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How microplastic pollution is boosting antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance and environmental plastic contamination are escalating threats to human and planetary health. Now research is showing that one crisis may be directly fuelling the other.

17 Oct 2025

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Left: A section of the Ala River, a river seen to cause bilharzia. Right: Olanike Oladipupo, the Ondo State Controller of Neglected Tropical Diseases. Credit: Adetokunbo Abiola

How a bilharzia treatment drive in Ondo state controlled the parasite and calmed the community

16 Oct 2025

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With the help of a megaphone, Rahuma Namata mobilises the community to encourage attendance at a vaccination session. She volunteers as part of the Zero-dose Immunization Program (ZIP) programme. Credit: Gavi/2024/Jjumba Martin

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A Mali Red Cross volunteer helps local health authorities run a vaccine outreach session in Selingue health area to immunize zero-dose and under-vaccinated children. Photo: Mali Red Cross

Reaching the unreached: Mali Red Cross teams go the last mile to ensure children get life-saving vaccines

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Mombasa County health officers use a van mounted with a fogging machine to fumigate the streets of Mombasa, to tackle the mosquitoes that spread Chikungunya and other diseases. Credit: Diana Wanyonyi

Chikungunya, spreading fast this year, visits Mombasa for a third time

16 Oct 2025

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Morning commuters riding an escalator. Credit: Connor Gan

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A hospital pharmacy storage room in Nigeria. Credit: Shutterstock

Africa imports over 70% of its medicines. Making active ingredients locally would change this

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Ukraine war medics. Credit: Yevhenii Vasyliev / Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

The pernicious infections infiltrating Ukraine’s front lines

8 Oct 2025

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A health worker cares for a sick child at a cholera treatment centre in Gedaref State, eastern Sudan, November 2024. Copyright: UNOCHA / Yao Chen

Cholera spreads across every state in Sudan

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Health workers responding to an Ebola outbreak that swept West African countries in 2017. Copyright: UC Rusal Photo Gallery

DRC Ebola outbreak puts neighbours on high alert

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Portrait of Dr Robert Watt by Henry Raeburn. Credit left: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. The treatise on the history, nature, and treatment of chincough. Credit right: Wellcome Collection

Whooping cough: a history

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Boy in Emerson respirator (iron lung) in Herman Keifer Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, due to polio. Viewing photographer (Joe Clark) in machine's mirror. Ca. 1955. Credit: Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine

A 'new medical age': 70 years of polio vaccination

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19 Mar 2025

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Xerius Jackson, age 7, gets an MMR vaccine during the Texas measles outbreak in March 2025. Jan Sonnenmair via Getty Images

Even small drops in vaccination rates for US children can lead to disease outbreaks

10 Oct 2025

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Vaccines and motherhood: are AI generated health messages working in Kenya and Nigeria?

6 Oct 2025

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A mother brings her child to get vaccinated at a health centre in Niamey, Niger. Credit: Isaac Griberg

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Using Traditional means of communication is an effective way of interactiong with caregivers in Nguti. Credit: Fri Delphine

No signal, no problem: the Cameroon health workers drumming up support for vaccination

15 Oct 2025

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Women and children of Rugan Bale, Nigeria, the day the vaccination team visits. Credit: CHAN

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Gavi-supported HPV vaccination, Bangladesh, October 2023. Credit: Gavi/2023/Ashraful Arefin

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HPV vaccine launch. Credit: Zeeshan Noor, Jhpiego

A turning point for women’s health in Pakistan

17 Sep 2025

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Low- and Middle-Income Countries have an opportunity to leapfrog fragmented healthcare systems and build approaches that work for citizens. Image: Theodore Ghoutas/Unsplash

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17 Sep 2025

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More than a hundred women and girls gathered in Rehri Goth for an HPV vaccination awareness session, hosted by the Health Education Literacy Program (HELP), a civil society organiszation working to increase vaccine uptake in under-served areas. Credit: Huma Khawar

No girl left behind: HPV vaccines bring hope to Pakistan

15 Sep 2025

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HPV Spotlight on HPV

Perspective, proposal for the UN headquarters, including the General Assembly and Secretariat, 27 March 1947, by Le Corbusier. Credit: Pascal Barollier via LinkedIn

UN at 80: Time for a New Architecture?

10 Sep 2025

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