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Global health

The latest news, analysis and comment on global health issues

April 2025

  • Bowls of fruit and vegetables at a market stall

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

  • A man in a yellow tshirt holds two containers and a height chart that is colour coded and divided into different sections according to height. The tallest section, about the height of a tall adult male, has the number four and a picture of four tablets; the next section down has the number three and three tablets and so on down the pole to child height and the lowest number of tablets.

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

  • An African woman lies in a pirogue with older women seated near her and men in the background

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

  • A battery-powered three wheeler tutktuk

    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

  • 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

  • Smoke rises from a woman's cupped hands in a forest. She is wearing beads and a feather headband and has a facial tattoo. Her eyes are closed

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

  • Protesters lie on the floor. One holds a placard saying 'Stop the deadly global aid freeze'

    ‘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’

  • Nearly half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030 – study

  • Rights and freedom
    From a bombsite in Gaza to a Texas hospital: Mazyouna’s journey to safety

February 2025

  • Multicoloured files piled on tables as workers in face masks go through them

    US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’

    Cuts could result in 500,000 deaths over the next 10 years in the country, research suggests
  • Dr Githinji Gitahi, group CEO of Amref Health Africa, on stage speaking at the Global NCD Alliance Forum in Kigail, Rwanda in February 2025.

    A common condition
    Africa’s medical system risks ‘collapse in next few years’, warns health leader

    Focusing foreign aid on infectious diseases has allowed a rise in cancer and diabetes that African governments don’t have resources to fight, says Dr Githinji Gitahi

    • Doctors in detention
      ‘They forced me to stand for hours in the cold, arms raised and shackled’: eight Gaza doctors on their Israeli prison ordeal

    • Doctors in detention
      More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture

    • Opinion
      If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently

      Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt
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