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Global health

The latest news, analysis and comment on global health issues

July 2024

  • Man cycling across a bridge over a river in desert landscape in Mexico.

    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

  • The sign outside the company HQ of Gilead

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

  • A nurse wearing surgical gloves pricks a person's finger to collect a blood sample

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

  • A painting of a girl with her mouth sewn shut and an old women

    ‘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

  • The arms and legs of an African child covered by small fluid-filled blisters

    Warnings over lethal and contagious strain of mpox as children in DRC die

  • People walk past a billboard with a message about ebola in Freetown, on November 7, 2014. West Africa's regional bloc on November 7 called for international help to go beyond immediate medical care for Ebola-hit nations, warning that lives had been blighted by the epidemic. AFP PHOTO/ FRANCISCO LEONGFRANCISCO LEONG/AFP/Getty Images

    Fair Access
    Global failure to prepare for pandemics ‘gambling with children’s future’

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school

  • Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns

  • Fair Access
    My embarrassing condition needs a simple operation – but in Nigeria few can afford it

    Michael Adebisi

  • Commonwealth health ministries under pressure amid rise in climate-related illnesses

  • One in four young children at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm due to poor diet – report

May 2024

  • A boy holds a dead bush mouse in his hand, northern Ghana.

    Nigeria to host first Lassa fever treatment trials for 40 years

    The viral disease kills 5,000 people a year in west Africa, and has been described as an epidemic threat to global health
  • Montage of portraits of Festus Mogae, Gillian Anderson, Stephen Fry, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Alan Cumming

    Fair Access
    Celebrities join campaigners in call for cheaper version of ‘gamechanger’ HIV drug for poorer countries

    Letter urges US company Gilead Sciences to ‘shape history’ by providing fair access
  • Delegates sit in a conference room in front of a big screen

    Global pandemic treaty could be more than a year away after deadline missed

    Health leaders say extensive negotiations still needed to agree set of measures on how the world should prevent and respond to future pandemics
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