US and Russia criticise plans to limit AI weapons UN secretary general’s proposal to ban weapons that operate without human oversight will face stiff opposition from Washington and Moscow @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Bangladesh bets on British vaccine in bid to wipe out malaria In Asia’s first mass rollout of the R21 malaria vaccine, scientists are analysing whether the shot could accelerate the push to elimination @sneweyy.bsky.social has the latest www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

US pushes for truce to end Sudan bloodshed Britain joins calls for ‘humanitarian pause’ as rebels move in on besieged city of El Fasher @benfarmerdt.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

‘Miracle’ HIV drug to be sold at knock-down price in over 100 countries Deals to make lenacapavir available at a fraction of its original list price hailed as ‘genuine chance’ to end global epidemic More below⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

(1/5) It doesn’t feel like much of a ballroom. There’s no orchestra,opulent drapery or free-flowing champagne. Instead of white tie, the dress code is hazmat suits. Yet that’s exactly how scientists in Singapore think of their vaccine hub: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Gates Foundation pledges $1bn to fund fighting HIV, TB and malaria, piling pressure on UK Britain helped set up the Global Fund, but deep cuts to aid spending have raised concerns that it may be about to slash its support @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Inside Singapore’s ‘biosecure ballroom’, where scientists take on the world’s deadliest diseases Exclusive: Merck and @wellcometrust.bsky.social are investing £56m into an innovative lab designing cheap vaccines for low-income countries ✍️@sneweyy.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

A million people risk starving to death in Yemen, UN warns Renewed fighting has severed supply lines, disrupted food imports & blocked aid to millions of Yemenis already struggling to eat @liliasebouai.bsky.social speaks to Farea Al-Muslimi @chathamhouse.org www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

A million people risk starving to death in Yemen, UN warns Renewed fighting has severed supply lines, disrupted food imports & blocked aid to millions of Yemenis already struggling to eat @liliasebouai.bsky.social speaks to Farea Al-Muslimi @chathamhouse.org www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

🚨Putin sends squads of sick soldiers into Pokrovsk ‘meat grinder’ Troops infected with HIV, hepatitis and other diseases have been seen wearing armbands to mark out their health status, military experts say Free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Colombia’s ‘teenage’ mercenaries become soldiers-for-hire in Sudan’s savage war The presence of hundreds of South American fighters in the Sudanese desert adds another unexpected international element to the conflict Free to read🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Give Palestinians safe haven to escape Gaza, UN genocide report author tells Israel If Israel was truly concerned about humanitarian zones, it would provide refuge for Palestinians within its own borders, says Chris Sidoti 🎙️Full podcast episode below www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Hunger has created a hidden diabetes crisis, experts warn A little-known form of the disease affects up to 25 million people, yet much of the global health community does not officially recognise it @maevecullinan.bsky.social has the latest www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

(1/5) Inside El Fasher – the world’s other man-made famine As the world’s eyes are fixed on Gaza, another hunger crisis tightens its grip on Sudan @liliasebouai.bsky.social reports - free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Australian koalas to be vaccinated for chlamydia for first time In the marsupials, the infection is highly lethal – responsible for as many as 50 per cent of deaths in the country’s wild koala populations @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Hospitals ‘overflowing’ amid double outbreak of mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh Scientists are untangling a critical question: are overlapping outbreaks becoming more common, or are we getting better at diagnosing them? Link here 🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Drug-resistant fungus spreading rapidly in European hospitals C.auris, which typically spreads in healthcare facilities, kills nearly 60 per cent of people who contract it within 90 days @maevecullinan.bsky.social has the latest⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Suspected Ebola cases double as virus spreads to DRC villages A lack of infrastructure in the remote region where the outbreak began is making it harder to contain the virus, health workers say @sneweyy.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Russia’s ‘TikTok soldiers’ suffer outbreak of deadly haemorrhagic fever At least three troops from the Akhmat Battalion have fallen sick with hantavirus, a rodent-borne disease known as ‘mouse fever’ @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social has the latest ⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

RFK unveils MAHA strategy: more breastfeeding, less fluoride and full-fat milk in schools The US Health Secretary releases long-awaited plan to take on America’s ‘industrial food complex’ to tackle an ‘epidemic’ of poor health @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

“There has been no collective collapse of willpower in the world,” Dr Harriet Torlesse, a nutrition specialist at Unicef and lead author of the report, told @telglobalhealth.bsky.social. “What has changed? The industry. We’re surrounded by unhealthy food environments.”

