News Flash 500: Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

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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News Flash 500

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Online and in-person event: HEALTHCARE AND CLIMATE CHANGE: VICTIM OR PERPETRATOR? INTERNATIONAL GENEVA GLOBAL HEALTH PLATFORM 14 November 2022, 18:30 – 20:00 Auditorium Ivan Pictet, Maison de la Paix, Geneva Graduate Institute

Webinar registration: Financial Justice for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Tuesday, 15 November 2022 at Geneva Press Club

Webinar registration: Tackling and preventing medical deserts with the Medical Deserts Diagnostic Tool Monday November 21st, 2022

Online event: GLOBAL HEALTH CENTRE DIGITAL JUSTICE: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS TRANSFORMING YOUNG PEOPLE’S HEALTH AND RIGHTS 22 November 2022, 14:00 – 15:30

COP27: World Bank, IRENA Pledge $1 Billion for Solar Electrification of Health Facilities, Food Storage and Agriculture

Developing Nations Clamour for New Deal on Debt and Climate Finance

Cop27: world on ‘highway to climate hell’, says UN chief

COP27 Climate Change Conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world

COP27: EU launches Forest Partnerships with five partner countries

Why COP27 needs radical ideas and a shift of paradigm

COP27: What is ‘Loss and Damage’ compensation, and who should pay?

Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world’s richest people

Europe rapidly losing its forest carbon sink, study shows

Cop27: ‘Water-related risks keep me up at night’:, says UN’s disaster risk reduction boss

UN unveils global ‘early warning’ system for disasters at $3 billion

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Continuing the Scramble for Africa & We Need to Talk About It

Brazil’s Lula vows to prioritise climate, science amid crisis

Debt-for-Nature Swaps Gain Traction Among Developing Countries

Oh FFS: A guide to climate change acronyms

WHO: Public Health round-up

COVID vaccine hoarding might have cost more than a million lives

WEMOS report: Make pooling work to end pandemics: A qualitative analysis of the Covid-19 Technology Access Pool

Keeping Track of COVID-19 Omicron Variants

Audio Interview: Masking and Covid-19

World-first vaccine campaign brings hope in fighting deadly hepatitis E

Uganda to close schools early after eight children die of Ebola

New MSF report warns that major opportunity to increase access to newer, safer DR-TB drugs is at risk

DR-TB Drugs Under the Microscope, 8th Edition

Progress on Tuberculosis Can Be Achieved in Africa

Success Stories: SUCCESS ARK by Tukashaba Felix

Focus on: UGANDA’s HEALTH ISSUES

Bulletin #37: No to austerity, yes to strong health systems People’s Health Dispatch Nov 5, 2022 

The Sustainable Livelihoods Handbook: An asset based approach to poverty

Book: Patient involvement in the development, regulation and safe use of medicines

Health systems and policy research needed to strengthen the rehabilitation workforce

Human Rights Reader 654: IF SANITY WERE NOT A RARE COMMODITY, WE WOULD NOT BE DROWNING IN AN ECOLOGICAL CRISIS NOW.