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Access to Medicine Foundation @accesstomedicinefoundation.org · 4d

What will it take to close the biggest gaps in #WomensHealth R&D? Maya Goldstein of @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social,
joined @jayiyer.bsky.social on The #HealthEquity podcast, to discuss underfunded conditions, persistent barriers & how to turn ideas into action. Listen now➡️ bit.ly/42McPUI

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · 13d

Today is World Contraception Day- and we recognise the millions of people around the world who still await greater choice and access to contraception.

We’ve summarised 4 takeaways from the latest contraceptive R&D data in our ‘Is this the new era?’ report: www.impactglobalhealth.org/insights/rep...

Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · 22d

🤔 Want a clear picture of the R&D landscape for endometriosis, PCOS and uterine fibroids?

Explore our new infographics from our Flying Blind report: tinyurl.com/IGHflyingblind

🔍Endometriosis tinyurl.com/4whhbct7
🔍PCOS tinyurl.com/4wudeve4
🔍Uterine Fibroids tinyurl.com/2mjmmn6u

Flying Blind

This report provides a critical and timely landscape analysis of global R&D for endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and uterine fibroids. In it, we evaluate and contextualise current inves...

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · 29d

🚨Millions live with endometriosis, PCOS or uterine fibroids, yet LMIC-applicable R&D funding for all three combined was only $50m in 2023.

Our new report, Flying Blind, shows how underinvestment keeps innovation stalled for women around the world: tinyurl.com/IGHflyingblind

Flying Blind

This report provides a critical and timely landscape analysis of global R&D for endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and uterine fibroids. In it, we evaluate and contextualise current inves...

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Sep 9

⚠️ Antimicrobial resistance is rising fast and some STIs are at risk of becoming untreatable. Our new report, Irresistible, maps the funding, the pipeline, and the urgent need for action ➡️ tinyurl.com/IGHirresistible

Irresistible: developing new solutions for antimicrobial resistant STIs

In this report, we consider the future global response to three AMR-risk STIs: gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis and Mycoplasma genitalium. We analyse the funding that has been provided to research and devel...

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Aug 20

🦟 This World Mosquito Day, we delve into our analysis of the 2025 Neglected Disease R&D Pipeline to understand where we stand in our fight against two vector-borne diseases: malaria and dengue
👉 shorturl.at/3tkrr

Scroll below to see what the next generation of innovations for dengue may bring.

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Aug 4

The Gates Foundation has announced funding to catalyze R&D for women's health around the world: shorturl.at/GzROg

This is welcome news: our latest report, Is this the new era?, finds that female-only conditions remain a significant area of neglect: shorturl.at/krtw4

Gates Foundation Announces Catalytic Funding to Spark New Era of Women-Centered Research and Innovation

Investments Through 2030 to Catalyze Innovation in Maternal, Menstrual, Gynecological, and Sexual Health for Women Globally

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jul 31

We developed the 100 Days Mission Scorecard in partnership with @ippsecretariat.org to assess our collective readiness to respond to pandemics.

Five years on from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Scorecard reveals one stark reality: critical gaps remain 👇

CEPI @cepi.net · Jul 30

In this new piece, Dr Victor Dzau, Co-Chair of @ippsecretariat.org, explores global progress made toward the 100 Days Mission—a goal to produce diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines within 100 days of identifying a viral threat with pandemic potential.
bit.ly/41jGqnL.

100 Days Mission: are we ready for the next pandemic? | CEPI

Dr Victor Dzau reflects on the progress made towards the 100 Days Mission and the urgent need to fill gaps in our global health security.

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jul 28

👉🏾 Published today! The first in-depth analysis of Australia's public funding for global health research 2017-2023.

Commissioned by the Australian Global Health Alliance, this report shows Australia could have a much greater role in addressing global health challenges.

Take a look: bit.ly/3U1C5Ss

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jul 9

📢 Happening today!

Let's Talk MPTs Webinar: Unlocking the Potential of MPTs

Join us at 8:00 PT / 11:00 ET / 15:00 GMT / 17:00 SAST to discuss MPT funding trends with IMPT for Reproductive Health and FHI 360

Register here 🔗 bit.ly/3ZUOPgW

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: LET’s Talk MPTs Webinar: "Unlocking the Potential of MPTs". After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join us for the next session in our Let’s Talk MPTs Webinar series: "Unlocking the Potential of MPTs," a timely discussion on funding trends across MPTs, HIV/STI, and contraception. The webinar will ...

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Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) @mmv.org · Jul 8

📢 Press release: The antimalarial toolbox just expanded, bringing hope to the smallest patients. The first #malaria treatment for newborns and young infants has been approved by @swissmedic.bsky.social, with fast-track approvals expected across Africa.

