Claudia Chiappa

3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Claudia Chiappa

Global health leaders are urging the European Union to step up to protect lifesaving health programs amid what they see as a “moment of reckoning” after the United States and other countries cut foreign aid spending. The U.S.'s cuts to international development threaten the lives of millions of people and decades of progress in disease prevention and treatments, the leaders warned in interviews with POLITICO.

4 weeks ago | politico.eu | Claudia Chiappa

Over 10 million more people could be infected with HIV and nearly 3 million people could die by the end of the decade because of foreign aid cuts by Western governments, new research published today found. The study, published in The Lancet HIV, estimates the potential public health impact of planned or proposed cuts by the top five donor countries — the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and the Netherlands — which currently account for 90 percent of all international HIV funding.

4 weeks ago | politico.eu | Claudia Chiappa |Sam Clark

BRUSSELS ― Every citizen should stockpile enough food to be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours in case of crisis, the European Commission is to warn, according to a draft of its Preparedness Union Strategy seen by POLITICO. “In case of extreme disruptions, the initial period is the most critical,” the document says, setting out possible scenarios, from war to cyber attacks and deadly disease to climate-driven floods.

1 month ago | politico.eu | Claudia Chiappa

The United Kingdom has detected bird flu in a sheep for the first time, the government announced today. The case, found in a sheep in Yorkshire after repeated milk tests, was identified “following routine surveillance” of livestock on a premises where avian influenza had been confirmed in captive birds, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Animal and Plant Health Agency said.

1 month ago | politico.eu | Rory O’Neill |Helen Collis |Claudia Chiappa |Mari Eccles

Belgium was the architect of a European plan to tackle chronic drug shortages. But it views the EU's long-awaited fix announced Tuesday as a letdown. Even before the European Commission presented its Critical Medicines Act — which focuses on an overhaul of procurement rules and subsidies to boost domestic drugs production — the country's health minister lamented that the proposal “does not meet the gravity” of Europe’s supply crisis.