Linking Climate and Weather Data with Health: WMO-WHO Initiative Aims to Reach 80 Countries 10/06/2025 Maayan Hoffman In Mongolia, where extreme winter cold spells, known as “Dzud”, are becoming more frequent due to climate change, these can spell death to people and animals. But in recent years, herders in remote regions can get up-to-date advance warnings of pending extremes, as well as detailed advice prompting them, for instance, to stock up on […] Continue reading -> Removal of US Vaccine Advisory Committee is ‘Dangerous and Unprecedented’ 10/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan The decision by United States Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr to fire all members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine advisory group is “a dangerous and unprecedented action that makes our families less safe”, according to Dr Tom Frieden, CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. The Advisory Committee on Immunization […] Continue reading -> ‘We Dissent’: NIH Staff Hit Out Against ‘Politicised’ Research 09/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Over 300 employees of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have urged NIH director Dr Jay Bhattacharya to “restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue”. They have also appealed to him to reinstate staff, enable global collaboration, and research to be published in peer-reviewed journals. “We dissent […] Continue reading -> Time to Rethink Global Health Recruitment as Africa’s Health Workers Deserve Better 09/06/2025 Martin Msukwa & Isaac Ntwiga When Dr Biira* qualified as doctor in Uganda, she was hopeful about her future. Instead, she faced a common barrier: no job. Despite a huge shortage of doctors, no posts were available. Like many others, she left to work overseas. Across Africa, talented health workers overcome significant obstacles to train, only to be driven away […] Continue reading -> African Cholera Outbreaks Driven by Years of Under-Investment in Water and Sanitation 06/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Cholera in Africa is being driven by years of under-investment in water and sanitation, according to the Africa Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Four countries – Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan and South Sudan – account for over 85% of the continent’s cholera cases and all have above-average death rates, […] Continue reading -> WHO Advocates for ‘Sin Taxes’ to Offset Aid Cuts, as Trump Asks Congress to Rescind $9.4 Billion in Global Health Funds 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Governments have been advised to impose ‘sin taxes’ on tobacco, alcohol and other unhealthy products to offset the severity of cuts to official development assistance (ODA), World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a tuberculosis meeting on Thursday. His statements came two days after the administration of US President Donald Trump […] Continue reading -> Ghana’s FDA Head Appointed to Run African Medicines Agency 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan CEO of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Dr Delese Mimi Darko has been appointed the inaugural Director-General of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) by the agency’s Conference of State Parties (CoSP) at a meeting in Rwanda this week. Darko has a “wealth of experience and a distinguished track record in regulatory excellence”, according to […] Continue reading -> Only 21 Countries have Updated National Climate Action Plans – Few Actually Track Health Benefits 04/06/2025 Kate Okorie & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Most countries’ climate action plans refer to the health benefits of adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as reduced air pollution, but few actually track them. And as World Environment Day is observed Thursday, global climate commitments remain extraordinarily weak. Only 21 countries out of the 195 parties to the UN Paris Agreement have submitted updated […] Continue reading -> Young People Self-Medicate as Kashmir’s Mental Health System Fails Them 03/06/2025 Arsalan Bukhari SRINAGAR, India – Areeba* tucks a strip of tiny blue pills into the back of her mathematics textbook before heading to class. It’s become second nature. “Half when I can’t sleep. One if I can’t walk,” says the 22-year-old university student, her voice calm, as if describing a cold remedy. “I don’t really want to […] Continue reading -> Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death 02/06/2025 Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa In Nukus, Uzbekistan, 34-year-old surgical nurse Dilaram was devastated when she was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). But instead of facing the standard treatment, including nearly 15,000 pills to be taken over two years and painful injections causing severe side effects, she could enrol in TB-PRACTECAL, the MSF-led clinical trial testing an all-oral, six-month regimen […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
