News Flash 650: 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

Vulcano island (crater rim), Italy

News Flash 650

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

Reflections on the World Economic Forum: AI, Geopolitics, and Biothreats

Aid off course – How ODA reform has left the Global South behind

Webinar registration: When Women Lead: Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation Feb 6, 2026

Seminar registration: Ethics of Research in Emergencies, Friday, January 30, 2026

Webinar registration: Patterns of financialisation and impacts of corporatisation of healthcare – An Indian case study with global dimensions Jan 30, 2026

Webinar registration: PABS Negotiations at a Crossroads: Equity Promises, Emerging Loopholes, and Global Biosecurity Risks Jan 29, 2026

WHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States

US loses Gavi board seat after withholding funding

One year after US aid freeze, HIV care in Africa is in retreat

US to expand anti-abortion aid rule to cover ‘gender ideology,’ diversity

The Fall of Public Trust and Public Health in the U.S.  by Laura H. Kahn 

Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota: Not Just a Political, also a Public Health Crisis

WE HAVE A DREAM  by Juan Garay 

DNDi and APHRC sign MoU to forge strategic alliance to bridge research and capacity enhancement gaps

‘Suspended or Cancelled’: Guinea-Bissau Health Minister Halts Controversial Hepatitis B Trial

UK loses its measles elimination status

Ethiopia Declares End to First-Ever Marburg Outbreak

World NTD Day 2026

Time to put Scrub Typhus higher on the public health agenda

MPP welcomes Coefficient Giving as a new partner to expand access to non-communicable disease medicines

Celebrating Recent Advances in Cervical Cancer Prevention

Is Lead Poisoning a Missing Link in the Fight Against Malnutrition?

WHO: Healthy diet

HRR802. FIVE YEARS TO THE COUNTDOWN AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET THERE. WE THUS NEED TO REWRITE THE MANY CONGRATULATORY SPEECHES AND ARTICLES ABOUT THE SDGs

From Hamburg to Uganda: how an NGO learned to reinvent itself

Resisting the Rule of the Rich: Defending Freedom Against Billionaire Power

In Gaza today, death does not need a missile. Rain alone is enough

Fighting Traffickers with Conservation Justice: Tiffany Gobert

Half of Fossil Fuel Carbon Emissions in 2024 Came From 32 Companies

How climate change is burning Kenya’s outdoor workers