News Flash 678: Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

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News Flash 678

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

How Much is the EU’s Proposed Development Budget for 2028-2034 Really Increasing?

Public finance conference 2026: health spending under pressure Date 29 Sep – 30 Sep 2026

UN Tax Convention negotiations: State of Play and joint civil society inputs

Webinar registration: The EU & Allies’ Positions in the PABS Negotiations Under Human Rights Scrutiny Sep 10, 2026

Behind the scenes of the pandemic agreement

Medico International: 10/22/2026 – 10/23/2026 | Frankfurt Public Pharma for Europe: 2nd Public Pharma Conference

Antimicrobial stewardship in low- and middle-income countries: Access versus adherence

Webinar registration: Understanding Trust in Integrated Care Through the Lived Experiences of MND Sep 23, 2026

WHO validates Bhutan for eliminating dog-transmitted human rabies

WHO validates Timor-Leste’s elimination of trachoma as a public health problem

Global and regional progress towards reduced burden of oral conditions between 2019 and 2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

The long wait for fistula surgery in Liberia

Ebola response in eastern DR Congo must include food assistance, WFP says

HRR833. FORMAL EQUALITY EXISTS ON PAPER; INEQUALITY EXISTS IN PEOPLE’S LIVES. (Esteban Gonzalez P.)

To bridge the evidence gap in women’s health, look at the real world

AI could pose ‘existential’ risk to humanity, UN rights chief warns

Immigration in Sweden: how the country went from one of Europe’s most welcoming, to one of its most restrictive

UN Votes to Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Size

Health Advisory Council: Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, the West Bank/East Jerusalem, and Lebanon – September 5, 2026

Cuba Under Economic Siege: Evidence of the Humanitarian and Health Consequences of United States Coercive Measures and Arguments for an Equity-Based Response  by Juan Garay

Sudan’s healthcare system on brink of collapse after cuts, medical charity warns

Namibia: Drought displaced Angolans face human rights abuses

Special edition: Africa’s massive food systems conference zeroes in on youth

Indonesian Wildfires Cause Air Pollution Levels to Rise to Hazardous Levels in Southeast Asia

Wildfires, heat waves threaten to undermine air quality, UN weather agency says

Global health’s great derangement

Nepal puts climate justice at centre of global pitch for flood aid

Nepal flood disaster exposes cascading threats in Himalayas

You Don’t Know How Connected You Are to Nature

The Global Framework on Chemicals – First International Conference (IC1) 16-20 November 2026, Geneva, Switzerland