News Flash 617: Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

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

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News Flash 617

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Enhancing Governance, Accountability, and Leadership in Health Systems within WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean and South-East Asia Regions

France & MPP at WHA78 – Building Resilience: Local and Regional Approaches to Pandemic Preparedness and Health Security

“Interfaith palliative care advocay for older persons and persons with disabilities in the current global funding crisis”. 23 May 2025 Registration link: https://forms.gle/Tc8T8LnVbM1hWYq46

‘There’s no going back’: Pope Francis’ global development legacy

Civil Society Letter to European leaders on FfD4

Spring Meetings: Have the IMF and World Bank turned their backs on sustainable development?

Infographics: Official Development Assistance in 2024

Economic Community of West African States: Fifty and Fractured

Exclusive: WFP to cut up to 30% of staff amid aid shortfall

UN Refugee Agency to close some offices as donors cut funding

World Health Summit in Delhi Takes up Traditional Medicine and Trump-Era Financial Fallout

Bribes and Rationing of AIDS Medicine in Zimbabwe as Trump’s Aid Cuts Bite

Call for transparency: detailed cost analysis of MSF’s TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial in PLOS Global Public Health

Liberian women at risk from unchecked contraceptive use

Decolonise How? Who owns the story?

Razzismo, salute e il Primo Maggio

HRR768. DEVELOPMENT ‘DOUBLE-SPEAK’ MUDDLES THE ISSUES

Can Better Test Scores Lift Kids Out of Poverty? The Case for Long-Term Tracking of Education RCTs

Health, education, opportunity at stake, amid stubborn digital gender divide

WHO issues new recommendations to end the rise in “medicalized” female genital mutilation and support survivors

A Shot at Life: How to Reach More Children in Humanitarian Settings with Lifesaving Vaccination

WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations: fifty-eight report

A Silent Emergency: The Neglected Burden of Cardiovascular Disease in Sierra Leone

Liverpool clinical trial aims to advance life-changing treatment for a deadly parasitic disease

The importance of animal welfare when re-wilding herbivores for biodiversity re-establishment

Action must be taken now to avert worsening malnutrition crisis in South Darfur

Korea’s Troubled Waters: Traditional Women Divers Protecting an Ocean in Crisis

Making climate insurance work: potential approaches to fund premium support

Updated rules for safer roads, less air pollution and digital vehicle documents

Fighting Pollution in the Galapagos Islands: Jess Howard

Climate change fuels drug resistance in poor countries