Dear Colleagues,

We’re kicking off the month December with a newsletter issue that focuses among others on the new EU Global Health Strategy ( launched on Wednesday), World AIDS Day ( including a worrying UNAIDS report, which argues that “Inequalities are blocking the end of the AIDS pandemic”), the “anniversary” of One year Omicron, the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) conference in London, WHO aiming to  “phase out” the term monkeypox (and trade it for mpox), a new CEPI report on the nuts and bolts of getting to pandemic vaccines in 100 days, the start of India’s G20 presidency, promoting mankind’s “universal sense of one-ness” under the theme ”One Earth, One Family, One Future’  (#darkgrin), ….

A few things on the new EU Global Health Strategy, perhaps, Europe’s agenda for health action for the next 10 years. For the time being, it’s only a European Commission Communication, clearly, but it’s nevertheless obvious that the EU wants to step up its...