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Public health experts have raised the alarm after the United States sharply reduced the number of vaccines recommended for all children, warning that the move could weaken protection against several preventable diseases and reverse decades of progress in child health. Under the new guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), routine…
With barely any progress recorded in more than two decades, advocates have raised alarm over the “unacceptable” stagnation in global efforts to protect women and girls from violence ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls, marked on November 25. Despite global advocacy and countless policy commitments, 1 in…
Africa is sliding into a widening health and economic crisis driven by climate change, a landmark Health Policy paper published in The Lancet has warned, calling for urgent action as world leaders head to COP30. The report, released by Lancet Countdown Africa, shows that rising temperatures are already worsening infectious diseases, deepening food insecurity, degrading…
Over 35 of the world’s leading philanthropies yesterday announced a $300 million commitment to tackle the rapidly worsening health impacts of climate change, in what is being described as one of the strongest global funding alignments yet on climate and health. The announcement, made at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, forms the inaugural investment of the…
A coalition of environmental rights organisations has faulted Vice President Kashim Shettima’s recent call for new financing models to “harness the economic value of nature,” warning that the move could amount to commodifying the environment and undermining true climate justice. Speaking in Belém, Brazil, ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Shettima had…
As the twin crises of climate change and water scarcity deepen across the continent, African leaders are stepping up collective efforts to safeguard water resources and strengthen climate resilience. This renewed sense of urgency comes as ministers and policymakers from across Africa prepare to join their global counterparts at the 2025 Sector Ministers’ Meeting (SMM),…
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General Despite two decades of global decline in tobacco use, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised the alarm over a fresh wave of nicotine addiction—this time driven by e-cigarettes and other emerging tobacco products targeting the youth. A new WHO global report reveals that while the number of tobacco…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has struck a new deal with Indian pharmaceutical company, Hetero Labs, to produce a low-cost generic version of lenacapavir, the world’s first twice-yearly injectable HIV prevention drug. The foundation will provide upfront funding and volume guarantees to Hetero, enabling the drug to be sold at about $40 per patient…
Global health and rights advocates have made a strong call for governments to recognize safe and legal abortion as a fundamental human right, stressing that denying access puts millions of lives at risk and undermines gender equality. The demand was at the center of a high-level dialogue organized by SHE & Rights Initiative to mark…
…From refugee camps to rural villages, young people fight for dignity, rights, and access to healthcare. In a crowded Rohingya refugee camp, a young girl sat quietly, afraid to tell anyone that her body had changed. She had started her period but did not understand what was happening. There were no lessons in school, no…