The Bright Side<p>Senegal has eliminated trachoma, becoming the 9th African nation to do so! A 25-year effort has helped spare millions from blindness.</p><p>Next targets? Sleeping sickness and river blindness.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/GlobalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TrachomaElimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrachomaElimination</span></a></p>
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"Nearly 800,000 mpox vaccine doses the U.S. government had promised to donate to African countries experiencing an outbreak of the rash-causing disease cannot be shipped because they’re expiring in less than six months, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention."
#PublicHealth #mpox #vaccines #immunizations #CDC #GlobalHealth ##WHO #ForeignAid #ForeignAssistance #ForeignPolicy #food #nutrition
"PEPFAR, the popular global HIV/AIDS program credited with saving millions of lives, has been spared from a package of billions of dollars in spending cuts that Congress sent to President Donald Trump early Friday morning to sign into law."
NBC News · PEPFAR, U.S. global HIV/AIDS program, survives Trump's cuts
"Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is headed for a showdown this week with a group of Republican senators over a House-passed package that claws back $9.4 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and global public health programs."
Call your senator and tell them no: 202-224-3121
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5397671-thune-senate-appropriations-packages/
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This week's highlight: Malaria vaccine prices will be slashed! At Gavi's summit, manufacturers committed to significant cuts, freeing up $130 million for immunisation efforts, which will reach 50 million more African children by 2030.
Tobacco control measures now shield three-quarters of humanity and have averted an estimated 300 million additional smokers since 2007.
Graphic pack warnings have led the charge: only nine countries required them in 2007, today it's 110, covering 62% of the world’s population.
Closing the policy gap in the 40 holdouts, turbo-charging tax hikes and regulating vaping is now essential to extend these life-saving gains. #health #globalhealth #world #tobacco #smoking #news
www.who.intTobacco control efforts protect 6.1 billion people – WHO’s new reportWHO today released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin, warning that action is needed to maintain and accelerate progress in tobacco control as rising industry interference challenges tobacco policies and control efforts.
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Gavi has secured $9 billion to vaccinate 500 million children! Despite challenges, this funding highlights global collaboration for health.
With this, Gavi aims to deploy 24 vaccines and establish 150 outbreak stockpiles by 2030! #GlobalHealth #Vaccines
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Gavi has secured $9 billion to vaccinate 500 million children! Despite challenges, this funding highlights global collaboration for health.
With this, Gavi aims to deploy 24 vaccines and establish 150 outbreak stockpiles by 2030! #GlobalHealth #Vaccines
Switzerland approves first anti-malaria drug for infants https://www.byteseu.com/1176715/ #access #africa #antimalarial #Babies #Baby #CanBabiesGetMalaria #country #disease #drug #FirstAntiMalariaDrug #GlobalHealth #GoodNews #Health #infant #infants #ldnd #malaria #MalariaCure #MalariaInfants #MalariaMedicine #MalariaTreatment #Medicine #mosquitoes #OldChild #OtherAgeGroup #part #Pharmaceuticals #Switzerland #treatment #way #WestNileVirus #year
Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of UNAids, said that if the funding permanently disappeared, the world faced an additional 6 million HIV infections and 4 million Aids-related deaths by 2029.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/04/us-aid-cuts-kill-millions-unaids-head-winnie-byanyima
“It is a deadly funding crisis, a global response knocked totally off course. This is a pandemic, and pandemics have no borders,” she said in an interview with the Guardian at the UN international development funding summit this week in Seville, Spain.
#accessmeds #UNAIDS #globalhealth #SDGs v @glynmoody
The Guardian · UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths
"The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you" Truly gruesome & horrific. Difficult to stomach that Israel knowingly destroyed Gaza's health system, all hospitals, has incarcerated & tortured medics & killed about 1400 health care workers. A strategy designed to cripple Gaza forever, with using water & food as weapons of war.
The Guardian · Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it
John Amato raises alarming concerns about a report from The Lancet Medical Journal. Significant funding cuts to USAID under the Trump administration could lead to 14 million additional deaths by 2030, with 4.5 million of those among children under five. The importance of USAID's initiatives can't be overstated, having previously prevented over 91 million deaths. Discover the full implications here: https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/trumps-holocaust-14-million-may-die-usaid #USAID #Lancet #PublicHealth #TrumpAdministration #ChildMortality #GlobalHealth
Crooks and Liars · Trump's Holocaust: 14 Million May Die From USAID Cuts
President John F. Kennedy said in 1961 that “there is no escaping” what he described as America’s “moral obligations as a wise leader and good neighbor in the interdependent community of free nations; our economic obligations as the wealthiest people in a world of largely poor people, as a nation …#globalhealth #DonaldTrump #NewsDesk #overnight
Shuttering of USAID Will Lead to Millions of Deaths Around the World: Studies
Shuttering of USAID Will Lead to Millions of Deaths Around the World: Studies
TIME · The Forecasted Death Toll of Shuttering USAIDMultiple studies have estimated millions will die annually as a result of the Trump Administration’s closure of the foreign-aid agency.
