Peoples’ Health Movement (PHM)
Public Pharma: still a missing debate in mainstream academia

Despite drug shortages and soaring prices, mainstream academia continues to ignore Public Pharma as a solution

WHO Budget WHO Executive Board to discuss substandard medical products: what is it all about?

The WHO Executive Board will discuss global health priorities this week, including substandard and falsified medical products, with key implications for public pharmaceutical initiatives

Delhi’s healthcare crisis: a wake-up call ahead of elections

Ahead of Delhi Assembly elections on February 5, JSA Delhi warns about persisting health inequities and calls for meaningful health policies

Ban on women medical students in Afghanistan sparks concerns

Taliban authorities decided to ban medical studies for women, extending restrictions on women’s education, work, and freedom since returning to power in 2021

Health activists picket against high cost of nutritious food on World Food Day

On World Food Day, activists from PHM South Africa held a picket, protesting soaring prices of healthy food

One year of Israel’s war on Gaza’s health system

After a year of unrelenting Israeli attacks, Gaza’s healthcare system lies in ruins. Yet, health workers continue their steadfast efforts to provide care

What Lies Ahead for Global Health?

KM Gopakumar and Lauren Paremoer join People’s Health Dispatch to discuss crucial developments from this year’s World Health Assembly.

Foreign recruitment of nurses Germany, Brazil Health worker brain drain to global north is fueled by erosion of workers’ rights and health systems

Over a dozen organizations from across Europe met to develop a regional health workforce strategy rooted in respect and solidarity, rather than exploitation and commodification

Commodification of health Europe Activists and trade unions ready to shape new vision of Europe’s health workforce

Health workers, trade unions, and activists are gearing up to shape a new approach to health workforce policy in response to the current model promoted by governments in Europe

29 years without Jonas Salk: against the normalization of the absurd

Nearly three decades after Jonas Salk’s passing, his legacy continues to highlight the need for building a different pharmaceutical industry

Starvation and healthcare collapse loom over Gaza

Starvation in Gaza, exacerbated by Israeli armed forces’ violence, is killing children

Pandemic Treaty faces uncertain future as World Health Assembly begins

The 77th World Health Assembly has begun amid delays in pandemic response negotiations and ongoing assaults on healthcare in Palestine