For how we live.
A 2026 review reports more than 70 health facilities destroyed in North Kivu, 7.3 million people displaced and over 2 million children acutely malnourished, as conflict compounds overlapping outbreaks.
A cohort at Kilifi County Hospital found RSV pneumonia killed 2.4% of admitted infants across 25 seasons, with no decline; severe undernutrition and congenital heart disease marked the highest risk.
A frontier analysis of two decades attributes 97.6% of nutritional disparities between countries to inefficiency rather than to resources. The policy reading is contestable; the decoupling is not.
Appetite fades with age and malnutrition is common and under-screened. Supplement drinks produce small, real weight gains — and cut deaths mainly in those already undernourished, not everyone.
In 2,414 children, the MODAM-MAM trial found one daily sachet of therapeutic food non-inferior to standard supplementary food; two sachets did marginally better but used far more product.
Children in low-vegetation districts exposed to heat stress had sharply higher odds of severe wasting and underweight; in greener areas the link vanished. The pathway runs through food systems, not heat alone.
Fourteen months after an undiagnosed febrile outbreak alarmed the world, sequencing and PCR on 108 patients found no novel pathogen — half had falciparum malaria and many had a respiratory co-infection.
The Lancet Global Health paper that produced this month's headline number also produced a larger one: 22.6 million additional deaths by 2030 if defunding deepens. The distinction matters more than the figure.
Floods and landslides in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand have killed more people in a fortnight than most single climate events on record. The second wave — water, food, medicine — is the part that lasts.