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Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Global Health Centre Side Events during the 77th World Health Assembly, 2024 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline 6 March 2024, 23:45 CET

Meeting registration: Resilient and scalable MCM ecosystem: CSOs engagement forum for advancing timely and equitable access to medical countermeasures against pandemic threats 22 February 2024 14:00 – 17:00

EXCLUSIVE: Read Latest Pandemic Agreement Draft Ahead of Monday’s Negotiations

Without Ensuring Swift Access to Pathogens, Pandemic Accord Risks Failure

Advanced HIV as a Neglected Disease

Southern Africa Losing Battle Against Cholera Outbreaks?

Is ‘silent’ outcome switching in clinical trials research misconduct?

WHO FCTC Conference of Parties Adopts New Decision on Curbing Tobacco’s Environmental Impacts, but Sidesteps E-Cigarettes

Reductions in smoking due to ratification of the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control in 171 countries

Govt departments split as trade talks with European pharma firms hit last lap, patent key issue

Billion-dollar exposure: Investor-state dispute settlement in Mozambique’s fossil fuel sector

India Pushes Back To Protect Patient Access to Generic Medicines

Millions of peoples’ access to affordable medicines at risk if India-EFTA trade deal finalised as is

Medicine Across Borders: Exploration of Grey Zones

To achieve fair pricing: Ensure cooperation and transparency, build enforcement capacity, and engage civil society

More equal access to medicines needed, says EU Pharmaceutical roundtable

What Is It Like to Live in Ecuador, One of the Most Violent Countries?

Lessons From Ecuador: A One Health Perspective  by Laura H. Kahn

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #69: Dehumanization of healthcare in Palestine a prelude to ethnic cleansing

From childhood to adulthood: examining the long-term effects of racial discrimination on mental and physical health

Advancing primary health care in Africa through capacity building, advocacy, and partnership: the International Institute for Primary Health Care in Ethiopia

Do Half of the World’s Poor Really Live in Fragile States?

Record number of migrants died or went missing off Tunisia in 2023

HRR 711 SOCIALISM OF THE 20TH CENTURY, THAT MADE A PACT WITH THE BUSINESS WORLD AND WITH CAPITAL, HAS NOT YET MADE THE RIGHT READING OF WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE REALLY CLAIMING FOR

Independent Thinking: Can the UN’s first cybercrime treaty protect us?

The Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture must consider public health interests

How the response to hunger crises has changed since Ethiopia’s famine

Destroying Gaza’s Health Care System Is a War Crime

Biosolutions – the hi-tech ecosystem accelerating Europe’s Green Deal

First-ever UN report on migratory species reveals complex threats

The Socioeconomic Impact of Climate Change in Developing Countries in the Next Decades

The Moral Imperative for Climate Finance

If Trump wins, Africa will spiral into climate hell