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BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...
Govt health spending triples to Rs 3.85 lakh crore in 2022-23: National Health AccountsGovernment spending on healthcare has surged to Rs 3.85 lakh crore in 2022-23, nearly tripling from a decade ago. This increased public inv...
Quote of the Day by Melinda French Gates: 'It's the mark of a backward society when...'—Top quotes by the co-founder of the Gates Foundation who's consistently listed among Forbes' 100 most powerful womenQuote of the Day: Melinda French Gates states that societies move backward when men make decisions for women. Her words champion equality a...
Global roll-out of 12 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses largest-ever but access an issue: WHOAddressing the annual general meeting of the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN) virtually on Thursday, he flagged t...
WTO agrees to lift Covid vaccine patents, but is it 'too late'?The unprecedented agreement, sealed by all 164 WTO members after late-night overtime talks, will grant developing countries the right to pr...
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members urge Biden to champion vaccine collaboration with IndiaThe lawmakers urged the President to use the two vaccines which are a result of India-US collaborations for the global good and to end vacc...
'Not against boosters for high-risk people'Several countries including India are planning to start booster vaccination for high-risk populations such as people above 60 years of age ...
Examining data before taking call on booster, vaccination age bar, says CentreThe Centre on Friday said it was closely examining scientific data. "We would be governed by science and scientific evidence in deciding on...
Covid highlighted need to invest in affordable tech for life-saving vaccines: Kiran Mazumdar-ShawShe said the COVID-19 pandemic brought out the importance of investing in affordable technologies, innovation to deliver important life-sav...
WHO urges 'rational' measures against Omicron Covid variant"We call on all member states to take rational, proportional risk-reduction measures," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a brief...
Did vaccine inequality lead to the Omicron variant?In a video address, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the time that the only way to beat the pandemic was by making sure poorer countries ...
Omicron brings COVID-19 vaccine inequity 'home to roost'Perhaps nowhere is the inequality more evident than in Africa, where under 7% of the population is vaccinated. South African scientists ale...
Vaccine inequity comes into stark focus during UN gathering"Some countries have vaccinated their populations, and are on the path to recovery. For others, the lack of vaccines and weak health system...
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw & Adar Poonawalla spell out the road map for Biocon-Serum alliance"The Biocon-Serum alliance will initially focus on Covid vaccines, because that is the need of the hour. At a later stage, we will see what...
Need effective mechanism to address global vaccine inequity: India in UNSCIndia's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti tweeted that in the Security Council consultations on COVID-19, he said...
Vaccine inequity: Inside the world's cutthroat race to secure dosesInequity is everywhere: Inoculations go begging in the United States while Haiti, a short plane ride away, received its first delivery July...
India's vaccine inequity worsens as countryside languishesThat's the same number of doses as have been administered across nine major cities -- New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyder...
EU to rule on J&J shot safety as raging Covid-19 wave grips IndiaThe J&J vaccine concerns follow similar reports of blood clots in a very small number of people who received the AstraZeneca shot. The EMA ...
We have supplied more vaccines globally than having vaccinated our own people: India tells UNIndia has supplied more Covid-19 vaccines globally than vaccinated its own people, the country has told the UN General Assembly and caution...
WHO chief says poor could be 'trampled' in vaccine push, warns any solution must be equitableSpeaking at a virtual UN summit on the pandemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world was seeing "light at the en...