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🌡️ Extreme heat is becoming a direct threat to food security.

A new @FAO - @WMO report warns that rising temperatures are putting crops, livestock, fisheries and agricultural workers under growing pressure — with more than a billion people exposed through livelihoods, health and

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💉As global health funding tightens, local expertise is becoming as important as vaccine supply. Better national & regional decision making can help countries protect communities from preventable disease.

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❓For developing countries the Pandemic Agreement’s PABS annex is the equity test: will pathogen sharing come with mandatory benefit-sharing, or will the status quo remain?

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Africa’s malaria fight is facing a dangerous double blow: shrinking global funding & rising drug resistance.

Without faster investment, surveillance & local manufacturing, decades of progress could be lost.

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