News Flash 651: 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

Mediterranean moray (Muraena helena)

News Flash 651

Weekly Snapshot of Public Health Challenges

 

On the Cusp of a New Era of Development Cooperation

Legal tools that lower medicines prices have expanded access to medicines for over two decades, research reveals

What will HIV funding look like in 2026?

Six years after COVID-19’s global alarm: Is the world better prepared for the next pandemic?

Preventive cholera vaccination resumes as global supply reaches critical milestone

Why Nigeria may be missing silent mpox transmission

FGS Mislabeled as an STI: The neglected waterborne Parasite Costing African Women Their Dignity

Innovations fast-tracking the end of sleeping sickness in the DRC

Closing equity gaps in the control of schistosomiasis and trachoma

Guinea worm’s near-eradication shows what’s possible for tropical diseases

Social Innovation in Health Initiative advances community-driven solutions for neglected tropical diseases

MSF calls for sustainable access to treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis in Pakistan

Medicines for treatment of older people in guidelines and essential medicines lists, WHO African Region

Improved long-term care provision in the context of population ageing

Africa has bold cervical cancer plans. Now we must deliver them

Almost 40% of Cancers Could be Prevented by Curbing Tobacco, Infections and Alcohol

Cigarettes, Lies, and Videotape: Study Links Consumer Perceptions with Tobacco Industry Deceptions

Protocol deviations in medicine quality tests

IDD Newsletter: Volume 56, Issue 1, January 2026

Vision Impairment is a $1 Trillion Productivity Problem: What Can Governments Do About It?

Turning Point? Top donor Norway launches total aid policy review

$9.42 Billion for Global Health as US Foreign Aid Bill Passes

UNPO’s new magazine Peoples Represented

UNPO’s new podcast series Hidden Geopolitics

Let’s Change the Way Parents See Their Child with a Disability  by Andrea Cilliers

HRR803. THE WORLD IS PAYING A CATASTROPHIC PRICE FOR TREATING HUMAN RIGHTS AS OPTIONAL. (Ramesh Jaura)

Explainer: Why Nature Is Everyone’s Business

Protecting Africa’s Ocean Future and Why a Precautionary Pause on Deep-sea Mining Matters

The world is far off meeting its growing water needs. Can the UN still lead the response?

Questions are being raised about microplastics studies – here’s what’s solid science and what isn’t