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Global health

The latest news, analysis and comment on global health issues

May 2025

  • The hands of a person can be seeding a culture. Other scientific equipment such as phials and a bunsen burner can be seen on the desk

    Lack of access to antibiotics is driving spread of superbugs, finds research

    Focus on overuse contributes to antibiotics reaching less than 7% of people with drug-resistant infections in poorer countries, say researchers

April 2025

  • People sit facing away from the camera on chairs in a large tent labelled 'Taso' and 'Living positively with HIV'

    Opinion
    Three ways to help the developing world survive the end of aid

    Winnie Byanyima
  • Aerial image of Kawasi village on Obi Island, Indonesia, with the Harita nickel mine in the background.

    Rights and freedom
    Company supplying critical EV metal ‘did not disclose’ Erin Brockovich pollutant in drinking water

  • A man in uniform walks past a car on the street holding a baby. A woman walks behind him

    Dominican Republic deports pregnant women in ‘inhumane’ migrant crackdown

  • Image of a person seen through a thermal imaging camera.

    Pandemics, pathogens and being prepared: why the work to identify emerging threats never stops

  • A friend killed, and inquiries shelved: life fighting the stigma of albinism in Malawi

  • About 15% of world’s cropland polluted with toxic metals, say researchers

  • Move over, Med diet – plantains and cassava can be as healthy as tomatoes and olive oil, say researchers

  • ‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age-old tropical illnesses

  • Aid cuts could have ‘pandemic-like effects’ on maternal deaths, WHO warns

  • Leading the charge: how a drive for electric vehicles is cleaning up Nepal

  • Rights and freedom
    Millions of Afghans lose access to healthcare services as USAID cuts shut clinics

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies

  • Lowering bad cholesterol may cut risk of dementia by 26%, study suggests

  • India trains thousands of medics to promote vaccine in huge push to end cervical cancer

March 2025

  • A boy stands facing a wall covered by a collage of bright fabric, hand-drawn pictures, a large red Aids ribbon and the words 'We shall overcome'.

    Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – study

    Reductions to overseas budgets by US, UK and EU countries will have ‘devastating consequences’, say researchers in modelling published in the Lancet HIV
  • A woman holds up a book while another woman screams into it. They are surrounded by women with pro-choice placards.

    Women's right to choose
    A tale of two conferences: women against women as ‘poison of patriarchy’ returns and abortion fight intensifies

    Last week, anti-choice campaigners emboldened by current US politics met in New York at the same time as UN delegates gathered to address the widespread inequalities women face. The battle to protect rights has never felt more urgent

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      ‘This is your mission’: why one Brazilian doctor is training to be a shaman

    • ‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts

    • USAid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’

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