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Malaria-free Suriname offers hope for Amazon neighbours

Suriname, South America's smallest country, is covered almost entirely by rainforest, providing ideal conditions for malaria-transmitting mosquitoes.

10 Jul 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

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

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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

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

A mother and a child are now refugees at a transit centre in Renk, South Sudan where they arrived with others on 18 December after fleeing escalating violence in Sudan where the health system is collapsing from shortages of medical supplies, a loss of doctors, and destroyed or looted medical facilities. Copyright: Reason Moses Runyanga / UNHCR.

AI diagnostics can ease health crisis in war-torn Sudan

7 Jan 2025

3 min read

Innovation Conflict & humanitarian Cross-posts Diagnostics

Vaccination activity in Mauritania in 2022. The recent emergence of Rift Valley Fever has sparked fears of a repeat of the 2022 outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease, which can spread to people as well as animals. Copyright: Courtesy of WHO Mauritania

Rwanda steps up measures against Rift Valley Fever

15 Nov 2024

4 min read

Cross-posts Rift Valley fever

An MSF counsellor provides psychological support to a displaced person in northwestern Syria. Copyright: Abdulrahman Sadeq / MSF

Syria’s mental health crisis deepens as funds dry up

11 Nov 2024

5 min read

Diabetes screening in rural Karnataka, India. Access to Medicine Foundation has urged pharmaceutical companies to prioritise efforts to reach patients in underserved parts of the world with medicines such as insulin for diabetics. Copyright: Courtesy of Trinity Care Foundation (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Drug firms ‘must prioritise underserved patients’

12 Sep 2024

6 min read

Cross-posts Research summary Global health agenda

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