Health Breaking News: Link 248

Health Breaking News 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

Health Breaking News: Link 248

 

Report From WHO Fair Pricing Meeting Shows Balanced Discussion 

EU drug agency announces ‘business continuity’ plan amid relocation uncertainty 

Grantees, Reveal Thy Findings: A Push By Funders for Transparency in Medical Research 

The Senate’s Health Care Freedom Act 

Physician Workforce Trends And Their Implications For Spending Growth 

US foreign aid cuts could be a ‘death sentence’ to women in Malawi 

Ending Modern Slavery: How America is Working to Stop Human Trafficking 

The Second Edition of UNPO’s Hmong Newsletter  

Defending academic and medical independence in Turkey 

How to Develop Breakthrough Technologies for Patient Engagement 

Why developing countries get stuck with weak institutions and how foreign actors can help 

Economic reform must not be an excuse for undermining human rights 

Addressing Asia’s fast growing diabetes epidemic 

The impact of the roll-out of rapid molecular diagnostic testing for tuberculosis on empirical treatment in Cape Town, South Africa 

Decentralized care for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis 

Treating tuberculosis in Tajikistan 

HIV advocates fear US cuts and ‘gag rule’ could undermine global progress 

To end HIV, discriminatory laws must be repealed 

Q&A: Cutting testing wait times to get more infants on HIV treatment 

Malaria in China, 2011–2015: an observational study 

Heat, human odour trap breakthrough 

Yemen conflict: Cholera risk for more than a million children 

Somalia’s impossible fight against cholera 

Antimicrobial resistance: from global agenda to national strategic plan, Thailand 

Threats posed by stockpiles of expired pharmaceuticals in low- and middle-income countries: a Ugandan perspective 

Loss of fertile land fuels ‘looming crisis’ across Africa 

Forum della sostenibilità e opportunità nel settore della salute (Firenze, stazione Leopolda) 29-30 settembre 2017 

WHO Europe: Final Declaration of the Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 13–15 June 2017 

Agriculture is a Major Culprit in Climate Change. Who’s Trying to Change That? 

Dawn of new EU emissions rules could sound death knell for coal power 

How to make sure we all benefit when nonprofits patent technologies like CRISPR