The United States (US) government has not sought a meeting with South Africa to discuss the resumption of its HIV grant, and it won’t supply the country with

JOHANNESBURG - The United States pledged $4.6 billion to the Global Fund during its eighth Replenishment Summit in Johannesburg on Friday – a reduction from

Brazilian president underlines need to reduce emissions as Turkey set to host next year’s summit On Wednesday evening I joined a crowd of journalists, including my colleague Fiona Harvey, veteran of many Cops, to wait outside a plenary room in the artificially Baltic surroundings of the Cop30 conference centre. Rumour had it that the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who had earlier arrived at the UN climate summit, would soon emerge to speak to journalists. What exactly we would do if he did emerge was unclear. Continue reading...

A new Africa debt proposal has landed at the G20, and will be considered by heads of state at the Leaders’ Summit this weekend.

A conversation with Atul Gawande about the human toll of the dismantling of foreign aid.

Some commentators have described the terms of the bilateral MOUs as "extractive" as they fail to offer African countries access to the health products that

Some commentators have described the terms of the bilateral MOUs as "extractive" as they fail to offer African countries access to the health products that

South Africa aims to become the first African country to manufacture a cholera vaccine with the launch this week of a clinical trial of an oral vaccine

Sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) are being restricted, human rights defenders are being silenced, and evidence-based policy is being replaced by

Healthworkers said that the gunmen, from the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF), burst into the hospital and opened fire without warning, WION reports.  The RSF

Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.

Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering in 2023, stepped down as CEO under the crypto exchange’s $4.3 billion settlement with the Justice Department.

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

The first pregnant woman with malaria was enrolled in a clinical trial in Mali to compare three different malaria treatment regimens earlier this month – a

Women who lose 300ml of blood after giving birth should be diagnosed with postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) according to new guidelines published by the World

The final political declaration for the United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on NCDs is substantially weaker than the zero draft, no longer referring to