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By David Owens Health is a positive construct which exists along a spectrum. Almost all of us have the capacity to be healthier. Too often, narratives around health focus on metrics of disease. Conversations around cancer treatment, the incidence of heart disease or the numbers of hospitals and intensive care beds are reflective of a disease-based health model. Health is not the opposite of disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of health is a state of physical, psychological and social well-being, not the absence of disease. I have always been a fan of this holistic, positive...
Hong Kong Free Press
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab. Virologist Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post on Monday that he and his team were suddenly notified they were being evicted from their lab, the latest in a series of setbacks, demotions and ousters since he first published the sequence in early January 2020. The move shows how the Chinese government continues to pressure and control scientists, seeking to avoid scrutiny of its handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Zhang wrote the post on Chinese...
Euronews (English)
The 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) began a final push to reach an agreement on a pandemic preparedness treaty in Geneva on Monday, with the draft text criticized as too weak by several stakeholders. The talks, which last 12 days, are expected to be vexed as representatives race to meet a looming deadline to finalize the text. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO members called for an robust accord aimed at ensuring countries are better equipped to handle the next catastrophic outbreak and have the global response be less chaotic. For instance, advocates want t...
DPA Breaking News
The 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) will begin a final push to reach an agreement on a pandemic preparedness treaty in Geneva on Monday. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO members called for an accord aimed at ensuring countries are better equipped to handle the next catastrophic outbreak and have the global response be less chaotic. For instance, advocates want the planned treaty to include a supply chain network coordinated by the WHO so that all countries have access to the medicines they need in an emergency without trade restrictions. Similarly, part of ...
DPA Breaking News
President Theatre in Hong Kong has announced it will shut down on Tuesday, after operating in the city for more than half a century. The announcement came less than a week after another local cinema went out of business. Newport Circuit announced on Facebook last Saturday that President Theatre, which opened in October 1966, will close on April 30. The theatre located in Causeway Bay described its demise as “closing down with honour,” and thanked the support of the public. ‘Collective memories’Fans of the theatre expressed regret over the closure, with some saying the tickets sold by President...
Hong Kong Free Press
Die Corona-Pandemie hat das Leben der Menschen weltweit auf den Kopf gestellt. Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) und deren 194 Mitgliedsländer wollen mit einem neuen internationalen Abkommen bei möglichen zukünftigen Pandemien besser gewappnet sein. Die Verhandlungen am Montag in Genf gelten als letzter Versuch für eine Einigung. Worum es bei dem geplanten Pandemie-Abkommen geht. Was soll das Abkommen genau regeln?Die Forderungen waren umfangreich: Dass mehr Impfstoffe für die Verteilung in armen Ländern reserviert werden. Dass die Produktion von Impfstoffen ungeachtet von Patentregeln wel...
DPA (German)
A planned international accord on how to limit deaths and coordinate international action during a pandemic is in the balance ahead of talks at the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO's 194 member states are aiming to reach agreement in Geneva from Monday. "It will be difficult," said one negotiator. In the struggle to reach an agreement, the negotiators have presented a radically shortened draft compared to a proposal from before Easter. It now runs to 23 pages. Numerous controversial provisions have been omitted. The international agreement is intended to save lives in the event of a fu...
DPA International
A planned international accord on how to limit deaths and coordinate international action during a pandemic is in the balance ahead of talks at the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO's 194 member states are aiming to reach agreement in Geneva from Monday. "It will be difficult," said one negotiator. In the struggle to reach an agreement, the negotiators have presented a radically shortened draft compared to a proposal from before Easter. It now runs to 23 pages. Numerous controversial provisions have been omitted. The international agreement is intended to save lives in the event of a fu...
DPA
A planned international accord on how to limit deaths and coordinate international action during a pandemic is in the balance ahead of talks at the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO's 194 member states are aiming to reach agreement in Geneva from Monday. "It will be difficult," said one negotiator. In the struggle to reach an agreement, the negotiators have presented a radically shortened draft compared to a proposal from before Easter. It now runs to 23 pages. Numerous controversial provisions have been omitted. The international agreement is intended to save lives in the event of a fu...
DPA Breaking News
Sauver des vies grâce à la vaccination, c’est humainement possible (l’OMS)Six vies de sauvées chaque minute grâce aux vaccins depuis 50 ans ou encore 154 millions de personnes épargnées. Dans sa note, l’OMS met en avant la qualité des vaccins. Dans la revue scientifique ‘The Lancet’, il est ajouté que ‘grâce à la vaccination, jamais autant d’enfants n’ont pu survivre et se développer au-delà de leur 5e anniversaire qu’à tout autre moment de l’histoire’. L’étude porte uniquement sur la vaccination contre 14 maladiesSur les chiffres, l’OMS se dit ‘prudente’ car l’étude porte uniquement sur la va...
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