The direct effects of COVID-19 disease on pregnant women, newborns and children are acknowledged. But the indirect effects of the pandemic have been equally devastating.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created in 2015 as a holistic vision for transforming human development, but COVID-19 derailed progress – so how do we get back on track?

A Cameroonian refugee volunteer, one of more than 70,000 refugees living in Nigeria’s Cross River State, is fighting misinformation and helping to save lives in the camps.

In low- and middle-income countries, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed a long-neglected problem that was already contributing to untold preventable deaths every year. Now, a global mobilization to scale up the supply of medical oxygen must be…

A group of groundbreaking African researchers are using weather patterns to predict meningitis outbreaks across the continent’s meningitis belt. Could this approach work for other killer diseases?

mRNA vaccine technology shows huge promise for tackling malaria, HIV, and TB, writes Fiona Broom.

Gavi and WHO to help deploy yellow fever vaccine to reduce the risk from the latest outbreak.

A new study finds that the cognitive loss from severe COVID is the same as losing 10 IQ points.

People living in Brazilian slums died of COVID-19 at disproportionate rates – but redistributing intensive care beds to anyone in need has wider benefits.

Elia Ntali meets the cycling health workers who are transforming attitudes towards routine immunisation in Zimbabwean villages.

Rising demand for water collection in poor countries added to womens’ burden. Water, sanitation lacking in health, quarantine facilities – survey. School closures also limited access to these basic services for girls.

Sharing false information, even when later debunked, correlates with people either delaying vaccination or refusing the vaccine outright.