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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 22/07/2026
EU shrugs off Trump’s latest tariff threat on generics
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EU shrugs off Trump’s latest tariff threat on generics
Trump said that generics imported into the US could be subject to 100% tariffs
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 24/06/2026
France confirms first Ebola case linked to DR Congo outbreak
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France confirms first Ebola case linked to DR Congo outbreak
Patient remains stable as authorities trace potential contacts
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 19/05/2026
Deadly Ebola outbreak sets off emergency search for a vaccine
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Deadly Ebola outbreak sets off emergency search for a vaccine
No vaccine or treatment currently exists for the Bundibugyo Ebola strain
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Emma Pirnay @emmapirnay.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
After a long night of negotiations, EU officials and MEPs reached a deal on the much-awaited Critical Medicines Act in Brussels. More details below 💊
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 18/12/2025
EU global health initiative still a mystery months after von der Leyen’s announcement
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EU global health initiative still a mystery months after von der Leyen’s announcement
Commission experts were caught off guard by last-minute health plan
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 14/11/2025
EXCLUSIVE: EU wants to tax unhealthy food, alcopops under draft heart health plan
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EXCLUSIVE: EU wants to tax unhealthy food, alcopops under draft heart health plan
The draft cardiovascular plan also targets tobacco, screening, and AI-driven prevention measures
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Emma Pirnay @emmapirnay.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The European Commission could stop funding lifesaving global health and immunisation organisations Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the Global Fund by 2030 as it looks to boost the bloc’s overseas influence in other areas, according to an internal briefing document.
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 25/09/2025
Commission eyes levy on highly-processed food
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Commission eyes levy on highly-processed food
"We can influence choices and this is what I think we should be doing", the commissioner said
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 10/09/2025
Health disinformation prompts new EU plan (but no information)
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Health disinformation prompts new EU plan (but no information)
The Commission President announced a new “Global Health Resilience Initiative”, though she did not say if it would come with specific actions or boosted funding
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 08/09/2025
‘No ambition, no achievement’: How Commissioner Várhelyi wants to outpace the system
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‘No ambition, no achievement’: How Commissioner Várhelyi wants to outpace the system
“We are increasingly convincing our friends and colleagues in Washington that the pharmaceutical industry is completely different from the automotive industry and anything else”, said the health commissioner
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STAT @statnews.com · 30/07/2025
Scientists used a mRNA-based vaccine to reliably trigger antibodies that block HIV infection in people and monkeys www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/m...
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Using mRNA, scientists overcome a key challenge to HIV vaccines
Scientists used a mRNA-based vaccine to reliably trigger antibodies that block HIV infection in people and monkeys
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 09/07/2025
Five key questions about the EU’s health preparedness plans
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Five key questions about the EU’s health preparedness plans
From funding early detection to how the strategy will fit into the EU's plans to diversify pharmaceutical supply chains, the Commission has left several questions unanswered.
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Struggling to follow the MFF debate? Here’s how the EU's current €1.2 trillion budget is spent, and how it may (radically) change for 2028-2034 www.euractiv.com/section/econ...
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Five fights that will shape the EU’s next €1.2 trillion budget - Euractiv
There is a broad consensus that the EU needs a more agile budget but the bloc is a heavy machine – and always at risk of taking the path of least friction.
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 03/06/2025
Patriots’ biotech report draws ‘anti-science’ criticism from MEPs. Politics over science? A far-right MEP’s biotech report draws fire in Parliament for questioning mRNA and stem cell research. dlvr.it/TL84wr
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Owen Morgan @owenmorganeu.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Von der Leyen's staff have made clear to her team of commissioners that they should not travel to Budapest Pride. Unclear how many would've planned to go – but one commissioner who backs the move said VdL "should have done it long ago". Fascinating scoop via @thomasmangin.bsky.social
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 20/05/2025
Countries seal global WHO deal for future pandemics: It aims to better equip the world for the next pandemic, but further negotiations are expected to last another year.
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Countries seal global WHO deal for future pandemics
It aims to better equip the world for the next pandemic, but further negotiations are expected to last another year.
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 14/05/2025
#Pfizergate: Commission broke transparency rules over #vonderLeyen texts, court rules
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#Pfizergate: Commission broke transparency rules over #vonderLeyen texts, court rules
The European Commission wrongly dismissed a journalist's request to access texts between the president and the Pfizer CEO, the court said.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
For @motherjones.com, I wrote about how tariffs may soon hit medical devices and how it may affect disabled people on Medicaid. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tariffs are about to hit lifesaving medical equipment
"It's really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable...who need technologies to live."
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 10/04/2025
How #Germany could derail a global pandemic deal
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How #Germany could derail a global pandemic deal
#Germany and a handful of countries, such as Denmark and Switzerland, have taken a strict stance on what boils down to a footnote in the agreement's text.
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Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD @nschwalbe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
⏰As final negotiations approach, equity concerns remain on Technology Transfer provisions in the #PandemicAccord 🙋🏽‍♀️The issue? Some countries insist on use of the word "voluntary.” 🧑🏽‍⚖️ 30 legal experts from around the world explain why that's redundant. 🧵
MRNA tranfer hub
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 02/04/2025
Trump’s #tariffs could soon flood Europe with cheap #alcohol
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Trump’s #tariffs could soon flood Europe with cheap #alcohol
“If excess #alcohol originally bound for the US floods the European market, it could push prices down,” warns Florence Berteletti of Eurocare.
