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4 days ago | 
politico.eu | Claudia Chiappa
Lawmakers and activists are warning that nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki’s win in the Polish presidential election represents a “defeat” for women’s rights and further threatens abortion access in Poland. Nawrocki, a self-described football hooligan backed by the right-wing nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party — and by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration — won Poland’s presidential election last weekend, narrowly beating centrist Rafał Trzaskowski.
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2 weeks ago | 
wiadomosci.onet.pl | Claudia Chiappa
Od 1 stycznia we Francji odnotowano już 1123 przypadki dengi, 728 przypadków chikungunya i cztery przypadki zika. Tylko w maju francuski resort zdrowia poinformowały o 225 przypadkach chikungunya, 152 przypadkach dengi i jednym przypadku zika. Liczby te budzą niepokój organów służby zdrowia, które apelują do mieszkańców o ostrożność. Masowa inwazja komarów we włoskim kurorcie.
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2 weeks ago | 
subscriber.politicopro.com | Claudia Chiappa
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Claudia Chiappa
French regions are waging war against tiger mosquitoes as the country records rising cases of tropical diseases such as dengue, zika and chikungunya. Since Jan. 1, France has already seen 1,123 imported cases of dengue, 728 imported cases of chikungunya and four imported cases of zika. In May alone, French health authorities said they recorded 225 cases of chikungunya, 152 cases of dengue and one case of zika — also all imported.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Claudia Chiappa
Far-right European Parliament lawmaker and long-shot Polish presidential candidate Grzegorz Braun is facing a potential investigation after he stormed a hospital on Wednesday and threatened a doctor with a citizen's arrest for performing a legal late-term abortion.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
