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

Red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii)

News Flash 541

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Alarm Bells are Ringing at Halfway Point of the 2030 Agenda

Think Change episode 30: halfway to 2030, are the SDGs still relevant?

If the SDGs are to survive, multilateral development banks must embrace reform

Don’t Count on PPP Solutions

Offline: Political declarations—clichés and lies 

GLOBAL HEALTH CENTRE SHORT COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO INNOVATION & ACCESS TO MEDICINES IN GLOBAL HEALTH INTERNATIONAL GENEVA GLOBAL HEALTH PLATFORM 16 November 2023, 09:00 – 17 November 2023, 13:00 In-person only

Meeting Registration: Breaking Patent Barriers- struggle to access breast cancer medicines in India Sep 28, 2023

From UN High Level Meetings to Global Policy and Grassroots Implementation

Countries Reaffirm Commitment to ‘Global NCD Compact’ on Sidelines of UN General Assembly

New Insulin Production Deal is a Boost for Africa’s Diabetes Challenge

Lessons From Recent Efforts To Cap The Price Of Insulin

Voluntary licensing and technology transfer deemed critical to support manufacturing capacity at UN General Assembly

Girls in the Shadow of the Pandemic

Five discoveries about COVID-19 made since the public health emergency ended

Tuberculosis gets some ambitious commitments. But will they be met?

UNGA WEEK BROUGHT NUMEROUS ANNOUNCEMENTS AND COMMITMENTS FOR TB RESPONSE – HERE THEY ARE!

Cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions to improve diagnosis and preventive therapy for paediatric tuberculosis in 9 sub-Saharan African countries: A modelling study

Discovery in Mosquitoes Could Lead to New Strategy Against Dengue Fever and Other Mosquito-Borne Viruses

Medics: Hundreds Dead From Dengue Fever in War-Torn Sudan

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #59: Health workers of the world united against brain drain 

Lawmakers reach speedy provisional deal on European Medicines Agency fees

Experts call for faster access to innovative cancer treatments in Spain

FDA excuses failure to enforce key transparency law: ‘It’s too complex’

Letter to FDA on the Cost to the Public of the Pediatric Trial Exclusivity Extension

Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War — The Role of Health Professionals

HRR 697: THE CIRCLE OF THE POLITICALLY POSSIBLE WILL CONTINUE TO NARROW –WITHER HUMAN RIGHTS

Elevating Australia’s global health leadership: a path to equity and security

Here’s what could be achieved if the 1% gave away 10% of their money

Uganda’s anti-gay law has turned camps into prisons for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

Indoor Air Pollution: A Slow Killer in Need of Awareness, Data, and Investment

Settling the Climate Debt

The Billion Dollar Benefits of Expanded Green-Skilled Migration

The global south is done waiting for rich countries to lead on climate

Portuguese youths sue 33 European governments at EU court in largest climate case ever

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Striped red mullet (Mullus surmuletus)

News Flash 540

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

UN High Level Meeting Approves ‘Historic’ but Non-Binding Declaration on Pandemic Preparedness and Response

MSF statement on UN pandemic preparedness meeting and declaration

MSF reaction statement to UNHLM PPPR declaration

WHO welcomes historic commitment by world leaders for greater collaboration, governance and investment to prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics

Reform, climate, and prevention: Three key themes as UNGA kicks off

UN, Still Living in the 1940s, Urgently in Need of Reforms

Reform, climate, and prevention: Three key themes as UNGA kicks off

UN, Still Living in the 1940s, Urgently in Need of Reforms

World Leaders Warn Sustainable Development Goals Are in Peril

Looming deadline puts pressure on slow pandemic treaty negotiations

Halfway to 2030: Our 5 Asks at the SDG Summit

Giornate fiesolane di politica sanitaria – 6-8 settembre 2023 – Documentazione

Data Is Essential to Navigating an Era of Pandemics

What to Know About the Updated COVID-19 Vaccine for Fall/Winter 2023

Spikevax: EMA recommends approval of adapted COVID-19 vaccine targeting Omicron XBB.1.5

Afrigen presents Advances in mRNA Vaccine Technology for Global Health

The long and winding road to ensure affordable access to a key TB drug

TB test price reduction by Cepheid and Danaher is an important step in the right direction

From TRIPS to PPR: Addressing Intellectual Property Barriers on Lifesaving Medical Products

Six Recommendations to Improve the Market for Antimicrobials

SHORT COURSE application form: INTRODUCTION TO INNOVATION & ACCESS TO MEDICINES IN GLOBAL HEALTH INTERNATIONAL GENEVA GLOBAL HEALTH PLATFORM 16 November 2023, 09:00 – 17 November 2023, 13:00 In-person only: Geneva Graduate Institute, Maison de la paix

Delinkage embedded in the three UN Political Declarations on PPPR, tuberculosis, and universal health coverage

Quality of medicines in Sri Lanka: a retrospective review of safety alerts

Nigeria: ‘Nigeria Has Second Highest Stillbirth Rate in the World’

UNHCR, WHO warn of deteriorating health conditions as 1,200 children die of suspected measles, malnutrition in Sudan

Sudan: FAO launches emergency response plan to protect and restore agricultural livelihoods amid conflict

Rising Food, Energy Prices Fuel Cost of Living Crisis in Africa

Why Root Crops Are the Future of Food Security in Africa

HRR 696: IT IS THE PARADIGM, STUPID, THAT CHOKEHOLDS THE PROGRESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Modern slavery in the United Kingdom: The illegal migration act risks undermining efforts to combat exploitation

Embodiment of caste: Decoding the underlying mechanisms of health inequity in India

Billions left behind on the path to Universal Health Coverage

Breaking barriers: overcoming challenges in telepsychiatry in a tribal population

