Clélia-Elsa Froguel

Why Trump’s funding ban for overseas abortion groups matters The US tends to ping-pong on the rule based on the president’s political party, but Trump’s version goes further than previous bans.

Could Trumps policy have a huge effect on world population and migratio?.
Euronews: How Trump’s ban on funding for overseas abortion groups will transform global health
www.euronews.com/health/2025/...

American hubris on full display

Sad to see this common framing in many US op-eds on WHO:

1. US the world 'leader' in global health
2. Without US, WHO and everything falls apart
3. US should have 'leverage' and power via WHO
4. US national & security interests are key
5. US should keep China away

Stunning and sick.

But not new - the lack of progress and change to better care for and serve US women especially Black women is despairing.

The appointment of Robert F Kennedy has horrified public health experts. Here are his three most dangerous ideas | Devi Sridhar He says his goal is to “Make America healthy again”. But behind the laudable slogan there’s a morass of conspiracy theories, says Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University

Characteristically evidence-based piece from @profdevisridhar.bsky.social on the most egregious of RFK Jr's views.

A dangerous anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist who promotes raw milk (E.coli or salmonella, anyone?) & has claimed "autism comes from vaccines" 😳

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy to be added

Health taxes: missed opportunities for health and health-care financing Every year more than 10 million people die unnecessarily from consuming tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages.1 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises constraining fiscal space, financ...

Ahead of the UN-HLM on NCDs, we need to start as community a reflection on how we finance chronic disease management - an interesting piece today in the Lancet by #HelenClark www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...