you mentioned malawi, 0.2%.want more, and able to save as many lives as possible. 0k, well, you're here in the uk, which is one of the most highly vaccinated countries in the world. there's almost 56% of the total population, that's the total population, notjust adults, fully vaccinated, 70% has at least one jab. does it seem fair to you? well, you ask that question, but you can have the answer to that question. this is the unfairness that is there, the great divide that is there. and we are grateful that uk is able to do what you just described. but how many countries can you talk in that fashion, in africa, in latin america, in southeast asia? but what i'm wondering is, because you said "we are at the mercy of the international community," so i wonder, do you come to a country like the uk and think that they are being merciful or merciless? may ijust speak as it is? if we were able to produce our own vaccines, if we were able to do stuff, you know, in a global village where everyone is dependent on everyone el

and malawi now... was it an empty pledge, i wonder?. but from what you're saying... you're saying it was just one pledge. did it not matter? was it an empty pledge? no, no, no. it is not an empty pledge. i am saying we will fulfil that. but how many people have lostjobs here? it's irrelevant. i'm asking you about malawi. i'm asking you about your country and promises you made. i want you to understand the context in which we are dealing with these things. when you make a promise, which i did, and then i explain to people every time, this is why we have not been able to do this. you knew there was pandemic a year ago. no, no, no. the country had declared a state of emergency. we started to say that in 2019. there was no pandemic at that time. so, because... and we did not want to go back on that because time... but your predecessor... so, your predecessor, who... you won on the back of promises like this. the former president, peter mutharika, says of your government, "they're creating 1 million poor people instead of1millionjobs." he s

tanzania mainland, kenya, uganda, and malawi. they come here. they stay here for 5 months without going home to learn about solar engineering. woman: this is battery and that one is panel. this is system of home light system. favdi: the village needs to meet our criteria before our selecting them. it has to be far from the main road and then also the village has to have more than 100 households. each member of the households has to pay $3.00 per month. by using this money, they can pay their salary or they can help the village. for now, we have 8 villages who have solar, so, we have a lot of villages ahead of us. [woman speaking native language] have you seen this wire? good or no good? some of student, they understand swahili, and some of students, they understand in english. so, when i teach my student, i like to speak two language-- swahili and english. [speaking native language] [hajq speaking native language] [woman speaking native language] [women singing in native language] [woman speaking native language] woman: training a woman, you are

in malawi, there is one occupational therapist and one speech therapist for over 15 million children in 2012. they partnered with the w.h.o., and created a community focused approach that utilizes proven methods. and ethiopia, kenya, south africa. now doctor ward has been teaching a technique that is safe or and a highly efficacious to surgeons throughout africa. and in august 2011, he testified before rcep committee to tell those that he actually moved his family to uganda to start a special hospital for pediatric neurosurgery. insurance on spittle view canada. at that time, he estimated that there were 100,000 375,000 new cases of and -- hydrocephalus in sub-saharan africa. now to build capacity for treatment, he told about treating you condoms, to be the neurosurgeons. not just people come in, but train local doctors, and they've been very successful at that. yet, resources dedicated to address these needs remain adequate. we need to -- they lead to premature deaths or isolations, for millions of those who are affected. doctor wharf, i'll be brief on this, created a relatively ine

did you say molly or malawi? >> i said molly. there is a neurologist who has taken it upon himself to develop autism programs that are cutting edge in mali. he actually had done a fellowship at the national institute of health for two or three years in genetics. isn't just doing genetic studies, because autism has a huge genetic component that's essential to understanding the cause of the autism is. he is also working to diagnose and develop treatment programs and other things around autism with his other colleagues there. but we've done a ton remotely, by email, by web, and of course, that has to be supplemented by some in person, but one can really go a long way, i can say it moving things forward. because practitioners here are quite expensive, whereas because of the economy, the cost of training somebody there is way lower. i think we will have an enormous impact with the resources that we deploy. >> thank you. representative smith? >> thank you. the idea of prevalence studies, you may know this, but the 1997 study was but i

