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DRC’s Ebola Bundibugyo response must be locally anchored, community-led & equitable across conflict lines.
With no approved vaccine yet for this strain, the priorities are clear: diagnostics, contact tracing, hospital care, surveillance & trust.🧬
✍️Lebon Kasamira
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Global health advocates are calling on #FIFA to end its Coca-Cola World Cup sponsorship by 2030, warning that football’s biggest stage is being used to market sugary drinks linked to obesity, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. ⚽🥤
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Leaders are calling for urgent action: finalise the Pandemic Agreement, fund prevention and preparedness, support the 100 Days Mission and strengthen One Health systems before the next outbreak escalates.
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As global health budgets shrink, three Geneva-based non-profit R&D groups — @dndi.org, @gardp.bsky.social. & @mmv.org — are joining forces to accelerate lifesaving medicines for malaria, NCDs & antimicrobial resistance.
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@who.int & Africa CDC have launched a $518M joint #Ebola response plan as DRC’s Ituri province remains the outbreak epicentre.
📉Testing has revised projections downward, but leaders warn the response still faces serious health-system & funding gaps.
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Five years after the Global Diabetes Compact, there is progress to recognize — but millions still lack affordable insulin more than a century after its discovery. 🩺
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Only around 12% of the contacts of Ebola patients in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been reached, posing a “huge risk” for
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention launched a joint continental preparedness response plan to
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The Global Diabetes Compact aims to improve diagnosis, care, and access to life-saving medications for those with diabetes. Already, countries in high-burden
Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting
Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting
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Precipitous aid cuts are casting a huge shadow over the United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on HIV on 22-23 June, with new research indicating that some
The world will permanently breach the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C warming limit within about four years if emissions continue at current levels, a major global
Following extreme heat in May, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued new global guidelines on Thursday in Berlin to accelerate climate adaptation and structurally overhaul health systems and urban spaces.
The response to the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) must be rooted in the country’s local health structures and avoid
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Describing the Ebola outbreak as a “preventable disaster”, the leaders have written an open letter to governments calling on them to “make decisions that will
