News Flash 670: 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 670

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

The ‘Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples’: Context, Content, and Implementation

Open letter to leaders of G7, G20, BRICS and all nations on finalizing the WHO Pandemic Agreement’s Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing annex

Public investment demands public benefits: European Biotech Act must deliver for people

European Biotech Act Must Deliver Public-Interest Innovation and Equitable Access

IFIC Webinar registration: Relaunching SIG Children, Youth and Families Jun 23, 2026

Webinar registration: Livestock’s Lengthening Shadow: 20 Years After Livestock’s Long Shadow Jun 26, 2026

Register for the webinar: The plastic crisis: Endangering our planet and our health 2 July 2026

‘We’re not seeing a rebound’: New data shows HIV services not recovering

What happens when the world’s best HIV prevention tool meets the planet’s deadliest infectious disease?

US Support for Ebola Response is Unclear Amid Opaque Funds Disbursement and Non-Engagement with WHO

What Will It Take to Get a Bundibugyo Vaccine?

DRC: One month on, MSF warns dangerous gaps persist in Ebola disease response

The Social Contract of Bundibugyo Ebola Isolation

The DNDi-MMV Joint Regulatory Platform: ‘a pioneering programme project for non-profit medical research organizations to speak with one voice’

Towards elimination of Chagas disease

The Rise Of Kratom: A Dangerous And Familiar Pattern

Safe blood supply improves as voluntary donations exceed 85%, but many people still lack access

The Last Bottle of Halothane: Why Africa Cannot Wait

When Illness Leads to Poverty: Strengthening Financial Protection for Vulnerable Populations in Burkina Faso for Equitable Access to Healthcare  by Madina Larissa Ouedraogo

Logistics Gaps Overshadow Uganda’s Progress on Maternal Deaths

AP exclusive: Doctors Without Borders report found cases of abuse and exploitation by staff in Chad

HRR822. ARE WE WITNESSING A ‘GLOBALIZATION OF GOD’ OR ARE WE AT THE DAWN OF THE GREATEST DECLINE OF ‘THE SPIRITUAL’? (Carlos Angulo)

Amnesty International: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of West Bank Bedouin and herding communities

As a father in Gaza, the new home I am building for my children is a nylon tent

Millions of Children Go to School Near a Toxic Site

UN food agencies warn acute hunger will worsen in 13 hot spots as famine risks rise

Climate action as peace enabler: lessons from the Sahel on delivering peace and social dividends in fragile settings

Half of world’s children exposed to at least three climate hazards, Unicef says

Planet on Course to Permanently Breach 1.5°C Limit by 2030

Rising temperatures may increase flood risk through river ‘whiplash’, study finds