Global health
- Africa, Americas, Bangladesh, Brazil, Ecuador, Global development, Global health, India, Kenya, Life and style, Menstruation, Society, South and Central Asia, South Sudan, Women, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Me and my menopause’: a view from women around the world
Millions of women are being let down by lack of support during and after menopause. We asked six, from Brazil …
- Bangladesh, Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Global development, Global health, Health, Insects, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Bangladesh’s worst dengue epidemic on record puts hospitals under strain
Mosquito-borne disease once largely limited to Dhaka spreads countrywide as climate change fuels fivefold incr…
- Africa, Gaza, Global development, Global health, India, Inequality, Inequality and development, LGBTQ+ rights, Middle East and North Africa, Palestinian territories, Sexual violence, South and Central Asia
We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2023
From a karaoke-singing paramedic on a boat in Bangladesh to a proud campaigner for a queer museum in Namibia, …
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‘Pick her up and take her away’: teenager’s death exposes callousness and corruption in India’s hospitals
Fourteen-year-old Fayza Ansari wanted to be an engineer. Instead, she died this month from leukaemia, failed b…
- Global development, Global health, Hospitals, Humanitarian response, India, Natural disasters, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
India unveils ‘flatpack’ field hospital with mini x-ray for use in disaster zones
The portable unit, comprising mini cubes of medical equipment, enables surgeons to be operating within an hour…
- Air pollution, Children's health, Delhi, Environment, Global development, Global health, India, Pollution, South and Central Asia
‘The complete murder of our young’: India counts cost of another polluting Diwali on a generation of children
One in three children in Delhi is already asthmatic, with many more at risk of organ damage from breathing nox…
- Fertility problems, Global development, Global health, Migration and development, Nepal, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
Nepal’s migrant workers suffering ‘alarming’ rate of fertility problems
Doctors say high stress, heat and harsh living conditions may be the cause of low sperm counts in men returnin…
- Africa, Bangladesh, Food, Global development, Global health, Kenya, Nutrition, South and Central Asia
Snack attack: how the west exported unhealthy eating to Africa and Asia
From rickshaw riders in Bangladesh to schoolchildren in Kenya, people in lower-income countries are turning to…
- Global development, Global health, Infectious diseases, Pakistan, Polio, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Parents in Pakistan could be jailed for polio vaccine refusal
New law in Sindh introduces ‘extraordinary measures’ to ensure vaccination of children against range of infect…
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Indian doctors rebel over diktat to prescribe cheaper drugs
Indian Medical Association says that testing is substandard in the manufacture of generic medicines with ‘no g…
- Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Ghana, Global development, Global health, Guyana, Malaysia, Mental health, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, World news
‘It’s a huge sign of progress’: the battle to decriminalise suicide
In at least 17 countries, suicide remains a criminal offence – a ‘huge barrier’ to mental health care. As Ghan…
- Employment, Global development, Global health, Middle East and North Africa, Migration, Nepal, Qatar, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Going abroad cost me my health’: Nepal’s migrant workers coming home with chronic kidney disease
Men under 40 are coming home in need of dialysis, after working in intense heat with limited access to drinkin…
- Africa, Conflict and arms, Europe, Global development, Global health, Humanitarian response, Iran, Law, Middle East and North Africa, Myanmar, Russia, South and Central Asia, Sudan, Ukraine, War crimes, World news
Ukraine and Myanmar make 2022 most violent year in a decade for medical staff
Report demands accountability for war crimes and singles out Russia for ‘mind-boggling’ targeting of hospitals…
- Breast cancer, Disability, Global development, Global health, Health, India, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Power of touch: how blind women are helping detect breast cancer in India
A scheme training visually impaired women to use their heightened tactile abilities benefits patients and exam…
- Doctors, Global development, Global health, Health, India, Life and style, Menstruation, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's health, World news
‘Hell on earth’: India’s taboos around women’s pain leave endometriosis sufferers in agony
Despite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million …