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  • Health advances marked 2025 as wars and funding cuts strained systems – UN News

    1. Health advances marked 2025 as wars and funding cuts strained systems  UN News
    2. 20 public health wins in 2025  Your Local Epidemiologist
    3. WHO chief warns funding cuts could reverse decades of progress  MSN
    4. 2025: A Brutal Year For Global Health  Health…

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  • Possible measles exposure at NKY hotel, attraction

    Possible measles exposure at NKY hotel, attraction

    FLORENCE, Ky. (WXIX) – The Kentucky Department for Public Health says people who were at the Ark Encounter and Holiday Express in Grant County on Dec. 31 may have been exposed to the measles.

    The Kentucky Department for Public Health says the…

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  • New report calls for wider access to PrEP

    PrEP in Community Pharmacy: Policy options for widening PrEP access in England, authored by Deborah Gold, argues that enabling trained community pharmacists to provide PrEP would significantly widen access, reduce health inequalities, and ease…

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  • Children from struggling families to be offered jabs at home

    Children from struggling families to be offered jabs at home

    Young children from struggling families in some parts of England will be offered vaccinations at home to protect them from preventable diseases, the health secretary has said.

    The pilot scheme, announced on Thursday as part of a drive to increase…

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  • Children in England to be offered vaccines in their own homes | Vaccines and immunisation

    Children in England to be offered vaccines in their own homes | Vaccines and immunisation

    Health visitors will be sent door-to-door to deliver vaccines to children in England amid alarm that one in five start primary school with no protection against deadly diseases, the Guardian can reveal.

    The World Health Organization (WHO)…

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  • ‘I want to sit down with her’: Cancer patient demands meeting with Nicola Willis

    ‘I want to sit down with her’: Cancer patient demands meeting with Nicola Willis

    Catherine Cook sold her business to pay out of pocket for Keytruda for her aggressive breast cancer treatment.
    Photo: Supplied

    An Auckland woman who is self-funding treatment for her rare, aggressive breast cancer is fed up after…

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