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Beyond the Breakthrough: The Uneven Geography of mRNA Vaccine Production
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Is Neutrality in Politics Making Indonesia “Checkmate” in the Global Health Play?
By Naurah Assyifa Rilfi
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November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Pictures of David Kirby appeared in "Life" magazine this month in 1990. Kirby was dying of complications of AIDS. The photographs were taken at Pater Noster House, a hospice in Columbus, Ohio.
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World AIDS Day: The Photo That Changed the Face of HIV/AIDS
LIFE.com shares the story behind one of the most harrowing and controversial photographs to emerge from the global pandemic.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Pictures of David Kirby appeared in "Life" magazine this month in 1990. Kirby was dying of complications of AIDS. The photographs were taken at Pater Noster House, a hospice in Columbus, Ohio.
#MedSky + #IDSky + #HistorySky.
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#MedSky + #IDSky + #HistorySky.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
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Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
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November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
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"Overall, nobody has a definitive picture of what has been lost. By all accounts, it is massive."
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#foreignaid #HIVprevention
What Africa Lost Under Trump: At least $5 Billion. What It Got In Return: “True Chaos.” — VEZA
A CCIJ analysis details the depth of U.S. aid cuts to Africa. The slashed programs fight famine, shelter refugees, combat diseases. They even promote America’s national pastime, baseball. Now: “True c...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"Overall, nobody has a definitive picture of what has been lost. By all accounts, it is massive."
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#foreignaid #HIVprevention
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Is There a Third Way? Lessons for PABS from Parallel Treaty Contexts
Guest Essay by Siva Thambisetty for @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social
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Guest Essay by Siva Thambisetty for @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social
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November 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Is There a Third Way? Lessons for PABS from Parallel Treaty Contexts
Guest Essay by Siva Thambisetty for @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social
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Guest Essay by Siva Thambisetty for @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social
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"The biggest tech transfer program in the history of all medical technology": Petro Terblanche, CEO, Afrigen Biologics And Vaccines on the mRNA Tech Transfer Programme [INTERVIEW]
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November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"The biggest tech transfer program in the history of all medical technology": Petro Terblanche, CEO, Afrigen Biologics And Vaccines on the mRNA Tech Transfer Programme [INTERVIEW]
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A Geneva Health Files Workshop: November 26, 2025
[2:30-4:30 pm CET]
The Negotiations on the Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing [PABS]
Two months of deliberations crunched in two hours.
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The Negotiations on the Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing [PABS]
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November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A Geneva Health Files Workshop: November 26, 2025
[2:30-4:30 pm CET]
The Negotiations on the Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing [PABS]
Two months of deliberations crunched in two hours.
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[2:30-4:30 pm CET]
The Negotiations on the Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing [PABS]
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Beyond the Breakthrough: The Uneven Geography of mRNA Vaccine Production
Newsletter Edition #315 [GHF Plus: Global Health Policy Intelligence]
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November 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Beyond the Breakthrough: The Uneven Geography of mRNA Vaccine Production
Newsletter Edition #315 [GHF Plus: Global Health Policy Intelligence]
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Reporting on power and politics in international health policy. If you work in global health, you cannot do without reading us. A newsletter from the capital of global health: Geneva, Switzerland. Cli...
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Is Neutrality in Politics Making Indonesia “Checkmate” in the Global Health Play?
By Naurah Assyifa Rilfi
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By Naurah Assyifa Rilfi
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November 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Is Neutrality in Politics Making Indonesia “Checkmate” in the Global Health Play?
By Naurah Assyifa Rilfi
genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/is-neutral...
By Naurah Assyifa Rilfi
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The 2025 Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index; COP11 of The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
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November 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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With the Franco-German Summit on European Digital Sovereignty happening in Berlin today, the EU must decide how it will confront Big Tech’s concentrated power and what real action fits within its sovereignty agenda, write Sofia Calabrese and Roy Virah-Sawmy.
If Europe Wants Digital Sovereignty, It Must Reinvent Who Owns Tech | TechPolicy.Press
Sofia Calabrese and Roy Virah-Sawmy argue Europe doesn’t need to replicate Big Tech; it needs to build something better.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
With the Franco-German Summit on European Digital Sovereignty happening in Berlin today, the EU must decide how it will confront Big Tech’s concentrated power and what real action fits within its sovereignty agenda, write Sofia Calabrese and Roy Virah-Sawmy.
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JUST RELEASED: Open science in a closed world 🌍📘Our new policy report shows how open, collaborative science and pro-access IP approaches can accelerate medical innovation & equitable access to health tools for all. #MakeScienceOpen youtube.com/shorts/UmBAr...
Open Science in a Closed World
YouTube video by Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)
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November 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
JUST RELEASED: Open science in a closed world 🌍📘Our new policy report shows how open, collaborative science and pro-access IP approaches can accelerate medical innovation & equitable access to health tools for all. #MakeScienceOpen youtube.com/shorts/UmBAr...
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SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
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November 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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A Geneva Health Files Workshop: November 26, 2025
[2:30-4:30 pm CET]
The Negotiations on the Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing [PABS]
Two months of deliberations crunched in two hours.
Register here:
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[2:30-4:30 pm CET]
The Negotiations on the Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing [PABS]
Two months of deliberations crunched in two hours.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-workshop...
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A Geneva Health Files Workshop: November 26, 2025
[2:30-4:30 pm CET]
The Negotiations on the Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing [PABS]
Two months of deliberations crunched in two hours.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-workshop...
[2:30-4:30 pm CET]
The Negotiations on the Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing [PABS]
Two months of deliberations crunched in two hours.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-workshop...
The 2025 Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index; COP11 of The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
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November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The 2025 Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index; COP11 of The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
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The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure.
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Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure.
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Examining Private Foundations in Global Health
Guest Essay by Maya Li Preti & David McCoy, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
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Guest Essay by Maya Li Preti & David McCoy, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
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November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Examining Private Foundations in Global Health
Guest Essay by Maya Li Preti & David McCoy, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
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Guest Essay by Maya Li Preti & David McCoy, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
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The EU has launched its long-awaited Democracy Shield to counter disinformation and foreign interference — but the focus is on coordination and voluntary measures, not enforcement, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
EU’s Democracy Shield Prioritizes Coordination with Tech Firms Over Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press
The European Commission on Wednesday launched its ‘Democracy Shield’ with much fanfare but limited firepower, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
www.techpolicy.press
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The EU has launched its long-awaited Democracy Shield to counter disinformation and foreign interference — but the focus is on coordination and voluntary measures, not enforcement, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
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Tobacco marketing has moved online—but public health experts are losing sight of it. George Pearson explains how limited access to social media data obscures how tobacco products are promoted, complicating efforts to study and regulate their influence.
www.techpolicy.press/why-platform...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Tobacco marketing has moved online—but public health experts are losing sight of it. George Pearson explains how limited access to social media data obscures how tobacco products are promoted, complicating efforts to study and regulate their influence.
www.techpolicy.press/why-platform...
www.techpolicy.press/why-platform...
Transactional U.S. Bilateral Contracts Seeking Biological Data Complicates Multilateral Negotiations on Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing; Unlocking PABS Puzzle Could Hinge on Conditional Access
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November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Transactional U.S. Bilateral Contracts Seeking Biological Data Complicates Multilateral Negotiations on Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing; Unlocking PABS Puzzle Could Hinge on Conditional Access
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American Barter: Aid In Exchange for Information on Pathogens [Breaking News]
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November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
American Barter: Aid In Exchange for Information on Pathogens [Breaking News]
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