Half a Million Dead, One in 12 Treated: UN Charts Course of Drug Trade Remade by Chemistry and Conflict 13/07/2026 Stefan Anderson Conflict is reshaping the global trade map, and the collapse of Afghanistan’s opium production could, paradoxically, be pushing the world even faster toward more dangerous synthetics. Meanwhile, governments continue to prioritise punishment over care for people caught up in the cycle of drug use. Nearly half a million people died from drug use in 2023, […] Continue reading -> Ebola Cases Climb 25% as UN Warns Outbreak May Push One Million Into Poverty 10/07/2026 Stefan Anderson The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak is the fastest-growing on record, Africa CDC told its weekly briefing on Wednesday, with confirmed cases up 25% over the past week to 1,759 and deaths reaching 600. The outbreak’s reproductive number is 1.4, meaning every 10 infections lead to roughly 14 more, while the case fatality […] Continue reading -> The Climate-Health Crisis Needs Money, Not More Declarations 01/07/2026 Stefan Anderson On the day France recorded its hottest temperature on record, a coalition of health ministers, officials and advocates huddled in a sweaty, half-full auditorium in Paris to take stock of a campaign they have spent a decade waging: the fight to put human health at the centre of the world’s response to climate change. The […] Continue reading -> Clean Electricity, Waste and Construction Set to Top COP31 Agenda 18/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The stepping-stone meetings on the road to COP31 in Antalya unfolding in Bonn this week brought the first real clarity on what the incoming presidency wants the next UN climate summit to deliver on: electrification, reducing waste, and the energy efficiency of buildings and construction. The three headline targets call for electricity to meet 35% […] Continue reading -> Nearly Every Child on Earth Now Faces a Climate Hazard 17/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A landmark UNICEF report that maps children’s exposure to overlapping climate hazards finds that almost half the world’s children – 1.1 billion kids – now contend with at least three threats at once. To reach school each morning, 15-year-old Lorna first has to swim across the Kemp Welch River, known to locals for its strong […] Continue reading -> HIV Response Faces ‘Biggest Storm’ in Its History After 23% Funding Nosedive 12/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The global HIV response is facing its “biggest storm” since the world united against the epidemic, UNAIDS warned Friday, as it published new data showing donor funding for HIV/AID prevention and community services critical to containing infections dropped by almost one quarter last year. The Global AIDS Brief is being published just 10 days ahead […] Continue reading -> Planet on Course to Permanently Breach 1.5°C Limit by 2030 11/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The world will permanently breach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit within about four years if emissions continue at current levels, a major global stocktake of the climate system published Thursday has found. The fourth annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, published at the UN climate meetings in Bonn as negotiators begin to lay […] Continue reading -> Can We Win the Malaria Arms Race? 08/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – Malaria has adapted and evolved for at least 30 million years. The oldest identified samples of the parasite were found in mosquitoes preserved in amber, from a family of insects ancient enough to have shared the planet with the dinosaurs. How many millions of people it has killed across the roughly 300,000 years […] Continue reading -> ‘Totally Underrepresented’: The Push to Put Men’s Health on the Global Agenda 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – The 79th World Health Assembly closed last Saturday after a long week of negotiations over the globe’s most pressing health crises: financing gaps, rare diseases, a workforce shortage counted in the millions, a string of wars and humanitarian emergencies, and dozens of other resolutions. Yet one policy area affecting half of the global […] Continue reading -> Congo Ebola Outbreak Now Third-Largest on Record as Suspected Cases Pass 1,000 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously experienced the disease, pushing suspected cases past 1,000 this week amid severe logistical hurdles and mounting community resistance. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo version of the virus, […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Ebola Cases Climb 25% as UN Warns Outbreak May Push One Million Into Poverty 10/07/2026 Stefan Anderson The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak is the fastest-growing on record, Africa CDC told its weekly briefing on Wednesday, with confirmed cases up 25% over the past week to 1,759 and deaths reaching 600. The outbreak’s reproductive number is 1.4, meaning every 10 infections lead to roughly 14 more, while the case fatality […] Continue reading -> The Climate-Health Crisis Needs Money, Not More Declarations 01/07/2026 Stefan Anderson On the day France recorded its hottest temperature on record, a coalition of health ministers, officials and advocates huddled in a sweaty, half-full auditorium in Paris to take stock of a campaign they have spent a decade waging: the fight to put human health at the centre of the world’s response to climate change. The […] Continue reading -> Clean Electricity, Waste and Construction Set to Top COP31 Agenda 18/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The stepping-stone meetings on the road to COP31 in Antalya unfolding in Bonn this week brought the first real clarity on what the incoming presidency wants the next UN climate summit to deliver on: electrification, reducing waste, and the energy efficiency of buildings and construction. The three headline targets call for electricity to meet 35% […] Continue reading -> Nearly Every Child on Earth Now Faces a Climate Hazard 17/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A landmark UNICEF report that maps children’s exposure to overlapping climate hazards finds that almost half the world’s children – 1.1 billion kids – now contend with at