the pervasive lack of pediatricians in sub-saharan africa is a major problem and points out that in malawi there was one occupational therapist and one speech therapist for over 15 million children under the age of 14 in 2012. they partner with w.h.o. have developed and delivered it a kennedy focused approach that utilizes proven methods and it also has been working very effectively or trying to in ethiopia, kenya, uganda and south africa. dr. warf has been teaching a technique that is safer and certainly highly efficacious to surgeons throughout africa, and in august 2011 he testified before our subcommittee and told us he moved his family to uganda to start a specialty hospital for pediatric neurosurgery to cure children's hospital of uganda. at that time he estimated there were 100,000-375,000 new cases of infant hydrocephalus each and every year in sub-saharan africa. the bill capacity for effective treatment he said about you trained ugandans to be neurosurgeons, train the local doctors and they have been very successful at that. yet resources dedicated to addrs these needs remain ina

you said mali or malawi? >> i actor said mali. as a neurologist named -- who just has taken it upon himself to develop autism programs that are cutting-edge in mali, and he actually had done a fellowship at the national institutes of health i think for two or three years in genetics. but isn't just doing genetics studies of autism of course because autism has a huge genetic component. that's kind of essential to understanding what the cause of the autism is and in the future will change therapy. but he's also working to diagnose and to develop treatment programs and other things around autism with his other colleagues there. but you know we have done a ton remotely by e-mail, by web and of course it has to be supplemented by some in person. but again one can really go a long way i can say, you know, you know, in moving things forward. and because practitioners here are quite expensive whereas because of the economy, the cost of treating somebody there is, it's really way lowers i think we can have enormous impact the resources tha

without very much because i believe. >> you mentioned mentoring, and you said molly or malawi predict. >> and soy actually said molly. he took it upon himself to develop autism programs to the cutting edge and molly. and he actually had done a fellowship in the institute of health. anything for two or three years into genetics but it's d not jut doing genetic studies of autism, of course because autism is a huge genetic and come on it, that's kind of essential to understanding with the cause of the autism is in the future we will change therapies but is also working to diagnose and develop treatment programs and other things around autism. we have done a ton remotely by e-mail, by the web and of course supplemented by someone in person and again one can really go a long way. and i can say in moving things forward and because practitioners here are quite expensive whereas just because of the economy. the cost of training somebody various really way lower so i think we can have enormous impact with the resources that we deployed. >> thank you rated representatives to predict. >> you ver

in 1959, i was working in malawi, involved in a car accident, when i became paralysed and was broughtpital in england and from then my life changed dramatically. the director of the unit was ludwig guttmann and his idea was movement. people just not allowed to lie there, becoming ill and miserable. archive: it's paralysis that keeps the 200 contestants | in wheelchairs, but it can't prevent them from being sportsmen. itjust worked out happened that i happened to be quite good at archery and i used to win the monthly competition quite often. in 1960 i was very lucky and very surprised to be invited to be in the team to go to the very first international sports event for wheelchair people in rome. archive: visitors to _ the vatican where 350 paralysed people who have competed over there in what they called the paralympic games. the olympics had just taken place and we were going to stay in the olympic village in the same accommodation. to our horror when we arrived on the ground, all the buildings were up on stilts. whenever we went in or out and a building, these two soldiers would car

in 1959, i was working in malawi, involved in a car accident, when i became paralysed and was broughtnd and from then my life changed dramatically. the director of the unit was ludwig guttmann and his idea was movement. people just not allowed to lie there, becoming ill and miserable. | archive: it's paralysis that keeps| the 200 contestants in wheelchairs, but it can't prevent them from being sportsmen. itjust worked out happened that i happened to be quite good at archery and i used to win the monthly competition quite often. in 1960 i was very lucky and very surprised to be invited to be in the team to go to the very first international sports event for wheelchair people in rome. archive: visitors to the vatican where 350 paralysed people - who have competed over there in what they called the paralympic games. the olympics had just taken place and we were going to stay in the olympic village in the same accommodation. to our horror when we arrived on the ground, all the buildings were up on stilts. whenever we went in or out and a building, these two soldiers would carry us up two

