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Several EU nations set to mandate vaccination for COVID passes

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Sweden also brought in new legislation in December requiring citizens to have a COVID passport at all events with more than 100 people. Meanwhile in England, the government has implemented ‘Plan B’ measures requiring citizens to have two injections and a booster or a negative lateral flow test to get into large venues.

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DHAGE identifies digital inclusion as key goal in building a resilient society

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DHAGE called upon organisations such as the European Union, the World Health Organisation and the OECD to set up and fund an initiative for promoting digital inclusion. An upskilling of the workforce could assist in the rolling out and implementation of new digital tools and technology. This would create a greater knowledge database.

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What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines

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The most extreme embodiment of this phenomenon, vaccine nationalism , happens when perfectly lawful tools — contracts known as advance purchase agreements — are used to skew the allocation of vaccine doses to wealthier governments and their populations whenever there is a surge in transnational demand for a given vaccine. something else?)

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Psychedelic Inequities and Unexplored Risk: Colonization, Commercialization, and Regulation

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There is a common and problematic misconception that colonization was an isolated historical event and that the present is somehow divorced from its precedent. To explore how colonization drives health inequities, we have to acknowledge the causal relationship between what is past and what is present and think critically about colonization.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform

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The alarm mechanism based on the declaration of Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), in particular, has been severely tested. A PHEIC is an extraordinary event that constitutes a potential public health risk through the international spread of a disease outbreak.

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Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics

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At the research and development (R&D) stage, government funders can bind producers to equity goals through targeted contractual provisions, as we explain in a recently-published Nature Biotechnology article. This is a contractual framework negotiated when the government funds research related to a specific pandemic or epidemic.

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HIMSS22 in Riyadh: Exploring cross-border collaboration in the Middle East

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An expert panel will gather during the first day of the event to discuss how digital health can be improved via cross-border collaborations. But regulations, such as the Health ICT law, which was published in 2019, governed the way we access health-data using technology. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.