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Featured Image: Field epidemiologists conduct contact tracing in Uganda during the coronavirus pandemic. Photo courtesy of Aggrey Byaruhanga. By The Task Force for Global Health It has been more than ...
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Featured Image: Field epidemiologists conduct contact tracing in Uganda during the coronavirus pandemic. Photo courtesy of Aggrey Byaruhanga. By The Task Force for Global Health It has been more than two months since the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus pandemic and, since the crisis began, more than 5.5 million people have contracted the […]
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President Admist the backdrop of a global pandemic like COVID-19, it is difficult to imagine that many other global health issues persist. Not only is this true, but there are still many people and organizations continuing to address these issues while the world wrestles with creating a new “normal” […]
By Dr. Fernando Reati In these times of fear, anxiety and the possibility of serious illness or even death due to the coronavirus pandemic, I have been thinking a lot about those first days I spent in a secret detention center in Argentina back in 1976. A military coup had taken place and tens of […]
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President Access to quality health care in the U.S. has long been a topic of debate that often ends in more questions than solutions. Do we trade quality for quantity? Does expanding health care coverage water down the the quality of care? Who will pay for it? Often it […]
By The Task Force for Global Health Responding to the scale and impact of the coronavirus pandemic is a challenge the public health community has not faced in the modern era. While all countries are mounting various levels of response, it is the countries with weak health systems that will likely feel the greatest impact. […]
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President In just a matter of weeks, coronavirus has changed all of our lives in ways that we never would have thought possible. Life as we know it has been turned on its head. As we’re adapting to social distancing and shelter-in-place orders, we’re all having to make rapid […]
By Connor McKoy, Director, Agriculture & Environment Communications, Biotechnology Innovation Organization The rapid spread of the coronavirus out of Wuhan, China has sparked concern across countries as the international community grapples with how best to contain it. The clock is ticking to find a solution. Luckily, innovative biotechnology companies are working tirelessly each today to heal the […]
By Judy Monroe, MD Heading into an emergency response you know one thing: needs going into the crisis will always evolve and change. That’s to be expected, so it is essential organizations have flexibility to adapt to whatever is occurring on the ground. Since I’ve been at the CDC Foundation for four years now, I […]
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President By now we have all heard of the devastating impact of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) spreading throughout China and other parts of the world. As of February 19, 2020, the World Health Organization estimates that there are over 73,000 confirmed cases globally with over 72,000 cases being reported […]
MAP International, a Georgia-based nonprofit global health organization working in 98 countries, is partnering with The UPS Foundation to airlift 1.3 million respirator masks and 10,000 protective coveralls to hard-hit hospitals treating coronavirus patients in Wuhan, China. UPS is donating critical aviation support for the shipment of 120 pallets to the Hubei Provincial Center for […]
