South Africa declares ‘national disaster’ over spate of food poisonings
South Africa has classified a spate of poisonings as a “national disaster”, after at least 23 children have…
Global Health Security
Inside RFK Jr’s mad world of crackpots, cranks and vaccine conspiracies
Some wonder if such associates stir murmurings from his childhood. Was a second shooter present on the grassy…
What Donald Trump appointing RFK Jr means for global health
Last month he told officials at the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to “pack your bags” in…
Number of people globally with uncontrolled diabetes exceeds 445 million, study warns
More than 445 million people living with diabetes across the world have no access to life saving medication,…
The real reason Africa is up to its neck in debt
Earlier this year bondholders including BlackRock agreed a debt restructuring deal for Zambia after it declared bankruptcy in…
Tens of thousands suffer in Saudi detention centres despite promise of reform
Those behind the film say they were motivated to reveal the jarring contrast between the Saudi Arabia of…
Egypt declared ‘malaria-free’ after almost a century of work to eradicate the disease
Egypt has been declared ‘malaria-free’ by the World Health Organization (WHO), in what it has called a “truly…
Fighting in Gaza limits vaccine access in ‘dangerous’ polio red zones
Although only one case of polio has been reported, at least six wastewater samples came back positive for…
Western Pacific to miss target to slash early deaths from lifestyle-related diseases
Countries in the Western Pacific will miss a key UN target to slash premature deaths from lifestyle-related diseases…
People are catching avian flu from wild birds, study suggests
“Malaysian Borneo really an interesting place, because it connects a migratory route that goes across some of the…
Six possible human infections as H5N1 breaks into Californian dairy heartlands
As many as six people are believed to have caught H5N1 bird flu in California since the virus…
H5N1 could combine with seasonal flu to create a more dangerous virus strain
The risk of H5N1 combining with seasonal flu to create a more dangerous strain of the virus will…
One in five women ‘have suffered sexual violence as children’
Data on the number of boys affected is even more sparse, Ms Cappa said, comprehensively collected by just…
‘I trekked pregnant through the jungle to get paracetamol’
‘I trekked pregnant through the jungle to get paracetamol’
To save carbon offset projects, make them fair
The other five principles focus on the people who live where the projects take place. No carbon project…