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💨 We spend up to 90% of our time indoors — but indoor air is still too often treated as a comfort issue, not a health issue.

At the Geneva Health Forum / World Health Assembly side event where advocates called for ventilation, filtration, CO₂ monitoring and health-based indoor

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🌍Consensus at the WHA79 is becoming harder to sustain.

As political divides deepen, experts warn that “all-or-nothing” diplomacy may give powerful countries too much veto power over global health decisions.

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Experts at @Genevaforum WHA79 side-event, argued that prevention must mean more than treating disease.

It means changing the conditions — commercial, social and environmental — that create illness.
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HPW EXCLUSIVE!

The @WHO has agreed to suspend US voting rights from May 2027 if $280M in unpaid WHO dues remain outstanding — while restoring Iran’s voting rights after it cleared enough arrears to avert suspension.

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