Health Breaking News: Link 268

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 268

 

Ten humanitarian crises to look out for in 2018 

2018 Brings No End to Violence Against Rohingya as Refugees Continue to Flee to Bangladesh 

Human Rights Reader 432 

9 Stories that will Drive the Global Agenda in 2018 

EU looks ahead to 2018 as budget negotiations loom 

BRICS 2018: South Africa sets the pace 

The WHO and New Public Management: Value for Money or heading for a Cruel Disappointment? 

WHO accused of ‘institutional ageism’ over five-year work programme  

MSF: 2018 wishlist 

Drug Policy: The Year In Review, And The Year Ahead 

NIH wants to give Gilead a new, government subsidized monopoly on CAR T technology, this one for CD-30 proteins 

Chilean Cámara de Diputados Votes Overwhelmingly To Proceed With Compulsory Licenses for HCV Drugs 

Putting More Value Into Biopharmaceutical Value Assessments  

Is Obamacare Harming Quality? (Part 1) 

Action on Smoking & Health (ASH): the big picture 

Smoking bans make married people happier than anyone else 

WHO: Curb ads for junk food, sweets and beer to fight obesity 

W.H.O. Approves a Safe, Inexpensive Typhoid Vaccine 

From Polio To Poverty To Sex Ed: 9 Predictions For 2018 

2018 World TB Day Theme Announced 

Race To Eradicate Guinea Worm And Polio Experienced Roadblocks In 2017 

Drug-resistant infections are a looming challenge around the world 

Sexually transmitted infections—Research priorities for new challenges 

China closes its domestic ivory market 

The Gates Foundation Gives Big for Climate Change. Does It Have the Right Priorities? 

Forty per cent of global e-waste comes from Asia 

Ethiopian herders get automated weather stations 

Six member states call for glyphosate alternatives, exit plan 

UN ready to pursue new treaty to protect high seas 

2017 Was a Year of Record-Breaking Climate Events