#PublicHealth How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries stories.publiceye.ch/nestle-babies/ Laurent Gaberell Manuel Abebe Patti Rundall Public Eye International Baby Food Action Network cc Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

There’s been a lot of revisionist history surrounding access-to-medicines, particularly relating to the WTO and globalization of IP.

🧵on the WTO and the TRIPS Agreement (1/6)

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases Strategy to Strengthen Global Health Security whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…⁠harris-administration-releases-strategy-to-strengthen-global-health-security/?utm_source=twitter @whitehouse Roosen Tim Remco van de Pas @rvandepas.bsky.social Belén Tarrafeta Raffaella Ravinetto

Refocusing the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines on the needs of low and middle income countries bmj.com/content/385/bm… Belén Tarrafeta Raffaella Ravinetto

EXCLUSIVE: Next Draft of The Pandemic Agreement World Health Organization (WHO) Will Likely Have No Fund and No Binding Obligations On Pathogen Access & Benefits Sharing, Defers Modalities to Conference of Parties

Geneva Health Files Newsletter #80 [Treaty Talks] Priti Patnaik

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WHO has determined a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) 7 times.

In a Health Policy, authors undertook a scoping review to assess the utilisation of PHEIC and pandemic language within national legislation in 28 WHO member states: hubs.li/Q02sQZgB0

Today, in Geneva Health Files we propose Four Principles for PABS. With Geneva negotiations on the pandemic agreement continuing this week, PABS has become a singular sticking point. We wrote this at the request of key parties to bridge the diplomatic divide.

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Colombia’s birthday present to the World Trade Organization: a proposal to review the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement: Article 71.1 @WTO
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[GUEST ESSAY] Principles to Guide the Pathogen Access-and-Benefit Sharing System [PABS] in a Pandemic Agreement; World Health Organization (WHO)

Update: Proposal to Buy More Time to Operationalize PABS by May 2026

Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #79 [Treaty Talks]

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Dialogues: a conversation with Daisy Hernández, author “The Kissing Bug: A true story of a family, an insect and a nation’s neglect of a deadly disease”

via Dr Garry Aslanyan #GlobalHealthMatters Podcast

Listen now: buzzsprout.com/1632040/134250…

This week, World Health Organization (WHO) and partners visited hospitals in Khan Yunis in #Gaza , including Al-Amal hospital and Nasser Medical Complex, the largest facility in the south.

They saw utter devastation: infrastructure destroyed, vital medicines and equipment missing or damaged.

What Readers Are Telling Us
Geneva Health Files

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Imp call by Helen Clark Soumya Swaminathan ahead of World Bank IMF spring mtgs “Only when we start seeing clean air as an asset of value for our health, our environment and our economies will we recognise the need to make clean air a reality for us all”
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Is brain drain limiting Africa’s genomics potential? devex.com/news/is-brain-… #Devex via @Devex Raffaella Ravinetto Roosen Tim Belén Tarrafeta Radhika Arora Remco van de Pas @rvandepas.bsky.social

Ireland introduces #alcohol labeling, including the #cancer warning one.

Beer, wine and liquor will be required by law to bear a label in red capital letters with two warnings:

“THERE IS A DIRECT LINK BETWEEN ALCOHOL AND FATAL CANCERS” and

“DRINKING ALCOHOL CAUSES LIVER…

g20.org/en/tracks/sher… 'Brazil's main proposal for the G20 Health WG is to establish the creation of an Alliance for Regional Production and Innovation.' Roosen Tim Raffaella Ravinetto Belén Tarrafeta Remco van de Pas @rvandepas.bsky.social