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Universal health coverage high on the political agenda during the Regional Director’s visit to Georgia
During a country visit to Georgia on 18–23 December 2020, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, discussed priority areas for health with high-level representatives. The visit was also an opportunity to speak with health care workers on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The visit was hosted by the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, and included discussions on strengthening WHO’s presence in the country through leveraging strategic partnerships with the European Union and other partners. COVID-19 was also on the agenda, along with its effect on health systems, which signified the need for a stronger focus on achieving universal health coverage by 2030.
Commenting on the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on health systems, Dr Kluge said, “Georgia has launched a strong response to COVID-19 but the pandemic has highlighted the need to accelerate progress to ensure that no one is left behind. Robust health systems, primary health care (PHC) and accessible public health services are the best way we can deliver universal health coverage across the country. These strategies will build resilience against future health emergencies and help get essential services to people in need”.
Health on the agenda at high-level meetings
The Government’s commitment to achieving universal health coverage was affirmed at the highest levels in meetings with the President, the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Health and the Chairperson of the Parliament. The Regional Director acknowledged the progress and highlighted the need to take further steps to improve financial protection by reducing out-of-pocket expenses for health care and improving access to high-quality and affordable medicines.
The Regional Director also referred to the launch of the Oslo Medicines Initiative as a milestone on the road to making medicines available and affordable by defining a new vision – informed by solidarity, transparency and sustainability – for collaboration between the public and private sectors to improve access to effective, novel, high-priced medicines in the WHO European Region. Other items high on the agenda included collaboration on addressing cancer, hypertension and mental health. Dr Kluge also congratulated Georgia on its leadership in efforts to eliminate hepatitis C and progress in tobacco control.
WHO stands ready to actively support Georgia in all the priority areas, with the main aim of minimizing disruptions in the sector and ensuring the population’s access to essential medical and public health services and financial protection. This includes implementing a new PHC package of services and a new Law on Medicinal Products for Georgia; improving control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and risk factors, key drivers of mortality in Georgia (93% of mortality is attributable to NCDs).
Meeting health workers
During a visit to a rural PHC centre, Dr Kluge once again expressed his appreciation for health care workers, recognizing the heroic work of Georgia’s frontline health care workers and calling family doctors “the friends of the people”. The Regional Director discussed the impact of COVID-19 on the local population, especially the need to address increased levels of anxiety caused by the pandemic.
Local doctors stressed the need for additional training in managing the mounting mental health needs of their population and the importance of clear and consistent communication in mitigating fear and anxiety.
COVID-19 response
The Regional Director made several site visits to COVID-19 response facilities, including the National Centers for Disease Control and Public Health, 112 hotline headquarters, an “online clinic”, a COVID hotel and a COVID hospital. Dr Kluge recognized Georgia’s innovative approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic, citing the novel use of COVID hotels and online clinics to manage mild and post-discharge COVID-19 cases. He also emphasized the need for a balanced approach and paying attention to the needs of the health workforce.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, recent WHO support has been directed towards building capacity in clinical management and lab diagnostics, procurement of lab equipment, test kits, personal protective equipment, development of guidelines and training PHC providers in COVID management and mental health issues related to COVID. Dr Kluge expressed WHO’s commitment to providing technical support for vaccine delivery and development of the national vaccine deployment strategy, and emphasized the importance of establishing safety monitoring systems as well as the regulatory and liability aspects.
European Programme of Work
The country visit was also an opportunity to discuss the European Programme of Work, 2020–2025 – “United Action for Better Health in Europe” (EPW), which sets out a vision of how the WHO Regional Office for Europe can support health authorities in Member States to improve health and well-being.
Linked to the EPW, digital health has both created new opportunities during the pandemic to reach remote citizens and reduced the need for travel to appointments, but it has also exposed the inequity in access to the internet and digital tools as well as gaps in guidelines, health information systems, training and legislation. The Government expressed its commitment to accelerating digital health development in the country through investments in infrastructure and reforming legislation and service delivery.
