At the beginning of this decade, tremors rumbling within the inherited conventions of global health research erupted.

WHO has proposed new terminology for “pathogens that transmit through the air”.1 The stated rationale is that “[d]uring the pandemic, the terms ‘airborne’, ‘airborne transmission’, ‘droplets’ and ...

Addressing the harms associated with drug use, illicit transnational drug trade, and the policies tied to them is one of the greatest policy challenges of our time—with intersectionalities to health, ...

Machine digital eyes can glean far more information from a scan than human experts can readily detect or accurately decipher. It may not be long before a chest x-ray report comes back with your risk ...

Infectious diseases physician and renowned antimicrobial trialist. Born in Fortrose, Scotland, on May 14, 1934, he died in Birmingham, UK, on April 9, 2024, aged 89 years.

Sudan is facing its most severe humanitarian crisis since gaining independence in 1956. The history of conflicts in Sudan is long and heterogeneous, moving from foreign colonisation to internal ethnic ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses (clade 2.3.4.4b) continue to evolve and spread in many countries.1 Since 2020, H5 influenza viruses have spread globally among wild birds,1 causing ...

Although several countries have adopted a single-dose human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination strategy, many other countries ...

Approximately a quarter of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis, which is the seedbed from which all forms of ...

The term long COVID, also known as post-COVID-19 condition, was coined in spring, 2020, by individuals with ongoing symptoms following COVID-19 in response to unsatisfactory recognition of this ...

With two endorsed and prophylactic vaccines against Zaire ebolavirus (referred to hereafter as EBOV), the number of individuals vaccinated against EBOV worldwide is estimated to range between 500 000 ...

The study’s findings support the increased risk of premature mortality associated with low education, particularly in women and urban populations. The considerable number of deaths attributed to ...