News Flash 655: Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

News Flash 655

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

A New World Order Where Might is Right

Not in My Name: Military Spending as Toxic GDP, Health Inequity, and the Case for Ethical Selective Tax Objection  by Juan Garay

Europe still leads on SDGs, but progress is stalled

Governing Tax Expenditures: Lessons from Four Advanced and Emerging Market Economies

Will the next World Food Programme chief answer to Trump?

Webinar registration: The Future of Sustainable Food – How Can Development Banks Finance Systemic Change? Mar 25, 2026 

Registration: Sixth meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO Pandemic Agreement (IGWG6) 23 March 2026 – 28 March 2026

Pandemic preparedness: Novo Nordisk Foundation renews its support to DNDi and THSTI to continue the development of broad-spectrum antivirals

US Speeds up Signing of Bilateral Health Agreements, DRC Lawyers Challenge Minerals Deal

First combined COVID-19 and influenza vaccine for people 50 years and older

Attacks On Vaccine Hesitancy And Promotion Research Undermine Public Health

Denmark becomes first country in the European Union to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis

Acoziborole Winthrop, developed by DNDi and Sanofi, receives European Medicines Agency positive opinion as three-tablet, single-dose treatment for most common form of sleeping sicknes

Last-mile surveillance can end neglected diseases—study

Chile becomes the first country in the Americas to be verified by WHO for the elimination of leprosy

WHO backs pooled TB testing to expand diagnosis and cut costs

Accelerating cervical cancer elimination in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: a modelling study

Essential standards for perinatal care of women and children living in prison

Europe is Failing to Curb Tobacco Use – Especially in Women

La plastica e i danni alla salute

HRR807. CONFESSION: I AM ONLY A GUARDED FRIEND OF STATISTICS

System Failure Affects Critical Healthcare Services In Kenya

Millions Lost Access to PEPFAR-Supported HIV Drugs During the US Foreign Assistance Pause

Close to 100 charities condemn ‘devastating’ impact of year of UK aid cuts

Ghana and Senegal Consider Harsher Measures Against LGBTQ People

26 Doctors without Borders workers remain unaccounted for in South Sudan a month after attacks

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries

What Now for UK Climate Finance?

Atmospheric dust: the overlooked suspect in urban air pollution

An ethical basis for research into health and climate change