Vaccination certificates are nothing new. They are health documents that record a vaccination event – traditionally as a paper card – with key details including the date, product and batch number of the vaccine administered. The Digital Documentation of COVID-19 Certificates is proposed as a mechanism by which a person’s COVID-19-related health data can be …
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At its third meeting, the Multilateral Leaders Taskforce on COVID-19 (MLT), the heads of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization – met with the leaders of the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT), Africa CDC, Gavi and UNICEF to tackle obstacles to rapidly scale-up vaccines in low- and …
Joint Statement of the Multilateral Leaders Taskforce on Scaling COVID-19 Tools Read More »
The pandemic continues to highlight a pressing need to use social and behavioural data alongside biomedical data to mount an effective response. Timely data and insights into people’s changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviours helps to ensure that the response is tailored and adapted to the needs of the population. Due to the rapidly evolving situation, many countries …
Social and behavioural insights COVID-19 data collection tool for Africa Read More »
Many nonprofit organizations know about search engine optimization (SEO), but do they fully grasp why it is necessary? Your organization might say, “We want to be on page one for Google” or “I want my site optimized.” This indicates that you have an idea of the value of SEO, but you might not know the …
From donor communications and community collaboratives to leading your team, there are few areas where confidence doesn’t play a major role in your success and your comfort. If you have the benefit of external affirmations like awards, a big title, or a killer resume—kudos! But, maintaining healthy confidence is rooted in things deeper than these …
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World Health Organization and Imperial College London joint press release The number of adults aged 30–79 years with hypertension has increased from 650 million to 1.28 billion in the last thirty years, according to the first comprehensive global analysis of trends in hypertension prevalence, detection, treatment and control, led by Imperial College London and WHO, …
More than 700 million people with untreated hypertension Read More »
Issued on: 20 August Deadline: 10 September The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued an open call for experts to serve as members of the new WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO). The SAGO will advise WHO on technical and scientific considerations regarding the origins of emerging and re-emerging pathogens …
Call for experts to join Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens Read More »
The people of Afghanistan need our support now more than ever. Our organizations are committed to helping and protecting them. We will stay in Afghanistan and we will deliver. At the start of 2021, half the population of Afghanistan – including more than 4 million women and nearly 10 million children – already needed humanitarian …
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) on Afghanistan Read More »
If the idea of wellbeing is difficult to imagine in today’s uncertain times, you’re not alone. It is no secret that the mission-driven nonprofit workforce often leads with the scarcity mindset. This is the idea that time, money, resources, or mission delivery are an ongoing race requiring self-sacrifice and superhero endurance. Some days the world …
Centering Wellbeing in Reentry—and for Good—in the Nonprofit Sector Read More »
If the idea of wellbeing is difficult to imagine in today’s uncertain times, you’re not alone. It is no secret that the mission-driven nonprofit workforce often leads with the scarcity mindset. This is the idea that time, money, resources, or mission delivery are an ongoing race requiring self-sacrifice and superhero endurance. Some days the world …
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