The EPW reflects WHO/Europe’s determination to leave no one behind and to strengthen the leadership of health authorities in the Region.
Herald journalist’s book Gangland banned from prisons
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Former inmate Arthur Taylor is willing to take the matter to court if it doesn’t get resolved. Photo / Dean Purcell
Jailhouse lawyer Arthur Taylor is preparing to take Corrections to court again over a decision to ban the book Gangland from New Zealand prisons.
Taylor is gearing up to fight the Corrections decision to ban New Zealand Herald journalist Jared Savage’s best-selling book, saying if the case goes to court, Corrections will lose.
The decision to bar prisoners from having the book has been labelled “silly” and “absolutely ridiculous”.
While Taylor was an inmate at Otago Corrections Facility in Dunedin last year, he was sent a copy of the book, but it was confiscated before he could get his hands on it.
He was initially told it was because the book – which delves into a collection of police investigations around drug crime and violence in New Zealand – contained “gang regalia”, he said.
After laying a complaint and asking for the decision to be reviewed, he received a further response from Corrections, with a different reason for the confiscation.
Corrections’ response, which has been viewed by the Herald, quoted the blurb for the book and said it could promote violence and drug use in prison.
“Management believes that this publication promotes violence and drug use and is a negative influence within a prison and reserves the right not to issue this book,” the response said.
Savage was “not surprised” by the ban, but said it was “kind of silly”.
He did not think the book glorified gang crime – in fact it clearly showed the consequences for perpetrators of such offending.
“I basically stitched together lots of things that were publicly available through the court trials. It’s not like I’m revealing some deep, dark secrets that no one’s ever heard about.
“It’s a very straight accounting of those court cases and the history of organised crime in the last 10 years.”
He thought the second part of Corrections’ response – that the book could have a negative influence – might hold slightly more weight.
“I guess I can see the potential for problems to arrive, in terms of most of the people mentioned in the book are still in prison so maybe they would take exception to how some cases have been portrayed.”
But in general the book would be more likely to act as a deterrent because the cases ended in successful prosecutions and jail time for offenders.
He questioned whether whoever had made the call to ban the book had actually read it, given they had only quoted the blurb in their decision.
Taylor told the Herald the decision was “absolutely ridiculous” and he was prepared to take the matter to court if need be.
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“As far as I’m concerned, it breaches freedom of expression.”
He has laid a formal complaint over the confiscation, but has not yet received a response.
“I won’t be letting it go. There’s an important principle at stake here.
“If there was any legitimate reason for banning that book, all power to them … [but] it’s just simply a recording of what’s already public knowledge. There’s a hell of a lot worse books than that in prison libraries.”
Corrections would not put anyone forward for an interview, and did not directly address the banning of Gangland in their statement.
“There is no official list of banned books in New Zealand prisons and the decision to allow certain books into prison is made by the relevant prison director on a case-by -case basis,” a spokesman said in the statement.
“However, there are publications that, while not specifically banned, are not suitable to be authorised in prison, unless the prison director makes an exception.
Policy included prisoners should not have access to material including pornography, overtly violent, objectionable, occult material where it could be prejudicial to reducing reoffending, and gang-related or “other offensive material”.
“We do not want to allow a publication in prison if there are concerns the item may compromise the effective management, security and good order of the prison or constitutes a risk to prisoner rehabilitation by promoting pro-criminal beliefs or activities.”
• Gangland: The Evolution of NZ’s Underworld is available in bookstores around the country
Covid dismissal upheld by court in Barcelona citing European Union rules
SOON after the start of the Spanish lockdown, the Government had a Royal Decree passed which effectively stated that no-one could be dismissed due to Covid-19 related matters.
Now however it is facing a dilemma as a court in Barcelona has ruled that a dismissal of an individual on July 3, 2020 had to be upheld due to Spain’s relationship with the European Union.
