Dr. Raymond: Sans vaccine, Wisconsin will have to maintain social distancing as economy reopens
Wisconsin will have to double down on its efforts to practice social distancing as the economy reopens until a Covid-19 vaccine is available, said Dr. John Raymond Sr. During his daily briefing Friday, Raymond, president and chief executive officer of the Medical College of Wisconsin, said data shows the state has reached equilibrium with the virus. Progress is bending down the “curve” of the pandemic’s spread stalled about two weeks ago, he said. Raymo nd examined what he called a “reproductive…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - May 8, 2020 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Sari Lesk Source Type: news

What I ’ve Learned from Practicing as a Midwife in Mali for 42 Years
By Ramatou Fomba Konate, Head of Clinical Training Throughout the course of her 42-year career, midwife Ramatou Fomba Konate has received awards honoring her motivation and courage as a midwife, including from IntraHealth, the Association of Midwives of Mali, the Chief Medical Officer of the Yanfolila Health District in Sikasso region, and the Ministry of Health.May 04, 2020en françaisI remember that back in 1977, a midwife was a rare commodity in Mali because very few were available in the administrativecercles(sub-regions), especially in the north of the country, and gynecologists were only found in the capita...
Source: IntraHealth International - May 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health International Day of the Midwife Nursing Midwifery 2020 Midwives Source Type: news

Africa: A 'Devil's Choice' - Balancing Childhood Immunization With Preparing for COVID-19
[MSF] By Barbara Saitta, Vaccination Medical Advisor, Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Access Campaign
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - April 28, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Greece Has an Elderly Population and a Fragile Economy. How Has It Escaped the Worst of the Coronavirus So Far?
This weekend’s Orthodox Easter celebrations in Greece were a low key affair for Michalis Stratakis and his wife Nancy. They still ate lamb, but the meat was oven-cooked instead of carved off a whole animal that had been spit-roasted for hours over charcoals. They painted eggs red according to Greek tradition and played games with family members in Athens, but over cell phone screens from their home on the Greek island of Crete on Sunday, rather than at the usual raucous feast of about 20 friends and relatives. “It was heartbreaking, to tell you the truth, because we didn’t have the feeling of family,&rdqu...
Source: TIME: Health - April 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Billy Perrigo and Joseph Hincks Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Londontime Source Type: news

Too much focus on hospitals in Europe's coronavirus fight - MSF
More attention needs to be given to COVID-19 patients outside of hospitals where care workers are often poorly-equipped and the sick are dying alone, representatives from Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Italy and Spain said on Monday.
Source: Reuters: Health - April 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Neglected Diseases Kill More People than COVID-19 – It’s Time to Address Them
Credit: UNBy Ifeanyi Nsofor and Adaeze OrehABUJA, Mar 30 2020 (IPS) As COVID-19 surges globally and leaves fear and panic in its wake, global efforts are underway to find a cure. Yet, the same level of response is lacking for several other infectious diseases that kill millions annually. These kinds of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a broad group of communicable diseases which affect more than two billion people and cost developing economies billions of dollars every year. Lassa Fever is an example and is endemic in Nigeria and other West African countries such as Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali and Sierra ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ifeanyi Nsofor and Adaeze Oreh Tags: Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Source Type: news

Cote d'Ivoire: Preparation Is Key for Covid-19 Pandemic in C ôte d'Ivoire
[MSF] M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working to respond to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic recently declared in Côte d'Ivoire.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 27, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

COVID-19 in the Time of Insecurity
HRH Prince El Hassan bin TalalBy HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of JordanAMMAN, Jordan, Mar 26 2020 (IPS) Humankind has outlived multiple pandemics in the course of world history. The kingdoms and states of Central and Western Europe abolished the institution of serfdom once it had become clear that medieval rule in the aftermath of devastating pestilence would founder without ending the dependency and servitude that characterized the Dark Ages. The vulnerability of entire nations to the risk of total collapse in the absence of widespread access to the most basic healthcare in the Spanish Flu spurr...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal Tags: Civil Society Crime & Justice Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Featured Gender Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Coronavirus Is Closing Borders in Europe and Beyond. What Does That Mean for Refugees?
When Wahidullah Rahimi leaves his tent to wander around the refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos, he wears a face mask. But between standing in line alongside other refugees at food distribution centers and sleeping in an unsanitary tent, the 32-year-old Afghan knows there is little he can do to protect himself from COVID-19. “There is a big possibility of everyone here getting coronavirus,” Rahimi says. “Everyone is worried.” The E.U.-funded camp in Samos, built in 2016 to house 640 people, is now home to at least 3,745 refugees who live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. Asylum-seeker...
Source: TIME: Health - March 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mélissa Godin Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Londontime Source Type: news

Africa: How to Avoid a Second Tragedy for Those With Tuberculosis
[MSF] As the world grapples with the coronavirus COVID-19 global pandemic, M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned for vulnerable groups worldwide. People with tuberculosis (TB) are among the groups that may be particularly affected. Special attention will be needed to safeguard the continuity of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for people with TB worldwide.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 24, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Coronavirus live news: Italy deaths up by 475, biggest jump anywhere in a single day
Italy death toll approaches 3,000; Portugal declares state of emergency; worldwide cases pass 200,000. Follow the latest updatesCoronavirus latest: at a glanceAll schools in UK to close from FridayHospital ships to be sent to New York, governor saysMore than 250m in lockdown as European measures widenShare your experiences9.49pmGMTThe medical humanitarian organisation M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is preparing to set up activities in and around Paris to help detect and manage Covid-19 cases among the most vulnerable populations, it has said.The organisation is more commonly associated with responding to medical emergen...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 18, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Kevin Rawlinson (now); Damien Gayle, Alexandra Topping and Helen Sullivan (earlier) Tags: Coronavirus outbreak World news Europe US news Africa Middle East and North Africa Australia news Infectious diseases Science Medical research Microbiology Source Type: news

Cells to Society: Year of the Nurse / Global Impact
This study establishes baseline sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients in Nepal who were experiencing heart failure.     Read more   Maternal Health ...
Source: Johns Hopkins University and Health Systems Archive - February 6, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: news

Africa: As J & J Releases Earnings, MSF Protests Price of Lifesaving TB Drug in Front of New York Stock Exchange
[MSF] New York -Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) protested in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York today, demanding the pharmaceutical corporation Johnson& Johnson (J&J) make the tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline available for all people with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) for no more than a dollar a day. The price of this crucial drug must be lowered to reflect the joint contributions made to its research and development by taxpayers and the global scientific and TB co
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Africa: Gavi Must Work to Ensure More Children Get New, More Affordable Pneumonia Vaccine
[MSF] As Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, starts to commemorate its 20th year and launches a new fundraising appeal, M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stressed that more must be done to make sure the 55 million children who do not have access to the pneumonia vaccine are protected against this worst global childhood killer, now that a new, more affordable vaccine is at long last available.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 21, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Sudan: Medical Activities in Yida Are Handed Over
[MSF] Yida/Juba - After actively responding to the medical needs of people in and around Yida, northern South Sudan, for the last eight years, M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has handed over the project in Yida - where MSF has been supporting the outpatient department of the Yida Primary Health Care Center - to the Ministry of Health (MoH) and its partners on 31 December.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 7, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

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