Accelerated HPV Vaccination, Screening and Treatment can Beat Cervical Cancer by 2050

26/03/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher

A high-level panel calls for redoubled efforts to meet the WHO Global Strategy’s 2030 targets – and eliminate cervical cancer by 2050 worldwide. Midway along the route toward the WHO 2030 targets for cervical cancer elimination, some 340,000 women a year, mostly in low-income countries, are still dying from cervical cancer – due to the […] Continue reading ->

Meta Liable for Harming Kids; Soda and Alcohol Companies ‘Flood’ Social Media

26/03/2026 Kerry Cullinan

Social media giants are liable for harming young users, according to two landmark court rulings in the United States this week that order Mega and YouTube to pay millions in damages. On Wednesday, a Los Angeles jury found that Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram) and YouTube were liable for creating addictive products that […] Continue reading ->

As Resources Dwindle, Suicides Rise in Refugee Camp

26/03/2026 Mohamed Jimale

This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian, in collaboration with Radio Gargaar, a community radio station in Dadaab camp.By Mohamed Jimale On a quiet morning in January in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee complex, 38-year-old Aden Mohamed Hafow, a father of four and a respected comprehensive school teacher, hanged himself. Born in Somalia, he had […] Continue reading ->

Devastating Sudan Hospital Attack Disrupts Medical Care, Deepens Humanitarian Crisis

25/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen

Millions of civilians in Sudan have lost their primary access to medical care following a lethal drone attack on the Al Daein Teaching Hospital in East Darfur on the evening of Eid al-Fitr. The death toll from the 20 March assault has risen to 70, with 146 people now documented as injured, according to the […] Continue reading ->

Undetected Tuberculosis Crisis Plagues Europe; WHO Rolls Out New Diagnostic Tools

24/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen

Widespread undetected tuberculosis is leaving one in five patients across the European region without crucial care, as health services fail to identify a vast number of infections. This critical diagnostic gap was highlighted in a joint surveillance report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and […] Continue reading ->

World Athletics Expands Air Quality Monitoring, But Can Sports Fill Global South’s Data Void?

24/03/2026 Kate Okorie

On a Saturday morning in Lagos, several volunteers in white “Run Lagos” t-shirts gathered for an air pollution awareness walk. They split into small groups and filed through the narrow streets, placards in hand. One read, “Air Is Free But Polluted Air Leads To Health And Climate Change Expenses.” The walk coordinators carried portable air […] Continue reading ->

Air Quality Worsens Globally – Share of Cities Meeting WHO Guidelines Declines

24/03/2026 Chetan Bhattacharji

Pakistan had the most polluted air in the world overall in 2025, and Delhi was the most polluted capital for the seventh time in the last eight years of reporting by the Swiss-based IQAir. A town bordering India’s capital is the world’s most polluted place. Despite covering nearly 9,500 cities, pollution data gaps leave millions […] Continue reading ->

Pandemic Talks: Europe is Blocking Health Equity – And It Knows It

23/03/2026 Guilherme Faviero & Nithin Ramakrishnan

Final talks on the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) system, the last outstanding piece of the Pandemic Agreement, are being held in Geneva this week. The Pandemic Agreement, being negotiated in Geneva, emerged to address the unacceptable inequities that defined the COVID-19 global health disaster. During this pandemic, delayed and inequitable access to vaccines may […] Continue reading ->

Attacks on Healthcare: Devastating New Norm as Hotspots Like Sudan Are Overlooked

20/03/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen

The year 2025 saw significant declines in the number of attacks on healthcare worldwide asa compared to 2024, but events still remain at record high levels in comparison to previous years, said a leading civil society group that tracks incidents last week in Geneva. This grim reality took centre stage at a seminar organized by […] Continue reading ->

Middle East Conflict Set to Drive Up Food and Medicine Costs, Exacerbate Hunger

18/03/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher

Following Iranian missile attacks on Dubai, a major global logistics and humanitarian hub, the World Health Organization is struggling to revive the traffic of medicines and health care supplies in and around the Middle East and African regions most served by the hubs, a WHO official said on Wednesday. “We have managed to do a […] Continue reading ->