INFOSAN Quarterly Summary, 2021 #1

RTS,S malaria vaccine reaches more than 650 000 children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi through groundbreaking pilot programme

Driving Global Health: Romain Grosjean announces his support for the WHO Foundation

Message from Director SRH/HRP

WHO validates Gambia for having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem

Applications for the 23rd WHO Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential Medicines available for public review and comment

Disability in children and adolescents must be integrated into the global health agenda

WHO-backed global youth mobilization funds young people's ideas to combat impact of COVID-19 pandemic

Greta Thunberg, climate and environment activist, joins World Health Organization’s call for vaccine equity

Statement on the seventh meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

Updated repository of health budgets 2021

Update of the WHO guidance on the treatment of drug susceptible tuberculosis

Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) review of latest evidence of rare adverse blood coagulation events with AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine (Vaxzevria and Covishield)

Global shortage of innovative antibiotics fuels emergence and spread of drug-resistance

New WHO Global Compact to speed up action to tackle diabetes

WHO and the International Organisation of the Francophonie (IOF) sign Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen access to health in Francophone countries

WHO calls for comprehensive, equitable access to healthcare for every Chagas disease patient

Benefits of continuing to provide life-saving HIV services outweigh the risk of COVID-19 transmission by 100 to 1

US$ 1.4 trillion lost every year to tobacco use - New tobacco tax manual shows ways to save lives, money and build back better after COVID-19

COVAX reaches over 100 economies, 42 days after first international delivery