to be working together and seeing 1st delivery of this new, groundbreaking medication in nigeria, malawi, uganda, kenya, and bob land building. well, we really think that it will drive down mortality light rate significantly the earlier children get on treatment, the greater their chances of survival. so as i mentioned, 800000 kids dying from h, i v aids related illnesses each year. we really see an opportunity to drive that down dramatically. but then another thing you mentioned with the cost reductions, it's a 75 percent cost reduction. that will really liberate resources to get more children on treatment, more people on treatment, and really save a lot of lives. the struggle and journey of a young honduran refugee is the focus of a newly released comic book. charity hopes it will help people relate to the plight of migrants. when you're apollo reports from to honor. ana is the story of a young girl forced to migrate from central america. while this comic book sponsored by the nonprofit groups save the children, tells of fictional tale of a young migrant child and her mother. on his ex

agency unitaid says 100,000 packs of the anti—retroviral drug are to be given to children in nigeria, malawig a strawberry flavour pill health experts hope they will overcome the problem of children failing to take the correct dose due to the bitter taste of the drugs. around 2.8 million children worldwide live with hiv, but only half receive any treatment. of the estimated 690,000 who died from aids—related illnesses in 2019, an estimated 110,000 were under the age of 20. well, here to discuss all this is robert matiru, director of programmes at global health agency unitaid. thank you so much forjoining us. we have had these sorts of medicines to try to reach children in particular, why the push now?— why the push now? what is really im ortant why the push now? what is really important about _ why the push now? what is really important about this _ why the push now? what is really important about this milestone i why the push now? what is really important about this milestone is j important about this milestone is that this is the first time that a generic version appropriately formulated o

for example, in malawi, we're, the government pays for this test. if the hospice n g o managers to find a place for it. so if they say we, you know, we got this place without this house, then the government will pay for something like that where you combine forces. now, all this very encouraging is examples. but still, it's a long way from the guideline of the international organization to the national government level and even down to the service provider level. and quite often them after a few years of implementation work advocacy work by look, apply on the us. you will have the 1st service in the capital of the country, but then again, this will not help people in the rural areas who are not even able to access any physician and will not be able to accessibility care at all. i mean, you talk about it being a long road in the w. h o also says that each year and estimated 40000000 people are in need of palliative care, 78 percent of whom live in low and middle income countries worldwide. only about 14 percent of people who need palliative care curr

the first pictures of the world's first 3d—printed school in malawi were released.shortage of 36,000 classrooms across the country and the creators of the new printed schools hope they can help bridge this gap in ten years. and finally this week, a belgian artist is shaming smartphone—obsessed politicians with an ai tracking tool. the machine learning system analyses live—streamed debates of the flemish government. it then posts the guilty parties to twitter and instagram under the handle theflemishscrollers. the winner of the a! song contest has been revealed — a team from the bay area and california won with this entry, listen to your body choir. # let me ask you a question. # what is it like out there? the song starts as a ballad before the beat drops. # go on. # listen to your body choir. i called john and max from the team to hear more about how they created their half ballad—half banger. i kind of did that on purpose because it was going to be a little bit of a popularity contest. you know, it was going to be voted on by an audience and ajury, and i knew it co

