News Flash 567: 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 567

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Webinar registration: No Treaty Without Equity: Drawing Red Lines to the Pandemic Instrument Apr 16, 2024

Applications open for ODI’s Fellowship Scheme. Applications close on 30 April

WHO: Public health round-up

Three decades of progress and setbacks since the first international conference on population and development

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #73: 5th People’s Health Assembly focuses on war’s toll amidst Gaza crisis

Kwibuka30: Learning from the Past, Safeguarding the Future Against Genocide

IFIC ANNUAL SURVEY 2024: Position paper on person and people centred care in the context of integrated care

Uganda tweaked its anti-gay law just to get donor cash, activists say

EU’s historic migration pact passes amidst divisions and far-right fears

Pushing Forward for Gender Equity in Health

Surviving sexual violence in the camps of Benue

Consensus in times of disagreement: Vienna resolution on children’s pain relief

Tanzania Merges HIV and Diabetes Care to Tackle NCD Crisis

Future HIV epidemic trajectories in South Africa and projected long-term consequences of reductions in general population HIV testing: a mathematical modelling study

Why is cholera killing thousands in southern Africa?

Hospital infections kill hundreds of thousands in sub-Saharan Africa, research shows

WHO sounds alarm on viral hepatitis infections claiming 3500 lives each day

Stigma Prevents Europeans Living with Hepatitis B and C From Telling Families and Getting Care

Message by the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO – March 2024

Beyond the “Gavi-Eligible”: High-Leverage Opportunities for Gavi to Enhance Vaccine Access and Uptake in Ineligible Middle-Income Countries

New Dengue Vaccine Trials Show Promise in Brazil as Cases Continue to Rise

Decisive Action Needed to Stop Cervical Cancer Deaths

De Wet Swanepoel: using digital technologies to improve access to hearing health

Inside the push to make intellectual property work for African pharma

Houses made of waste changing lives in South America

The Triple Impact of Cleanliness: Environmental, Mental, and Societal Health

UN officials in Zambia to assess worst drought in 20 years

Unwrapping Africa’s food packaging problems

Countering the influence of tobacco

International court rules Switzerland violated human rights in landmark climate case brought by 2,000 women

Global rainforest loss continues at rate of 10 football pitches a minute

Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016

Over 80% of the EU’s farming subsidies support emissions-intensive animal products – new study