Tag: pandemic
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Robust Pandemic Agreement needed to ensure equitable access to medicines in future
Leanne Coombe and Hope de Rooy-Underhill The World Health Organization (WHO) said that the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic represented a “catastrophic failure of the international community in showing solidarity and equity.” Pharmaceutical companies, supported by high-income countries seeking to be first in the vaccine queue, fought to protect…
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PHAA members’ review of books – The Great Influenza (2004)
The Great Influenza by John M Barry (published 2004). Reviewed by Deborah Hilton and Natasha Hilton (above, right) In The Great Influenza, John M Barry describes the so-called Spanish ‘flu of 1918-19 as the ‘deadliest plague in history’. A historical account of various scientists and academics is given, mentioning methods and…
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A start on a new approach to disease control?
Terry Slevin It’s welcome news that Labor, in opposition, is thinking about how to maximise Australia’s structural arrangements for the control of communicable diseases. Labor has overnight proposed the creation of a new national Centre for Disease Control, located within the Commonwealth Health Department. The proposed Centre would have…