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Trade

The links between trade and health extend back to the earliest human settlements, but globalization has brought these spheres together as never before. This section examines the issues that have led to an even closer intersection between trade and health, asks how they impact the poor, and explores the tensions that arise between the goals of protecting and promoting health and generating wealth through trade

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Insights From India on Expanding Global Vaccine Production

The Indian pharmaceutical industry offers lessons for building vaccine-production capacity in developing countries

What Big Cannabis Can Learn from Big Tobacco

The budding cannabis industry should take steps to protect and inform consumers

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Why Brazil Needs EpiPens

Easy access to anaphylaxis treatments such as epinephrine injectors is vital to preventing serious outcomes

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Nigeria's Counterfeit Drug Epidemic

Health experts in Nigeria worry about the rising danger of fake and substandard medications

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How a New HIV Medicine Reduced Carbon Emissions

The HIV medication dolutegravir is lowering the health sector's carbon footprint across several countries

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New Biotech Platforms Offer Better Paths to Biosecurity

Changes in uses of digital technology improved cybersecurity, offering a blueprint for making biotechnology more secure

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How Pasteurization Kills Bird Flu Virus in Milk

Experts explain how pasteurization obliterates avian influenza virus from milk

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Moderna Cancels Kenya Vaccine Project Due to Familiar Economic Hurdles

The cancellation reminds the world that more efforts are needed for equitable vaccine distribution

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Cattle Veterinarians Express Confusion over U.S. Response to Bird Flu

Denial and a lack of unity across states are limiting a swift response to the novel outbreak

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Efforts Against Flu Show Developing Nations Can Make Vaccines 

WHO's global plan for influenza vaccines blazed a trail for more vaccine production in low- and middle-income countries

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The WHO's Push for Global mRNA Vaccine Access

Will the WHO hub realize its vision before the next global health crisis?

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African Public Health and Future Philanthropy

Africa deserves philanthropy that involves its communities and recognizes their insights

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Health Care’s Climate Footprint: Saving Lives without Costing the Earth

How climate change and health supply chains are inherently connected