We joined other organizations around the world to demand Gilead to take immediate actions to ensure rapid availability, affordability and accessibility of its experimental therapy Remdesivir for the treatment of COVID-19, if the clinical trials results demonstrate efficacy. The FDA granted the request to Gilead on Monday March 30th, 2020.…

The Launch Of  the Kampala Initiative More  about the event  follow this link https: https://www.medicusmundi.org/kampala2019/ Since 2016, Medicus Mundi International provides spaces and input for a critical reflection on the role of health cooperation (aid) in people centred national health systems and policies. With the launch of the “Kampala Initiative” through a series…

The partnerships contribution towards reverse knowledge innovation is indispensable in global health and development, without them, the global community would have failed to fully acclimate to its ever emerging health dynamics. Reversal Knowledge Innovation refers to the flow of ideas through innovations and inventions from emerging or developing Low Income…

By Michael Ssemakula The article, link to the article, focuses on two significant issues; Public Health Emergency Response, in particular Ebola crisis in DRC and Access to Medicines through the medicines transparency resolution debates, and its impact on Africa. It demystifies the member states’ approach towards the transparency resolution and the their…

The conference focused on governance for health in Africa (Lessons learnt since independence to inform the future) with the gist on the Human resources for health (mainstream health practitioners, WHO code of practice, leadership/governance, planning and migration of health workers). Organized by The African Centre for Global Health and Social…

 By Rachel Thompson on February 5, 2019 The conflation of treatment and prevention may be problematic in tackling NCDs Within Global Health, the issues around NCDs are being framed in terms of treatment solutions. Solutions that, for example, often involve public private partnerships to accelerate access to pharmaceutical products. This issue was evident in the UN…

Obsolete mental health legislation in Uganda has a number of deficiencies such as failure to differentiate voluntary and involuntary care, inadequate protection and promotion of the human rights of people with mental illness and the presence of slurring and stigmatizing language; and henceforth not in line with the draft mental…