Health Breaking News: Link 252

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 252

 

TDR at Global Evidence Summit in Cape Town 13-16 September 2017 

The Role of the Private Sector in Global Health Security, Chatham House, London, 28 September 2017 

UK slips out of top 10 most generous nations as giving surges in developing countries 

Interview: BRICS to boost South-South cooperation, world development: UN official  

Combating Climate Change Impacts 

Air pollution in Europe: Countries struggle to meet emission limits due to emissions from agriculture and transport 

As flood waters rise, is urban sprawl as much to blame as climate change?  

Healthy Animals and the Future of a Continent: Behind Giving for Livestock in Africa 

China partners WFP to fight hunger in Zimbabwe 

Is China Really Helping Africa? 

What’s This Leading Tech Funder Up To in Africa? 

Scaling up Development Finance 

A development finance glossary 

Is India’s Expedited Examination Of Patents A Big Deal? 

Medicine movers: what it takes to reach every patient 

Now online: first independent framework for assessing pharma company action on AMR 

DNDi: More than EUR 56 million raised to fund initiative to fight antibiotic resistance 

WHO Prequalifies key treatment for children with TB 

Unitaid Board approves new grants to prevent tuberculosis in high-risk populations and increase TB diagnosis in children 

Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why? 

WHO and HRP celebrate World Sexual Health Day 

Estimated economic impact of vaccinations in 73 low- and middleincome countries, 2001–2020 

MSF takes next steps to lower vaccine prices: Launch of innovative tool to help countries negotiate lower pneumonia vaccine prices 

Kymriah, the Novartis $475,000 CAR T treatment, received 50 percent Orphan Drug tax credit on trials 

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Text Message-Based Smoking Cessation Program for Young Adults in Lima, Peru: Pilot Study  

Researchers develop innovative methodology for evaluating benefits of new medicines 

Donor funding health policy and systems research in low- and middle-income countries: how much, from where and to whom 

UNPO Newsletter: July-August 2017 edition 

South Sudan: “Many people have known war and displacement for their entire life” 

Addressing vulnerability of pregnant refugees 

Human Rights Reader 421 

Tapping Bollywood to improve sanitation in India