says one hundred thousand packs of the anti retro viral drug are to be given to children in nigeria, malawistrawberry flavour pill health experts hope they will overcome the problem of children failing to take the correct dose due to the bitter taste of the drugs. he explained why this is such a significant moment.— he explained why this is such a significant moment. what it's really im ortant significant moment. what it's really important about _ significant moment. what it's really important about this _ significant moment. what it's really important about this milestone - significant moment. what it's really important about this milestone is l important about this milestone is that this is the first time that a generic version appropriately formulated of the best treatment has been made available for the youngest infants and toddlers. for now, this age group with children as young as four weeks orderfour age group with children as young as four weeks order four kilograms of had to endure having adult tablets crushed. not getting the right amount of active ingredient for the treatment for

it's a year since lazarus chakwera became president of malawi, one of the poorest countries in the worldhe rubble of corruption. but a year on, the economy is being hit hard by the effects of covid. his government admits it has no idea how many jobs have been created, and he's been criticised

says one hundred thousand packs of the anti retro viral drug are to be given to children in nigeria, malawiawberry flavour pill health experts hope they will overcome the problem of children failing to take the correct dose due to the bitter taste of the drugs. robert matiru is the director of programmes at global health agency unitaid. he told me why this is such a significant moment. what it's really important about this milestone is that this is the first time that a generic version appropriately formulated of the best treatment has been made available for the youngest infants and toddlers. for now, this age group with children as young as four weeks order four kilograms of had to endure having adult tablets crushed. not getting the right amount of active ingredient for the treatment for hiv. and if that received the most attractive treatment. for of this most effective treatment for hiv and it's really great that after three years of the adult version being available, we managed to have a generic formulation made available for children that is a record time for a better drug for childre

to be working together and seeing 1st delivery of this new, groundbreaking medication in nigeria, malawi, uganda, kenya, them, by the way, i'm betting was the task that we don't forget to get people get used on this program, but this is certainly very good news for the youngsters concerns. just talk us through. hi. hi, this became possible. is this time to medical advances or is this don't so the, the corporate have aspects of getting us on boards with these different ages is to make sure this madison's affordable. how did it come about? yes. well, the great story of collaboration. so this is a 1st line h i v treatment that was recommended by the world health organization for maybe the smallest 4 weeks old, him 3 kilos. but until now that was out of reach because of the issues that you mentioned, the bitter taste, the need to crush adult pills. the lack of an appropriate formulation is an innovative partnership between unit have chai, the health care of the originator company that worked with a medicine patent pool to allow generic producers to make the drug at an affordable price. so it

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malawi hosted this archive of photos t cracking down on copyright grounds.clearly lacks an analysis of state power and lacks analysis of states rights so that's really again where i come from on all of this. i think when we advocate for takedowns of hate speech for example again i'm obviously not a fan of hate speech and i recognize the threats posed by right-wing at stream is immense white supremacy and yet when you sanction that implicitly sanctioning the states that utilize the same framework to take down activist and we have seen this time and time again in places like turkey is in the same kind of language that germany uses in its hate speech laws in the network enforcement act to remove criticism of their dewan or ataturk which has been dead for center and also the framework in europe and other parts of the world that for example would prevent people from denying the holocaust or denying the armenian genocide are not applied in the same fashion to ongoing places like myanmar. whenever we are trained advocate for things which will have an impact on peop

know, i seen already deliveries, you know, dose sharing deliveries go into haiti and bangladesh and malawirt, so a dose now, saves lives and saves multiple lives, if countries are going to wait and save and dump doses at christmas that is not festive so we need that planning today, as you say, say it good start for that but we need simply more doses, a greater supply and acceleration in that dose sharing. and give us an updates on delivering those doses, we know that countries in africa are among the most in need of doses from this scheme, this covax scheme, so, the logistics on the ground, how are they working? look, it really is a mountain to climb, you know, we need lots of thing, we need dose sharing, we need it accelerated. we need vaccine producers to focus on covax, mums and dads there is no magic pot of money, we know what needs to happen, that means getting things on the grounds, health workers training them up, it means getting cold systems and storage facilities out there. we know those things, that requires funding, so it a mountain to climb. we know a pathway through, it is th