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 24/03/2025
Europe urged to fill US mRNA tech gap: Recent US retreat in mRNA vaccines and therapies could open the door for Europe in its upcoming #BiotechAct.
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Europe urged to fill US mRNA tech gap
Recent US retreat in mRNA vaccines and therapies could open the door for Europe in its upcoming #BiotechAct.
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STAT @statnews.com · 11/03/2025
Gilead data suggest once-yearly shot of PrEP drug blocks HIV infection
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Gilead data suggest once-yearly shot of PrEP drug blocks HIV infection
Last year, Gilead released data showing that an HIV drug, called lenacapavir, could provide virtually complete protection against infection with just a
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Scoop: "The World Health Organization is asking some employees to consider early retirement as the United Nations agency seeks to cut costs following US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw."
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WHO Offers Early Retirement to Cut Costs Ahead of US Exit
The World Health Organization is asking some employees to consider early retirement as the United Nations agency seeks to cut costs following US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw.
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 07/03/2025
EU commissioner’s women’s health vision skips over abortion issue
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EU commissioner’s women’s health vision skips over abortion issue
A new EU vision for the future of women's rights skipped over the issue of abortion, which remains controversial across Europe despite being widely available.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 06/03/2025
🔴 NEW 🔴 Orbán-Backed Think Tank Breached Lobbying Rules, Claims EU Watchdog An official complaint slams MCC Brussels for failing to declare its funding, and warns that European democracy is under “severe attack”. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
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Orbán-Backed Think Tank Breached Lobbying Rules, Claims EU Watchdog
A Hungarian think tank closely linked to autocratic leader Viktor Orbán has been accused of breaking EU lobbying guidelines by failing to declare its funding, DeSmog can report.  MCC Brussels has fail...
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 26/02/2025
Clean Industrial Deal must be ‘zero-pollution’ for health, warn NGOs
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Clean Industrial Deal must be ‘zero-pollution’ for health, warn NGOs
Air pollution is a major environmental threat to health in the EU, causing hundreds of billions of euros in health costs each year.
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Jaime Manzano @jaimemanzano.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
👉Nigeria approves $200M for healthcare. 👉 Zambia vows to keep HIV, TB & Malaria services running despite funding freeze. 👉 South Africa rolls out 6-month HIV med supplies to cope with halted US funds. www.dw.com/en/nigeria-a...
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Nigeria approves $200M to 'fill the gap' from US aid cuts – DW – 02/14/2025
The Trump administration's freeze on US development aid could hurt the West African country's efforts to combat malaria and other diseases.
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 19/02/2025
Europeans are no longer living longer, says study
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Europeans are no longer living longer, says study
Higher blood pressure and cholesterol, tobacco and alcohol use, and Covid are all factors behind a slight drop in life expectancy in the 2010s.
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Ashleigh Furlong @ashleighfurlong.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Exclusive: Financing for global health has never looked more dire as the world reels from Trump’s dramatic pullback. Now the biggest funder of programs against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria is looking to the UK and others to urgently raise $18 billion. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Global Fund Seeks $18 Billion as US Retreats From Public Health
Financing for global health has never looked more dire as the world reels from US President Donald Donald Trump’s dramatic pullback. Now the biggest funder of programs against HIV, tuberculosis and ma...
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 13/02/2025
Belgian health workers march against new government
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Belgian health workers march against new government
The unions have already planned another general strike for 13 March.
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 03/02/2025
WHO to slash budget following US withdrawal
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WHO to slash budget following US withdrawal
Cuts to the WHO's operational budget are on the table for 2026-27. The post WHO to slash budget following US withdrawal appeared first on Euractiv.
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 31/01/2025
Competitiveness Compass: A boon to pharma, a blow to public health?
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Competitiveness Compass: A boon to pharma, a blow to public health?
The plan could turn into a “free pass to businesses for further deregulation and tax avoidance," warned the head of the European Public Service Union The post Competitiveness Compass: A boon to pharma, a blow to public health? appeared first on Euractiv.
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 24/01/2025
With Smoke Free Partnership, we've written to European Parliament President Metsola about #tobacco industry interference 🚭 MEPs held 100+ meetings with tobacco #lobbyists during 2019-2024 Since the elections, there were already more than 33 such meetings 🤯 www.corporateeurope.org/en/tobacco-i...
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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Throughout #PandemicAgreement #INB negotiations, some have questioned WHO's mandate on tech transfer and IP. In the 1950s, WHO dreamed big, embarking on a bold initiative establishing a network of non-profit public drug manufacturers committed to open science.💊🌐 1/ journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Technology transfer, intellectual property, and the fight for the soul of WHO
Debates over the scope, terms, and governance of technology transfer–the sharing of essential technical information, know-how, and materials needed to manufacture a health product–are prominent and co...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/11/2024
“The result of elections around the world have shown that ‘back to normal’ messaging was ineffective, with many incumbent governments losing office in large part due to a failure in acknowledging people’s pain and providing real plans to help people in the long term." — Me in @tnr.bsky.social
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Ignoring Public Health May Have Cost Democrats the Election
The Biden administration cut pandemic-era health benefits, and the Harris campaign failed to present any comprehensive health care reform policies. This was not an inspiring message for voters.
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