Promises of an inclusive World Cup – but Qatar’s failures still echo The US government’s World Cup task force has promised a safe and welcoming 2026 World Cup, but past failures raise serious concerns.

The US government’s World Cup task force has promised a safe and welcoming 2026 World Cup🏆

But in this commentary, Robbie Newton of @hrw.org argues that without enforceable safeguards, fans risk discrimination, arbitrary treatment, and unequal access.

👉 www.playthegame.org/news/promise...

Mortality in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention This study estimates annual mortality rates among individuals detained in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and summarizes age and cause of death patterns from 2004 through January 202...

Mortality in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Can “America First” bring Burundians together? The introduction of the “America First” strategy in Burundi has not received much attention in Burundian media. Even media in exile, which are less concerned by Burundian authorities’ control and ther...

Can “America First” bring Burundians together? www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art... New IHP Feat article by Antea Paviotti (ITM).

Sudan: World Leaders Need to Act on Ongoing Atrocities Leaders meeting in Berlin on April 15, 2026, the three-year mark of ongoing conflict in Sudan, should commit to concrete, time-bound measures to protect civilians and to hold those responsible for ser...

3/3 This conference should not have to be remembered as the first day of yet another year of atrocities against civilians in Sudan. 

Read more from HRW: www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

EMA and the African Medicines Agency YouTube video by European Medicines Agency

The African Medicines Agency (AMA) officially opened in Kigali, working to strengthen regulatory collaboration across Africa.

This milestone aims to improve access to safe, quality, and efficacious medical products in Africa.

Watch insights from AMA & EMA’s leaders on this new partnership.

#CancerCalculus: An ICIJ-led collaboration with 47 media partners in 37 countries reveals how Merck & Co. keeps the price of its lifesaving cancer drug Keytruda sky-high, locking out patients and squeezing health care systems worldwide. www.icij.org/investigatio...

This is a comprehensive investigation of patent abuse of a Keytruda & the best I've ever seen patent data visualisation of evergreening practices and the resulting thicket until 2046 - another extra twenty years of patent monopoly right

h/t @clancyny.bsky.social

Opinion: AI coach or AI ghostwriter? The choice is yours AI is a fork in the road disguised as a shortcut. Down one path, it’s a coach that studies your weaknesses, challenges your assumptions, and pushes you past your limits. Down the other, it’s a ghostwr...

The real question is: how do you use #AI? As a sparring partner for ideation, or cognitive surrender? Read in @geekwire.com :
www.geekwire.com/2026/opinion...

A must read in @ihpnetwork.bsky.social.
#Children #Medicines #Equity #Access #NoOneLeftBehind

Hungary’s Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat

Woo hoo!! Congratulations to my Hungarian friends! Hungary’s Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

Really worth a read!: " #AI itself isn’t the problem. The problem is magical thinking. It’s the belief that we can somehow bypass the hard, unglamorous work of building functional #HealthSystems and jump straight to the sexy, Silicon Valley solution"

Why NCD drug licensing lags behind Medicines Patent Pool Executive Director Charles Gore tells Devex that one of his priorities in his last year on the job is to get a license for GLP-1 therapies. But he admits that expanding MPP's por...

Why NCD drug licensing lags behind www.devex.com/news/why-ncd... (gated) @rravinetto.bsky.social @belentarrafeta.bsky.social

Israel launched its largest wave of strikes in Lebanon yet today, with more than 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes.

Dozens of people have reportedly been killed so far today, and more than 1500 people have been killed since March 2.

Civilians, who continue to pay the highest price, must be protected.

Onze jurist @gorikooms.bsky.social over Trumps 'zorgdeals' met 27 Afrikaanse landen: hulp en medicijnen in ruil voor mineralen en medische data. "Dit is onderhandelen met het mes op de keel."

"Institutionalised pathogenic environments should not exist, and a health professional should not be asked to certify fitness for accessing them"; and " #health must remain a fundamental #right, regardless of legal and immigration status"

With the #European Pact on Migration and Asylum, " #immigrants’ #detention will play an increasingly important role, and #health #screening will be carried out prior to entry into detention centres, making it a mandatory gateway to these environments in several European countries".

