In our Access to Insulin Toolkit, you will find examples of evidence gathered and resources developed by the #ACCISS Study around the issues that are critical to improving access to #insulin and associated supplies.
Visit the toolkit to find out more: accisstoolkit.haiweb.org

Yesterday, the 2nd Annual Reflection Meeting of the SHARP project kicked off in Dar es Salaam 🇹🇿. This gathering is a chance for SHARP partners to reflect on their progress, opportunities & challenges, and creates a space for learning & experience sharing... plus some fun too!

How The EU Prepares For the Next Global Pandemic Domestically: An Examination of the Union Compulsory Licence

Guest Essay via Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #214 [The Files In-Depth] Health Action International Jaume Vidal

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World Health Day serves as a reminder that access to safe, effective, quality-assured medicines and healthcare contributes to a healthier world. Health is a human right!
Let’s take action and empower people around the world to take charge of their health.

#MyHealthMyRight #WHD24

🩺 Tomorrow the NL parliament will debate the Global Health Strategy.

The Dutch Global Health Alliance shares key asks to strengthen the implementation of the strategy.

🔗 Read more in our position article bit.ly/3VIvn5y

#DutchGlobalHealthAlliance

More equitable and fair distribution of biomedical innovation is a shared responsibility. Our report maps out relevant initiatives on public return and provides recommendations to a range of stakeholders.

Read the report here: haiweb.org/publication/pu…

In the final stretch of the final session, still no agreement on a #pandemicaccord . #INB9 will resume at the end of April but with no guarantees and hopes of a meaningful consensus increasingly slim. The time for posturing and bracketing has long since passed.

The role that #media plays in advocacy is something that can be ignored. Listen in as @radio5tanzania dissects why it is crucial to talk to adolescents early about their sexual and reproductive health. All part of the #SHARP project being implemented in the Great Lakes region by…

The Addressing the Challenge and Constraints of Insulin Sources and Supply (ACCISS) Study has again teamed up with Cloud9Media on a new project to share the stories of people living with diabetes, as well as those working tirelessly to improve lives, in 🇹🇿 &🇰🇬📌Stay tuned!

Concerned with the slow pace of discussions at the supposedly final meeting of the INB. PABS is not the problem, lack of leadership from those who first floated the idea of a #pandemicaccord is. Meanwhile, civil society remains confined to the side-lines:
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HAI has developed a range of resources to help policymakers, advocates, and others respond to the multiple challenges posed by the threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Visit our #AMR toolkit here: haiweb.org/what-we-do/ant…

Lack of enforceability of key provisions, such as knowledge sharing and over-reliance on voluntary measures, poses a problem for future effectiveness of the agreement - Our statement to #INB9 as we enter the final stretch of #PandemicAccord negotiations: haiweb.org/media-resource…

#INB9 is the final opportunity for States to flesh out what will form the first international agreement on pandemic preparedness, prevention and response. In our latest blog, we spell out some of the main considerations & concerns.
Read our take here: haiweb.org/inb-9-final-op…

Last week, in 🇷🇼, our educational comic book “Safiya’s 8 Secrets” was distributed among policy makers, snake experts, traditional healers and other snakebite stakeholders at the launch of the African Snakebite Alliance. We can't wait to spread the secrets of #snakebiteprevention further.

The #PublicPharmaEurope conference is underway in Brussels! Some of the questions to be addressed over the next two days include how to move to a public pharmaceutical sector that caters to people's health and how to ensure that public interest, not markets, shape the R&D agenda?

.Health Action International is being represented by the Kenya Snakebite project Coordinator at the launch of the African Snakebite Alliance taking place today during SB stakeholders meeting attended by the PS, Public Health, Deputy DG Health and WHO Kenya representative Dr Onsongo
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MEPs voting today can remove the export ban and make the Union compulsory licence operational beyond #EU borders, and by doing so, vote for equity and an effective global response to the next pandemic. haiweb.org/civil-society-…

Ahead of tomorrow's crunch vote in European Parliament on the Union Compulsory Licence proposal, we call on MEPs to support amendments allowing for better access to medicines (such as the removal of a ban on exports) and reject clauses which may thwart the purpose of the regulation.