Why Most Voters Oppose Schools Reopening
Even as test rates hover around six to seven percent and tens of thousands of new Covid-19 cases are being reported daily, school districts across the country will continue with plans to resume operations in the coming weeks. The latest survey data …
What Restarting Sports And Reopening Schools Have In Common
On Saturday, the Mid-American Conference became the first Football Bowl Subdivision to postpone its upcoming season. The announcement comes amidst the most recent debate about schools doing the exact opposite—reopening and requiring students and faculty to return to campus. While many conferences, …
New Evidence Suggests Young Children Spread Covid-19 More Efficiently Than Adults
Two new studies, though from different parts of the world, have arrived at the same conclusion: that young children not only transmit SARS-CoV-2 efficiently, but may be major drivers of the pandemic as well. The first, which as published in JAMA yesterday, reports findings from a …
Wage Digitization for RMG Workers: Advancing Financial Inclusion in Bangladesh
In the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh, the move from cash to digital payments has opened new doors for strengthening the digital ecosystem for low-income earners. The digitization of wages provides a multitude of opportunities—from empowering women, to improving access to financial …
A Vietnam Fintech for Health co-creation workshop: Discovering innovative fintech solutions for healthcare financing challenges
A full day workshop was organized by ACCESS Health International and PSI team in Hanoi, Vietnam. Under Fintech for Health project, the agenda of the workshop was to co-create affordability solutions for working women to access contraceptive treatment. Representatives from six different …
How to Meet the Health Needs of People in the Time of Covid-19?
This is the first in a series of blog posts by ACCESS Health India Country Director Dr. Krishna Reddy. Dr. Reddy is a board certified cardiologist with a long and distinguished career, marked by his leadership of the CARE Hospital Group which …
Interview with a Geriatrician on the Frontlines of Covid-19
Covid-19 disproportionately affects those who are older and who have underlying health conditions. As cases soared across the United States in 2020, much of the focus has been placed on the healthcare workers in hospitals and urgent care facilities who are bearing …
How Antibody Tests Can Be Used To Fight COVID-19
There is a new antibody test that will change the landscape of Covid-19 testing as we know it. There are now two ways to test for Covid-19: one that measures the actual virus, and one that measures the body’s reaction to the …
Tech Care for All and ACCESS Health Webinar on Covid-19
ACCESS Health Chair and President William A. Haseltine and Senior Vice President of Global Health at Tech Care for All, Pam Bolton hosted a thirty minute live discussion about the ongoing outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19. During the webinar, available …
Healthcare must be Affordable and Accessible, but also High Quality
This post, authored by Valerie Shelly (ACCESS Health International), Susann Roth (Asian Development Bank) and Kirthi Ramesh (Asian Development Bank), originally appeared on the Asian Development Bank blog. Universal health coverage must be high quality to improve patients’ health outcomes Shakina lives in …