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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Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

How to Submit an Abstract to ICIC26 23-24 September 2025

Register to attend this year’s International Health Lecture 2025 on lessons from Africa: health diplomacy in HIV prevention, taking place Nov 4, 2025, in London and online.

A Lean World Health Organization for the Global Good: Four Responses to Our Proposal

WHO updates list of essential medicines to include key cancer, diabetes treatments

MSF responds to inclusion of rapid-acting insulin analogues and GLP-1s to WHO Essential Medicines List

Introducing WHO e-Learning course on pharmaceutical pricing policies

Medicine quality assessment in Nepal using semi randomised sampling and evaluation of a small scale dissolution test and portable Raman spectrometers

Fears of Sub-Standard Medicine and Rising Prices Amid Growing Cancer Burden in Pakistan

Rabies elimination in the WHO African Region

DR Congo Declares New Ebola Outbreak

New Proposal to Empower Developing Country Manufacturers During Pandemics

Could One Health Prevent the Next Pandemic?

Storytelling to Combat Vaccine Hesitancy in Africa: Building Trust Through Narrative  by Kirubel Workiye Gebretsadik

Eliminating Uncorrected Refractive Error by 2030: LMICs Need Policies and a Roadmap, Not Just Intentions

Questions to guide the ethics analysis of research involving humans

Addressing public health and health system challenges in Greece: reform priorities in a changing landscape

How Tanzania’s Mass Drug Campaign is Transforming Child Health

HRR783. AS THE NEW TESTAMENT HAS IT: “FOR WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN, IF HE SHOULD GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?”

The resolution of the International Association of Genocide Scholars on Gaza

When Should Federal Health Professionals Disobey Orders?

A human rights approach to preventing racial discrimination in health care

WHO asks Taliban to lift female aid worker restrictions following earthquakes

Burkina Faso’s parliament votes to outlaw homosexual acts

Philanthropic initiative launches long-term fund to replace USAID stopgap

Policy implications of Codex Alimentarius guidelines on nutrition labelling

More children are obese than underweight, says Unicef

ICRISAT Launches Bold 2025–2030 Strategy to Shape the Future of Agriculture

We Can’t Meet Our Climate Goals Without Financing Agrifood Systems

Paving the way for climate action: How a new digital system is transforming rice farming in Viet Nam

Wildfires Were A Major Contributor to Air Pollution in 2024 – Highlighting “Vicious Cycle” of Warming

Finance for transition mineral mining is driving destruction and abuse, says report

EU states still fighting over crucial targets in run-up to Cop30, leaked draft shows

Wild Card: Revitalising Britain’s Ghost Woods. Rosie Smart-Knight