Increasingly, people who get COVID-19 are reporting they have back pain. We look at how common this is and what might be behind it.

Mvuyo Makhasi is leading a team tracking the pandemic via a novel digital platform – CoughWatchSA.

Governments have been preparing for an anthrax attack of bioterrorism as it’s the most likely pathogen to be used – so how has a bacterium that is normally found buried deep in the soil become such a deadly threat?

In a bid to build awareness around COVID-19, Uweza Foundation and Safe Hands Kenya are tapping into the power of art.

The 75th World Health Assembly (WHA) is taking place in Geneva from 22–28 May. Here are the key recommendations and messages Gavi will be bringing to the global health leaders and other health stakeholders gathering at the WHA.

COVAX has access to enough COVID-19 vaccines to help protect 70% of the population in 91 lower-income countries

A new study analysing a rabies control programme in India’s smallest state finds a combination of dog vaccination, human education, and virus surveillance both effective and cost-effective.

Even taking into account people who have had COVID but didn’t know it, there’s still likely to be a group of people who have never been infected.

 WHO and 12 other signatory agencies to the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (SDG3 GAP) have released their third progress report, Stronger collaboration for an equitable and resilient recovery towards the health-…

The Lagos state government is working hard to give residents of Kotomallam, a slum in Ojota, access to COVID-19 vaccines.

Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.

A rigid male/female ID system in Nepal was preventing many members of the country’s transgender community from getting the COVID-19 jab. A group of activists, working with the government, is turning things around.