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Speaking to the G20 summit by video, China’s president stressed vaccine cooperation and economic stabilityChina’s president, Xi Jinping, has called for mutual recognition of Covid-19 vaccines based on the World Health Organization’s emergency use list,…
Zahra Mirzaei pioneered ‘groundbreaking’ maternity services in Kabul, but has been forced to flee. She says she won’t stop fighting for dignified care for Afghanistan’s women and girlsWhen Afghanistan’s first midwife-led birth centre opened in the impo…
Zahra Mirzaei pioneered ‘groundbreaking’ maternity services in Kabul, but has been forced to flee. She says she won’t stop fighting for dignified care for Afghanistan’s women and girlsWhen Afghanistan’s first midwife-led birth centre opened in the impo…
Death of 18 people forces more social restrictions even as city-state expands quarantine-free travel to eight countriesSingapore’s healthcare system is at risk of being “overwhelmed” by surging coronavirus infections, government officials warned on Wed…
The WHO and Unicef campaign will restart after three years, and the hardliners say they will assist and allow frontline female staffAfghanistan will restart nationwide polio vaccinations after more than three years, as the new Taliban government agreed…
Celebrities encourage turnout as response surpasses Jacinda Ardern’s call to administer 100,000 shotsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s “Super Saturday” of Covid vaccinations has proved a hit, with more than 2.5% …
India, Egypt and Cuba among first states to develop and make their own vaccines as Covax falls behind Developing countries are increasingly turning to homegrown Covid vaccinations as the UN-backed Covax programme falls behind.While western countries ro…
Shortage of specialised doctors in Afghanistan means patients seek lifesaving care in Pakistan, but conventions have changedFareed Ullah has crossed Afghanistan’s border to Pakistan 10 times for treatment for his three-year-old son, Taha, who has thala…
Analysis: plan to reduce abortions as birthrates plunge draws comparisons to The Handmaid’s TaleFar-reaching proposals from Beijing on “women’s development” have sparked concern over a pledge to reduce abortions, with feminists and academics pointing t…
Once the great vaccination success story, the island is under strain amid a new wave of infections, but experts say cases would be far higher without vaccine coverageOutside Guam Memorial hospital, blue medical tents have sprung up to accomodate an ove…
Dr Nader Alemi, who opened the country’s first private psychiatric hospital, had received death threats before being taken on his way home from work last week One of Afghanistan’s most prominent psychiatrists has been abducted on his way home from work…
Restrictions amount to ‘sexual assault’ on women by Japanese state, say rights campaignersWomen’s health campaigners have urged Japan’s government to amend a law that forces married women to seek consent from their husbands before they can have an abo…
Policy uses women as tool for economic goals and could endanger their lives, says rights groupChina’s pledge to limit abortions puts women’s bodies under the state’s control just as the one-child policy did and could endanger the lives of women seeking…
Thanks for following along – this blog is now closed. 11.55pm BST That’s it from me, Robyn Vinter. Here’s a summary of what’s been happening over the last 24 hours: 11.21pm BST Mexico’s health ministry on Saturday reported 9,697 new confirmed cases of …
Female taekwondo and karate trainers are forced to practise in secret since the Taliban takeover and fear they may never compete againOn the morning of 15 August, when the Taliban were at the gates of Kabul, Soraya, a martial arts trainer in the Afghan…