PEAH News Flash 354

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

News Flash 354

 

What can we learn from the 6th Global Fund Replenishment Conference in Lyon? 

Development Banks Needed to Finance Sustainable Development 

Un nuovo mo(n)do per fare salute – Prima presentazione nazionale del libro a Bologna! 

Sweet evidence 

We Found Over 700 Doctors Who Were Paid More Than a Million Dollars by Drug and Medical Device Companies 

WHO signs MoU with International Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association to promote access 

Drug companies urged to make research available to health workers in poorer countries 

Major milestone for WHO-supported Ebola vaccine 

DRC Ebola update 

WHO: Ebola in DRC still a global public health emergency 

Ebola Public Health Emergency Still In Force, Despite Decline in Cases 

We’re Learning More About Gaps In Epidemic Preparedness; Now We Must Act Rapidly To Close Them 

Preventing the Next Pandemic 

Two out of three wild poliovirus strains eradicated 

TB cases falling too slowly to hit 2020 targets 

New tools, old problems: TB funding gap persists 

7 million people receive record levels of lifesaving TB treatment but 3 million still miss out 

A Leading Global Funder Helps Unlock the Power of HIV Self-Testing 

Access to prompt diagnosis: The missing link in preventing mental health disorders associated with neglected tropical diseases 

New tropical disease detected in Brazil defies treatment 

Innovations for the elimination and control of visceral leishmaniasis 

Faced with a drug shortfall, doctors scramble to treat children with cancer 

Promoting clinical trial transparency through the courts: A strategic lawsuit against the FDA 

Human Rights Reader 500 

Declaration of civil society organisations at the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in light of the impacts of austerity policies in Ecuador, Argentina and Haiti 

RESPECT, PROTECT, FULFILL: A HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSE TO HIV: CANADIAN HIV/AIDS LEGAL NETWORK STRATEGIC PLAN 2017–2022 

UN investigator: 11 million North Koreans are undernourished 

Agro-tech Offers Answers for African Farmers at Iowa Meet 

The ‘Glasgow effect’ implies cities make us sad. Can the city prove the opposite? 

Trump prepares to formally withdraw US from Paris Climate Accord