Health Breaking News 336

Health Breaking News Links, as part of the research project PEAH (Policies for Equitable Access to Health), aim to focus on the latest challenges by trade and governments rules to equitable access to health in resource-limited settings

Health Breaking News 336

 

World Health Assembly Approves Milestone Resolution On Price Transparency 

WHO Resolution 28 May 2019: Improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines, and other health products 

Negotiators Agree On Game-Changing WHA Resolution For Medicine Price Disclosure 

The growing gap between what the public had been told R&D costs are, and the actual costs 

Does the political will exist to bring quality assured and affordable drugs to low- and middle income countries? 

‘You disappointed us’: Why is Canada opposing more transparency in drug prices? 

MPP Statement at the 72nd session of the World Health Assembly 

Reporting a clinical trial result on the European registry: My nightmare journey 

AMR incentives could be next big EU opportunity, pharma boss says 

Linking Vaccines And Quality: A Public Health Imperative In A Value-Based Era 

Major cholera vaccination campaign begins in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

Following 110 years of neglect, an official day for Chagas disease is declared 

New Plan For Ebola Outbreak Response To Ensure Safety Of Respondents 

Aid group: Most new Ebola cases were not known contacts 

DRC Ebola: latest numbers as of 27 May 2019 

Big tobacco, global health, and the limits of shared value 

WHO: World No Tobacco Day 31 May 2019 

Poor people struggle to access cancer medicines in India 

India: extreme inequality in numbers 

As the World Health Assembly Convenes, Let’s Elevate Use of Economic Evidence on the UHC Agenda 

Budget Cuts May Undercut the U.N.’s Human Rights Committees 

Human Rights Reader 483 

The Time is Now: End Sexual and Gender-Based Violence 

For Lack of Will: Child Hunger in Africa 

‘Pick the Odd One Out: Sugar, Salt, Animal Fat, Climate Change: What Are We Teaching?’ by David Patterson 

Nobel Laureate: UN Reform Needed to Stop Climate Rule Fights 

European cities target net-zero carbon buildings by 2050 

Fossil fuel subsidies are wrecking the world, says U.N. chief 

Four energy storage projects that could transform Europe 

Water Research & Education Needs to Flow Towards Developing World