At least half of the world’s population does not have full coverage of essential health services. Health expenses push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty each and every year, forcing them into terrible choices that no one should ever have to make: Buy medicine or food? Education or ...health care? These stark statistics make the case for universal health coverage compelling.
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Programme Brief
Accessed: 21.08.2019
Supplement October 2010
HIV/AIDS, security and conflict: making the connections
Meeting Report
27–30 June 2017 Manila, Philippines
Meeting Report
Bangkok, Thailand 8-11 August 2016
ICAAP12 Secretariat
Partners in population and development, Dhaka, Bangladesh June 2016
Annual report on global preparednessfor health emergencies
The next pandemic is not a question of if, but when—and the world is woefully unprepared, according to the first annual report from the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. The WHO and the World Bank convened the independent group after ...the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Global News reports. Within 36 hours, a contagion like the 1918 flu could sweep the globe and take 50 to 80 million lives while wreaking havoc on the global economy, the report warns. And that’s just one possibility.
What would it take to get prepared? An investment of $1-$2 per person per year could create “acceptable” level of preparedness.
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Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Reporting period: January 2008-December 2010
Accessed: 29.09.2019
Report on ILGA-Europe/COC fact-finding mission
Chapter · January 2009 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72711-0_25
D.D. Celentano and C. Beyrer (eds.), Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Low and Middle Income Countries, DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72711-0 25, c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008
J Epidemiol Community Health 2011;65:1166e1170. doi:10.1136/jech.2009.097469
Country report
UNAIDS Series: Engaging uniformed services in the fight against AIDS
Case Study 2