News Flash 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

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Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

A Global Health Crisis To Shape a New Globalisation by Enrique Restoy

Global Health Inequity 1960-2020: EQUITY VS. EQUALITY, DIGNITY VS POVERTY, EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE WELLBEING VS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX by Juan Garay, Nefer Kelley, David Chiriboga, Adam Garay 

Is ‘Bidenomics’ a watershed moment in global economics?

TDR: Monitoring and evaluating social innovations in health

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Weekly Update 

After encouraging statement from US on landmark COVID-19 monopoly waiver, MSF calls on all opposing countries to relent ahead of next talks

COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen: EMA finds possible link to very rare cases of unusual blood clots with low blood platelets

WHO: Statement on the seventh meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

Lost in pandemic? The pulse of global health in times of SARS-CoV-2 Policy dialogues ahead of the 74th World Health Assembly, 10-13 May 2021, organized and hosted by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) 

WHO Holds First Ever Pre- World Health Assembly Session With Civil Society 

Biden Administration must take bold action to ensure global COVID-19 vaccine access

How ‘vaccine passports’ could exacerbate global inequities

Is the South African COVID variant immune to vaccines?

Is a double mutant COVID variant behind India’s record surge?

Mideast refugees left behind in COVID-19 vaccine race 

COVID-19 and risks to the supply and quality of tests, drugs, and vaccines

Antibiotics pipeline ‘insufficient’ to tackle antimicrobial resistance

Policy Cures Research: G-Finder 2020 NEGLECTED DISEASE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: WHERE TO NOW? 

COVID-19 Provides Lessons for TB Vaccine Development 

MSF supports TB survivors’ court case for Indian government to override patents on lifesaving TB drugs 

The Medicines Patent Pool partners with two generic manufacturers to scale up access to generic dolutegravir in selected upper-middle-income countries 

Supplies run low as Kenya and US standoff over HIV drugs 

Advancing President Biden’s Equity Agenda — Lessons from Disparities Work

Women’s Economic Empowerment as a US Development Priority: Still A Lot of Room for Improvement

Child Trafficking in South Asia Facilitated by Open Borders 

Creating An Agenda For Children’s Resiliency And Health 

WTO Members note sharp downturn in LDCs’ trade, discuss role of trade in eradicating poverty 

Climate change ‘has dented global agricultural productivity’

Health & Climate Activists Have High Hopes That US Climate Summit Can Open New Chapter 

Concerns over climate finance for poorer nations as White House summit begins 

Breakthrough as EU negotiators clinch deal on European climate law

Giving plastic waste a new life