News Flash 629: 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 629

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Sierra Leone sign the petition: Ban FGM Now

TWN meeting registration: Centering equity in the PABS Annex  Aug 22, 2025

Meeting registration: Saturday, August 30 Nuclear Disarmament and the Struggle Against Imperialism By League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign

Toward Global Instability and Autocracy? A Critical Examination of the Trump Regime’s Global Impact  by George Lueddeke

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Advice for the New US Aid Team

US appeals court backs Trump in fight over foreign aid freeze

WHO designates new WHO-Listed Authorities, strengthening global access to quality-assured medical products

WHO Decries US Cancellation of mRNA Vaccine Research as “Unfortunate and Untimely”

Globalizing Vaccines: A Post-COVID Perspective on Industrial Policy, International Health Cooperation, and the Characteristics of Vaccine Production

Criminalization And Forced Treatment Undermine Real Solutions To Homelessness

Trump’s New Funding Rules – What it Means for African Researchers

TRIPS@30: Thirty years of widening inequities in access to medicines

Rwanda reconsiders malaria vaccines amid surprise surge

Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem

Statement from DNDi on Kenya’s elimination of rhodesiense sleeping sickness as a public health problem

Africa’s Mpox Response: Better Diagnostics One Year into Emergency

Philippines steps up fight against African Swine Fever

Geographical shifting of cholera burden in Africa and its implications for disease control

Collaboration Enabled South Africa’s Success in Tackling Tuberculosis – But Funding Cuts Threaten Progress

The triple whammy: HIV, migration and climate change

Epilepsy Patients in Africa Fight Stigma and Neglect

The OurFutures Vaping eHealth intervention to prevent e-cigarette use among adolescent students in Australia: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Universal health coverage in the context of migration and displacement: a cosmopolitan perspective

Funding gaps undermine healthcare for women and children in Somalia

Breaking the Silence: Confronting Postpartum Depression and the Urgent Need for Mental Health Checks in Maternal Care  by Youmna Abdelnabi 

CEDAW Chad: Women excluded in decision making on land

Corporate Land Grab Fuelling Inequality, Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss

Stalled Geneva talks threaten landmark plastic pollution treaty

No agreement in sight as UN plastic pollution treaty talks enter final day

Inequality Worsens Planetary Heating