Public health round-up

Confirmatory tests carried out by the In- stitut Pasteur in Paris detected Neisseria meningitidis – one of the most frequent types of bacterial meningitis with the A health volunteer measures the blood pressure of a patient during a home visit on 23 September 2020, in Bang Phut, Thailand. [...] As global analysis of trends in hypertension prevalence, over the past 30 years the burden of 8 September, 261 people had been of this disease has shifted from high-income to low- and middle-income countries. [...] As of the same date, the health authorities had deployed an emergency team and, with WHO Afghan health services cut partners are requesting US$ 66 million support, were quickly ramping up the A pause in funding for the Sehatmandi to deliver essential and life-sustaining response. [...] Since the start of the year policy-makers in all countries with the more than 550 000 people, half of them tools needed to forecast, detect and as- New technologies for children, have been internally displaced, sess epidemic and pandemic risks so priority diseases fleeing drought and conflict in the they can take rapid decisions to prevent country. [...] The two billion dose target week for the hub which shipped over for supporting people with dementia is now expected to be reached in the first 450 metric tonnes of medical supplies and their families.