Kat Lay
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Journalist - global health correspondent at The Guardian (
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Melody Schreiber
11 days ago
U.S. health officials insisted it was still on. African health leaders said it was cancelled. A hotly debated study on hepatitis B in Guinea-Bissau is indeed halted, as I reported last week. Here's my latest:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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âItâs the sovereignty of the countryâ: Guinea-Bissau says US vaccine study suspended
Despite US pushback, officials in west Africa say controversial hepatitis B study on pause amid ethics concerns
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/23/guinea-bissau-hepatitis-b-vaccine-study
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The Guardian
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Global midwife shortage raises rates of maternity intervention, report warns
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Global midwife shortage raises rates of maternity intervention, report warns
World is short of a million midwives, report finds, with adequate access potentially saving 4.3m lives a year
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/20/world-shortage-million-midwives-icm-healthcare-mothers-babies-intervention?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1768893708
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The Guardian
18 days ago
Cloth wraps treated with âdirt cheapâ insecticide cut malaria cases in babies
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Cloth wraps treated with âdirt cheapâ insecticide cut malaria cases in babies
Soaking fabrics in a commonly used insect repellent is a simple and effective tool as mosquito bites become more common during daytime, study shows
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/16/cloth-wraps-treated-with-insecticide-cut-malaria-cases-in-babies?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1768540060
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Melody Schreiber
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BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled
$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/hepatitis-b-vaccines-study-africa-cancel?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Doctors and nurses should be wearing respirator-grade masks rather than "inadequate" surgical masks or no face covering at all when in front of patients, a group of experts has said, urging WHO guideline changes
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Face masks âinadequateâ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO advised
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/09/health-professionals-respirator-grade-masks-who-advise
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The Guardian
27 days ago
âWe were sitting with our calculator saying âwe can afford that!ââ Joy for families as cystic fibrosis drug prices fall within reach
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âWe were sitting with our calculator saying âwe can afford that!ââ Joy for families as cystic fibrosis drug prices fall within reach
The cost of medication was too high for thousands of CF sufferers around the world. Now a Bangladeshi company is making a generic version that will change lives
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/07/families-cystic-fibrosis-drug-prices-affordable-generic-triko-vertex-pharmaceuticals-beximco-trikafta-kaftrio?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1767788802
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The Guardian
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Five big global health wins in 2025 that will save millions of lives
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Five big global health wins in 2025 that will save millions of lives
From HIV to TB, scientists and doctors made breakthroughs in treatment and prevention of some of the worldâs deadliest diseases
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/22/five-big-global-health-wins-in-2025-that-will-save-millions-of-lives?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1766405299
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The Guardian
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âA potential treasure troveâ: World Health Organization to explore benefits of traditional medicines
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âA potential treasure troveâ: World Health Organization to explore benefits of traditional medicines
UN body to study possibility of integrating centuries-old practices into mainstream healthcare From herbalists in Africa gathering plants to use as poultices to acupuncturists in China using needles to cure migraines, or Indian yogis practising meditation, traditional remedies have increasingly being shown to work, and deserve more attention and research, according to a World Health Organization official. A historical lack of evidence, which has seen traditional practices dismissed by many, could change with more investment and the use of modern technology, according to Dr Shyama Kuruvilla, who leads the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/20/who-traditional-medicine-alternative-remedies-mainstream-healthcare-evidence?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Kat Lay
Melody Schreiber
about 2 months ago
The CDC just announced a new study on hepatitis B vaccination on newborns in Guinea-Bissau â a move that researchers call âhighly unethicalâ and âextremely riskyâ. Happy to team up with
@katlay.bsky.social
on this story:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called âhighly unethicalâ
Experts decry âneocolonialistâ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/19/hepatitis-b-vaccine-study-guinea-bissau-rfk
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Kat Lay
The Guardian
about 2 months ago
Figures reveal stark reality of US funding cuts as 1,394 family planning clinics shut
