Global health
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Light at the end of the tunnel: mobile TB screenings give Pakistan’s miners a fighting chance
Those who work underground in mines have a high rate of tuberculosis, but they risk losing their job if they t…
- Climate crisis, Employment, Environment, Extreme heat, Global development, Global health, India, Social protection, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
‘I feel dizzy but I can’t stop’: global heating is already making kiln workers’ lives unbearable. And it will only get worse
Researchers mapped brick kilns across India and used climate models to forecast the levels of heat stress work…
- Afghanistan, Employment, Food security, Global development, Global health, Human rights, Law, Prisons, Sexual violence, Social protection, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails
Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work banDestitute A…
- Abortion, Global development, Global health, Health, Nepal, Reproductive rights, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘One-man anti-abortion army’: shadow of US global gag rule looms over Nepal’s family planning services
Since the country legalised abortion, maternal mortality rates have plummeted. But US-funded programmes and a …
- Biology, Delhi, Global development, Global health, Health, India, Infectious diseases, Medical research, Microbiology, Science, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts sceptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027
After huge gains by 2005, efforts to wipe the disease out in India, which has most of the world’s cases, stall…
- Antibiotics, Drug resistance, Drugs, Global development, Global health, Infectious diseases, Pakistan, Science, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Drug-resistant typhoid is the final warning sign’: disease spreads in Pakistan as antibiotics fail
As world leaders discuss the battle against superbugs in New York, Pakistan’s children are suffering on the fr…
- Coronavirus, Global development, Global health, Hospitals, India, Science, Society, South and Central Asia, Technology, Telecoms, World news
‘You feel omnipresent’: bringing city care to India’s country hospitals
With no intensive care available in remote areas, many patients died on their way to city hospitals. Now rural…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global health, Health, Polio, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Vaccines and immunisation, World Health Organization, World news
Taliban’s curbs on women add to risk of polio outbreak, health officials warn
Regime suspends polio campaign across Afghanistan over security concerns and women’s role in vaccination drive…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Drugs, Drugs trade, Global development, Global health, Opioids, Society, South Africa, South and Central Asia, World news
How to escape the ‘heroin hustle’: the project helping South African addicts
Heroin use has risen sharply across the country but in Pretoria, a programme of methadone and support is succe…
- Children, Children's health, Global development, Global health, Health, Islam, Pakistan, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval
Doctors deplore decision and point to country’s high neonatal mortality rate as bank, which opened in June, fo…
- Afghanistan, Education, Global development, Global education, Global health, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school
Barred from school for 1,000 days, girls in Afghanistan face forced marriage, violence and isolation with no e…
- Child labour, Dalits, Employment, Global development, Global health, India, Law, Malnutrition, Migration and development, Society, South and Central Asia, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns
Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access heal…
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‘It’s in our rivers and in our cups. There’s no escape’: the deadly spread of salt water in Bangladesh
Kidney disease is on the rise in coastal communities, where some have no choice but to drink and cook with con…
- Bangladesh, Employment, Global development, Global health, Health, Poverty, South and Central Asia, Uganda, World news
Having the right glasses could boost earning power by a third, Bangladesh study shows
Researchers find that in low and middle-income countries owning spectacles can help people over 35 increase th…
- Cervical cancer, Global development, Global health, Health, India, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, Women's health, World news
India gets its own HPV vaccine to stop 70,000 women dying of cervical cancer a year
It has taken 18 years for India to produce its own affordable version to tackle the country’s second-biggest c…