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Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries Zimbabwe refuses to sign agreement and Kenya faces a court case over data sharing as new aid deals come under scrutiny

🇺🇸 #AmericaFirst #GlobalHealth strategy: Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries

New aid deals come under scrutiny with US demands including countries being forced to share biological resources and data.

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🚨 Call for Proposals: European Health Forum #EHFG2026

Theme: "now is the time for stakeholders to champion health, solidarity and equity not as costs but as investments for a resilient future." www.ehfg.org/fileadmin/do...

Watch: 'Working hard used to get you something', says victorious Green Party candidate In her acceptance speech, Hannah Spencer said she was “no different from every single person in this constituency”.

#HopeOverHate: Moving acceptance speech from #GreenParty 's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election and crushing #ReformUK into second place

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Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries Zimbabwe refuses to sign agreement and Kenya faces a court case over data sharing as new aid deals come under scrutiny

🇺🇸 #AmericaFirst #GlobalHealth strategy: Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries

New aid deals come under scrutiny with US demands including countries being forced to share biological resources and data.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Doctors were complicit in Epstein’s abuse—survivors must now be our priority A spectacle around Jeffrey Epstein’s depravity is overshadowing rights and justice for the survivors of the sex offender and his network, which included doctors, writes Jocalyn Clark The theme for I...

Two things are being overlooked in the #EpsteinFiles

The complicity of doctors

The extent of violence

My new piece @bmj.com #IWD #Epstein #Healthwashing #VAW

Health Highlights - EuroHealthNet's monthly newsletter Health Highlights is EuroHealthNet’s monthly newsletter. It brings you the most important news and information about health equity, wellbeing, and their […]

🚨Latest Health Highlights newsletter from EurohealthNet

EU Anti-Poverty Strategy: @eurohealthnet.bsky.social warns that eradicating #Poverty by 2050 will remain out of reach unless #HealthInequalities are addressed

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Inside the Growing Scientist Migration to Europe For decades, the U.S. has attracted talented scientists from all over the world. That may be changing.

🔬 Inside the Growing #Scientist Migration to Europe

"Since #Trump took office in January 2025, nearly 8,000 #research grants have been canceled or frozen, and around 25,000 federal scientists and employees of research agencies have lost their jobs"

time.com/7379376/scie...

15 States Sue H.H.S. Over Revisions to Vaccine Schedule

Breaking: Aiming to reverse recent changes to federal vaccine recommendations, 15 states led by Democrats announced on Tuesday that they were suing the Trump administration.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/h...

Inside the Growing Scientist Migration to Europe For decades, the U.S. has attracted talented scientists from all over the world. That may be changing.

🔬 Inside the Growing #Scientist Migration to Europe

"Since #Trump took office in January 2025, nearly 8,000 #research grants have been canceled or frozen, and around 25,000 federal scientists and employees of research agencies have lost their jobs"

time.com/7379376/scie...

Attacks on Ukraine’s health care increased by 20% in 2025 As Ukraine enters the fifth year of full-scale war, it is revealed that its people endured the highest number of attacks on their health care in 2025 – increasing by nearly 20% compared to 2024.

🇺🇦 Attacks on #Ukraine’s health care increased by 20% in 2025

“After 4 years of war, health needs are increasing, but many people are unable to get the care they need, in part because hospitals and clinics are routinely attacked,”

WHO Director-General @drtedros.who.int

www.who.int/europe/news/...

European health organisations are powerless against the wine lobby - Institute of Alcohol Studies Behind the EU’s Wine Package lies a quiet political battle between public health and powerful agricultural interests. This blog traces how wine escaped the rules applied to other alcohol products.

The EU’s new Wine Package protects industry interests 🍷

While Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan promised stronger labelling, wine is given exceptional treatment.

In our latest blog, Wim van Dalen explains why health groups are being sidelined.

www.ias.org.uk/2026/02/24/e...

Attacks on Ukraine’s health care increased by 20% in 2025 As Ukraine enters the fifth year of full-scale war, it is revealed that its people endured the highest number of attacks on their health care in 2025 – increasing by nearly 20% compared to 2024.

🇺🇦 Attacks on #Ukraine’s health care increased by 20% in 2025

“After 4 years of war, health needs are increasing, but many people are unable to get the care they need, in part because hospitals and clinics are routinely attacked,”

WHO Director-General @drtedros.who.int

www.who.int/europe/news/...

Join us as we gauge the state of the UK-EU Reset with an expert panel from Sussex and beyond.

Free webinar, Thursday 5 March, 12:00uk/13:00cet.

Register here: universityofsussex.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

GLP‑1 drug prescriptions for obesity Our analysis shows clear patterns in the uptake of private GLP‑1 weight-loss treatments that could shape who benefits first from access to these drugs.

England's obesity levels are highest in deprived areas, yet affluent areas have far higher private prescribing rates of GLP-1s. Private‑sector uptake patterns reveal the scale of inequalities in who is currently benefiting from these medications.

