Public Health
- A drug development model for the diseases the world forgotafricanarguments.org A drug development model for the diseases the world forgot | African Arguments
Over the past 20 years, researchers at the Deadly and Neglected Diseases Initiative have developed drugs targeting the diseases the world forgot.
>Neglected tropical diseases, such as visceral leishmaniasis, primarily affect people in the world’s poorest regions. Unfortunately, commercially driven medical research tends to overlook these populations because they are believed to lack the financial means to constitute a lucrative market for the traditional pharmaceutical industry. Drug development today is primarily skewed to areas with the greatest commercial return rather than those with the greatest public health needs. > >But the alternative model that my organization, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi), and our partners have pioneered since 2003 focuses on areas of the greatest need rather than the greatest profit. This means that we prioritize the development of treatments for diseases that have a high impact on public health, even if they are not directly profitable for the companies that develop them.
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- Pluralistic: America’s largest hospital chain has an algorithmic death panel
But this empirical facewash evaporates when confronted with whistleblower accounts of hospital administrators who have no medical credentials berating doctors for a "missed hospice opportunity" when a physician opts to keep a patient under their care despite the algorithm's determination.
This is the true "AI Safety" risk. It's not that a chatbot will become sentient and take over the world – it's that the original artificial lifeform, the limited liability company, will use "AI" to accelerate its murderous shell-game until we can't spot the trick:
- Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemicnewbooksnetwork.com Podcast | Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During…
Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
- Cerebrospinal Fluid "Brain Washing" During Sleep | The Brink | Boston Universitywww.bu.edu Are We “Brain Washed” during Sleep?
A new study from Boston University is the first to illustrate that the brain’s cerebrospinal fluid pulses during sleep, and that these motions are closely tied with brain wave activity and blood flow. It may confirm the hypothesis that CSF flow and slow-wave activity both help flush toxic, memory-im...
- Don’t be fooled, the biodiversity crisis is a global security crisisafricanarguments.org Don't be fooled, the biodiversity crisis is a global security crisis | African Arguments
Environmental degradation is a key driver of insecurity. To achieve peace, we must protect the planet and finance these efforts accordingly. Earlier this week, nine philanthropic organisations launched the “Protecting Our Planet Challenge” and pledged $5 billion to protect and conserve 30% of the pl...
> It is no coincidence that 6 of the 10 largest UN-led peacekeeping operations currently exist in areas highly exposed to the impact of climate change; Mali, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to name a few. Environmental degradation and subsequent biodiversity loss lead directly to a collapse in food and water supplies, increased spread of diseases, reduced air quality, and a dramatic reduction in quality of life – which in turn significantly exacerbate security risks including violent conflict.
- WHO approves emergency use of China’s Sinopharm vaccinewww.aljazeera.com WHO approves emergency use of China’s Sinopharm vaccine
Sinopharm could now be included in the UN-backed COVAX programme distributing COVID jabs to lower income countries.
> “This afternoon, WHO gave emergency use listing to sign off on Beijing’s COVID-19 vaccine, making it the sixth vaccine to receive WHO validation for safety, efficacy and quality,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhahom Ghebreyesus said.
- Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)www.cdc.gov Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
CDC provides credible COVID-19 health information to the U.S.
> current knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 transmission and reformatted to be more concise. > that airborne virus can be inhaled even when one is more than six feet away from an infected individual. > Although how we understand transmission occurs has shifted, the ways to prevent infection with this virus have not.
- War-rooms and oxygen: India's IT companies scramble to handle COVID-19 surgewww.reuters.com War-rooms and oxygen: India’s IT companies scramble to handle COVID-19 surge
India's giant IT firms in Bengaluru and other cities have set up COVID-19 "war-rooms" as they scramble to source oxygen, medicine and hospital beds for infected workers and maintain backroom operations for the world's biggest financial firms.
> All 15 of the large companies Reuters spoke to this week said that they now had vaccination schemes in place. Several outlined COVID-19 "war-rooms" they had launched to support staff and secure oxygen and other supplies. > > Initially, managers outside India had not wanted their companies' Indian operations to be seen to be jumping the queue for vaccines, says a senior manager who runs a workforce of more than 600 staff at a global bank in Bengaluru, asking not to be identified. > > "The India CEO and others here said: we don't care what it looks like, people are dying."
- Photos: Mass funeral pyres reflect India’s COVID tragedywww.aljazeera.com Photos: Mass funeral pyres reflect India’s COVID tragedy
India’s unfolding coronavirus crisis is most visceral in its overwhelmed crematoriums and graveyards.
> At the city’s Bhadbhada Vishram Ghat crematorium, workers said they cremated more than 110 people on Saturday, even as government figures in the city of 1.8 million put the total number of virus deaths at just 10.
- Exhumed Bodies: Reburials and Cultural Resistance in Covid Times | African Argumentsafricanarguments.org Exhumed Bodies: Reburials and Cultural Resistance in Covid Times | African Arguments
Politics of burial during Covid-19 in South Africa
"Nolusapho, Thembisile’s widow, said that within weeks of the funeral, family members started to see Thembisile appearing in their dreams complaining of suffocation caused by the plastic wraps around his body."
- Infected after holiday to Europe, pregnant Singapore mum gives birth to baby with Covid-19 antibodieswww.straitstimes.com Infected after holiday to Europe, pregnant S'pore mum gives birth to baby with Covid-19 antibodies
"I feel relieved my Covid-19 journey is finally over now," said Celine Ng-Chan. Read more at straitstimes.com.
>"My doctor suspects I have transferred my Covid-19 antibodies to him during my pregnancy."
- Denmark plans to cull its mink population after coronavirus mutation spreads to humanswww.reuters.com Denmark plans to cull its mink population after coronavirus mutation spreads to humans
Denmark will cull its mink population of up to 17 million after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to humans, the prime minister said on Wednesday.
> Health authorities found virus strains in humans and in mink which showed decreased sensitivity against antibodies, potentially lowering the efficacy of future vaccines, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said. > ... > The head of the WHO’s emergencies programme, Mike Ryan, called on Friday for full-scale scientific investigations of the complex issue of humans - outside China - infecting mink which in turn transmitted the virus back to humans.
