After COVID-19 gripped the world in 2020, health systems, governments and international institutions everywhere vowed we’d ‘never be unprepared again’. Yet, the pandemic’s wake revealed crumbling health systems, lax surveillance, misinformation issues, healthcare inequities – and it seems that many of these lessons have not yet been fully grasped in a handful of African nations…
Fear spread among officials when the U.S. stepped back from the WHO. Confirmed by the UN, the exit shakes long-standing health partnerships. Media reports found widespread concern over weakened crisis readiness A move announced by American officials reached the United Nations, signalling departure from the World Health Organization by 2026. Nestled in Geneva, that agency…
The World Health Organization has confirmed it will cut 2,371 jobs by June 2026, nearly a quarter of its global workforce. The trigger is clear: the withdrawal of funding by the United States, historically WHO’s largest voluntary donor. The figures are stark, but more worrying is what this says about global health security and the…
In the early 2000s, Dustin Moskovitz co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and others. In his mid-20s, he was a billionaire, one of the youngest in the world. But unlike most Silicon Valley founders who turned their fortunes into new companies or lavish lifestyles, Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna, a former Wall Street…
