Tagged with Prevention

China Former director general of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and current chairman of the Chinese Foundation for Hepatitis Prevention and Control, Professor Yu Wang, weighs in on the country’s strong basic research landscape and the need to reinforce links to investment, the recent regulatory advancements that…

USA Since founding the HIV advocacy group Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) and launching its Undetectable=Untransmittable (U=U) campaign in 2016, Bruce Richman has been focused on raising awareness around a revolutionary but widely unknown fact: people living with HIV who are on treatment and have an undetectable viral load cannot sexually transmit…

Global First established in 1985 at the height of the AIDS pandemic, IAPAC is the world’s oldest medical association dedicated to HIV. Today, the organisation brings together over 30,000 professional and paraprofessionals delivering services to people living with and affected by the disease. In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview, IAPAC President…

Sweden Ulf G Andersson, CEO of the Medeon Science Park in Malmö, the Nordic’s oldest science park exclusively focused on life sciences, gives an overview of the history of the park, highlights the Medeon’s competitive advantage. He also offers first insights in his strategy of placing Medeon at the heart of…

Siemens VP Mesoamerica at Siemens Healthineers, Alejandro Paolini, explains the crucial role of prevention capabilities in increasing patients’ probability of recovery and lowering treatment costs in Mexico. Further, he explains how the new name “Healthineers” truly reflects the company’s engineering and healthcare expertise, enabling healthcare providers to enhance patient outcomes. When…

Hungary Preventive healthcare and health literacy are core issues in Hungary that, if left unaddressed, may hinder the country’s ability to push its health agenda forward and create a more sustainable system.   According to the OECD, life expectancy at birth in Hungary was 75.6 years in 2014, well below the…

Pharma As Egypt continues to grapple with the proliferation of the hepatitis C virus, fresh treatment, prevention and market access pathways are now being applied. Given the severity of Egypt’s hepatitis C epidemic, the national campaign against viral hepatitis remains Egypt’s top healthcare priority. According to Roche’s regional general manager, Ehab…