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Figures reveal stark reality of US funding cuts as 1,394 family planning clinics shut
Survey by worldâs largest network for sexual and reproductive health shows devastation to services, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, and amplification of anti-rights voices
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/16/figures-us-funding-cuts-family-planning-clinics-shut-anti-rights?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1765879857
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The Guardian
about 2 months ago
New antibiotics hailed as âturning pointâ in treating drug-resistant gonorrhoea
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New antibiotics hailed as âturning pointâ in treating drug-resistant gonorrhoea
First new treatments for sexually transmitted disease in decades approved by US Food and Drug Administration as number of cases worldwide surge to 82m The first new treatments for gonorrhoea in decades could be a âhuge turning pointâ in efforts to combat the rise of superbug strains of the bacteria, researchers have said. Gonorrhoea is on the rise around the world, with more than 82m infections globally each year and particularly high rates in Africa and countries in the World Health Organizationâs Western Pacific region, which reaches from Mongolia and China to New Zealand. Cases in England are at a record high, and rates in Europe were three times higher in 2023 than in 2014. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/16/health-antibiotic-resistance-drugs-superbugs-sexually-transmitted-gonorrhoea?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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The Guardian
2 months ago
How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead
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How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead
Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/01/global-health-hiv-aids-funding-cuts-infections-prevention?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764569576
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The Guardian
2 months ago
Control of HIV, TB and malaria at risk after global health fund donations fall
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Control of HIV, TB and malaria at risk after global health fund donations fall
Leading past donors including France, Japan and European Commission fail to contribute at pledging summit Control of the deadly infectious diseases HIV, tuberculosis and malaria âhangs in the balanceâ after a shortfall in donations to a leading global health fund, advocates have warned. Only $11.3bn of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malariaâs $18bn (ÂŁ14bn) targeted budget for 2026 to 2028 has been confirmed so far. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/22/control-of-hiv-tb-and-malaria-at-risk-after-global-health-fund-donations-fall?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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The Guardian
3 months ago
New drug could be a breakthrough in treatment for killer TB, trial suggests
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New drug could be a breakthrough in treatment for killer TB, trial suggests
Sorfequiline shows stronger action than existing treatments against illness that killed 1.23 million last year
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/19/new-drug-could-be-breakthrough-killer-tb-tuberculosis-sorfequiline?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763549639
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âUtter hypocrisyâ: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK
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âUtter hypocrisyâ: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK
British American Tobacco pushed Zambian ministers to drop or delay ad bans, health warnings and restrictions on flavoured products, letter shows
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/13/british-american-tobacco-africa-zambia-uk
3 months ago
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The Guardian
3 months ago
US to demand countries share data on âpathogens with epidemic potentialâ in return for health aid
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US to demand countries share data on âpathogens with epidemic potentialâ in return for health aid
Draft template seen by the Guardian has no reference to countries receiving benefits for sharing information, such as guaranteed access to medicines developed as a result
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/08/us-countries-share-data-pathogens-epidemic-potential-health-aid?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762600034
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The Guardian
3 months ago
âNot a luxury, a necessityâ: how aid cuts to birth control harm Senegalâs women
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âNot a luxury, a necessityâ: how aid cuts to birth control harm Senegalâs women
âThe women here are warriors,â says a midwife in Joal, and contraception is key to their health and life chances. But now UK and US aid cuts threaten to undo years of progress
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/27/senegal-africa-aid-cuts-contraception-msi-birth-control-harm-women-health-poverty?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1761542084
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The Guardian
4 months ago
Anti-malaria funding cuts could lead to âdeadliest resurgence everâ, study warns
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Anti-malaria funding cuts could lead to âdeadliest resurgence everâ, study warns
Expected reduction in contributions by wealthy countries likely to cost millions of lives and billions in lost growth
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/21/global-health-infectious-disease-aid-cuts-malaria-funding-cost-deaths-gdp-africa?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1761002458
