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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 n. 22

Feed the Future Progress Report 2012 http://feedthefuture.gov/resource/feed-future-progress-report-2012

A Conversation With: Polio Expert Naveen Thacker  http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/a-conversation-with-polio-expert-naveen-thacker/

Delivering Medicines in DR Congo: In the Face of Insecurity    http://blog.msh.org/2012/10/24/delivering-medicines-in-drc/

Opening Up Microdata Access in Africa  http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/2012/10/opening-up-microdata-access-in-africa.php

UK Department for International Development: Project Search  http://projects.dfid.gov.uk/

WHO’s Global Tuberculosis report 2012 http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/gtbr12_main.pdf

AFGHANISTAN: Winter planning aims to save lives  http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96637/AFGHANISTAN-Winter-planning-aims-to-save-lives

High Food Prices: Farm Ministers Weigh Options   http://ictsd.org/i/news/bridgesweekly/148216/

Arms Trade Treaty negotiations threatened by diplomatic Damocles’ Sword  http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2012-10-15/arms-trade-treaty-negotiations-threatened-diplomatic-damocles-sword

Pollution as harmful as malaria, TB: study  http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/10/24/3617657.htm

UK Aid, Imperialism and Child Mortality  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-dominic/uk-aid-child-mortality_b_1999392.html

Positioning Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda. WHO discussion paper, October 2012  http://www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals/post2015/WHOdiscussionpaper_October2012.pdf

Future of WHO hangs in the balance http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e6877

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on ending poverty, preventable diseases http://one.org/us/actnow/onevote2012/index.html?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRohuaXKZKXonjHpfsX87%2B0uX6%2Bg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YcBRMJ0dvycMRAVFZl5nQhdDOWN

UN at 67: ‘Solutions for a prosperous world’ http://www.devex.com/en/news/79556/print

Three social enterprises set the pace for global health    http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_25-10-2012-18-30-49