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Pandemic threat isn’t just the virus — it’s inequality

Science can stop outbreaks, but equity is needed to prevent pandemics, writes political scientist Matthew M. Kavanagh.

5 Nov 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Pandemic preparedness

Getting tested during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to political scientist Matthew Kavanagh, pandemics are coming faster, spreading wider, and costing more lives and livelihoods than ever before. Copyright: Rizki Koto (Pexels)

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A Tepeth girl at home in Karamoja, north-eastern Uganda. Following a study in the region, experts are calling for urgent action to protect children and wider community from contaminated food and water. Copyright: Rod Waddington (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Drug-resistant Salmonella rife in Uganda’s poorest region

15 Oct 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Antimicrobial resistance

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

24 Sep 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Cholera

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

23 Sep 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts Ebola Outbreaks

Suriname is covered almost entirely covered by rainforest. Credit: David Evers

Malaria-free Suriname offers hope for Amazon neighbours

10 Jul 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

Vaccinating a child against polio at the Mindikru internally displaced peoples's site near Sekota town, Ethiopia, in May 2022. According to outgoing acting WHO director Chikwe Ihekweazu, Africa’s polio progress has been bolstered by vaccination and community-led action. Credit: Mulugeta Ayene/ UNICEF Ethiopia

African surveillance labs can power eradication push

8 Jul 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts Polio

According to scientists in Uganda, African women who experience a common pregnancy complication known as pre-eclampsia are at increased risk of developing long-term kidney disease. Copyright: Source: Pikpik.com

Pregnancy complication ‘triples kidney risk’

28 May 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Maternal and child health

In the city of Salto, Uruguay, wastewater monitoring helped determine the circulation of HPV in the population. Credit: Salto City Hall

Wastewater helps monitor cancer-causing HPV

16 May 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts HPV

Prescription antibiotic pills are used to treat a broad range of bacterial infections. New analysis by Chinese researchers shows resistance to antimicrobial drugs is rising with climate change, especially in lower-income countries. Copyright: NIAID

Climate change fuels drug resistance in poor countries

2 May 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts Climate change Research summary

Malaria merozoites invading human red blood cells. Credit: NIADH

Q&A: Unlocking the malaria parasite’s genetic code

9 Apr 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

Rohingya refugees relocating because of flooding and landslides in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh in 2019. A new study indicates that in some situations, vulnerable populations are simply unable to leave, even if they want to. Credit: UN Women/Allison Joyce

‘Trapped populations’ need help to escape climate risks

1 Apr 2025

3 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

Researchers now say that doctors might need to prescribe different medication or add probiotics when treating African patients, due to the discovery of 40,000 previously unknown gut microbes. Copyright: Sora Shimazaki (Pexels license).

Africa's unique gut microbiome could guide new medicines

14 Mar 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts

Smartphone displaying a conversation with ChatGPT. Researchers from China and the UK have developed an AI chatbot called the AMR-Policy GPT to help fight antimicrobial resistance. Copyright: Airam Dato-on (Pexels.com license).

AI chatbot deployed to target drug resistance

14 Jan 2025

3 min read

Cross-posts Innovation Antimicrobial resistance

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