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Webinar registration: Preparedness or Prevention. Defence or Precaution. How conflicting concepts of Global Health Security and Public Health are shaping the Covid19 response 26 October 2020

WHO´s Executive Board assesses current COVID-19 response and requests to be more involved in the review

Covid-19 has exposed the catastrophic impact of privatising vital services

Patients Who Had More Severe COVID-19 May Be the Best Donors for Convalescent Plasma Therapy

The FDA’s Evolving COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorizations: How The Convalescent Plasma Authorization Can Inform Future Vaccine And Therapeutic EUAs

Much-Touted Remdesivir Fails To Reduce COVID-19 Deaths; Results Of WHO-Coordinated Solidarity Trial

Coronavirus: Commission lists key steps for effective vaccination strategies and vaccines deployment

China’s Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Is Safe and Provokes Immune Response, Say Preliminary Clinical Trial Results

Vaccine storage issues could leave 3B people without access

Africa needs to go beyond COVAX to secure vaccine doses, experts say

What do people in BRICS countries think about a COVID-19 vaccine?

Allô Bercy? Corporate Welfare in a Time of Pandemic

Updated estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty: The effect of new data

A Venture Philanthropy Fund Yields Big Results in the Battle Against Diabetes

TDR eNewsletter 20 October 2020

Human Rights Reader 549

UN CAUCHEMAR NOMME TOTAL Une multiplication alarmante des violations des droits humains en Ouganda et Tanzanie

Kenyan efforts to end FGM suffer blow with victims paraded in ‘open defiance’

A Long, Uneven and Uncertain Ascent

Clinical Engineers Launch New Global Organization with Aim of Improving Safety and Healthcare Outcomes Worldwide

Rethinking Annual Deductibles: The Case For Monthly Cost-Sharing Limits

Introducing a Dashboard for Assessing Fiscal Policy in Low-Income Countries

Climate finance driving poor countries deeper into debt, says Oxfam

EU leaders to decide tougher climate goal in December

Renovation Wave: doubling the renovation rate to cut emissions, boost recovery and reduce energy poverty

Green Deal: Commission adopts new Chemicals Strategy towards a toxic-free environment

EU to push new standards for ‘greenest’ car batteries on earth

Dried, pressed plants predict climate future