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US ITC notice for public comment, Jan 13, 2016 hearing, and Commission report on the TransPacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) 

Trade and Development Symposium (TDS) 14-17 December 2015 Hilton Nairobi, Kenya 

Annual Democracy Forum 25-26 November 2015, Berne, Switzerland 

European Civil Society Organisations Call for EU Leadership on HIV/AIDS, TB and Hepatitis C

EU POLITICAL LEADERSHIP NEEDED TO END HIV, TB & HEPATITIS C IN EUROPE 

EU budget 2016: 4 key takeaways 

UNAIDS Strategy 2016-2021 

Is it time to abandon single intervention cure trials? 

Ending polio one community at a time 

Ending TB in India: U.S.-India Partnership 

Affordable vaccine brings Africa near elimination of meningitis A – UN health agency 

Africa’s meningitis A vaccine: how partnership replaced ‘Big Pharma’ 

Measles vaccination has saved an estimated 17.1 M lives since 2000 

DNDi joins call for amendments to the FDA Priority Review Voucher programme 

‘Last-resort’ prescriptions rise with antibiotic resistance 

How to stop antibiotic resistance? Here’s a World Health Organisation prescription  

Tech Transfer, Better Regulation, Policy Reform Can Spur Growth In East Africa’s Pharma Sector, Experts Say 

Rebuilding Trust In Medicine: How The Public Can Interpret Differing Guidelines 

Which are the best aid donors? Governments have their say 

Focus on Poverty: Push cash aid despite neighbour envy 

What’s Kaplan Doing with Its Innovation Prize? And What Have They Learned? 

Casting light on the misconceptions of China’s growing aid to Africa 

Climate Talks, COP21 and the Americas 

G20 spends four times more on fossil fuel output than on renewables, think tank says 

Coal is not the solution to energy poverty, warn aid agencies 

Is the Paris Climate Conference Designed to Fail? 

Laudato Si’ Encyclical letter by Pope Francis on Care for our Common Home – Chapter four 

UN Shows Countries Six Ways to Take Climate Action Now 

The Paris climate-change conference needs to be more ambitious