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High-Profile Departures Shake Up WHO Leadership, Tedros ‘Confidant’ Returns
A major leadership shake-up is rocking the WHO, with two assistant directors-general, Dr Jeremy Farrar and Dr Yukiko Nakatani, leaving the organisation in quick succession. ...
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Eighty Years Strong and Still Forgetting Water: How WHO’s Anniversary Story Erases a Century of Environmental Health
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Twice in three years – at its 75th anniversary and again this July at the Constitution’s 80th – the World Health ...
US Assumes Control Over Global Anti-Abortion Geneva Consensus Declaration, Affirms Religious Groups
Sexual & Reproductive Health
The United States has assumed the secretariat of the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD), a global anti-abortion initiative launched by Donald Trump’s ...
French Youth Social Media Ban Collapses in Court as EU Readies Regulation
Child & adolescent health
France’s planned youth social media ban for minors under the age of 15 violates fundamental rights, the country’s Constitutional Council ruled ...
A Year After Collapse in Geneva, Plastics Treaty Negotiations Remain Paralysed
Health & Environment
When 175 countries unanimously voted in Nairobi in March 2022 to negotiate a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, the ...
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Fauci: The Oracle Who Went Silent At The Wrong Time
Vital Signs in Global Health
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South Sudan Refugees Face Extreme Hunger Due to Funding Shortfalls
More than 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan risk losing access to lifesaving food, nutrition and other assistance ...
14/08/2026
WHO Officials Condemn Trump’s Vaccination Changes
Top World Health Organization (WHO) officials are concerned that the United States President Donald Trump’s move to alter his country’s ...
12/08/2026
White House Attempt to Control Science Grants is Blocked – For Now
The plan by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to subject all United States research grants to ...
10/08/2026
Fauci: The Oracle Who Went Silent At The Wrong Time
Vital Signs in Global Health
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US Government Burns Goodwill With Incorrect Map of Africa
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Adjusting to a Post-PEPFAR World
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US Drives 25% Plunge in HIV Funding in 2025
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Amid Row Over Exclusion, US Concedes that HIV Approach Needs to Include ‘All People at Risk’
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Eastern Mediterranean
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US Government Burns Goodwill With Incorrect Map of Africa
HIV and AIDS
Adjusting to a Post-PEPFAR World
HIV and AIDS
US Drives 25% Plunge in HIV Funding in 2025
Health Equity
Amid Row Over Exclusion, US Concedes that HIV Approach Needs to Include ‘All People at Risk’
HIV and AIDS
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Leading Malaria Scientist Warns Tools Alone Will Not End the Disease
Doctor Who Led Underground Hospital in Syria: ‘There Must Be Real Consequences for Those Who Target Healthcare’
Can We Win the Malaria Arms Race?
‘Totally Underrepresented’: The Push to Put Men’s Health on the Global Agenda
Longer Pollen Seasons, Extreme Heat and Wildfires – The Climate Change Cost to Lung Health
Pandemics Are Not Just Biological Crises
New Funding Models Needed as Global Health Faces Growing Financial Strain
Global Health Needs Rethink as Systems Fall Behind
Global Health Leaders Warn Trust in Science Is Declining
Global Health Is Failing on Equity, Warns South African Medical Research Council Chief
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