New dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social with @simontownsley.bsky.social from Guyana, the country with the fastest growing economy in the world after offshore oil wells started production. Yet the gulf in wealth between those benefiting the boom and the 48% still living in poverty remains stark

Dispatch from Honduras for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social where I saw the distressing impact of New World screwworm on vulnerable people. This parasite had been eradicated from Central America but is once again prospering, with illegal cattle ranching being blamed www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Interesting feature by @parrytom.bsky.social on the funding crisis in international aid - some models more resilient than others, it seems www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social from Dhaka where ragpickers sift mountains of trash for plastic scraps. Children work in sweatshop plastic recycling factories thick with an acrid burning stench. This is what happens to plastic waste in most of the world. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

(1/4) Life in the shadow of a toxic mountain of plastic waste. In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are children. Dispatch by @parrytom.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

(1/6) An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives. Increased levels of a simple chemical is having disastrous health effects for those living in Bangladesh’s sprawling river deltas. Read more below ⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social I visited a school on the silt island of Bhola which is part of a Bangladeshi programme to keep children in education to prevent child marriage. 60% of families practice child marriage, according to recent research www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

"Invisible in the gently rippling water is the soluble salt stealthily destroying women’s lives." Great dispatch by @parrytom.bsky.social & @simontownsley.bsky.social in Bangladesh, looking at the consequences of heightened salinity, driven by climate change: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Dispatch by @parrytom.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social - free to read 🔓

A recent journey around the foothills of Mount Elgon, western Kenya, where heavy rainfall made unsurfaced tracks on sticky clay soil virtually impassable. Motorcycles and all-terrain 4WD vehicles were sliding around and unable to gain traction. This leaves many communities isolated.

Thinking today of the many Syrian exiles I met in Jordan, Lebanon and across Europe, fleeing Assad's barrel bombs and persecution. People like Ahmed, a court clerk, in Zaatari refugee camp, and surgeon brothers Hassan and Mohammed, in South Wales, forced to keep tortured prisoners alive in Damascus.

Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social from northern Kenya, where I saw how disappearance of traditional pastures is having unexpected effects: girls forced further from homes are being raped and communities are locked in violent feuds over grazing territory www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...