Removal of US Vaccine Advisory Committee is ‘Dangerous and Unprecedented’ 10/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan The decision by United States Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr to fire all members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine advisory group is “a dangerous and unprecedented action that makes our families less safe”, according to Dr Tom Frieden, CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. The Advisory Committee on Immunization […] Continue reading -> ‘We Dissent’: NIH Staff Hit Out Against ‘Politicised’ Research 09/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Over 300 employees of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have urged NIH director Dr Jay Bhattacharya to “restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue”. They have also appealed to him to reinstate staff, enable global collaboration, and research to be published in peer-reviewed journals. “We dissent […] Continue reading -> Time to Rethink Global Health Recruitment as Africa’s Health Workers Deserve Better 09/06/2025 Martin Msukwa & Isaac Ntwiga When Dr Biira* qualified as doctor in Uganda, she was hopeful about her future. Instead, she faced a common barrier: no job. Despite a huge shortage of doctors, no posts were available. Like many others, she left to work overseas. Across Africa, talented health workers overcome significant obstacles to train, only to be driven away […] Continue reading -> African Cholera Outbreaks Driven by Years of Under-Investment in Water and Sanitation 06/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Cholera in Africa is being driven by years of under-investment in water and sanitation, according to the Africa Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Four countries – Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan and South Sudan – account for over 85% of the continent’s cholera cases and all have above-average death rates, […] Continue reading -> WHO Advocates for ‘Sin Taxes’ to Offset Aid Cuts, as Trump Asks Congress to Rescind $9.4 Billion in Global Health Funds 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Governments have been advised to impose ‘sin taxes’ on tobacco, alcohol and other unhealthy products to offset the severity of cuts to official development assistance (ODA), World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a tuberculosis meeting on Thursday. His statements came two days after the administration of US President Donald Trump […] Continue reading -> Ghana’s FDA Head Appointed to Run African Medicines Agency 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan CEO of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Dr Delese Mimi Darko has been appointed the inaugural Director-General of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) by the agency’s Conference of State Parties (CoSP) at a meeting in Rwanda this week. Darko has a “wealth of experience and a distinguished track record in regulatory excellence”, according to […] Continue reading -> Only 21 Countries have Updated National Climate Action Plans – Few Actually Track Health Benefits 04/06/2025 Kate Okorie & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Most countries’ climate action plans refer to the health benefits of adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as reduced air pollution, but few actually track them. And as World Environment Day is observed Thursday, global climate commitments remain extraordinarily weak. Only 21 countries out of the 195 parties to the UN Paris Agreement have submitted updated […] Continue reading -> Young People Self-Medicate as Kashmir’s Mental Health System Fails Them 03/06/2025 Arsalan Bukhari SRINAGAR, India – Areeba* tucks a strip of tiny blue pills into the back of her mathematics textbook before heading to class. It’s become second nature. “Half when I can’t sleep. One if I can’t walk,” says the 22-year-old university student, her voice calm, as if describing a cold remedy. “I don’t really want to […] Continue reading -> Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death 02/06/2025 Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa In Nukus, Uzbekistan, 34-year-old surgical nurse Dilaram was devastated when she was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). But instead of facing the standard treatment, including nearly 15,000 pills to be taken over two years and painful injections causing severe side effects, she could enrol in TB-PRACTECAL, the MSF-led clinical trial testing an all-oral, six-month regimen […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
‘We Dissent’: NIH Staff Hit Out Against ‘Politicised’ Research 09/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Over 300 employees of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have urged NIH director Dr Jay Bhattacharya to “restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue”. They have also appealed to him to reinstate staff, enable global collaboration, and research to be published in peer-reviewed journals. “We dissent […] Continue reading -> Time to Rethink Global Health Recruitment as Africa’s Health Workers Deserve Better 09/06/2025 Martin Msukwa & Isaac Ntwiga When Dr Biira* qualified as doctor in Uganda, she was hopeful about her future. Instead, she faced a common barrier: no job. Despite a huge shortage of doctors, no posts were available. Like many others, she left to work overseas. Across Africa, talented health workers overcome significant obstacles to train, only to be driven away […] Continue reading -> African Cholera Outbreaks Driven by Years of Under-Investment in Water and Sanitation 06/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Cholera in Africa is being driven by years of under-investment in water and sanitation, according to the Africa Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Four countries – Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan and South Sudan – account for over 85% of the continent’s cholera cases and all have above-average death rates, […] Continue reading -> WHO Advocates for ‘Sin Taxes’ to Offset Aid Cuts, as Trump Asks Congress to Rescind $9.4 Billion in Global Health Funds 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Governments have