News Flash 632: 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 632

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

UN commission of inquiry accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza and urges global action

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Launch of the ‘Social inequalities in health in Europe’ report 25 September, 2025 – 26 September, 2025

DNDi: A Revolution in Medicine Starts Here

KEI calls for more transparency in the WHO pathogen access and benefit sharing system (PABS) negotiations

Ebola vaccination begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Motorbikes, canoes, and vaccines: vaccinating in hard-to-reach places in Batangafo, Central African Republic

Children in conflict-affected contexts have been left behind: Insights from the WUENIC vaccine coverage estimates and polio cases in 2024

South Africa’s HIV Fight Faces a Make-or-Break Moment

Eliminating Dog Mediated Human Rabies from India by 2030: a Pipe Dream  by M K Sudarshan and Tanushree Mondal 

Secretary Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism Is Misplaced: Try Cancer Drugs Instead

Diabetes (r)evolution(s)

The UN had a plan to fight deadly lifestyle diseases. Industry pressure killed most of it

The FDA’s Overdue Crackdown on Misleading Pharmaceutical Advertisements

Estimating Health Tax Capacity, Effort, and Potential: Evidence from a Global Panel

Our study analysed pesticide use and residues across Europe. Here’s what we found

India’s Demographic Wake-Up Call  by Veena S Rao 

Analysis of the Nexus between Democratic Governance and Economic Justice in Africa 

Tackling health inequalities in Indigenous Peoples

How one hungry family gets through one day in Gaza

AfDB Commits 11 Billion Dollars To Support Early Warning Systems, Food Security in Rural Africa

Malnutrition crisis in Nigeria: “This is an emergency”

Global School Meals at the Next Frontier: Why Economic Evidence Matters

The health and nutritional costs of supermarkets

Impacts of food delivery on the environment: Can the industry overcome plastic waste, carbon emissions and health challenges to build a sustainable future?

The UN climate process remains indispensable

The World Bank and Climate Projects: A Matter of Definition

Climate, health equity, and the built environment: A video on heatwaves in schools, Spain

Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time

Ban Fossil Fuel Advertisements Recommends Study on ‘Cradle to Grave’ Climate & Health Impacts

Why deforestation is causing heat deaths to soar