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The Guardian
4 months ago
AI-generated âpoverty pornâ fake images being used by aid agencies
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AI-generated âpoverty pornâ fake images being used by aid agencies
Exclusive: Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost AI-generated images of extreme poverty, children and sexual violence survivors are flooding stock photo sites and increasingly being used by leading health NGOs, according to global health professionals who have voiced concern over a new era of âpoverty pornâ. âAll over the place, people are using it,â said Noah Arnold, who works at Fairpicture, a Swiss-based organisation focused on promoting ethical imagery in global development. âSome are actively using AI imagery, and others, we know that theyâre experimenting at least.â Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/20/ai-generated-poverty-porn-fake-images-being-used-by-aid-agencies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Kaya Burgess | đđĄđ đđ˘đŚđđŹ
4 months ago
đ¨ Imposter alert đ¨ Studies into everything from cancer and HIV being plagued by "fraudulent" participants Includes people pretending to have the diseases It's undermining the reliability of trials and potentially harming patients Stark warning here:
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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Is this response real? Imposters are putting health studies at risk
Automated bots and people lying about their conditions risk skewing the results of medical research, Oxford academics have warned
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/imposter-participants-health-medical-studies-8bjwhz9xg
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Kat Lay
The Guardian
4 months ago
US âundermining global healthâ by threatening to strip funding from aid projects that do not fit its political agenda
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US âundermining global healthâ by threatening to strip funding from aid projects that do not fit its political agenda
Trump administration reported to be planning expansion of âglobal gag ruleâ to halt any initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/08/us-trump-administration-forcing-other-countries-un-drop-dei-diversity-initiatives-or-lose-funding?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759920010
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âMost people are just toughing it outâ: shortage of drugs leaves Gazaâs wounded without pain relief
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âMost people are just toughing it outâ: shortage of drugs leaves Gazaâs wounded without pain relief
Operations are being carried out without proper anaesthetics and what painkillers there are have to be rationed, say doctors
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/29/most-people-are-just-toughing-it-out-shortage-of-drugs-leaves-gazas-wounded-without-pain-relief?CMP=share_btn_url
4 months ago
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Kaya Burgess | đđĄđ đđ˘đŚđđŹ
4 months ago
Who'd want to be Archbishop of Canterbury?! We're close to finding out who's got the job But how are they chosen? Who's in the frame? And what happens next? Is there any conclave-style ceremony to it? Peer behind the cloak of confidentiality, as I explain all:
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...
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How the next Archbishop of Canterbury is chosen and what happens next
The election for the new Archbishop of Canterbury is shrouded in secrecy. From the likely shortlisted faces to what happens next, hereâs our visual guide
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/article/how-next-archbishop-canterbury-chosen-tjljzhhw9
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Kat Lay
The Guardian
4 months ago
Cheap supplies of HIV-prevention jab for poorer countries hailed as âgenuine chance to endâ global epidemic
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Cheap supplies of HIV-prevention jab for poorer countries hailed as âgenuine chance to endâ global epidemic
Lenacapavir described as ânext best thingâ to an HIV vaccine will cost $40 a year for each patient in 120 countries from 2027, funders say
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/24/hiv-prevention-jab-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-lenacapavir-120-poorer-countries-2027?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1758715471
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The Guardian
4 months ago
Death by aid cuts: how a decision in the US led to the loss of a mother in Yemen
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Death by aid cuts: how a decision in the US led to the loss of a mother in Yemen
While the Trump administration claims no one will die over the axing of its overseas development budgets, aid agencies say the action will cost at least 3 million lives. Fatima and her baby were among the first
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/23/death-by-aid-cuts-how-a-decision-in-the-us-led-to-the-loss-of-a-mother-in-yemen?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1758604548
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Kai Kupferschmidt
5 months ago
Good news! Ring vaccinations against
#Ebola
have begun in DRC, according to
@who.int
: âAn initial 400 doses of the Ervebo Ebola vaccineâfrom the countryâs stockpile of 2000 doses prepositioned in the capital Kinshasaâhave been delivered to Bulape, one of the current hotspots of the outbreak.â
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Ebola vaccination begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bulape, Democratic Republic of the CongoâVaccination of frontline health workers and contacts of people infected with Ebola virus disease has begun in Bulape health zone in the Democratic Republic of ...
