News Flash 636: 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 636

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Quo Vadis UN @80?

Creative destruction in global health

Mobilizing for health justice

Africa must lead its own health research revolution

Transitioning to regulatory harmonisation for medicines: a comparison between Africa and Europe

Mental health: the missing link in infectious disease care

WHO warns of widespread resistance to common antibiotics worldwide

One in Six Bacterial Infections Is Antibiotic Resistant; Calls for Stronger Real-Time Pandemic Risk Surveillance

Looming Malaria Drug Resistance Spurs Global Search for New Treatments

Ghanaian Newborns First to Get New Malaria Medication

Africa’s Ancient Enemy, Malaria, and Its Influence on Covid-19

A Call to Action on World Rabies Day and Beyond

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B

Impact of the indigenous rotavirus vaccine Rotavac in the Universal Immunization Program in India during 2016–2020

Medical Product Alert N°5/2025: Substandard (contaminated) oral liquid medicines

Indian Court rules against Roche and allows generic SMA drug

Almost nine in 10 clinics in war-ravaged DRC run low on medicines

Artificial Intelligence and Maternal Health: A New Opportunity for Cambodia

Kerala’s Low IMR, High Costs: A Lesson for India

Ensuring the safety of newborns and children through community and healthcare actions

Poor countries paying billions more to cover debts than they receive as aid to fight climate crisis

HRR788. IN TOO MANY CASES, INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW HAS BEEN CYNICALLY MANIPULATED TO SERVE PARTICULAR GEOPOLITICAL, GEOECONOMIC, RACIALIZED, AND GENDERED INTERESTS. (Walden Bello, Shalmali Guttal)

Aid cuts and elections: How the humanitarian rollback has caused “chaos” in Cameroon

Conflict Plunged 63 Million Children into Hunger in 2025

US declines to sign World Bank directors’ joint statement on climate agenda

Can nature be placed on the balance sheet?

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Africa’s floods and droughts are messing with our minds. Researchers are trying to figure out how

Darjeeling’s Wake-Up Call: Expert at IUCN Congress Calls for Agile Climate Finance

Unjust Transition: Reclaiming the energy future from climate colonialism

Beyond Green Complacency: WISE, SHEM and the Case for Radical Sharing  by Juan Garay

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source