News Flash 673: 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 673

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

How children’s health literacy can shape the future of global health

Beyond the red ribbon: the new realities of AIDS

Climate Change is Now an Immediate Threat to HIV Control

The Question Standing Between Transgender Africans and HIV Care

2026 UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS: Setting the Political Course for Global HIV Efforts

International AIDS Conference 2026: Global HIV Response at a Critical Juncture

WHO: Integration, innovation and community leadership key to ending HIV, hepatitis and STIs

US Drives 25% Plunge in HIV Funding in 2025

Study finds cuts and ‘political ideology’ fundamentally changed PEPFAR

African Union Pushes for Greater Domestic Spending on Health Amid Reports of Huge Disruptions to HIV Services

Lancet Report Recommends Paradigm Shift in Care for Older Adults with HIV

The Americas have the Tools to Eliminate HIV, but Gaps in Access & Coverage remain, says PAHO

Merck licenses experimental HIV pill to generic makers in 129 countries

Merck, Wellcome partner with global health group to make Ebola vaccine for clinical trials

The fastest growing Ebola outbreak is worsening hunger in eastern Congo, a UN agency chief warns

World Hepatitis Day 2026

One Shot Or Three? Understanding The Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) Vaccine

Risk communication and community engagement readiness and response toolkit – Substandard and falsified medicines

HRR827. HUMANITY HAS NEVER HAD SO MUCH POWER OVER ITSELF, AND THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL USE IT WISELY. (Pope Leo XIV)

UNHCR: 75 years on, the Refugee Convention Remains a Lifeline for Millions

Urgent measures needed to prevent further deaths on deadly Atlantic migration route

Ongoing Need for Humanitarian Assistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The New Global Advisory Panel on Skills Will Identify What Works to Raise Incomes and Reduce Poverty

Decolonise How? Putting the humour back in humanitarian

Famine has ended in Gaza. But the gains are fragile and it could get worse

New Supermarket Watch explores how local food systems endure in times of war and conflict

Don’t Let Wealthy Fossil Fuel-Exporting Nations and Petrostates Shut the Door on Expanded State Accountability for Human Rights-Based Climate Action!  by David Patterson 

Europe’s forest monoculture fuels wildfires

Carbon capture explained: how EU member states are funding and rolling out the technology to clean up Europe’s fossil fuel industry

Register: Free Course by ASPHER and the European Climate and Health Observatory  Climate & Environmental Action in Public Health: Ethics, Law and Governance