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News Flash 577

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Academic Sign-on: Call for the adoption of an additional Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights on the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment

Health not a priority in EU Council’s 2024-2029 strategic agenda

UNAIDS funding shortfall disrupts NGO work

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #78: Starvation looms over Gaza; commercialization threatens health in Brazil

Report: Number of internally displaced people in Haiti increases by 60% 

HRR 728: WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS WHICH SIDE OF THE SOCIAL STRUGGLE WE/YOU TAKE SO AS NOT TO APPEAR DEFENDING THE INTERESTS OF THE OVEREXPLOITING SOCIAL CLASS

UN reports ‘shocking’ rise in violations against children in conflict in 2023

Platform to transform African agriculture launches at Paris Peace Forum

Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide

WHO releases report on state of development of antibacterials

Impact of the Pandemic on Health Inequalities: How COVID-19 Exacerbated Existing Disparities  by Nicolas Castillo

Is Africa Ready for the Next Pandemic?

World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic But Independent Panel Leaders Offer Way Forward

South Africa Records Two Deaths From MPox as More Cases Emerge

Chad eliminates human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem

Danaher continues to charge exorbitant prices for lifesaving medical tests despite urgent demands for price reductions by several Ministries of Health

Opinion: Pharma profiteering isn’t going away, and so we can’t either

PAF v AbbVie excessive pricing case the Netherlands

Inadequate Access to Essential Medicines in Poor Countries  by Christiane Fischer 

WHO issues warning on falsified medicines used for diabetes treatment and weight loss 

Analysis of opioid analgesics consumption in Africa: a longitudinal study from a 20-year continental perspective

ARE YOU NOT ADDICTED TO CANNABIS? PROVE IT  by Nejat Hassen, Dr. Mohita Chadha, Dr. Michael Chaiton, Dr. Sumedha Kushwaha 

A new model of drug discovery could change the game on superbugs

Faster access to clinical trial information in Europe

WHO Issues First-Ever Set of Guidelines for Taxing Unhealthy Foods

Climate change funding talks stuck ahead of COP29 summit

Bangladesh Can Boost Growth & Climate Resilience by Investing in Women

EU Council supports ratification of UN agreement protecting oceans

Coastal carbon removal methods ‘oversold’ – study

A Healthier, Climate-Smart Way Forward for Transportation

Four in five people want more climate action: UN survey