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jul 2

🧐 Curious about multipurpose prevention technologies (MPTs) that prevent HIV, STIs and/or pregnancy?

Join us on Wednesday, 9 July 2025 at 8:00 PT / 11:00 ET / 15:00 GMT / 17:00 SAST to discuss MPT funding trends with IMPT for Reproductive Health and FHI 360

🔗 bit.ly/3ZUOPgW

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jun 25

#VaccinesWork. They are a huge success story - saving lives and helping economies grow. As the Gavi summit meets in Brussels today, let's pledge to go forwards.

In April, our CEO @nickchapman.bsky.social outlined the risk of going backwards: www.impactglobalhealth.org/news/the-val...

The value of vaccines: what to do in the face of funding cuts which put decades of progress at risk

In this blog, Dr Nick Chapman urges us to prepare for a future that doesn’t look like the past

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jun 18

Missed our launch? You can now watch the event here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoKs...

Together with Dr Nigina Muntean from @unfpa.org, our team reveals and reflects on the critical trends, gaps, and opportunities to shape the future of SRH and women's health innovation.

2025 Is this the new era? launch: funding landscape for SRH and women’s health R&D

YouTube video by Impact Global Health

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 DYK: in 2023, 40% of the world’s funding for SRH R&D focussed on LMIC populations came from the US government

Join us tomorrow to explore how we can build resilience for this work in the face of sudden policy shifts and financing cuts
📅 June 17
⏰ 1pm GMT
🔗 Register to join: shorturl.at/23vBR

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jun 16

Are you attending #EDCTPForum2025 in Kigali? Don’t miss our side meeting exploring how Africa-led networks, sustainable funding, and data can drive a new era of clinical research on the continent.

19 June 2025 | 13:30 – 15:00 | Kigali Convention Centre

@drlindsaykeir.bsky.social

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jun 13

Why does Africa, home to 25% of the global disease burden, host less than 5% of the world’s clinical trials?

Attending the EDCTP Forum 2025 in Kigali? Join @drlindsaykeir.bsky.social to explore:

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jun 12

💷 Yesterday, the UK Chancellor announced the results of the government's Spending Review

Defence research funding will go up by 41% whilst ODA R&D will be halved, dropping from £800m to £400 by 2027 ⬇️

Yet, we know the extraordinary value of global health R&D for jobs & growth: shorturl.at/HxoMZ

Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚀 Just one week to go until our launch event for Is This the New Era?

Join us for a 45-minute interactive briefing on the state of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and women’s health R&D funding.
🔗 shorturl.at/23vBR
Don’t miss this chance to dive into the data, trends, and actionable takeaways.

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jun 10

The @who.int provides this surveillance data that was published at the end of 2024:
www.who.int/publications...

Global leishmaniasis surveillance updates 2023: 3 years of the NTD road map

The aims of this report are to update the description of the GHO leishmaniasis indicators reported by Member States to WHO up to 2023, to describe specific indicators of gender and age distribution, r...

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · Jun 5

📢 Join us for the launch of Is this the new era?, our latest report that examines the state of global funding for LMIC-applicable biomedical R&D targeting a range of sexual & reproductive health and women’s health issues.

📅 June 17
⏰ 1pm GMT
🔗 Register to join: shorturl.at/23vBR

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · May 27

Visceral leishmaniasis claims thousands of lives each year, with children under 15 representing half of all cases.

In this blog post, Vanessa Candeias celebrates the MOU signed by 6 African nations at #WHA78 to eliminate this deadly disease.

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Global health and hope: African countries unite to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis

In this blog post from the 78th World Health Assembly, Vanessa Candeias celebrates the MoU signed by 6 African nations to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis - a milestone in regional cooperation.

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · May 20

📢 The 18th annual G-FINDER survey is now open! Take part here: shorturl.at/TjEAj

The G-FINDER survey tracks R&D funding for health issues impacting low- and middle-income countries.

New to the G-FINDER? Email us at [email protected] to participate.

G-FINDER - Home

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · May 15

❤️‍🩹Global health R&D delivers global security and economic resilience.

Our review of the neglected diseases R&D pipeline shows how close we are, and also how far away, from this situation.

Read the report for more detail on how we can close the gap: www.impactglobalhealth.org/insights/rep...

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Impact Global Health @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social · May 14

What's in our R&D pipeline?
We've been tracking products for neglected diseases since 2015 and now, for the first time, we’ve analysed the health of the pipeline.

🏁Which candidates are close to the finish line
💡What do breakthrough technologies offer

www.impactglobalhealth.org/insights/rep...

The 2025 Neglected Disease R&D Pipeline review: Time to close the gaps

Amid reduced funding, political uncertainty, and rising infectious disease, this report assesses the health of the neglected diseases (ND) pipeline to empower funders, policymakers, and advocates to p...

www.impactglobalhealth.org

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