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• The World Hepatitis Summit (WHS) 2024 Will Bring Together Global Experts to Discuss the Latest Advances in Hepatitis Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment
  LONDON, Apr 4, 2024 - (ACN Newswire) - The World Hepatitis Summit (WHS) 2024 convenes in Lisbon from 9 - 11 April and will bring together global experts to discuss the latest advances in hepatitis prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
• At the Summit, the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA) and The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) will present findings from a first-of-its-kind report examining levels of stigma and discrimination surrounding people living with hepatitis in Europe.
• The report finds that half (50%) of those living with hepatitis B and C struggle to tell people about their hepatitis.
• On the opening day of the Summit, WHO will release its 2024 Global Hepatitis Report.

• DUBLIN, Feb. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Thailand Data Center Colocation Market - Supply & Demand Analysis 2024-2029" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
• The report provides an exhaustive analysis of the Thai colocation data center market, highlighting its rapid growth trajectory and the opportunities it presents.
• The study of the existing Thailand data center market landscape and insightful predictions about Thailand data center market size during the forecast period.
• An analysis of the latest trends, potential opportunities, growth restraints, and prospects for Thailand's colocation data center industry.

• The national PSA campaign informs women that "heart disease kills a women every 80 seconds," urges viewers to learn the unique signs of heart attack in women, speak up and get their hearts checked.
• The misdiagnosis of heart disease means that women remain dangerously undertreated, leading to worse health outcomes and higher death rates.
• Heart disease continues to be the leading cause of preventable death among women, killing a woman every 80 seconds.
• Women die of heart attacks at twice the rate of men, and women of color are nearly 50% more likely to die from heart disease.

• In Canada, social housing constitutes only 3.5 per cent of our supply, which is half the OECD average, and a number so low, even Scotiabank is concerned.
• Fortunately, there are many Canadian examples that are shifting housing away from a speculative commodity, and towards a human right.
• Read more:
  Housing is both a human right and a profitable asset, and that's the problem

Pathways to solutions

• I spent much of the summer going across the country to learn about some of these solutions.
• Most are small and none are perfect (neither are the often-cited foreign examples, by the way).
• But they all offer pathways to a more socially just housing system.
• Here are four examples of Canadian initiatives we need to pay more attention to: 1.
• This means that new supply is geared to what residents can afford, not what is most profitable.

Rent control strategies are effective

• Rent control is a set of rules guiding how much and when landlords can increase rent.
• In most cases, sitting tenants benefit from rent control, but there’s one major loophole: when a tenant leaves, landlords can raise the rent to whatever they want.
• While there’s a hybrid model in Manitoba that has helped to moderate rent increases, Prince Edward Island is the only province that has full vacancy control.
• The beauty of rent control is that it doesn’t cost taxpayers anything to implement.