https://www.afro.who.int/countries/democratic-republic-of-congo/news/ebola-vaccination-begins-democratic-republic-congo
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More children and teens worldwide are obese than underweight for the first time, according to a UN report that blames increasing levels of junk food in their diets
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Junk food leads to more children being obese than underweight for first time
Cheap ultra-processed food behind rise in overweight children, with one in 10 now obese globally, says Unicef
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/10/junk-food-upf-more-children-obese-than-underweight-unicef
5 months ago
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The Guardian
7 months ago
Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse
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Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse
Cigarettes and vapes are being smuggled into virtual spaces beyond the reach of regulation, creating a new battleground for health campaigners
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/22/avatar-smokes-big-tobacco-children-metaverse-cigarettes-vapes-virtual-regulation-health?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1753168045
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Sudanâs children face growing threat of deadly infectious diseases as vaccination rates halve
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Sudanâs children face growing threat of deadly infectious diseases as vaccination rates halve
The country, beset by war, has the worldâs lowest rates of vaccination, says the World Health Organization, as global immunisation drive also stalls
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/17/infectious-diseases-sudan-children-vaccination-rates-immunisation-routine-jabs-measles?CMP=share_btn_url
7 months ago
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High-risk HIV groups facing record levels of criminalisation as countries bring in draconian laws
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High-risk HIV groups facing record levels of criminalisation as countries bring in draconian laws
Curbs on LGBTQ+ rights and a halt to US funding may reverse decades of progress in fight to end Aids epidemic, warns UNAids
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/10/unaids-high-risk-hiv-groups-lgbtq-record-criminalisation-usaid-funding
7 months ago
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âDelay is catastrophicâ: how swift administration of antibiotics could save thousands of African children in comas
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âDelay is catastrophicâ: how instant antibiotics could save thousands of African children in comas
Analysis finds key to survival for children found to be unconscious and unresponsive is a quick dose of drugs and fast access to specialist care
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/03/antibiotics-children-coma-africa-malaria-bacterial-infection-research
7 months ago
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The Guardian
7 months ago
Tobacco exposure killed more than 7m people in 2023, study finds
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Tobacco exposure killed more than 7m people in 2023, study finds
Researchers say tobacco linked to about one in eight deaths worldwide and numbers rising sharply in some countries Exposure to tobacco killed more than 7 million people worldwide in 2023, according to estimates. It remains the leading risk factor for deaths in men, among whom there were 5.59m deaths, and ranks seventh for women, among whom there were 1.77m deaths. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/24/tobacco-exposure-killed-more-than-7m-people-worldwide-2023-study?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Vapes threaten to undo gains in tackling dangers of tobacco, health leaders warn
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Vapes threaten to undo gains in tackling dangers of tobacco, health leaders warn
WHO calls for higher cigarette taxes, plus graphic warnings on vapes, heated tobacco products and nicotine pouches
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/23/smoking-vapes-tobacco-industry-world-health-organization-gains-dangers-global-health
7 months ago
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Frontline AIDS
8 months ago
A drug with the potential to âend the
#HIV
pandemicâ will launch in the US this week. We join
@unaids.org
's call to "make
#lenacapavir
available and affordable for all who need it." Read the latest by
@katlay.bsky.social
from
@theguardian.com
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âHIV-endingâ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers
As regulator prepares to approve Lenacapavir in the US, campaigners are urging the manufacturer, Gilead, to make it âavailable and affordable for all who need itâ
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/17/hiv-ending-drug-lenacapavir-manufacture-cost-per-patient-gilead
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BK. Titanji
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Mother to child transmission of HIV is completely preventable with antiretroviral drugs. We cannot go back to the 80s and 90s of the HIV epidemic.
add a skeleton here at some point
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The Guardian
8 months ago
Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers âoverwhelmedâ
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Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers âoverwhelmedâ
Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body A cure for HIV could be a step closer after researchers found a new way to force the virus out of hiding inside human cells. The virusâs ability to conceal itself inside certain white blood cells has been one of the main challenges for scientists looking for a cure. It means there is a reservoir of the HIV in the body, capable of reactivation, that neither the immune system nor drugs can tackle. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/05/breakthrough-in-search-for-hiv-cure-leaves-researchers-overwhelmed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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World (finally) agrees pandemic accord for tackling future outbreaks
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World agrees pandemic accord for tackling outbreaks of disease
Hailed as âa victory for public health,â the agreement aims to build on the lessons of Covid-19 and protect the globe from pathogenic threats
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/20/world-agrees-pandemic-accord-for-tackling-outbreaks-of-disease-who-covid?CMP=share_btn_url
9 months ago
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The deadly riddle of blackwater fever: the search for answers over illness killing Ugandaâs children
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The deadly riddle of blackwater fever: the search for answers over illness killing Ugandaâs children
A dangerous complication of malaria turns urine dark with blood â but only affects some young patients in rural areas and not others. Puzzled experts are trying to find out why
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/14/global-health-deadly-riddle-blackwater-fever-medical-mystery-illness-killing-uganda-children?CMP=share_btn_url
9 months ago
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There are huge gaps when it comes to antibiotic access in poorer countries, according to a new study, with under 7% of patients with drug-resistant infections potentially getting the drugs they need
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Lack of access to antibiotics is driving spread of superbugs, finds research
Focus on overuse contributes to antibiotics reaching less than 7% of people with drug-resistant infections in poorer countries, say researchers
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/30/access-antibiotics-superbugs-research-drug-resistant-infections
9 months ago
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Helen Branswell đ¨đŚ
9 months ago
Some good news: A Phase 3 clinical trial of what could be the first new
#tuberculosis
vaccine in over 100 years has been able to enroll all needed participants months ahead of schedule.
www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/m...