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Greek Archbishop Ieronymos: Islam is not a religion but a political ideology of conquest
Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos II expressed the view that Islam and its citizens, was not a religion, but a political ideology and its adherents were people of war, during an interview on Open TV.
According to the prelate of the Greek Orthodox Church, who was interviewed on the occasion of the bicentenary celebrations of the Greek uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1821, “they [Muslims] are the people of expansion, this is a characteristic of Islam.” Referring to Mohammed the Conqueror, he said that he had Greek advisers, while he had to unite the whole Christian community and entrust it to the Patriarch, and so Gennadius Scholarius was chosen as the Patriarch of Constantinople when it fell in 1453.
Archbishop Ieronymos also referred to the key role played by the Church in the national struggle for freedom during the Revolution of 1821. “There was no sign of revolution that did not start with a clergyman,” said Archbishop Ieronymos. He went on to describe the documented incidents involving archdeacon Athanasios Diakos and spoke about the clergy who participated in the War of Independence while explaining why there were crosses on all the flags of the Revolution.
Following his statement, two Islamic Muftis from Xanthi voiced their dissatisfaction calling the comments “offensive” to their religious sensibilities and not corresponding to reality.
Following the Islamic Mufti’s responses, the press office of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens released a statement saying: “The Archbishop and our Church respect in practice all the known religions.”
American megachurches become more multiracial: study
American megachurches are more racially and ethnically diverse than ever with more than half of them now having multiracial congregations, a new study from the Hartford Institute for Religious Research has found.
Sociologists Warren Bird and Scott Thumma found that the majority of the country’s roughly 1,750 megachurches are now multiracial (defined as 20 percent or more of a congregation belonging to a minority group).
In the pulpit, 94 percent of senior pastors are white.
But in the pews, the percentages of white people, black people, Asians, and Native Americans more closely match their percentages in the American population.
Megachurches are commonly defined as Protestant churches with regular attendances pre-COVID-19 pandemic of 2,000 or more adults and children.
Two decades ago, only 21 percent of megachurches were multiracial, but that it not true any longer.
More than half of them (58 percent) report being multiracial today, defined as having 20 percent or more minority presence in their congregation.
“In many ways, megachurches are leading the way toward what we hope is a future where multiracial churches are the norm,” say the authors.
In virtually every city and region, across denominations and less formal church networks, megachurch leaders continue to set the pace for other church leaders, both directly and indirectly.
1,750 MEGACHURCHES IN US
The study find that the roughly 1,750 megachurches in the United States continue to evolve and respond to changes in society and culture.
The Hartford research is the sixth national study of these largest Protestant Christian churches continues to show developing trends and adaptations to their overall ministry efforts.
Back in 2005, only percent of all congregations were multiracial.
By 2019, that number had doubled to 16 percent f all congregations across all faith groups could be described as having at least 20 percent racial or ethnic diversity in their attending membership.
“Though we have often heard, ‘Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week,’ with each passing year it’s less true of large churches, as a large percentage of megachurches are less likely to be homogeneous collections of the same kind of person,” the authors write.
Along with that, racial diversity also comes with a considerable mix of economic groups and educational levels, with roughly 50 percent being college graduates, significant representation from all age groups.
“Much is still unknown about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on churches, but one pattern is already clear: larger churches are providing much of the thought leadership for how to spiritually navigate the crisis—similar to how larger churches have been significant influencers in the years before the pandemic.
“In short, despite frequent negative press treatment toward megachurches (a portion welldeserved, such as from financial scandal or, more recently, defying social gathering and mask bans) the vast majority of America’s largest churches are continuing to set positive precedents in many important areas of faith development,” say the authors.
Justin Brierley wrote in the UK-based Premier Christianity in May 2018, “Our kids still remember the day we visited Saddleback in California.
