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Given the daunting challenges of 2021, and the opportunity that the pandemic presented to reform the health sector, Budget 2021 unfortunately remained firmly within a disappointing but familiar ‘more-of-the-same’ framework. ...
The promise of widespread vaccination is still out of reach for most Americans. A month after the country’s first vaccinations, there’s no federal data showing who is receiving the vaccine.
Successful stories of change across India suggest investment in girls and women and heightened delivery of health and nutrition interventions in bringing down malnutrition.
The difference between conventional and alternative medicine must eventually be removed so that the medicines that work are available to all practitioners.
India will need to invest in a resilient information infrastructure, and 2021 would hopefully see relevant and scientific information being a catalyst in initiatives within the healthcare delivery system. The COVID-19 vaccination drive will be a testing ground.
The real question is not whether therapeutic gene editing is possible, but rather — do we want it and are we ready for it?
How the pandemic will play out in the next few years will depend on vaccines — their availability, coverage and duration of protection.
The UK has suffered enormously over the past year. Most visibly, it has one of the highest rates of COVID deaths per million people, and has suffered the most economically among its peers.
This “niche diplomacy” is expected to be one of the key guiding principles of Emirati foreign policy in 2021. ...
Can the pandemic become a means to prepare us to deal more effectively with a number of other seismic shifts which are either already underway or imminently forthcoming? ...
For 2021, governments in Africa will focus on improving their revenue and ending the economic recession, way more than it will focus on managing the pandemic. ...
For Armenia — just like most countries that went through a second wave — it is essential at least to stabilise the situation as soon as possible in order to prevent a new potential wave. ...
Unfortunately, policy advancements in mental health services have been left wanting due to the overwhelming public health burden of a raging pandemic. ...
India needs to enhance its programme effectiveness and reach. It calls for proactive measures and scaling up of innovations required to address malnutrition. ...
Srishti Sinha worked as a research assistant for the Digital Societies Initiative at ORF. Her research focuses on the governance of emerging technologies, with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, and the regulatory frameworks shaping responsible innovation. Previously, she ...
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Srishti Sinha worked as a research assistant for the Digital Societies Initiative at ORF. Her research focuses on the governance of emerging technologies, with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, and the regulatory frameworks shaping responsible innovation. Previously, she ...
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