Climate change impeding fight against AIDS, TB and malaria

Rockefeller Foundation boosts climate funding to $1 billion over five years

European Battle for Air Quality Heats Up as EU Parliament Votes to Toughen Rules

Mother Earth Speaks! Let’s listen

What is COP28 and why is it important? Explaining the key issues at the COP28 summit in Dubai

France used 10% less electricity last winter – three valuable lessons in fighting climate change

 

 

 

 

 

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

Greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili)

News Flash 539

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Commitment to Development Index 2023

Unprecedented focus on global public health at UN General Assembly

13 September 2023 Strasbourg: 2023 State of the Union Address by President von der Leyen

A Blueprint for Inclusive Health Architecture: Insights from India’s G20 

The G20 and the MDBs: Diss and Dissonance 

ANSER Conference 7-9 February 2024 Brussels

ANSER Conference Call for Abstracts

People, planet, care: A personal reflection on the Zagreb Degrowth week

Climate tech and fighting racism: What’s on the agenda as UN rights body meets?

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin 58: Legal victories pave the way for health rights

The European Commission’s proposal on a new EU-wide compulsory licensing regime

“Innovation Bullying” In Drug Policy

Strengthening Africa’s Medicines Regulatory Framework is ‘Essential’ for Local Vaccine Production

Can a Smartphone Application Help Address Barriers to Reporting Substandard/Falsified Medical Products? A Pilot Study in Tanzania and Indonesia

PHM: Draft political declaration on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response avoids commitment on key issues. Instead of ‘mobilising political will’ for equity and effectiveness, the draft declaration opts for a superficial diplomatic consensus

Transforming lives of people living with HIV

KFF Dashboard: Progress Toward Global HIV Targets in PEPFAR Countries

Ahead of UN TB High-Level Meeting, US corporations J&J and Cepheid must pledge access to lifesaving TB medicines and tests for everyone in need

MSF Factsheet: “Time for $5” Campaign

The Gates Foundation Urges Action on Maternal and Newborn Health

HRR 695 Human rights: Food for how thoughts are influenced ‘The right to health’

Ugandan activists want donors to review programs after anti-gay law

END THE CAGE AGE, L’UE SI RIMANGIA LA PAROLA?

Sudan: FAO Launches Emergency Plan to Combat Hunger in Sudan

Small Group of Indian Politicians Show Rare Bipartisan Unity to Fight a Common Enemy – Air Pollution

WHO Announces Air Pollution Summit in Accra to Tackle ‘Public Health Emergency’

Africa climate summit pledges ‘ignore smallholders’

Securing economic development in a climate-changed world

What Happens in the Arctic Does Not Stay in the Arctic

The post-2025 Climate Finance Goal: why the next expert dialogue must address the issue of debt – Public consultation response

EU’s disaster response fund at limit as climate crises mount

Thousands to March on UN to Demand Biden End Fossil Fuels Ahead of Climate Summit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Two banded bream (Diplodus vulgaris)

News Flash 538

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

The path to Universal Health Coverage

Meeting Registration: Accelerating progress towards health equity: high-level commitments to address inequalities in health 19 September 2023

AVAC is thrilled to invite applications for the 2024 Advocacy fellows program.  Application Deadline: 2 October 2023

WHO Civil Society Commission

UN: [2023] Executive Training for Policymakers on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

WHO launches a global stakeholder survey on solutions for strengthening clinical trial infrastructure and capacity

Public consultation on WHO guidance for best practices for clinical trials (deadline 15 September 2023)

New peer-reviewed analysis released on “Negotiating public-health intellectual property licensing agreements to increase access to health technologies: An insiders’ story.”

Have we learned from COVID-19? Mostly no

COVID-19: Commission authorises adapted COVID-19 vaccine for Member States’ autumn vaccination campaigns

WHO initiative signs new licensing agreements on COVID-19 technologies

TB research shows a good diet can cut infections by nearly 50%

One Million Lives Saved Per Year: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of the Global Plan to End Tuberculosis, 2023–2030 and Beyond

J&J, India’s Lupin cut prices for tuberculosis drug in lower-income countries

Polio Eradication Through Innovation

Q&A: Access to cabotegravir long-acting (CAB-LA) for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)

Why you should care about Substances of Human Origin (SoHO)?

Inequities in cancer outcomes

A National Cancer Grid pooled procurement initiative, India

Use of hospital services by patients with chronic conditions in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Acting fast to prevent post-partum deaths

Post-growth economics: a must for planetary health justice

The Cedar Project: Racism and its impacts on health and wellbeing among young Indigenous people who use drugs in Prince George and Vancouver, BC

Indian doctors rebel over diktat to prescribe cheaper drugs

Activists worry drug access may be sacrificed in trade deals

‘Bullying’ Pharma Giants Charged South Africa More Than EU for COVID-19 Vaccines

Ghanaians advised to resist tobacco industry influence on public health policies

G20 must forge agreement to increase tax on rich, say campaigners

Research and Justice For All

Union of equality: Commission proposes European Disability and Parking Card valid in all Member States

India’s space missions spark science funding debate

Senza soccorso e senza accoglienza

Denmark to donate $22 million to Brazil’s Amazon Fund to fight deforestation

New UN guidance affirms children’s right to a clean, healthy environment

IMF warns rates, conflict and climate top emerging markets risks

Children in 98% of African Countries at High or Extreme Risk from Climate Change – UNICEF

Rapid Methane Cuts Essential to Meet Climate Targets – Would Generate Health Co-Benefits

Africa’s Potential: Leading Food System Transformation and Climate Resilience

Africa Climate Summit Ends With Calls for Carbon Tax, Debt Relief and Green Investment

Advancing urban green and blue space contributions to public health