News Flash 543: Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

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News Flash 543

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

PALESTINE: No justice, no peace

WHO:  Public health round-up

Measuring people’s views on health system performance: Design and development of the people’s voice survey

OXFAM petition: A better future is not a world away, but the richest polluters must pay

AWAC, NAFOPHANU and UNNB launch CAHIVPLUS–for Epidemics and Pandemics preparedness, Mental Health and Economic Resilience

Women in Global Health Online Consultation: Gender-responsive health systems for UHC. Deadline 15 October

Introducing the MDB Reform Tracker

Former World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to deliver 2023 Kofi Annan Eminent Speakers’ Lecture

UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY FORMALLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON POLITICAL DECLARATION ON TUBERCULOSIS

What is tuberculosis? Learn more

Prioritizing persons deprived of liberty in global guidelines for tuberculosis preventive treatment

Webinar registration: Virtual Launch of Guidance on Engagement of Communities and Civil Society to End TB Oct 13, 2023

Colombia’s Bid for Compulsory License for HIV Drug May Set Precedent in Region

Delinking biomedical R&D, including incentives, from monopolies and high prices

The response to substandard and falsified medical products in francophone sub-Saharan African countries: weaknesses and opportunities

Major Swedish study to search for long-COVID ‘blind spot’

EMA will no longer allow pharma companies to keep clinical trial protocols secret

Privilege and prejudice must be recognized for equitable research partnerships

African firms ‘need know-how to make new malaria jab’

The road towards protection of all against tetanus

New funding to ensure 370 million children receive polio vaccinations and to boost health innovation in low-income countries

How Avian Flu is Impacting South Africa’s Chicken, Egg Supply

Towards mental health as a human right: The key role of lived experience

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #60: Protecting the right to health by defying repression worldwide

HRR 699: SUPERPOWERS FEED US BOTH INFORMATION AND MISINFORMATION: WHERE DO HUMAN RIGHTS FIT?

Faced with Crushing Debts, World’s Poorest Nations to Slash Public Spending by Over 229 Billion Dollars

Opinion: 3 ways to amplify women’s voices for improved maternal health

What Does it Take to Build Girls’ Economic Potential?

WHO-OHCHR launch new guidance to improve laws addressing human rights abuses in mental health care

UAE Starts First Wind Power Plants Ahead of UN Climate Summit

Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women