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- WHO Concedes Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2; Critics Say Advice On Masks Still Falls ShortRead
Health Policy Watch – 10 July 2020
- World Health Organization Announces Program To Help 1 Billion Smokers Quit During COVID-19 PandemicRead
Health Policy Watch – 10 July 2020
- FIND and Unitaid launch call for expression of interest to accelerate availability and manufacturing scale-up of rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19Read
UNITAID – 9 July 2020
- AIDS 2020: Fighting HIV in the Shadow of COVID-19Read
By Peter Sands, Executive Director, the Global Fund
The Global Fund / Youtube (video)
- Médecins Sans Frontières is 'institutionally racist', say 1,000 insidersRead
The Guardian – 10 July 2020
- L’OIT salue l’accord sur les droits des gens de mer en période de COVID-19Read
ILO – 9 juillet 2020
- The world's one billion "mountain people" speak outRead
Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 9 July 2020
- What’s on this week?Read
Human Rights Council #HRC44 and WSIS Forum 2020 continues; Committee against Torture / 69th session; EMG Nexus Dialogues on COVID 19 and the Environment; Human Rights and Non-State Parties to Armed Conflict by Fight for Humanity; Live Webinars on Youth demands for a better future and Strengthening Southeast Asia’s democratic health after COVID-19 at the Kofi Annan Foundation; and more. Check out the calendar!
- New AMR Action Fund steps in to save collapsing antibiotic pipeline with pharmaceutical industry investment of US$1 billionRead
IFPMA – 9 July 2020
- Almost a third of lemurs and North Atlantic Right Whale now Critically Endangered - IUCN Red ListRead
IUCN – 9 July 2020
- UNECE publishes guide to measuring the economic value of education and trainingRead
UNECE – 9 July 2020