Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat which is exacerbated by overuse of antibiotics - as well as poor waste management and climate change. 

HPV-linked cancers – which are vaccine preventable in most cases – are a particular threat to trans people, a review study recently found. 

Discrimination and marginalisation of any kind constitute a multi-layered public health threat. Trans people, finds Rachel Sadoff, are at greater risk not just of violence, but also from pathogens.

Before vaccines became available, almost every child had been infected with rotavirus by their fifth birthday, and it claimed half a million lives each year.

Since 2013, Bangladesh had been providing free treatment to HIV-positive mothers under its Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission programme. It’s working.

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Although the mRNA vaccines have done an excellent job of reducing COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, questions remain regarding waning immunity, and public uptake has decreased with each new booster. With the pandemic still far from over, a…

A drug-resistant fungus is a threat to human health.

Neglected tropical diseases of the skin are stigmatised, and may affect an individual’s quality of life

Scientists say using algorithms to detect child Tuberculosis (TB) can lead to quicker diagnosis and treatment.

Hunting for viruses that infect the typhoid bacterium in sewage could be a quicker, cheaper way to detect high levels of disease in communities.

Climate change already means disease-spreading mosquitoes can invade new habitats – now data shows that warmer water means a greater spread of pathogenic marine bacteria.