“There was dancing, drama and singing. There were video games, themed play parks and an indoor aquarium and reptile display. They even came away with branded water bottles. But Saddleback isn’t a theme park, it’s a church.
“Saddleback is one of the USA’s 1,600 megachurches – defined as a church with more than 2,000 people in weekly attendance.
“While these large churches are still outnumbered by smaller churches in the country, their influence is undeniable. Over half of all the people who go to church in the USA attend a megachurch.”
Le Monde Reveals Contents of Pfizer Covid Vax-Related Docs Stolen From EU Medicine Watchdog
Covid-19 vaccine-related documents accessed and copied from the EMA last month suggest that the agency appeared to have been pressured into approving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as quickly as possible despite a range of concerns, Le Monde reports, after investigating files found on the dark web.
The files reportedly include 19 letters sent between 10 and 25 November by agency employees, including among them emails sent to multiple recipients (whose potential for manipulation is therefore deemed more difficult).
These include a letter dated 12 November between EMA staff and EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides, who reportedly told the regulator that European countries should “receive the vaccine at the same time,” and advised against “forcing” countries to apply national regulatory procedures to avoid further delays in drugs’ approval.
A second letter, dated, 19 November, features a senior EMA official describing a “rather tense,” “sometimes even unpleasant” conference call with European Commission officials which gave “an idea of what the EMA may face if expectations, realistic or not, are not met” on the timeframe for approval.
In correspondence dated 20 November, the same official was said to have told members of the Danish Medicines Agency that they were “surprised” by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s move to say publicly that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines would receive approval before the end of 2020, despite lingering concerns by EMA regulators “with both drugs.”
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers her speech at the European parliament Tuesday, Jan.14, 2020 in Strasbourg, eastern France.
For the Pfizer-BioNTech preparation, the documents said these “problems” included a lack of inspections at manufacturing facilities, lack of data on commercial lots, “and most importantly, the fact that there are differences in quality between commercial batches and those used in clinical trials,” and in particular – a decrease in the integrity of its main active ingredient – RNA.
The latter issue, Le Monde says, was said to have “caused the greatest concern among researchers tasked with evaluating the vaccine’s quality,” with fears reportedly related not only to effectiveness, but to safety.
US, Canadian, UK Regulators Reportedly More Lax
The Documents also found that the issues brought up by the Europeans were not considered serious by the US Food and Drug Administration, as well as by Canadian and British regulators, as the emergency approval for a vaccine’s temporary use in the three countries are less restrictive than those of the European Union. For this reason, health authorities were urged to “align the general requirements” more closely with the FDA and the Canadian agency “to avoid” a hypothetical situation in which one region “receives all the sub-optimal material.”
Pfizer and BioNTech reportedly responded to the EMA’s concerns in a report dated 26 November, with the review saying that inspections at production sites had begun, and proposing the creation of a 60-percent RNA minimum integrity rate, with one manufacturer saying differences in the amount of RNA “should not affect” the preparation’s effectiveness or safety.
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Simon Stevens (R), Chief Executive of the NHS, watches as a nurse (C) administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to Frank Naderer (L), 82, at Guy’s Hospital in London on 8 December 2020 as the UK starts its biggest ever vaccination programme.
However, a document dated 30 November showing correspondence between the EMA and manufacturers suggested that the EMA was not entirely satisfied, saying “critical issues” needed to be addressed through a “stricter control strategy,” particularly “given the innovative nature of this type of product and limited experience” in handling it.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved by European regulators on 21 December, 2020, having already been permitted for use in the US and the UK earlier that month.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, sold to the EU for 15.50 euros per dose for 300 million doses, faced flak this week after Norway linked 13 deaths to side effects, and Dutch media reporting that about 100 people in the Netherlands had developed side effects of various severity after taking the preparation. Similar problems were reported in Belgium, Finland and Israel, with the latter country reporting partial facial paralysis among 13 Israelis jabbed by the shot.