least three threats at once. To reach school each morning, 15-year-old Lorna first has to swim across the Kemp Welch River, known to locals for its strong […] Continue reading -> HIV Response Faces ‘Biggest Storm’ in Its History After 23% Funding Nosedive 12/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The global HIV response is facing its “biggest storm” since the world united against the epidemic, UNAIDS warned Friday, as it published new data showing donor funding for HIV/AID prevention and community services critical to containing infections dropped by almost one quarter last year. The Global AIDS Brief is being published just 10 days ahead […] Continue reading -> Planet on Course to Permanently Breach 1.5°C Limit by 2030 11/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The world will permanently breach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit within about four years if emissions continue at current levels, a major global stocktake of the climate system published Thursday has found. The fourth annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, published at the UN climate meetings in Bonn as negotiators begin to lay […] Continue reading -> Can We Win the Malaria Arms Race? 08/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – Malaria has adapted and evolved for at least 30 million years. The oldest identified samples of the parasite were found in mosquitoes preserved in amber, from a family of insects ancient enough to have shared the planet with the dinosaurs. How many millions of people it has killed across the roughly 300,000 years […] Continue reading -> ‘Totally Underrepresented’: The Push to Put Men’s Health on the Global Agenda 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – The 79th World Health Assembly closed last Saturday after a long week of negotiations over the globe’s most pressing health crises: financing gaps, rare diseases, a workforce shortage counted in the millions, a string of wars and humanitarian emergencies, and dozens of other resolutions. Yet one policy area affecting half of the global […] Continue reading -> Congo Ebola Outbreak Now Third-Largest on Record as Suspected Cases Pass 1,000 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously experienced the disease, pushing suspected cases past 1,000 this week amid severe logistical hurdles and mounting community resistance. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo version of the virus, […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
The Climate-Health Crisis Needs Money, Not More Declarations 01/07/2026 Stefan Anderson On the day France recorded its hottest temperature on record, a coalition of health ministers, officials and advocates huddled in a sweaty, half-full auditorium in Paris to take stock of a campaign they have spent a decade waging: the fight to put human health at the centre of the world’s response to climate change. The […] Continue reading -> Clean Electricity, Waste and Construction Set to Top COP31 Agenda 18/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The stepping-stone meetings on the road to COP31 in Antalya unfolding in Bonn this week brought the first real clarity on what the incoming presidency wants the next UN climate summit to deliver on: electrification, reducing waste, and the energy efficiency of buildings and construction. The three headline targets call for electricity to meet 35% […] Continue reading -> Nearly Every Child on Earth Now Faces a Climate Hazard 17/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A landmark UNICEF report that maps children’s exposure to overlapping climate hazards finds that almost half the world’s children – 1.1 billion kids – now contend with at least three threats at once. To reach school each morning, 15-year-old Lorna first has to swim across the Kemp Welch River, known to locals for its strong […] Continue reading -> HIV Response Faces ‘Biggest Storm’ in Its History After 23% Funding Nosedive 12/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The global HIV response is facing its “biggest storm” since the world united against the epidemic, UNAIDS warned Friday, as it published new data showing donor funding for HIV/AID prevention and community services critical to containing infections dropped by almost one quarter last year. The Global AIDS Brief is being published just 10 days ahead […] Continue reading -> Planet on Course to Permanently Breach 1.5°C Limit by 2030 11/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The world will permanently breach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit within about four years if emissions continue at current levels, a major global stocktake of the climate system published Thursday has found. The fourth annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, published at the UN climate meetings in Bonn as negotiators begin to lay […] Continue reading -> Can We Win the Malaria Arms Race? 08/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – Malaria has adapted and evolved for at least 30 million years. The oldest identified samples of the parasite were found in mosquitoes preserved in amber, from a family of insects ancient enough to have shared the planet with the dinosaurs. How many millions of people it has killed across the roughly 300,000 years […] Continue reading -> ‘Totally Underrepresented’: The Push to Put Men’s Health on the Global Agenda 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – The 79th World Health Assembly closed last Saturday after a long week of negotiations over the globe’s most pressing health crises: financing gaps, rare diseases, a workforce shortage counted in the millions, a string of wars and humanitarian emergencies, and dozens of other resolutions. Yet one policy area affecting half of the global […] Continue reading -> Congo Ebola Outbreak Now Third-Largest on Record as Suspected Cases Pass 1,000 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously experienced the disease, pushing suspected cases past 1,000 this week amid severe logistical hurdles and mounting community resistance. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo version of the virus, […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Clean Electricity, Waste and Construction Set to Top COP31 Agenda 18/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The stepping-stone meetings on the road to COP31 in Antalya unfolding in Bonn this week brought the first real clarity on what the incoming presidency wants the next UN climate summit to deliver on: electrification, reducing waste, and the energy efficiency of buildings and construction. The three headline targets call for electricity to meet 35% […] Continue reading -> Nearly Every Child on Earth Now Faces a Climate Hazard 17/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A landmark UNICEF report that maps children’s exposure to overlapping climate hazards finds that almost half the world’s children – 1.1 billion kids – now contend with at least three threats at once. To reach school each morning, 15-year-old Lorna first has to swim across the Kemp Welch River, known to locals for its strong […] Continue reading -> HIV Response Faces ‘Biggest Storm’ in Its History After 23% Funding Nosedive 12/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The global HIV response is facing its “biggest storm” since the world united against the epidemic, UNAIDS warned Friday, as it published new data showing donor funding for HIV/AID prevention and community services critical to containing infections dropped by almost one quarter last year. The Global AIDS Brief is being published just 10 days ahead […] Continue reading -> Planet on Course to Permanently Breach 1.5°C Limit by 2030 11/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The world will permanently breach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit within about four years if emissions continue at current levels, a major global stocktake of the climate system published Thursday has found. The fourth annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, published at the UN climate meetings in Bonn as negotiators begin to lay […] Continue reading -> Can We Win the Malaria Arms Race? 08/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – Malaria has adapted and evolved for at least 30 million years. The oldest identified samples of the parasite were found in mosquitoes preserved in amber, from a family of insects ancient enough to have shared the planet with the dinosaurs. How many millions of people it has killed across the roughly 300,000 years […] Continue reading -> ‘Totally Underrepresented’: The Push to Put Men’s Health on the Global Agenda 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – The 79th World Health Assembly closed last Saturday after a long week of negotiations over the globe’s most pressing health crises: financing gaps, rare diseases, a workforce shortage counted in the millions, a string of wars and humanitarian emergencies, and dozens of other resolutions. Yet one policy area affecting half of the global […] Continue reading -> Congo Ebola Outbreak Now Third-Largest on Record as Suspected Cases Pass 1,000 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously experienced the disease, pushing suspected cases past 1,000 this week amid severe logistical hurdles and mounting community resistance. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo version of the virus, […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Nearly Every Child on Earth Now Faces a Climate Hazard 17/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A landmark UNICEF report that maps children’s exposure to overlapping climate hazards finds that almost half the world’s children – 1.1 billion kids – now contend with at least three threats at once. To reach school each morning, 15-year-old Lorna first has to swim across the Kemp Welch River, known to locals for its strong […] Continue reading -> HIV Response Faces ‘Biggest Storm’ in Its History After 23% Funding Nosedive 12/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The global HIV response is facing its “biggest storm” since the world united against the epidemic, UNAIDS warned Friday, as it published new data showing donor funding for HIV/AID prevention and community services critical to containing infections dropped by almost one quarter last year. The Global AIDS Brief is being published just 10 days ahead […] Continue reading -> Planet on Course to Permanently Breach 1.5°C Limit by 2030 11/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The world will permanently breach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit within about four years if emissions continue at current levels, a major global stocktake of the climate system published Thursday has found. The fourth annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, published at the UN climate meetings in Bonn as negotiators begin to lay […] Continue reading -> Can We Win the Malaria Arms Race? 08/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – Malaria has adapted and evolved for at least 30 million years. The oldest identified samples of the parasite were found in mosquitoes preserved in amber, from a family of insects ancient enough to have shared the planet with the dinosaurs. How many millions of people it has killed across the roughly 300,000 years […] Continue reading -> ‘Totally Underrepresented’: The Push to Put Men’s Health on the Global Agenda 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – The 79th World Health Assembly closed last Saturday after a long week of negotiations over the globe’s most pressing health crises: financing gaps, rare diseases, a workforce shortage counted in the millions, a string of wars and humanitarian emergencies, and dozens of other resolutions. Yet one policy area affecting half of the global […] Continue reading -> Congo Ebola Outbreak Now Third-Largest on Record as Suspected Cases Pass 1,000 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously experienced the disease, pushing suspected cases past 1,000 this week amid severe logistical hurdles and mounting community resistance. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo version of the virus, […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
