News Flash 642: 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 642

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Webinar registration: The Intersectionality of Climate Justice Dec 4, 2025

The G20 summit in South Africa ends with the glaring absence of the US after Trump’s boycott

Wealthy nations backsliding on commitment to global development

Global Fund Raises $11.4 Billion, Including $4.6 Billion From United States

Legal Literacy: The Missing Pillar In Universal Health Coverage  by Sylvia Penelao Hamata

Arming Injustice with Impunity

UNGA draft resolution on rare diseases silent on IP barriers and TRIPS flexibilities 

Malaria vaccine price cut set to protect 7 million more children by 2030

Mounting cholera crisis is a problem we can solve

Beni: Surviving Sleeping Sickness

Namibia Confirms Outbreak of Deadly Congo Fever

Neglecting infectious diseases is a market failure

Stop TB Partnership in Action

AI tools poised to transform global TB detection

Prices and Affordability of Essential Medicines in 72 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Markets

Recent Supreme Court Administrative Law Decisions: What They Mean For Health Care

‘Unprecedented Levels of Industry Interference’ Stalls Decisions on New Tobacco Products and Pollution at UNFCTC COP11

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #110: Ultra-processed foods are fueling a global health crisis

Nestlé Accused of Sugar ‘Double Standard’ in African Baby Food

People with autism deserve evidence-based policy and care

SEKOCI: a community innovation for maternal and child health in Indonesia, and a model for the One Million More Midwives agenda

Gufasha Girls Foundation: We are building a generation of empowered girls

HRR794. WHAT WE ARE WITNESSING UNDER GLOBALIZATION IS NOT A STRING OF PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS, BUT A STRING OF OBSCENE POLITICAL FAILURES. (James Orbinski)

Famine returns to northern Nigeria amid deepening security collapse

Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence

Toward a Healthier Planet and Humanity: Industrial Animal Agriculture, Glyphosate Risk, Slaughter Suffering, and the Case for a Global Plant-Based Dietary Transition   by Juan Garay

COP30 Ends With No Text on Fossil Fuels Phase-Out – but Plans for a Conference in 2026

COP30 Confirms the Near‑Irreversible Path to Human Self‑Destruction and Ecocide  by Juan Garay 

Three COP30 takeaways for humanitarians

COP30 reporters’ notebook: Day 12

COP30 reporters’ notebook: Day 11