On Friday, China’s state-run Global Times, under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party, cited medical experts urging health authorities to suspend Covid-19 vaccination campaigns which use mRNA technology. China’s vaccines, created by Sinopharm and Sinovac, use inactivated technology, theoretically making them less potent, but safer.
Industrial Furnaces Market 2020: Development, Growth, Key Factors And Forecast To 2028
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Brexit: Raab claims EU trade agreement is ‘great deal’ for fishermen, as firms complain of costs and delays
Foreign secretary Dominic Raab has denied betraying the UK’s fishermen, insisting that the Brexit trade agreement signed by Boris Johnson was “a great deal” for the industry.
Mr Raab was speaking amid howls of outrage from fishing companies, who say that the additional red tape and delay caused by the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement has led to them losing huge sums from consignments unable to reach European export markets.
And the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) has described the deal as “desperately poor”, leaving many businesses fearing for their survival amid reports of an 80 per cent collapse in the prices they can charge for their catch.
But confronted with fishermen’s angry comments during an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr, Mr Raab said: “I think this is a great deal for the fishing industry, both short term and long term.
“We get control over our fisheries back – full control as an independent coastal state – there is an immediate 15 per cent uplift in our access to fisheries for the UK sector in the first year. That rises to two-thirds in the five-year transition period, then we have annual negotiations.”
Marr read out comments from Jamie McMillan, managing director of Loch Fyne Langoustines, who said: “We have no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks. If we go another week without that, we are finished.”
And Marr confronted Mr Raab with the comment of Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland, who said: “Some businesses, which may have been run by families for generations, are now days away from collapse as a result of the agreement.”
Mr Raab dismissed the difficulties faced by fishing businesses as “teething problems” and said he was “not convinced” that the thickets of Brexit paperwork and delays were the result of the agreement.
“The agreement we have struck, both short term and medium term and long term, will create huge sustainable opportunities,” he claimed.
“Of course, we’ve always said as we leave the transition period with a deal – but even more if we hadn’t had a deal – there will be some teething problems.
“We’re very focused on working with all of the different sectors, including the fishing industry, to resolve any of these teething problems.”
Mr Raab said that the government was investing £100m into the fishing industry to enable it to grasp the additional opportunities which ministers believe will be available as a result of Brexit.
Despite warnings from industry figures of companies being on the brink of closure, Mr Raab said: “The fishing industry is going to want to increase its capacity to take advantage of those increased stocks.
“That’s why we’re putting in £100 million to shore up, to strengthen, the fishing industry right across the whole of the UK, to make sure that this really important opportunity of leaving the EU and leaving the transition period can be properly grasped.”
Alistair Carmichael, Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, responded: “Brexit might be a game to the likes of Dominic Raab and Boris Johnson but for thousands of people in Scotland this is their business and their livelihood on the line.
“Fishermen are telling the PM that his deal did not do any of the things he claimed for it, let alone what he had promised. The harder the Tories spin, the angrier fishing communities get.
“The government needs to start listening to the people who know what they are talking about and start to clean up the mess that the prime minister has created.”
In a letter to Mr Johnson last week, SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald accused the prime minister of misleading the public about the agreement and giving the industry “the worst of both worlds”.
“You and your government have spun a line about a 25 per cent uplift in quota for the UK, but you know this is not true, and your deal does not deliver that,” Ms Macdonald wrote.
The prime minister’s stated approach, known as “zonal attachment”, would have secured British boats up to 90 per cent of the catch in UK waters for important stocks such as herring. Instead, the deal actually means the UK share of the herring catch is just 32.2 per cent, she said.
“This can hardly be claimed as a resounding success,” Ms Macdonald wrote.
“This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds. Your deal leaves us with shares that not only fall very far short of zonal attachment, but in many cases fail to ‘bridge the gap’ compared to historic catches, and with no ability to leverage more fish from the EU, as they have full access to our waters.”
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