News Flash 626: 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

Dustbin-lid jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo)

News Flash 626

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Public consultation on The TRUST CODE SUPPLEMENT – A Global Code of Conduct for Research in Fragile Settings. The deadline for submitting your comments is 15 August 2025

Recycled SDRs: Lost in Transmission?

More than 100 aid, rights groups call for action as hunger spreads in Gaza

Joint Public Health Statement on Gaza: a united voice for health and humanity

Seville 2025: 5% for War, 0.25% for Life?  by Juan Garay

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #104: Global struggles for health sovereignty: from Palestine to Mexico

Social Medicine and Genocide

US rejects WHO pandemic changes to global health rules

DNDi 2024 Annual Report

Key Considerations for Inter-country Pooled Procurement of Health Products

Global childhood vaccination coverage holds steady, yet over 14 million infants remain unvaccinated – WHO, UNICEF

Polio Eradication in Pakistan by 2050: Innovations, Gaps, and the Forgotten Human Factor  by Muhammad Noman

14 million children did not receive a single vaccine in 2024, UN estimates

First mRNA vaccine for Marburg shows promise in animal trial

Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show

Supporting the successful elimination of malaria in Suriname

Timor-Leste certified malaria-free by WHO

Senegal joins growing list of countries that have eliminated trachoma

Substandard anticancer medications in clinical care settings and private pharmacies in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic pharmaceutical investigation

 Valuing Medicines in Different Health Systems  by Andy Gray and Christiane Fischer 

Key HIV prevention drug could cost just $25 a year, finds study published in SUNS #10264 dated 18 July 2025

Gilead’s Voluntary License on Lenacapavir: Key Limitations of the License and Recommendations to Improve Access

Community-Based Interventions to Support HIV and AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Africa: A Systematic Review

Stethoscopes on Hold: Exploring the Employment Crisis Among New Doctors in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq  by Goran Abdulla Sabir Zangana

HRR777. EVERY HISTORICAL EPOCH IS THE RESULT OF WHAT THE POWERFUL STATES DESIGNED AT EACH MOMENT

Socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy in Australia, 2013–22: an ecological study of trends and contributions of causes of death

Beneath the Lullaby: A Mother’s Pain Unheard, Unseen, Unanswered

Health conditions among women in prisons: a systematic review

Millions go hungry in Nigeria as aid dries up, jihadists surge

FIAN Blog: Right to food rooted in territories but needs state support

Climate Change and Health Disasters/Risks in Nepal  by Damodar Adhikari 

World’s Major Courts Take Growing Role In Climate Fight

Climate Pressures are Redefining Macroeconomic Resilience in Asia & the Pacific