The World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, closed on 12 November with a declaration calling for urgent action to mainstream ESD and include ESD in the post-2015 development agenda.
Many governments, donors and program implementers are enthusiastic about the role of mobile phones and associated technologies in a wide range of initiatives, including strengthening health systems and improving health outcomes. However, over the last few years there has been growing conversation about what some call mHealth “pilotitis”—the phenomenon that while there have been many mHealth pilots, from sub-Saharan Africa to South Asia, the majority have not been taken to scale, with even fewer success stories.
Corporations marketing unhealthy foods to poorer consumers are being challenged for their role in the growing global burden of diseases like diabetes.Over 340 million people are living with diabetes, and WHO predicts the number of people who die from diabetes each year will double between 2005 and 2030. Nov.14 is World Diabetes Day.
Last year, 1 million children around the world died of pneumonia. But perhaps the greater tragedy is that we have very effective tools to prevent and treat most cases of pneumonia, and the great majority of these children need not have died.
Nigeria’s response to Ebola has drawn high praise now that the concerted effort by government has stopped the disease in its tracks. Nigeria rapidly mobilized domestic resources and used house-to-house information campaigns to educate the populace.
Kathryn Stinson, an epidemiologist working for MSF reflects upon her experiences working in Freetown in the battle against Ebola.
The Outlook on the Global Agenda 2015 features an analysis of the Top 10 trends which will preoccupy experts for the next 12-18 months as well as the key challenges facing the world’s regions, an overview of global leadership and governance, and the emerging issues that will define our future.