been advised to impose ‘sin taxes’ on tobacco, alcohol and other unhealthy products to offset the severity of cuts to official development assistance (ODA), World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a tuberculosis meeting on Thursday. His statements came two days after the administration of US President Donald Trump […] Continue reading -> Ghana’s FDA Head Appointed to Run African Medicines Agency 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan CEO of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Dr Delese Mimi Darko has been appointed the inaugural Director-General of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) by the agency’s Conference of State Parties (CoSP) at a meeting in Rwanda this week. Darko has a “wealth of experience and a distinguished track record in regulatory excellence”, according to […] Continue reading -> Only 21 Countries have Updated National Climate Action Plans – Few Actually Track Health Benefits 04/06/2025 Kate Okorie & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Most countries’ climate action plans refer to the health benefits of adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as reduced air pollution, but few actually track them. And as World Environment Day is observed Thursday, global climate commitments remain extraordinarily weak. Only 21 countries out of the 195 parties to the UN Paris Agreement have submitted updated […] Continue reading -> Young People Self-Medicate as Kashmir’s Mental Health System Fails Them 03/06/2025 Arsalan Bukhari SRINAGAR, India – Areeba* tucks a strip of tiny blue pills into the back of her mathematics textbook before heading to class. It’s become second nature. “Half when I can’t sleep. One if I can’t walk,” says the 22-year-old university student, her voice calm, as if describing a cold remedy. “I don’t really want to […] Continue reading -> Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death 02/06/2025 Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa In Nukus, Uzbekistan, 34-year-old surgical nurse Dilaram was devastated when she was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). But instead of facing the standard treatment, including nearly 15,000 pills to be taken over two years and painful injections causing severe side effects, she could enrol in TB-PRACTECAL, the MSF-led clinical trial testing an all-oral, six-month regimen […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
Time to Rethink Global Health Recruitment as Africa’s Health Workers Deserve Better 09/06/2025 Martin Msukwa & Isaac Ntwiga When Dr Biira* qualified as doctor in Uganda, she was hopeful about her future. Instead, she faced a common barrier: no job. Despite a huge shortage of doctors, no posts were available. Like many others, she left to work overseas. Across Africa, talented health workers overcome significant obstacles to train, only to be driven away […] Continue reading -> African Cholera Outbreaks Driven by Years of Under-Investment in Water and Sanitation 06/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Cholera in Africa is being driven by years of under-investment in water and sanitation, according to the Africa Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Four countries – Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan and South Sudan – account for over 85% of the continent’s cholera cases and all have above-average death rates, […] Continue reading -> WHO Advocates for ‘Sin Taxes’ to Offset Aid Cuts, as Trump Asks Congress to Rescind $9.4 Billion in Global Health Funds 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Governments have been advised to impose ‘sin taxes’ on tobacco, alcohol and other unhealthy products to offset the severity of cuts to official development assistance (ODA), World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a tuberculosis meeting on Thursday. His statements came two days after the administration of US President Donald Trump […] Continue reading -> Ghana’s FDA Head Appointed to Run African Medicines Agency 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan CEO of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Dr Delese Mimi Darko has been appointed the inaugural Director-General of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) by the agency’s Conference of State Parties (CoSP) at a meeting in Rwanda this week. Darko has a “wealth of experience and a distinguished track record in regulatory excellence”, according to […] Continue reading -> Only 21 Countries have Updated National Climate Action Plans – Few Actually Track Health Benefits 04/06/2025 Kate Okorie & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Most countries’ climate action plans refer to the health benefits of adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as reduced air pollution, but few actually track them. And as World Environment Day is observed Thursday, global climate commitments remain extraordinarily weak. Only 21 countries out of the 195 parties to the UN Paris Agreement have submitted updated […] Continue reading -> Young People Self-Medicate as Kashmir’s Mental Health System Fails Them 03/06/2025 Arsalan Bukhari SRINAGAR, India – Areeba* tucks a strip of tiny blue pills into the back of her mathematics textbook before heading to class. It’s become second nature. “Half when I can’t sleep. One if I can’t walk,” says the 22-year-old university student, her voice calm, as if describing a cold remedy. “I don’t really want to […] Continue reading -> Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death 02/06/2025 Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa In Nukus, Uzbekistan, 34-year-old surgical nurse Dilaram was devastated when she was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). But instead of facing the standard treatment, including nearly 15,000 pills to be taken over two years and painful injections causing severe side effects, she could enrol in TB-PRACTECAL, the MSF-led clinical trial testing an all-oral, six-month regimen […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
