of defense in protecting humans and animals against bacteria and other microbes. Microbes, like humans, want to survive. They can do that by mutating to adapt to their changing environment, unfavorable conditions and any threats they encounter — threats such as antibiotics.
We Need Integrated Public Health Surveillance More than Ever
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the public health sector has been advocating for and has been taking important steps toward more integrated public health surveillance systems. The World Health Organization (WHO) Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy, implemented in the Africa region since 1998, is an illustration of resolute steps towards ensuring that the scope of surveillance is no longer limited to a few diseases within the health sector but is broadened to span across a large array of relevant diseases and fields.
Update: Ebola Outbreak in Uganda Declared as Ended
The declaration from Uganda’s government and the World Health Organization announcing the end of the Ebola virus outbreak in Uganda is a welcome event and demonstrates how swift action can address and contain emerging public health threats.