SRINAGAR, INDIA – When record-breaking rains, landslides and cloudbursts lashed northern India in late August — across Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh — highways turned into rivers, homes collapsed and death tolls mounted. But beneath the visible destruction lies a quieter emergency: public health systems buckling under the strain. In Kashmir, the Jhelum […] Continue reading ->
Regulating pharmaceutical companies that manufacture essential health products during a public health emergency is a key flashpoint between developed and developing countries ahead of the final round of talks on the pandemic agreement. This is evident in some of the 17 submissions made to the Intergovernmental Negotiating Working Group (IGWG), which is coordinating the final […] Continue reading ->
Details from the resignation letters of top officials from the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the government’s top health experts have been ignored and sidelined by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. Kennedy has never been briefed by any experts from the CDC’s National Center […] Continue reading ->