War is lead cause behind huge drop in global vaccinations, UN warns
Vaccine misinformation has added to crisis of collapsed healthcare and poor nutrition, Unicef and WHO report Conflicts have hampered efforts to vaccinate children across the...
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Nigeria to host first Lassa fever treatment trials for 40 years
The viral disease kills 5,000 people a year in west Africa, and has been described as an epidemic threat to global health Clinical trials for...
Attacks on health workers in conflict zones at highest level ever – report
More than 2,500 attacks in 2023, including medics killed and clinics bombed, in war zones such as Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine Attacks on health workers,...
Starmer has laid out his plan to tackle asylum. Will it actually work? | Sunder Katwala
The Labour leader confirmed he would scrap the Rwanda scheme in his Dover speech, then confusingly blurred his own argument Could Keir Starmer “Make Asylum...
Sake takes UK by storm as Japan’s national drink goes mainstream
No longer just drunk for courage at karaoke clubs, the ‘food-friendly’ rice spirit is becoming a first choice of connoisseurs When sommelier Erika Haigh opened...
‘A colonial mindset’: why global aid agencies need to get out of the way
With the world’s humanitarian system in crisis, many NGOs now recognise that local charities can deliver much more at far less cost Before civil war...
Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training as ‘grotesque’
Philip Morris International has supported non-smoking programmes around the world ‘to advance its own interests’, say health professionals The tobacco company Philip Morris has sponsored...
Lone children at risk of deportation to Rwanda after being classified as adults, says charity
Refugee Council sounds warning after children wrongly issued with notices of intent by Home office UK politics – latest updates Lone child asylum seekers are...
Honduras referred to UN human rights committee over total abortion ban
Petition filed on behalf of woman known as as Fausia, who underwent a forced pregnancy after being raped Honduras is being taken to a global...
