Why keeping existing health programmes going in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic is imperative to avoid millions of deaths worldwide. The coronavirus has been spreading rapidly across the world and numbers of confirmed cases and deaths keep rising. As we all witnessed countries shutting down in an effort to slow the progression of the […]

All information in this blog was checked at the time of writing, for up-to-date advice on COVID-19 and breastfeeding please look to WHO and UNICEF  Two years ago, I was packing my hospital bag, getting ready to go into hospital for the birth of my baby girl. About a week before the birth I was screened for MRSA. This made me briefly worry […]

Covid-19 is putting a strain on societies and economies around the world, and the poor who are carrying the burden of the disease, both in high-income countries as well as in developing contexts. Today, the World Bank has published its first assessment of the economic impact of Covid-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, showing the devastating effects the new coronavirus is likely to have on the world’s poorest continent.

At a time when COVID-19 has got every nation – and everyone – talking corona, the debate about access to medicines has jumped to the top of the agenda. It’s a big shift. And a big opportunity.

We are living through extraordinary times. In the space of a few short months the Coronavirus pandemic has spread to almost every country in the world, bringing grief, suffering, and economic chaos in its wake. In the UK our National Health Service, and everyone working in it, has come under enormous pressure. Recession and the […]