African Cholera Outbreaks Driven by Years of Under-Investment in Water and Sanitation 06/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Cholera in Africa is being driven by years of under-investment in water and sanitation, according to the Africa Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Four countries – Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan and South Sudan – account for over 85% of the continent’s cholera cases and all have above-average death rates, […] Continue reading -> WHO Advocates for ‘Sin Taxes’ to Offset Aid Cuts, as Trump Asks Congress to Rescind $9.4 Billion in Global Health Funds 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Governments have been advised to impose ‘sin taxes’ on tobacco, alcohol and other unhealthy products to offset the severity of cuts to official development assistance (ODA), World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a tuberculosis meeting on Thursday. His statements came two days after the administration of US President Donald Trump […] Continue reading -> Ghana’s FDA Head Appointed to Run African Medicines Agency 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan CEO of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Dr Delese Mimi Darko has been appointed the inaugural Director-General of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) by the agency’s Conference of State Parties (CoSP) at a meeting in Rwanda this week. Darko has a “wealth of experience and a distinguished track record in regulatory excellence”, according to […] Continue reading -> Only 21 Countries have Updated National Climate Action Plans – Few Actually Track Health Benefits 04/06/2025 Kate Okorie & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Most countries’ climate action plans refer to the health benefits of adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as reduced air pollution, but few actually track them. And as World Environment Day is observed Thursday, global climate commitments remain extraordinarily weak. Only 21 countries out of the 195 parties to the UN Paris Agreement have submitted updated […] Continue reading -> Young People Self-Medicate as Kashmir’s Mental Health System Fails Them 03/06/2025 Arsalan Bukhari SRINAGAR, India – Areeba* tucks a strip of tiny blue pills into the back of her mathematics textbook before heading to class. It’s become second nature. “Half when I can’t sleep. One if I can’t walk,” says the 22-year-old university student, her voice calm, as if describing a cold remedy. “I don’t really want to […] Continue reading -> Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death 02/06/2025 Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa In Nukus, Uzbekistan, 34-year-old surgical nurse Dilaram was devastated when she was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). But instead of facing the standard treatment, including nearly 15,000 pills to be taken over two years and painful injections causing severe side effects, she could enrol in TB-PRACTECAL, the MSF-led clinical trial testing an all-oral, six-month regimen […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
WHO Advocates for ‘Sin Taxes’ to Offset Aid Cuts, as Trump Asks Congress to Rescind $9.4 Billion in Global Health Funds 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan Governments have been advised to impose ‘sin taxes’ on tobacco, alcohol and other unhealthy products to offset the severity of cuts to official development assistance (ODA), World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a tuberculosis meeting on Thursday. His statements came two days after the administration of US President Donald Trump […] Continue reading -> Ghana’s FDA Head Appointed to Run African Medicines Agency 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan CEO of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Dr Delese Mimi Darko has been appointed the inaugural Director-General of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) by the agency’s Conference of State Parties (CoSP) at a meeting in Rwanda this week. Darko has a “wealth of experience and a distinguished track record in regulatory excellence”, according to […] Continue reading -> Only 21 Countries have Updated National Climate Action Plans – Few Actually Track Health Benefits 04/06/2025 Kate Okorie & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Most countries’ climate action plans refer to the health benefits of adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as reduced air pollution, but few actually track them. And as World Environment Day is observed Thursday, global climate commitments remain extraordinarily weak. Only 21 countries out of the 195 parties to the UN Paris Agreement have submitted updated […] Continue reading -> Young People Self-Medicate as Kashmir’s Mental Health System Fails Them 03/06/2025 Arsalan Bukhari SRINAGAR, India – Areeba* tucks a strip of tiny blue pills into the back of her mathematics textbook before heading to class. It’s become second nature. “Half when I can’t sleep. One if I can’t walk,” says the 22-year-old university student, her voice calm, as if describing a cold remedy. “I don’t really want to […] Continue reading -> Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death 02/06/2025 Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa In Nukus, Uzbekistan, 34-year-old surgical nurse Dilaram was devastated when she was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). But instead of facing the standard treatment, including nearly 15,000 pills to be taken over two years and painful injections causing severe side effects, she could enrol in TB-PRACTECAL, the MSF-led clinical trial testing an all-oral, six-month regimen […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