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Major tuberculosis vaccine trial completes enrollment faster than expected
A closely watched clinical trial testing what could be the worldâs first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century has hit its enrollment target, ahead of expectations.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/major-tuberculosis-vaccine-trial-completes-enrollment-faster-than-expected/
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Guardian Australia
10 months ago
âSome of these diseases are in the Bibleâ: despair as cuts halt progress on age-old tropical illnesses
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âSome of these diseases are in the Bibleâ: despair as cuts halt progress on age-old tropical illnesses
They are debilitating afflictions that people donât know about, donât understand and struggle to pronounce. Now health workers fear they will surge in Africa as USAID-funded drug distribution programmes are cut Since 2013, for around two weeks each year, Sulaiman Tarawallie has pulled on his community drug distributor (CDD) uniform and gone from household to household in his remote farming community to hand out medication to fight river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. Once he has completed the rounds of his village, he heads further out to take the drugs to even more remote homes â keeping the diseases that had plagued generations at bay with a handful of pills. But this year, Tarawallie, who works as a community health worker and primary school teacher in Sierra Leoneâs northern Bombali district, will not be making his annual trip. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/09/despair-as-cuts-halt-progress-on-neglected-tropical-diseases-usaid?CMP=aus_bsky
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âItâs back to drug rationingâ: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts
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âItâs back to drug rationingâ: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts
The abrupt halt to US funding threatens to undo decades of advances, dramatically increasing infections and deaths, but some see an opportunity for Africa to lead the response
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/18/global-health-trump-usaid-cuts-hiv-aids-2030-drugs-vaccine-research-africa
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Astonishing piece in The Atlantic, speaking to the father of the 6-year-old who died of measles in Texas just over a week ago.
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US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug âresistant to everything we haveâ
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US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug âresistant to everything we haveâ
Projects to detect, treat and research new ways to fight TB among those disrupted by sudden funding freeze
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/10/us-aid-cuts-tuberculosis-tb-untreatable-bug-drug-resistance-stop-tb-partnership-who
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âď¸âď¸âď¸ This weekâs Guardian Weekly magazine examines the crisis in foreign aid funding, and the true cost of slashing development budgets. By
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An end to aid? Inside the 7 March Guardian Weekly
The crushing consequences of development fund cuts. Plus: Can Keir Starmer rescue Ukraine peace talks?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/05/an-end-to-aid-inside-the-7-march-guardian-weekly?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Nearly half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030 â study
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Nearly half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030 â study
Stigma, lack of treatment and disproportionate rise of the disease in women draws comparisons with HIV epidemic An alarming rise in obesity in Africa has been compared with the HIV epidemic, with stigma and lack of treatment having a disproportionateâŚ
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/06/nearly-half-of-women-in-africa-will-be-obese-or-overweight-by-2030-study?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Grow a 'baby in a bag' ? đźđ Most Brits are strongly opposed to use of artificial wombs outside the mother for developing foetuses. Apart from Gen Z, who back it. Public *does* support concept when mother or baby's life is at risk, however đâŹď¸
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Grow a âbaby in a bagâ? Gen Z backs the use of artificial wombs
Scientists want to conduct human trials on supporting premature babies outside of their motherâs bodies, but the British public has reservations
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/gen-z-backs-use-artificial-wombs-science-uk-0mrzdwmq5
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The US permanent end to HIV/AIDS funding could mean 500,000 deaths in the next decade in South Africa alone, according to experts. âThis is children, this is orphans, vulnerable children, young women and girl programmes. It is generic and across the board.â Chilling
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US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding âcould lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africaâ
Cuts could result in 500,000 deaths over the next 10 years in the country, research suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/28/usaid-funding-health-development-hiv-aids-antiretroviral-mothers-lgbt-sex-workers-south-africa
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