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

Wide-eyed flounder (Bothus podas)

News Flash 644

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Global health architecture reform must be anchored in UHC

World malaria report 2025

Malaria’s Changing Face: A Conversation with Professor Moss on the 2025 WHO Report

CDC Committee Delays Hepatitis B Vaccine for Newborns in Critical Guidelines Shift

$1.9 Billion in Pledges to Polio Eradication by Gates and Other Donors Narrows Funding Gap

Gavi Cuts Staff and Support to WHO and UNICEF – Gives More Freedom to Countries to Decide Vaccine Priorities

New data on antimicrobials sales and use in animals in the EU

Farming pressures fuel Africa’s drug resistance crisis

Cautious Signs of Progress on Lead Exposure in Bangladesh

Call For Submissions: Second Annual Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure

The Wall Protecting Public Health from Political Interference Has Fallen

In Public Health, Non-Governmental Actors Are Rising To Meet The Moment

Five takeaways from the UN’s aid plans for 2026

The UN aid coordination agency cuts its funding appeal after Western support plunges

On the International Human Rights Day, we demand a transformation of the UN that strengthens accountability and serves peoples not budgets

Access to essential medicines for noncommunicable diseases during conflicts: The case cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and epilepsy in Northern Syria

A call to respect medical neutrality and protect healthcare in every conflict

HRR796. IT IS PERFECTLY POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE SOCIAL SECURITY TO ALL. WHY IS IT NOT DONE? AFTER ALL, SOCIAL SECURITY IS A HUMAN RIGHT

How the EU actually worked to undermine Global South debt reforms

The Patchwork Workforce: Locum Doctors in Portugal

Once more unto the REACH – Europe’s winding road away from animal testing

Sweden’s mining industry is threatening the Indigenous Sami people’s way of life

Most countries make progress towards universal health coverage, but major challenges remain, WHO–World Bank report finds

Rural women, care and agrochemicals: A Call for Action 

How can better data curb Africa’s crop loss crisis?

Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds

Sri Lanka & the Global Climate Emergency: The Lessons of Cyclone Ditwah

DNDi statement on COP30: Advancing health in the climate agenda

Still Possible to Divert from Disastrous Climate Path to Sustainable, Healthy Planet, says UNEP

How Community Radio Is Powering Tanzania’s Climate Resilience