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After huge gains by 2005, efforts to wipe the disease out in India, which has most of the world’s cases, stalled. But the new campaign is seen as a political move without resourcesAs a teenager, Tanu Bai would burn her hands while cooking but feel no p…
続きを読むAs world leaders discuss the battle against superbugs in New York, Pakistan’s children are suffering on the frontlineThe world is facing an antibiotic emergency: a data-led plan of action is needed nowFrom his sickbed, eight-year-old Ukasha could see h…
続きを読むWith no intensive care available in remote areas, many patients died on their way to city hospitals. Now rural medics are using tele-ICU systems to save lives• Photographs by Elke Scholiers for the GuardianWhenever an ambulance arrived with a criticall…
続きを読むRegime suspends polio campaign across Afghanistan over security concerns and women’s role in vaccination driveAfghanistan is at risk of a polio outbreak, health officials have warned, after the Taliban suspended the vaccination campaign over security f…
続きを読むHeroin use has risen sharply across the country but in Pretoria, a programme of methadone and support is successfully helping people regain their livesIn the centre of the South African city of Pretoria, dozens of people mill around a dusty patch of la…
続きを読むDoctors deplore decision and point to country’s high neonatal mortality rate as bank, which opened in June, forced to close without taking a single depositWhen he heard a hospital in Karachi was setting up a milk bank for babies, the news was a “huge r…
続きを読むBarred from school for 1,000 days, girls in Afghanistan face forced marriage, violence and isolation with no end in sightJust over three years ago, Asma’s* future contained many possibilities. Aged 15, she was at secondary school. After that lay the pr…
続きを読むForced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcareThe phrase “khat rahein hain” (“being worn down”) is how Suma Devi describes her 16 years of labouring at the brick kilns near the city …
続きを読むKidney disease is on the rise in coastal communities, where some have no choice but to drink and cook with contaminated waterShadows dance across large, concrete chambers while the sound of dripping water echoes in the distance. A rusty metal staircase…
続きを読むResearchers find that in low and middle-income countries owning spectacles can help people over 35 increase their incomeOwning a pair of reading glasses might help people increase their earnings by a third, according to new research.The study, conducte…
続きを読むIt has taken 18 years for India to produce its own affordable version to tackle the country’s second-biggest cause of cancer deaths among womenIt is a Wednesday morning and Sneha Neurgaonkar sits on a gurney in a private hospital in Pune, India. The 14…
続きを読むMillions of women are being let down by lack of support during and after menopause. We asked six, from Brazil to Bangladesh, to share their stories of fighting stigma, dealing with symptoms and supporting othersRead more: A menopause revolution is stir…
続きを読むMosquito-borne disease once largely limited to Dhaka spreads countrywide as climate change fuels fivefold increase in cases in a year, with actual figures likely to be several times higher • All photographs by Fabeha Monir for WHOIn a small, dimly lit …
続きを読むFrom a karaoke-singing paramedic on a boat in Bangladesh to a proud campaigner for a queer museum in Namibia, these are some of the figures who raised our hopes for humanityRaquel Fortun is one of only two forensic pathologists in the Philippines. Earl…
続きを読むFourteen-year-old Fayza Ansari wanted to be an engineer. Instead, she died this month from leukaemia, failed by an overloaded and often heartless healthcare systemFrom the day Fayza Ansari, 14, was diagnosed with leukaemia, her life followed a tragic a…
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