"They are also the first indication that the U.S.’s rejection of global vaccine campaigns stems from the Trump administration’s opposition not only to foreign aid, but to vaccination itself. For the first time, Kennedy has managed to use the anti-vaccine agenda to guide American foreign policy."
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The Atlantic · RFK Jr. Is Globalizing the Anti-Vaccine Agenda
New publication out!
Our social network analysis explores how #malaria stakeholders in 
Guinea & 
Sierra Leone collaborated during #COVID19 showing how pre-existing networks supported both pandemic response & essential malaria services. #globalhealth
Read more in PLOS ONE:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0325597
journals.plos.orgInter-agency collaboration to support the COVID-19 response and maintain malaria services in Guinea and Sierra Leone: A social network analysisInter-agency networks are believed to be essential to maintaining essential health services during pandemics and to strengthening the resilience of health systems. Focusing on malaria during the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, this paper investigates the network of organisations fighting malaria in Guinea and Sierra Leone, the changes in their interactions during the pandemic, and their collaboration with organisations addressing the COVID-19 response. We used a mixed-methods approach to analyse data from 36 semi-structured interviews with respondents involved in the COVID-19 response and malaria service provision in Guinea and Sierra Leone, as well as data from a social network survey conducted with a subsample of 21 out of the 36 respondents. Results from the thematic analysis of key informant interviews were used to contextualize the social network data, which was visualized as sociograms. We found that malaria stakeholders worked closely with key stakeholders involved in containing the COVID-19 pandemic. Their ability to support the COVID-19 response and contribute to maintaining essential malaria services was facilitated by the fact that established networks of malaria stakeholders had existed in both countries which comprised a variety of national and international organisations from the public, private and civil society sector working in different areas of malaria elimination. These stakeholders were able to maintain or even intensify their collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings suggest that in resource-limited settings, the promotion of coordination mechanisms among stakeholders working on specific issues can strengthen linkages and consistency, thereby contributing to overall health system resilience and pandemic response.
Egypt has hit the WHO's target for controlling hepatitis B in children under five - the first country in the Eastern Mediterranean to do so.
Hepatitis B used to be a persistent threat, but a birth-dose vaccination policy, universal screening, and a drive to reach undocumented children has helped bring prevalence below 2%. #egypt #health #world #news #globalhealth
Dailynewsegypt · Egypt becomes first country in Eastern Mediterranean to meet WHO target for hepatitis B control - DailynewsegyptEgypt has become the first country in the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean Region to meet the WHO target for hepatitis B control, a milestone achievement officially recognized during a ceremony held in Cairo on Sunday. At the event, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health Khaled Abdel Ghaffar received a formal certificate from WHO, […]
West Africa: Lagos Nears Malaria Elimination, Set to Become First in West Africa: [Vanguard] The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the state is on the verge of making history, positioning itself to become the first West African geopolitical zone to eliminate malaria. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TLW5W5 #MalariaElimination #LagosHealth #WestAfrica #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
Wie kann #PublicHealth durch Daten gestärkt werden?
Die Antworten lieferte das Robert Koch Colloquium 2025 u.a. mit spannenden Impulsen zu KI, Wearables, #OneHealth und #GlobalHealth.
Alle Beiträge und Themen jetzt kompakt im #EpidBull:
https://www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles/Publikationen/Epidemiologisches-Bulletin/2025/25_25
www.rki.deEpidemiologisches Bulletin 25/2025Bericht zum Robert Koch Colloquium 2025 –„Empowering Public Health: From Data to Global Health“ Salmonella Infantis-Ausbruch bei Säuglingen und Kleinkindern verursacht durch kontaminiertes Cashewmus Himbeere
New paper on possible #ClimateChange deaths in #Chile:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2025.101151
"Estimating the effects of temperature on #mortality and #hospitalisations under RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 scenarios in the short- and long-term by region in Chile: a population-based, modelling study".
#ClimateHealth #HealthClimate #Health #GlobalHealth #Climate #CCA #Adaptation #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateChangeAdaptation #PublicHealth #PlanetaryHealth #OneHealth #EcoHealth