News Flash 622: 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 622

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Webinar registration: Strengthening Leadership on One Health Through Implementation Research in Francophone Africa: Renforcer le leadership en One Health grâce à la recherche sur la mise en œuvre en Afrique francophone Jun 10, 2025

Health Organizations Drop Ad Agencies Working with Fossil Fuel Industry

Abusing the Patent System: Gilead’s Evergreening Strategy to Prolong Its Lenacapavir Monopoly

US cancels more than $700 million funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine

WHO outlines recommendations to protect infants against RSV – respiratory syncytial virus

Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death

$15.3 Million Unitaid Investment to Strengthen Community-Led Action on Drug-Resistant TB in 16 Countries

People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #101: What’s next for the WHO after the Pandemic Treaty?

UN: Call for input for the UNGA-80th thematic report on “Freedom of assembly and association rights, collective action and human solidarity facing existential threat: preserving the fundamental principles ” (Deadline 16/06/25)

UN: Call for inputs on women, girls and enforced disappearances (concept note for CED General Comment n°2) (Deadline 15/07/25)

UN: 18th session of the Expert Mechanism on the rights of Indigenous Peoples

UN: 59th session of the Human Rights Council (16 June to 11 July 2025)

HRR773: PERVERSE LEVELS OF WEALTH INEQUALITY, AS WELL AS CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHAOS ARE SIMPLY FLIP SIDES OF THE SAME CAPITALIST COIN. (GHW7, PHM)

Corruption in South Africa’s Past, Present and Future: Visualizing a Systemic Illness in the Healthcare System

Inequality Bands: Seventy-Five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America

Unemployment of Doctors in Kurdistan: A Ticking Time Bomb for Healthcare

Medicaid Policy And The Future Of Black Men’s Health

United Nations Habitat Assembly adopts Strategic Plan 2026–2029 to advance adequate housing for all

What Would It Take for All Americans to Have Access to Healthy Foods?

More pesticide cocktails in your food

Harmful chemicals often migrate into tinned food – here’s how to avoid eating them

Childhood stunting is also stunting our economy. Here are five ways to fix that

The Famine Early Warning System is Back Online. Its Warnings Are Dire

Say the “F” word: Famine and the Need for a Collective Voice in Sudan

In a Changing World, Protecting Nature is Protecting Our Future

Report highlights lack of EU action on marine protection ahead of global talks

Life Below Water Goes Deep: Our Planet’s Greatest Untold Story

Financing zero pollution action for better health in the next EU budget 

World Environment Day: Plastic-free, sustainable care starts with nursing

Plastic pollution: A health crisis in Africa

Addressing air pollution to reduce dementia risk

Only 21 Countries have Updated National Climate Action Plans – Few Actually Track Health Benefits