HIV Response Faces ‘Biggest Storm’ in Its History After 23% Funding Nosedive 12/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The global HIV response is facing its “biggest storm” since the world united against the epidemic, UNAIDS warned Friday, as it published new data showing donor funding for HIV/AID prevention and community services critical to containing infections dropped by almost one quarter last year. The Global AIDS Brief is being published just 10 days ahead […] Continue reading -> Planet on Course to Permanently Breach 1.5°C Limit by 2030 11/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The world will permanently breach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit within about four years if emissions continue at current levels, a major global stocktake of the climate system published Thursday has found. The fourth annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, published at the UN climate meetings in Bonn as negotiators begin to lay […] Continue reading -> Can We Win the Malaria Arms Race? 08/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – Malaria has adapted and evolved for at least 30 million years. The oldest identified samples of the parasite were found in mosquitoes preserved in amber, from a family of insects ancient enough to have shared the planet with the dinosaurs. How many millions of people it has killed across the roughly 300,000 years […] Continue reading -> ‘Totally Underrepresented’: The Push to Put Men’s Health on the Global Agenda 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – The 79th World Health Assembly closed last Saturday after a long week of negotiations over the globe’s most pressing health crises: financing gaps, rare diseases, a workforce shortage counted in the millions, a string of wars and humanitarian emergencies, and dozens of other resolutions. Yet one policy area affecting half of the global […] Continue reading -> Congo Ebola Outbreak Now Third-Largest on Record as Suspected Cases Pass 1,000 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously experienced the disease, pushing suspected cases past 1,000 this week amid severe logistical hurdles and mounting community resistance. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo version of the virus, […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Planet on Course to Permanently Breach 1.5°C Limit by 2030 11/06/2026 Stefan Anderson The world will permanently breach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit within about four years if emissions continue at current levels, a major global stocktake of the climate system published Thursday has found. The fourth annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, published at the UN climate meetings in Bonn as negotiators begin to lay […] Continue reading -> Can We Win the Malaria Arms Race? 08/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – Malaria has adapted and evolved for at least 30 million years. The oldest identified samples of the parasite were found in mosquitoes preserved in amber, from a family of insects ancient enough to have shared the planet with the dinosaurs. How many millions of people it has killed across the roughly 300,000 years […] Continue reading -> ‘Totally Underrepresented’: The Push to Put Men’s Health on the Global Agenda 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – The 79th World Health Assembly closed last Saturday after a long week of negotiations over the globe’s most pressing health crises: financing gaps, rare diseases, a workforce shortage counted in the millions, a string of wars and humanitarian emergencies, and dozens of other resolutions. Yet one policy area affecting half of the global […] Continue reading -> Congo Ebola Outbreak Now Third-Largest on Record as Suspected Cases Pass 1,000 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously experienced the disease, pushing suspected cases past 1,000 this week amid severe logistical hurdles and mounting community resistance. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo version of the virus, […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Can We Win the Malaria Arms Race? 08/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – Malaria has adapted and evolved for at least 30 million years. The oldest identified samples of the parasite were found in mosquitoes preserved in amber, from a family of insects ancient enough to have shared the planet with the dinosaurs. How many millions of people it has killed across the roughly 300,000 years […] Continue reading -> ‘Totally Underrepresented’: The Push to Put Men’s Health on the Global Agenda 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – The 79th World Health Assembly closed last Saturday after a long week of negotiations over the globe’s most pressing health crises: financing gaps, rare diseases, a workforce shortage counted in the millions, a string of wars and humanitarian emergencies, and dozens of other resolutions. Yet one policy area affecting half of the global […] Continue reading -> Congo Ebola Outbreak Now Third-Largest on Record as Suspected Cases Pass 1,000 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously experienced the disease, pushing suspected cases past 1,000 this week amid severe logistical hurdles and mounting community resistance. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo version of the virus, […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
‘Totally Underrepresented’: The Push to Put Men’s Health on the Global Agenda 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – The 79th World Health Assembly closed last Saturday after a long week of negotiations over the globe’s most pressing health crises: financing gaps, rare diseases, a workforce shortage counted in the millions, a string of wars and humanitarian emergencies, and dozens of other resolutions. Yet one policy area affecting half of the global […] Continue reading -> Congo Ebola Outbreak Now Third-Largest on Record as Suspected Cases Pass 1,000 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously experienced the disease, pushing suspected cases past 1,000 this week amid severe logistical hurdles and mounting community resistance. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo version of the virus, […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Congo Ebola Outbreak Now Third-Largest on Record as Suspected Cases Pass 1,000 01/06/2026 Stefan Anderson A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously experienced the disease, pushing suspected cases past 1,000 this week amid severe logistical hurdles and mounting community resistance. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo version of the virus, […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts