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🚨 Conflict across the Middle East is triggering a growing public health and environmental crisis.

⚠️ Millions displaced
🏥 Health systems under strain
🌫 Toxic air pollution from damaged oil infrastructure
💧 Water desalination plants under threat
🚨 Conflict across the Middle

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The global aid model that supported public health for decades is fracturing. As funding for multilateral institutions declines, the world must rethink how global health cooperation works.

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From Elvis Presley’s polio vaccination to the “Silence=Death” movement, public health once harnessed culture to drive change.

🟢 The lesson: narrative power can be as important as scientific breakthroughs.

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Funding cuts and geopolitical changes are reshaping institutions like @WHO and @UNAIDS. The decisions made now will determine whether the next system protects global health –– or weakens it.

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