Although not formally defined as a neglected tropical disease, HIV-2 infection attracts remarkably little attention or ...

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 ...

In her 2013 essay collection, Meaty, the comedian and writer Samantha Irby quips that, “as autoimmune diseases go”, her diagnosis of Crohn's disease “is one of the least glamorous of the bunch”. As a ...

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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, ...

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

Machine digital eyes can glean far more information from a scan than human experts can readily detect or accurately decipher.

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 ...

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 ...

The negotiations for the WHO Pandemic Agreement have brought attention to issues of racism and colonialism in global health. Although the agreement aims to promote global solidarity, it fails to ...