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Global health

The latest news, analysis and comment on global health issues

August 2024
  • A woman in a niqab looks at a small baby lying in a cot and hooked up to machines in a hospital

    ‘It’s happening on the scale of a pandemic’: the drug-resistant infections killing African babies

  • Portrait of a man wearing green doctors scrubs

    ‘I lost my son to sepsis’: the fightback against the spread of superbugs

  • IMG 9960 Tharā Gabriel is a creative communications and administrative professional from Trinidad and Tobago living with genetic, progressive sensorineural hearing loss .

    Opinion
    Like my mother, I am hard of hearing. Decades on, I face the same problems she did

    Tharā Gabriel
  • A woman holds out five coloured pills in her upturned palms

    Fifth of medicines in Africa may be sub-par or fake, research finds

  • Outbreak of Oropouche virus in Brazil should be a ‘wake-up call’, say experts

  • Pain, organ damage, infertility: the neglected disease that leaves millions of women in agony

July 2024
  • Woman with a hearing aid

    Almost half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed, study finds

  • Closeup of a fork prodding bacon frying in a pan

    Eating processed red meat could increase risk of dementia, study finds

  • A middle-aged white women standing on a stage talking to an unseen audience

    Fair Access
    Doctor behind trial of HIV prevention drug recounts breakthrough moment

  • Children walk single file between patches of water, with temporary shelters in the background.

    Opinion
    Children in Gaza are now at risk of polio as well as bombs – we need a ceasefire now

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘They’re waiting till we die of cancer’: 10 years on, Mexico’s worst mining disaster still poisons lives

  • Fair Access
    HIV drug could be made for just $40 a year for every patient

  • Most new HIV infections occurred outside sub-Saharan Africa for first time – UN report

  • ‘Why didn’t my mother prevent it?’: healing the generational trauma of FGM

  • War is lead cause behind huge drop in global vaccinations, UN warns

  • Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

  • The Guardian picture essay
    Rat soup, snails and oracles: why Nigeria’s traditional midwives still have a vital role to play

  • How a brother’s illness spurred a plan to get mental health on the agenda across Africa

June 2024
  • A person passing an illuminated sign on a wall reading: 'IQOS - This changes everything'

    Tobacco giant accused of ‘manipulating science’ to attract non-smokers

  • Sad young African man thinking and looking depressed

    A common condition
    Campaign to decriminalise suicide in four Caribbean nations gains momentum

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