What We’re Reading
From Our November 2024 Connections Newsletter
WHO: Climate Action Would Save Two Million Lives A Year [Health Policy Watch]
- New Data Reveals Escalating Health Risks Due to Climate Change [Devex]
- COP29 Is the ‘Finance COP.’ Here’s What That Means [Devex]
- COP29 Agrees to International Carbon Market Standards [UN Climate Change]
- Global Warming Is on the Cusp of Crucial 1.5°C Threshold, Suggest Ice-Core Data [Nature]
- UK Findings Suggest RSV Vaccination Could Reduce Antibiotic Prescribing [CIDRAP]
- Study, Report Highlight Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance in Refugees [CIDRAP]
- Bird Flu Infections in Farmworkers Are Going Undetected, Study Shows [STAT]
- Canadian Teen’s Bird Flu Infection Is Not the Version Found in Cows [STAT]
- The End of Smallpox Was … The Beginning for Mpox [NPR]
- WHO & Partners Activate Global Health Emergency Corps for the First Time in Response to Mpox Outbreak [WHO]
- Moroccan Mpox Test to be Used in Africa; No Marburg Cases in Rwanda for Two Weeks [Health Policy Watch]
- Global Cancer Disparities to Grow by 2050: Study [Axios]
- No Pandemic Agreement by December as Negotiators Need ‘More Time’ [Health Policy Watch]
- WHO Identifies 17 Pathogens as Top Priorities for New Vaccine Development [UN News]
- Deadly Virus Brings New ‘Serious’ Threat to Ukraine [Newsweek]
- Why the Next Pandemic May ‘Catch Us Napping’ Despite All We’ve Learned from Covid [The Telegraph]
- Dengue Fever: With a Record 12.4M Cases in 2024 So Far, What Is Driving the World’s Largest Outbreak? [The Guardian]
- Novel Way to Beat Dengue: Deaf Mosquitoes Stop Having Sex [BBC]
- California Dengue Cases Prompt Swift Response From Public Health Officials [KFF Health News]
- Zika Is Still Spreading. Why Don’t We Have a Vaccine Yet? [Vox]
- Morning-After Pill Sales Surge Online, Telehealth Companies Say, as Women Prepare for Second Trump Term [CNN]
- Overdose Deaths Down in US, Providing Experts Hope for Ongoing Decline [PBS]
- Public Trust in Scientists & Views on Their Role in Policymaking [Pew Research Center]
- Opinion I FDA Commissioner: We Need Action & Higher-Quality Research on Ultra-Processed Foods [STAT]
- War Affects over 600M Women & Girls, UN Says [AP News]
- Opinion I 4 Ways Ukraine’s Health Care System Has Weathered the War [Devex]
- How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health [Sapiens]
- Thousands of Children in Gaza Receive 2nd Dose of Polio Vaccine, with Others Cut Off [NPR]
- US Epidemic of Sexually Transmitted Infections Shows Signs of Slowing, CDC Says [Reuters]
- Black Infant Mortality Rate More than Double the Rate among White Infants: CDC [ABC]
- Death by Stigma: The HIV Patients in Malawi Refusing Life-Saving Medication [The Telegraph]
- Russia’s Latest Target in Africa: US-Funded Anti-Malaria Programs [New York Times]
- Egypt Has Been Declared Malaria-Free by the WHO [NPR]
- Malaria Is Surging in Ethiopia, Reversing a Decade of Progress Against the Disease [New York Times]
- Chile Provides a Convincing Case for Mandatory Warning Labels on Processed Food [Health Policy Watch]
- Pathogens Clinging to Microplastics Can Weather Water Treatment, Pose Health Risk [CIDRAP]
- West & Central Africa: About 10M Children Forced Out of Schools by Worst Flooding in Recent Years [ReliefWeb]
- War-Torn Sudan’s Medical Training Nightmare [Global Health NOW]
- How South Africa’s Richest Province Is Losing Its STI Battle [The Telegraph]
- Nearly 380,000 People Displaced by South Sudan Floods, UN Says [Al Jazeera]