Mpox no longer a global health emergency, WHO says Panel created last year in response to the outbreak advises that the situation no longer constitutes an international emergency Link here🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

War and famine fuel rise in birth defects in Gaza Doctors say they are treating more newborns with life-threatening deformities linked to malnutrition @liliasebouai.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

No RFK Jr, America isn’t the sickest country in the world – but it’s far from the healthiest Analysis: Despite spending more on healthcare than any other nation, the United States clearly has a problem ✍️ @sneweyy.bsky.social @meikeeijsberg.bsky.social analysis www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Hundreds of children poisoned by free school meals Mass-poisonings and protests over ‘wasteful’ spending have dealt a blow to Indonesia’s plan to end hunger @sneweyy.bsky.social has the latest www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

🚨Breaking: At least 16 dead in Ebola outbreak in DRC The country has been on high alert since the first suspected case of the deadly haemorrhagic fever was detected in August @benfarmerDT reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

A new bat-borne pathogen dubbed Salt Gully virus has been uncovered in flying-foxes Down Under. While there are no signs of human spillover, it is a relative of Nipah & Hendra – diseases considered ‘priority pathogens’ by WHO www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @telglobalhealth.bsky.social

All aboard ‘The Debt Express’: China’s pincer movement on Africa Why the single largest infrastructure programme Kenya has ever embarked upon has fallen spectacularly short of its grand ambitions Free to read🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Australia uncovers a new pathogen lurking in bats While there are no signs of human spillover, ‘Salt Gully’ virus is related to two diseases considered priority pathogens by the WHO @sneweyy.bsky.social reports🦇 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Wave of respiratory infections sickens thousands in Gaza Poor sanitation turns overcrowded displacement camps into breeding grounds for disease, say doctors @liliasebouai.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

The race to find a cure for disease X – before it arrives Scientists want treatments ready within 100 days of a new pandemic being declared and are already searching for them in a trial @sneweyy.bsky.social has the latest - more below⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Starvation cult behind 400 deaths killing again despite leader’s arrest, police fear The bodies of dozens of new suspected victims have been uncovered, raising fears that the fringe sect is operating again ✍️David Ochami and @benfarmerdt.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

‘Double tap’ hospital victims need evacuation from Gaza to survive, say doctors Two of the injured – a doctor and journalist – are in critical condition with life-threatening shrapnel injuries Exclusive interviews by @liliasebouai.bsky.social Free to read🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

(1/4) How India became the diabetes capital of the world The world's most populous country is now home to a quarter of all global cases – and scientists are racing to understand why @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports - free to read🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Polio could paralyse 200,000 children every year unless UK continues global funding Campaign group warns that vital public health programmes are under threat from Government cuts to foreign aid spending @liliasebouai.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Seven common tropes used to deny Gaza’s famine, debunked by an expert @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social The chorus of denial around serious food insecurity in the Strip is more than falsehood – it is active disinformation Crucial analysis below - free to read🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Kenya to launch mpox vaccination drive as cases rise The east African country has now reported 370 cases of the virus in total, with 157 of those coming in the last six weeks Link here🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Botswana declares public health emergency as hospitals run out of medicines Diamond-rich southern African country has been tipped into increasing disarray by a falling market for its gems @benfarmerdt.bsky.social has the latest www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

‘Rare and complicated’ skin diseases rampage through Gaza, aid agencies warn @msf.ca @medicalaidpal.bsky.social @who.int A lack of water, food and sanitation, combined with soaring temperatures, is fuelling the spread of conditions like impetigo Link here 🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Outbreaks of debilitating tropical diseases becoming Europe’s ‘new normal’, @ecdc.europa.eu‬ has warned Mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya were once confined to the tropics but climate change is allowing them to spread in Europe Link here🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Record number of aid workers killed in 2024, UN says Some 383 humanitarian workers were killed in attacks last year, almost half of them in Gaza Link here🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

🚨Cholera epidemic sweeps Sudan killing 40 in just a week Violence and water shortages driving an explosion of cholera in Darfur’s overcrowded displacement camps, experts say @liliasebouai.bsky.social has the latest www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Hundreds of thousands of children will be at risk of dying from starvation in northeast Nigeria after a network of nutrition clinics closes next month, the UN has warned. @liliasebouai.bsky.social: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @telglobalhealth.bsky.social

Hundreds of thousands of children ‘facing starvation’ as last Nigeria aid points set to close The UN’s @wfp.org is grappling with a 40 per cent decline in funding, threatening its feeding programmes @liliasebouai.bsky.social reports - free to read🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Baby FGM death in the Gambia ‘should shame us all’ Nimko Ali, former Home Office advisor on violence against women and female genital mutilation survivor, criticises international community Link here🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Just 2 years ago, Fiji reported 245 new HIV cases. But by 2024, that figure jumped to 1,583, earning it a grim new title: after decades of minimal spread, the tropical paradise has the world’s fastest growing epidemic Here's why: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @telglobalhealth.bsky.social

Myanmar junta guilty of ‘systematic torture’ in detention centres, claim UN investigators Reports says it has collected ‘significant evidence’ of beatings, strangulation, electrocution and rape More info below ⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

(1/7) Flagship British project to boost global surgical standards under threat of closure Exclusive: The Global Surgery Unit could be forced to close when its current funding runs out @liliasebouai.bsky.social ebouai reports - free to read🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

(1/4) Why a tropical paradise has the world’s fastest growing HIV epidemic An ‘explosive’ jump in cases is linked to a boom in methamphetamines and dangerous drug practices @sneweyy.bsky.social has the latest www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

(1/7) The Telegraph gained rare access to Sierra Leone’s Red Zones – the isolation wards where mpox patients are treated – to find out how it managed to fight off the worst mpox outbreak in its history www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...