
on June 13, 2025
Dear Colleagues,
The more superstitious subscribers among you will have duly noted that today is Friday the 13th – though nowadays, pretty much every day feels like “Friday the 13th”, certainly in some parts of the world. This one certainly appears to “live up to its reputation” (#deepsigh).
Anyway. In this newsletter issue, among others we pay attention to the 4th G20 Health Working group meeting in South-Africa (with focus on PPPR), the run-up to the G7 Leaders’ meeting in Canada (15-17 June) and FfD4 conference in Seville (30 June-3 July), the upcoming GAVI replenishment in Brussels (25 June), a UNICEF Executive Board meeting in New York as well as a Pandemic Fund Board meeting in Washington DC, advocacy towards the UN High-Level meeting on NCDs in September, … We also briefly come back on the Hamburg Sustainability Conference (via Devex colleagues), and cover the ongoing UN Ocean Summit (UNOC3) in Nice, France (June 9-13). Earlier this week, WHO extended the Mpox...