Read our new analysis ⬇️

🇪🇺 EU slammed as study reveals climate-harming beef and lamb get 580 times more subsidies than legumes.

The EU is being urged to introduce a Plant-Based Action Plan to promote sustainable diets and help farmers transition away from meat and dairy.

www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...

The tuberculosis epidemic continues to thrive because of the neglect and reluctance to invest in social protection. What we need is not more evidence, but more resolve at the political level to invest in social protection

Our piece in @thelancetph.bsky.social

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Report underscores death toll of health care-related infections Infections acquired in health care settings kill 3 times more people than car accidents each year.

🦠 New report underscores death toll of health care-related infections: Infections acquired in health care settings kill three times more people than car accidents each year.

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy @cidrap.bsky.social

www.cidrap.umn.edu/healthcare-a...

The problem with billionaire power goes far beyond Epstein - LSE Review of Books Stinking Rich by scholar Carl Rhodes and The Haves and Have-Yachts by journalist Evan Osnos examine the problem of billionaire power that undermines democracy.

The problem with billionaire power goes far beyond the Epstein files.

Stinking Rich by @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social
and The Haves and Have-Yachts by @eosnos.bsky.social @newyorker.com reveal how billionaires undermine democracy.

@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

Beautiful

Congratulations to Carl Gough, who was awarded runner-up in the 'Dark Skyscapes' category of our 2025/26 Astrophotography Competition.

The image “Eclipsed” stunningly depicts a partial lunar eclipse next to Arundel Castle.

Fantastic work, Carl👏

Report underscores death toll of health care-related infections Infections acquired in health care settings kill 3 times more people than car accidents each year.

🦠 New report underscores death toll of health care-related infections: Infections acquired in health care settings kill three times more people than car accidents each year.

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy @cidrap.bsky.social

www.cidrap.umn.edu/healthcare-a...

🇪🇺 Europe’s #FarRight is turning #Health policy into a fight against #Science

As Brussels moves to tackle drug shortages, far-right MEPs are using the debate to amplify #AntiVaccine narratives, challenge #Abortion rights and cast #PublicHealth as a threat to freedom

www.euractiv.com/news/the-bod...

As a german, I have Hitler vibes :(

🇪🇺 Europe’s #FarRight is turning #Health policy into a fight against #Science

As Brussels moves to tackle drug shortages, far-right MEPs are using the debate to amplify #AntiVaccine narratives, challenge #Abortion rights and cast #PublicHealth as a threat to freedom

www.euractiv.com/news/the-bod...

Starmer warns 'public health isn't a culture war' after measles outbreak A measles outbreak is spreading through schools in north London after the UK lost its elimination status in 2024 due to a lower vaccine uptake.

#Vaccination: " #PublicHealth isn't a culture war. It's about keeping our communities safe" says British PM after #Measles outbreak in London

UK "expects its leaders to stand firmly behind #Science to protect our children, not to give oxygen to conspiracy theories"

news.sky.com/story/prime-...

🦋 Updated | European #PublicHealth on Bluesky:

🦋 European Heart Network @ehnheart.bsky.social
🦋 The Lancet Regional Europe @lancetrh-europe.bsky.social
🦋 European Medical Journal @emjreviews.bsky.social
🦋 EuroHealthNet @eurohealthnet.bsky.social

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Starmer warns 'public health isn't a culture war' after measles outbreak A measles outbreak is spreading through schools in north London after the UK lost its elimination status in 2024 due to a lower vaccine uptake.

#Vaccination: " #PublicHealth isn't a culture war. It's about keeping our communities safe" says British PM after #Measles outbreak in London

UK "expects its leaders to stand firmly behind #Science to protect our children, not to give oxygen to conspiracy theories"

news.sky.com/story/prime-...

Winning the “Life at Night” category in our 2025/26 Astrophotography Competition was Richard Murray’s shot, “Snail Trail to the Stars”, capturing a snail beneath The Plough asterism.

Congratulations, Richard - you really snailed it! 🐌

Behind the chemical industry lobby blitz to undermine EU safety The European Environment Agency warns “according to some estimates, about eight percent of deaths can be attributed to hazardous chemicals. These numbers could be [an] underestimate." That’s why the E...

🇪🇺 Behind the #chemical industry #lobbying blitz to undermine #EU safety

‘it is increasingly clear that the planned — and much-needed — robust revision of EU chemicals rules is being derailed by corporate interests’

@vickycann.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org

euobserver.com/202912/behin...

North London measles outbreak hits several schools with tens of children infected A number of children have been hospitalised as officials urge families to check they are up to date with their vaccines.

‘Fast-spreading' #measles outbreak hits several schools in London

“One in five children who contracted the illness had been admitted to hospital, all of whom had not been fully immunised.”

#VaccinesWork #Vaccination

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