The pathogenicity of immigration detention: a systemic conflict between medical ethics and harmful migration policies

Doctors in #Italy were investigated for issuing certificates of unfitness for detention to #immigrants: Cocco Marchese Nicoli Russo Testa Corsaro & Mazzetti look at the conflict between harmful #migration policies & #medical duty to #protect
@medwma.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Doctors warn that Israel is targeting Lebanon's health care system, as it did Gaza's Since the war between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah reignited on March 2, Israel has pushed deeper into southern Lebanon.

Lebanon’s medics and hospitals are coming under fire as Israel accelerates its war against Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. Doctors say the attacks on Lebanon's health system remind them of similar tactics used in Gaza.

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing😞

It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now gone😞

A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl

#War
#PasteurInstituteIran

GCC countries should urgently take action to protect workers’ rights.

Read more: www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

‘Israël pleegt genocide in Gaza, en Europa doet alsof er niets aan de hand is’ – MO* VN-rapporteur Francesca Albanese hekelt de lakse Europese houding en pleit voor sancties tegen Israël.

VN-rapporteur en juriste Francesca Albanese ontvangt vandaag een gezamenlijk eredoctoraat van drie Vlaamse universiteiten: de Universiteit Gent, de Vrije Universiteit Brussel en de Universiteit Antwerpen. MO* sprak met Albanese een jaar geleden. www.mo.be/interview/Is...

Health orgs warn of ‘dangerous’ supply shortages amid Middle East crisis The global health sector is warning that Israel and the United States’ war against Iran is creating major supply route disruptions for critical humanitarian supplies, including life-saving health prod...

Health orgs warn of ‘dangerous’ supply shortages amid Middle East crisis www.devex.com/news/health-... via Devex.

From supply to strategy: leveraging central medical stores experiences and information for health system strengthening The availability and affordability of essential medicines and other health products are critical to building resilient health systems and achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In many Francoph...

#African Central Medical can and should be strategic partners in national #pharmaceutical policy & #HealthSystem governance, coshaping #availability & #affordability of essential #medicines toward #UHC @belentarrafeta.bsky.social @itmantwerp.bsky.social @who.int
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌍 What happens when pathogens, people and policies are all on the move? That's the question at the heart of the 66th ITM Colloquium in Addis Ababa. Co-organised with the Armauer Hansen Research Institute, we're calling for abstracts. Submit and bring your findings to Addis.🔗 www.colloq2026.be

@belentarrafeta.bsky.social @kpettus.bsky.social

Statement by Prof. Sevil Atasoy, President of the International Narcotics Control Board 69th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs - Item 5 (d) Item 5 (d): International cooperation to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes while preventing their diversion.

#INCB: in 2024, 82% of world population, mainly in #LMICs, consumed only 14% of #morphine for #pain management, due to regulatory & cultural barriers, lack of training & #affordability. Adequate availability is critical, also in #humanitarian settings!

www.incb.org/incb/en/news...

WMA expresses grave concern over attacks on healthcare in Lebanon and across the Middle East. Health personnel, patients and medical facilities must be protected.

Read the full press release: https://ow.ly/5MTV50YAFk2

#MedicalEthics

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Joint Press Release - The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land - Custodia di Terra Santa This morning, the Israeli Police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Head of the Catholic Church in

This morning, Israeli police prevented Cardinal Pizzaballa and the Custos of the Holy Land, Francesco Ielpo, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. www.custodia.org/it/news/join...

UK ‘weeks away’ from medicine shortages if Iran war continues, experts say Concern that supply chain disruption could hit health essentials – and prices – from painkillers to cancer treatment

In @theguardian.com: #UK ‘weeks away’ from #medicine #shortages if #Iran #war continues, experts say. Concern that #supply chain disruption could hit health essentials – and #prices – from #painkillers to #cancer treatment
www.theguardian.com/business/202...