Ghana’s FDA Head Appointed to Run African Medicines Agency 05/06/2025 Kerry Cullinan CEO of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Dr Delese Mimi Darko has been appointed the inaugural Director-General of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) by the agency’s Conference of State Parties (CoSP) at a meeting in Rwanda this week. Darko has a “wealth of experience and a distinguished track record in regulatory excellence”, according to […] Continue reading -> Only 21 Countries have Updated National Climate Action Plans – Few Actually Track Health Benefits 04/06/2025 Kate Okorie & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Most countries’ climate action plans refer to the health benefits of adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as reduced air pollution, but few actually track them. And as World Environment Day is observed Thursday, global climate commitments remain extraordinarily weak. Only 21 countries out of the 195 parties to the UN Paris Agreement have submitted updated […] Continue reading -> Young People Self-Medicate as Kashmir’s Mental Health System Fails Them 03/06/2025 Arsalan Bukhari SRINAGAR, India – Areeba* tucks a strip of tiny blue pills into the back of her mathematics textbook before heading to class. It’s become second nature. “Half when I can’t sleep. One if I can’t walk,” says the 22-year-old university student, her voice calm, as if describing a cold remedy. “I don’t really want to […] Continue reading -> Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death 02/06/2025 Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa In Nukus, Uzbekistan, 34-year-old surgical nurse Dilaram was devastated when she was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). But instead of facing the standard treatment, including nearly 15,000 pills to be taken over two years and painful injections causing severe side effects, she could enrol in TB-PRACTECAL, the MSF-led clinical trial testing an all-oral, six-month regimen […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
Only 21 Countries have Updated National Climate Action Plans – Few Actually Track Health Benefits 04/06/2025 Kate Okorie & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Most countries’ climate action plans refer to the health benefits of adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as reduced air pollution, but few actually track them. And as World Environment Day is observed Thursday, global climate commitments remain extraordinarily weak. Only 21 countries out of the 195 parties to the UN Paris Agreement have submitted updated […] Continue reading -> Young People Self-Medicate as Kashmir’s Mental Health System Fails Them 03/06/2025 Arsalan Bukhari SRINAGAR, India – Areeba* tucks a strip of tiny blue pills into the back of her mathematics textbook before heading to class. It’s become second nature. “Half when I can’t sleep. One if I can’t walk,” says the 22-year-old university student, her voice calm, as if describing a cold remedy. “I don’t really want to […] Continue reading -> Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death 02/06/2025 Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa In Nukus, Uzbekistan, 34-year-old surgical nurse Dilaram was devastated when she was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). But instead of facing the standard treatment, including nearly 15,000 pills to be taken over two years and painful injections causing severe side effects, she could enrol in TB-PRACTECAL, the MSF-led clinical trial testing an all-oral, six-month regimen […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
Young People Self-Medicate as Kashmir’s Mental Health System Fails Them 03/06/2025 Arsalan Bukhari SRINAGAR, India – Areeba* tucks a strip of tiny blue pills into the back of her mathematics textbook before heading to class. It’s become second nature. “Half when I can’t sleep. One if I can’t walk,” says the 22-year-old university student, her voice calm, as if describing a cold remedy. “I don’t really want to […] Continue reading -> Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death 02/06/2025 Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa In Nukus, Uzbekistan, 34-year-old surgical nurse Dilaram was devastated when she was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). But instead of facing the standard treatment, including nearly 15,000 pills to be taken over two years and painful injections causing severe side effects, she could enrol in TB-PRACTECAL, the MSF-led clinical trial testing an all-oral, six-month regimen […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy
Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death 02/06/2025 Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa In Nukus, Uzbekistan, 34-year-old surgical nurse Dilaram was devastated when she was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). But instead of facing the standard treatment, including nearly 15,000 pills to be taken over two years and painful injections causing severe side effects, she could enrol in TB-PRACTECAL, the MSF-led clinical trial testing an all-oral, six-month regimen […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts