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Sierra Leone’s Safe Motherhood Bill has spent nearly two years in limbo. Parliament says consultation continues. However, women’s advocates say the delay is leaving reproductive health policy hostage to politics and religious pressure.

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The @UN’s pandemic declaration has changed ahead of September’s high-level meeting.

Most edits are minor — but tuberculosis has been dropped, while the timeline for reviewing preparedness has been cut from five years to three.

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INSIDE VIEW: Wilfried Kreisel

Budgets follow stories. Careers follow stories. When the @WHO leaves environmental health out of its own history, it signals what matters. In an era of polluted air, unsafe water and climate disruption, that message is costly.

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NIH has lifted its blanket ban on funding research in South Africa, reopening the door to collaborations halted under a Trump executive order. But projects will still face State Department review.

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