News Flash 519: Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

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News Flash 519

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

World Literacy Summit: April 2-4 2023, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Cross-country analysis of health worker mobility across the European Union and neighbouring countries (2010 – 2022): Highlights

55 countries face a health worker crunch linked to COVID-19: WHO

Protecting Public Health through Technology Transfer: The Unfulfilled Promise of the TRIPS Agreement

Is There a Case for “Common but Differentiated Responsibility” in Global Health?

Over 6.5 million South Africans could be affected by long COVID

Audio Interview: The Future of Covid-19 Research

From concept to scale Celebrating 10 years of seasonal malaria chemoprevention

WHO clears combination malaria nets to dodge resistance

World Tuberculosis Day 24 March 2023

WHO steps up the Director-General’s flagship initiative to combat tuberculosis

Urgent need to improve access to TB testing to support rollout of better, safer, shorter treatment for drug-resistant TB

The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem

SEE WHAT MATTERS: Combating Stigma to End HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA)   by Olga Shelevakho

Burundi declares public health emergency amid first polio cases in 30 years

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #46: Health workers demand change

March 2023 TDR Newsletter

The messy business of sanitation and toilets

Our lifetime opportunity to enable water, sanitation and hygiene for all

THE STATE OF WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP IN GLOBAL HEALTH

Surge in executions of drug offenders in 2022, more on death row

Uganda passes a law making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ

HRR 670: OUR CRITICAL SENSE HAS SHARPENED, OUR DEMANDS HAVE GROWN, BUT WE HAVE NOT YET SUFFICIENTLY FOUGHT AGAINST THE PROGRESSIVE ATOMIZATION THAT DISSOCIATES US INTO TINY GROUPS AND DISABLES US FOR EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE ACTION

Consumer protection: enabling sustainable choices and ending greenwashing

Protecting and Managing the High Seas

Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, say experts

Number of city dwellers lacking safe water to double by 2050

National Geographic Society and Utrecht University Launch World Water Map

MIND THE WATERGAP Mapping the world’s water shortages

Next Decade Will Determine if We Can Stop Global Warming at 1.5ºC, Says IPCC

EU climate chief calls for higher ambition at COP28 after IPCC report

Climate deaths ’15 times higher’ for most vulnerable