Health | Emerging diseases | Statistics
African swine fever has cost Asia between $55 billion and $130 billion, including as much as $77 billion in lost revenue.
Najibullah Habib, Thomas R.D. Weaver
Emerging diseases | COVID-19
Countries can minimize the economic risk of epidemics by investing in the tools needed to predict disease emergence.
Ilan Noy, Benno Ferrarini, Donghyun Park
Environment | Health | Emerging diseases
The spread of the zika virus demonstrates vector-borne disease control requires more than just investing in health.
Susann Roth
Health | Emerging diseases
Ebola was a wake-up call for countries and the wider international aid community that have not invested enough in strengthening health systems. The outbreak has shown that we need to improve the way we manage outbreak responses, and that more needs to be done to prepare us for pandemics.
Susann Roth
Governance and public management | Health | Emerging diseases | Poverty | Social development and protection
More than a year ago, I was in Liberia as part of a team looking into its health system and health financing reforms. The country was still recovering from long years of civil strife. But Liberia was eager to be one of a growing number of countries which were aspiring to and pursuing universal health coverage (UHC).
Eduardo P. Banzon
Health | Emerging diseases | Social development and protection
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, (MERS) is keeping infectious diseases experts on alert lately, although the World Health Organization (WHO) hasn’t declared MERS a global emergency.
Susann Roth
Health | Emerging diseases
Much of the media attention and a substantial slice of pharmaceutical research funding focuses on the fight against HIV/AIDS and other high profile infectious diseases.
Jean-Jacques Bernatas
Health | Emerging diseases
Let’s start today to prevent and build resilience against health threats in the region.
Susann Roth
Health
The risk of contracting antimicrobial-resistant bacteria or emerging infectious diseases is higher in Asia than anywhere else in the world.
Susann Roth