Global health

From pandemics to climate change, can we work together?

This content was published on May 27, 2025 Inside Geneva looks at what collaboration can look like as US pulls out of WHO and climate talks.

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Medicine access

Rare diseases take centre stage at global health summit

This content was published on May 27, 2025 Rare diseases have been recognised as a global health priority for the first time. How could this impact access to life-saving treatment?

Dolores Reyes Fernández, 61, hugs her father, José Reyes Lozano, 87, for the first time in nearly four months as visits resume at the nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 22, 2020.

International Geneva

Pandemic treaty comes as welcome sign of multilateralism

This content was published on May 16, 2025 Can the pandemic treaty withstand the withdrawal of the United States from the WHO?

Outdoor apparel companies have long relied on PFAS, so-called forever chemicals, to make products water-resistant.

International Geneva

PFAS regulation: ‘forever chemical’ banned under global treaty

This content was published on May 8, 2025 International negotiations in Geneva have led to a major breakthrough: the addition of a new "forever chemical" to the Stockholm Convention's blacklist

An Ethiopian man carries a USAID donated sack of wheat on his shoulders to be distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, in May 2021.

International Geneva

Trump’s aid cuts plunge humanitarian sector into existential crisis

This content was published on May 8, 2025 US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has come with sweeping cuts to humanitarian aid.

Information wars

International public media face uncertain future in democracies

This content was published on Apr 25, 2025 More and more Western governments are paring down their funding for international public media, even as authoritarian regimes beef theirs up.

Illustration depicting the break of USAID and Geneva, Switzerland.

International Geneva

Is Geneva prepared for Trump’s – and others’ – cuts to foreign aid?

This content was published on Mar 22, 2025 US cuts to foreign aid will have implications reaching around the world. For Geneva, home to thousands of NGOs, a lot is at stake.

Medicine access

How Trump’s attack on diversity could derail drug development in Switzerland

This content was published on Mar 21, 2025 If Big Pharma abandons diversity goals in clinical research, it could set drug development back decades.

Research frontiers

Explainer: Why US health funding cuts are rattling Swiss science

This content was published on Mar 6, 2025 The Trump administration has upended funding by the National Institutes of Health. What does it mean for biomedical research in Switzerland?

Donald Trump signs an executive order to leave the WHO

International Geneva

US withdrawal from WHO puts global health in jeopardy

This content was published on Feb 26, 2025 Donald Trump’s decision to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) will leave a gaping hole in the budget of the Geneva-based health agency.

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