Emerging threats

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A lab technician in Spain picks up a reactive to test suspected monkeypox samples. Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

What’s in a name? Why giving monkeypox a new one is a good idea

28 Jun 2022

4 min read

Street in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Image by blese via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

World’s worst air pollution slashes 7 years off life expectancy in Bangladesh

24 Jun 2022

7 min read

Cross-posts Climate change Research summary

Community representatives come to visit a family in the outskirts of Beni to raise public health awareness Copyright: World Bank / Vincent Tremeau, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Africa ‘must step up surveillance’ to curb monkeypox

22 Jun 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts Mpox Pandemic preparedness

Electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles isolated in 2003 in the United States from human samples (left, mature, oval viruses; right, immature, round viruses). Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner / CDC / AP

Monkeypox: ‘This is an entirely new spread of the disease’

20 Jun 2022

18 min read

Cross-posts Mpox Vaccine development Pandemic preparedness

Deadly heatwaves: How high temperatures affect the body

17 Jun 2022

5 min read

Climate change Explainer

Artificial light may trick malaria-transmitting mosquitoes into changing their feeding habits, protecting people against bites. Professor Lizette Koekemoer/University of the Witwatersrand

Artificial light may become a new weapon in the fight to control malaria

10 Jun 2022

4 min read

Cross-posts Malaria Innovation

Chest x-rays are more sensitive for screening for TB. PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP via Getty Images

HIV control approaches may not work for TB: lessons from South Africa and Zambia

8 Jun 2022

4 min read

Cross-posts HIV Tuberculosis Pandemic preparedness

Salvation crews evacuate patients and injured in hospital AXEPA during exercise for earthquake

Under Climate Change, Care Workers Often Act as First Responders

7 Jun 2022

7 min read

Cross-posts Climate change Conflict & humanitarian

How to improve primary healthcare to prepare for future pandemics

3 Jun 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Pandemic preparedness COVID-19

Blood sample tube for Monkeypox virus test.

What is behind the sudden international spread of monkeypox?

25 May 2022

5 min read

Mpox Pandemic preparedness

Medical personnel at Trinity Care Foundation reading a poster about community outreach on Universal Health Coverage Day amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 in rural Karnataka, India. Scientists have warned that COVID-19 will remain uncontrolled in many countries unless coordinated action is taken. Copyright: Trinity Care Foundation, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

COVID-19 could derail SDGs for next five years – report

25 May 2022

3 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19 SDGs Videos

Monkeypox isn’t like HIV, but gay and bisexual men are at risk of unfair stigma

24 May 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts Mpox Gender equality HIV LGBTQI+

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