News Link n. 78

The news links are part of the research project GESPAM (Geopolitica, Salute Pubblica e Accesso alle Medicine/Geopolitics, Public Health and Access to Medicines), which aims to focus on the best options for the use of trade and government rules related to public health by resource-limited countries.

 

News Link 78

New global food table: Europe feasts while Africa fasts

The Female Face of Poverty

La sanità russa sotto Vladimir Putin

 OMS e diritto alla salute. Quale futuro  

A quiet revolution in global public health: The World Health Organization’s Prequalification of Medicines Programme

WHO Board To Discuss Relationship With Industry, Organisations  

WHO Initiative On Poor Quality Medicines Heads To Board Next Week

UN Office On Drugs And Crime Launches Anti-Counterfeit Campaign Aimed At Organised Crime 

101 Organizations to Watch in 2014 

World Bank’s ethics under scrutiny after Honduras loan investigation

Risk mismanagement? IFC runs into trouble in Honduras  

In Haiti, all eyes on US to reform ‘unjustifiable’ food aid program

JEFFREY SACHS: ‘In 23 countries in Africa and expanding rapidly’

New Nigeria anti-gay law resulting in torture and dozens of arrests, say activists 

Rapid Characterisation of Vegetation Structure to Predict Refugia and Climate Change Impacts across a Global Biodiversity Hotspot

Developing country sui generis options for plant variety protection   

Protein discovery to aid HIV vaccine development  

Ten broad brushstrokes about development cooperation  

The Rise of Connected Health  

The full spectrum on FDI in brownfield companies   

Health systems and services: the role of acute care