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Drug-resistant Salmonella rife in Uganda’s poorest region

Food and water samples in Uganda’s Karamoja region show high levels of drug-resistant Salmonella.

15 Oct 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Antimicrobial resistance

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)

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Zimbabwean nurse Setfree Mafukdize relocated to the United Kingdom in 2021. He says prospects for nurses in his country are "really low". Copyright: Photo courtesy of SciDev.Net. Credit: Setfree Mafukdize

WHO red list fails to stem Africa health worker exodus

15 Aug 2023

11 min read

Cross-posts

A primary healthcare centre in Kenya. For many people living with disabilities across Africa, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, movement restrictions meant their livelihoods were reduced or cut off altogether. Copyright: Michelle Mbuthia

Disability in a pandemic – Africa’s forgotten families

10 Aug 2023

8 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19

Person putting a drop in a test tube. Credit: Martin Lopez on Pexels

Africa’s research equality charter to ‘bridge divide’

21 Jul 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts

Abdul Kamara of Sierra Leone was threatened by severe diarrhoea, but he received rehydration treatment. Every year, 3 million children and adolescents die from infectious diseases study indicates. Credit: Doune Porter / GAVI, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Efforts to tackle diseases ‘should shift to teens’

19 Jul 2023

6 min read

Cross-posts Pandemic preparedness

A poor man selling firewood for domestic use in rural Guatemala. Global crises have left UN poverty, hunger and health goals seriously off track. Credit: EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Global goals ‘going into reverse’ – report

4 Jul 2023

5 min read

Cross-posts SDGs

A Strategic Roundtable during the World Health Assembly on 23 May. Credit: WHO / Antoine Tardy

Prepare for disease deadlier than COVID – WHO chief

23 May 2023

4 min read

Pandemic preparedness WHA Cross-posts

Global data missing on grant-making gender gap

19 May 2023

3 min read

Data Gender equality

A new study says packaged salt brands sold in Bangladesh have varying iodine levels. Credit: Marek from Pixabay

Table salt needs extra iodine – Bangladesh study

11 May 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Research summary

Tsedeke Sintayehu, a trained neonahtholigist nurse cares for a prematurely born baby inside Ethiopia's Gidole Hospital Neonatal Intensive care Unit (NICU). A UN report stresses ensuring quality care for these tiniest, most vulnerable babies. Credit: Demissew Bizuwerk / UNICEF Ethiopia, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

‘No progress’ in tackling premature births – UN

10 May 2023

5 min read

Cross-posts Research summary Gender equality

Genomic study may help fight severe dengue disease

9 May 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Dengue

Red Cross teams at the border areas in Egypt, Chad and Ethiopia provide basic health services to the displaced people. Credit: ICRC

Sudan conflict leaves health system in ‘total collapse’

2 May 2023

5 min read

Cross-posts Conflict & humanitarian

Administering the oral cholera vaccine in Bentiu, South Sudan. The disease is rising as global vaccine coverage plateaus. Copyright: UNMISS, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Reset vaccine progress to drive global health equity

26 Apr 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Cholera Innovation

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