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Pregnancy complication ‘triples kidney risk’

Ugandan study finds women with pregnancy complication known as pre-eclampsia three times more likely to develop chronic kidney disease.

28 May 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Maternal and child health

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

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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

Woman in a lab. Credit: Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay

Long-term funding needed to nurture African science

17 Apr 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Innovation

Moeti believes that the best way to end preventable epidemics is for governments to engage with communities to help understand how the disease is transmitted. Credit: World Health Organization

Q&A: COVID lessons could ease cholera outbreak – Moeti

14 Apr 2023

3 min read

Cross-posts Cholera COVID-19

Tanzania confirmed the outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease early March and the country has been on high alert. Credit: World Health Organization

Tanzania on high alert after Marburg outbreak

4 Apr 2023

5 min read

Cross-posts Marburg Outbreaks

Doctor looking at an x-ray picture of lungs. Credit: Anna Shvets on Pexels

Algorithm could hold key to child TB diagnosis

28 Mar 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Tuberculosis Innovation

A man returning home with his family's allocation of long lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets. The World Health Organization has updated its malaria policy guidelines, recommending the use of nets treated with a combination of insecticides. Credit: Debbie Gueye, USAID on Pixnio

WHO clears combination malaria nets to dodge resistance

23 Mar 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

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