News Flash 639: 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 639

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Countries Criticise ‘Inadequate’ Pathogen-Sharing Draft Annex at Start of Text-Based Talks

Affordability, binding commitments to technology sharing, and transparency key in Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing

The Rich ‘Had a Good Pandemic’: How Inequality Weakens Disease Responses

Pandemic threat isn’t just the virus — it’s inequality

WHO guideline on balanced national controlled medicines policies to ensure medical access and safety

The good, the bad, and the possible: What the America First Global Health Strategy means for Africa – and the world

Comparing US prevention efforts to other high-income countries

Integrating a One Health approach into Implementation Research  

Building capacity to conduct research using a One Health approach on malaria and HIV in West Africa

One Health AMR research sparks health policy and practice changes in Ghana

A One Health approach to zoonotic disease outbreaks in United Republic of Tanzania

Strengthening One Health leadership through implementation research in Francophone Africa

More From Less: Optimising Vaccines in a Constrained World

European Commission invests EUR 20 million to develop urgently-needed medicines against dengue in partnership with AFD and DNDi

Pediatric TB (r)evolution(s)

Three mental health breakdowns. One rural clinic. And a lesson in ubuntu in a time of scarce resources

How shadowy Russian and US groups are pouring billions into the systematic destruction of women’s rights globally

The Role of Traditional Birth Attendants in Improving Maternal Health Outcomes in LMICs  by Yvonne Akukwe

HRR791. HISTORY BOOKS MIGHT AS WELL BE WRITTEN, EDITED, AND DISTRIBUTED BY CODE –OPTIMIZED FOR IDEOLOGICAL OBEDIENCE. (Thom Hartmann)

Pursuing Health Equity in the United States: video roundtable

Civil society’s statement on public services

Involving women in peace deals reduces chance of a conflict restarting by up to 37%

Ottawa cutting foreign aid and research spending back to pre-pandemic level

Famine spreads to two more areas in Sudan

CIEL 2025 Annual Impact Report

Dentro l’inferno degli allevamenti intensivi

Money to fight climate crisis falls by £1.5 billion – and aid cuts will make things far worse

Climate inaction is claiming millions of lives every year, warns new Lancet Countdown report

COP 30 must tackle the debt trap and shortfall in public finance to deliver a Just Transition

Strengthening Indigenous Lands Rights Key in Solving Deforestation in Amazon

The 2025 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: empowering cities for synergistic action