https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health Outbreaks, the WHO, health financing, and systems beyond the U.S. en-us https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bhutan-dog-transmitted-rabies-elimination https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bhutan-dog-transmitted-rabies-elimination WHO validated Bhutan's elimination of dog-transmitted human rabies, a disease almost always fatal once symptoms appear. The country has recorded zero such deaths since June 2023. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/timor-leste-trachoma-elimination https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/timor-leste-trachoma-elimination WHO validated Timor-Leste's elimination of trachoma, the last suspected focus in its South-East Asia Region. A 2025 survey of 4,949 young children found no transmission requiring intervention. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/cyclosporiasis-michigan-outbreak-interim https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/cyclosporiasis-michigan-outbreak-interim An interim report in NEJM Evidence links the parasitic outbreak to iceberg lettuce and one restaurant chain, with cases spread across most of the state. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/umrah-meningococcal-w135-vaccination https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/umrah-meningococcal-w135-vaccination WHO recorded serogroup W135 disease in pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia in early 2025. A modelling study estimates high vaccination coverage would cut expected cases by more than 80%. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/mpox-global-vaccine-stockpile-launch https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/mpox-global-vaccine-stockpile-launch Gavi is funding a standing mpox vaccine stockpile, coordinated by the same group that manages emergency supplies for cholera, yellow fever and Ebola, to avoid repeating the 2022 access gap. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/hypoxaemia-childhood-pneumonia-mortality-lmic https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/hypoxaemia-childhood-pneumonia-mortality-lmic A meta-analysis of more than 155,000 children finds mortality is elevated even at oxygen saturations of 90–94%, above the threshold at which WHO advises hospital oxygen. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/thesus-hf-2-acute-heart-failure-africa https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/thesus-hf-2-acute-heart-failure-africa THESUS-HF II enrolled 1,578 patients across 50 hospitals in 17 countries. Guideline drugs were prescribed at discharge in most patients, and target doses were reached in fewer than half. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/yemen-infant-undernutrition-under-six-months https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/yemen-infant-undernutrition-under-six-months A facility-based study of 5,053 infants finds undernutrition begins earlier than the age group nutrition programmes usually screen — and that weight-for-age caught far more of it than arm-circumference tape. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bundibugyo-ebola-sixty-health-zones-august https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bundibugyo-ebola-sixty-health-zones-august WHO's latest update records 1,129 more confirmed cases in twelve days and a case fatality ratio of 48.1%. Transmission is now confined to Congo, across 60 health zones in six provinces. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/gates-foundation-ihme-global-burden-disease-grant https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/gates-foundation-ihme-global-burden-disease-grant The Gates Foundation has committed to a decade of funding for the world's most-used health estimates. Science reports the criticism that has followed the study for years: opacity. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/child-stunting-africa-nutrition-conversion-gap https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/child-stunting-africa-nutrition-conversion-gap 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. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/qatar-genomic-newborn-screening-pilot https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/qatar-genomic-newborn-screening-pilot The country's blood-spot programme has run since 2003 and reaches nearly every baby. A pilot adds genomic sequencing — where a study of Qatari genomes suggests the biggest gains lie. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/mpox-ophthalmic-disease-south-kivu-cohort https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/mpox-ophthalmic-disease-south-kivu-cohort In South Kivu, ophthalmologists examined 310 patients with confirmed clade Ib mpox at four time points. Periorbital lesions and severe acute malnutrition tripled the risk of ocular involvement. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/ukraine-radiotherapy-capacity-wartime-survey https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/ukraine-radiotherapy-capacity-wartime-survey A national survey finds treatment volumes above 2021 levels and linear accelerators replacing cobalt-60 units. Nearly every department still using cobalt says replacing the source is now unfeasible. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/gaza-hiv-detection-collapse https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/gaza-hiv-detection-collapse Before October 2023, Palestinian health authorities had documented 50 people living with HIV in Gaza. A viewpoint argues the collapse of testing and treatment has since erased that count entirely. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/yemen-diphtheria-abyan-surveillance https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/yemen-diphtheria-abyan-surveillance A registry analysis of Abyan Governorate from 2020 to 2024 puts numbers on a vaccine-preventable disease that returned as immunisation coverage fell — with the heaviest toll among children aged 5 to 9. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/snakebite-burden-africa-antivenom-access https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/snakebite-burden-africa-antivenom-access A geostatistical re-estimate puts the global toll at 2.1 million envenomings and 274,000 deaths a year at minimum, with African incidence nearly three times South Asia's — against a short antivenom supply. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/who-middle-east-health-flash-appeal https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/who-middle-east-health-flash-appeal The emergency funding is meant to keep trauma care, disease surveillance and maternal care running in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Jordan, atop a regional appeal only 37% funded. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/kuwait-healthcare-infrastructure-plan https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/kuwait-healthcare-infrastructure-plan Twenty hospital and health-facility projects, worth $462 million, are meant to reduce how often Kuwaitis have to travel overseas for specialized care. Thirteen are already under construction. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/jordan-childhood-cancer-medicines-platform https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/jordan-childhood-cancer-medicines-platform The country became the first in its region to receive shipments through a WHO-backed platform supplying 46 essential cancer drugs — refugees included, at no cost. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/israel-yatziv-reform-foreign-medical-graduates https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/israel-yatziv-reform-foreign-medical-graduates The reform followed an investigation into training quality at some foreign schools. It is also projected to disproportionately affect Arab professionals, a large share of those graduates. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/israel-health-basket-committee-2026 https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/israel-health-basket-committee-2026 The committee that decides what Israel's national insurance covers added new cancer and depression drugs to the 2026 list — and turned down an early Alzheimer's treatment because of what it would have cost. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-youth-mental-health-partial-recovery https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-youth-mental-health-partial-recovery Under-25s lost about 5 points on a 100-point wellbeing scale between 2019 and 2021. Adults 19 to 24 have clawed back two-thirds of that loss. Teenagers 15 to 18 have recovered barely a third. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-wegovy-pbs-listing-path https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-wegovy-pbs-listing-path PBAC recommended subsidized listing in November 2025 for adults with obesity and a history of heart attack or stroke. Price negotiations with Novo Nordisk had not concluded. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-vaping-reform-2026-results https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-vaping-reform-2026-results Vaping among 18-to-35-year-olds fell from 17.3% to 14.2% in a year, a real decline but a small one against how much vaping had grown before the crackdown. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-indigenous-health-gap-report https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-indigenous-health-gap-report The national framework tracking First Nations health finds real progress on smoking, education and specific diseases, alongside no movement on infant mortality and worsening suicide. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-bulk-billing-incentive-program https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-bulk-billing-incentive-program A $7.9 billion program now pays practices an additional 12.5% on top of the standard Medicare rebate for every bulk-billed visit — split evenly between the clinic and the doctor who sees the patient. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-aged-care-act-staffing-standards https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-aged-care-act-staffing-standards The new Aged Care Act mandates 215 minutes of direct care per resident per day. Since April, providers who don't actually deliver those minutes lose funding over it — not just a warning. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/west-nile-virus-europe-2026-expansion https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/west-nile-virus-europe-2026-expansion 429 cases across nine countries, and a mosquito species that transmits two other viruses now established in 16 European countries — double the number from twelve years ago. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/saudi-arabia-life-expectancy-vision-2030 https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/saudi-arabia-life-expectancy-vision-2030 Coverage access rose from 86% to 96.4% of the population in four years. The government's own target — 80 years by 2030 — is now less than a year of progress away. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/lebanon-measles-surveillance-performance https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/lebanon-measles-surveillance-performance An analysis of a decade of surveillance data shows the system leans heavily on hospitals and misses cases in the community — the weakness that lets measles circulate undetected between outbreaks. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/dubai-longevity-authority-established https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/dubai-longevity-authority-established The Dubai Longevity Authority will oversee everything from lab research to the clinics selling anti-aging treatments — a regulatory structure that doesn't really exist yet anywhere else. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bundibugyo-ebola-100-days-second-emergency-committee https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bundibugyo-ebola-100-days-second-emergency-committee The Bundibugyo virus epidemic is now the largest Ebola outbreak in Congo's history. WHO's emergency committee met again this week; MSF says the response still isn't reaching people fast enough. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/brazil-dengue-2026-cases-decline https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/brazil-dengue-2026-cases-decline More than 410,000 probable cases so far in 2026, against 1.45 million for all of 2025. One state, Minas Gerais, accounts for roughly a sixth of the national case total on its own. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-health-2026-report-findings https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/australia-health-2026-report-findings Fatal disease burden fell 10% in two decades. Non-fatal burden — the toll of living with illness rather than dying from it — rose 7% over the same period. Mental health diagnoses in young adults nearly doubled. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/mena-dementia-projection-risk https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/mena-dementia-projection-risk A review pooling prevalence across the region ties the projection to modifiable risks that are unusually common there — smoking, inactivity, diabetes — layered on rapid ageing. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/lebanon-syrian-crisis-infectious-disease-review https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/lebanon-syrian-crisis-infectious-disease-review A systematic review of the Syrian crisis and infectious disease in Lebanon names overcrowding, poor sanitation and blocked healthcare access — not the presence of refugees themselves — as the reported drivers. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/us-measles-elimination-status https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/us-measles-elimination-status A ruling comes in November. The country has held the status since 2000, and 2026 has already produced more cases than any year in three decades. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/gaza-infectious-disease-amr-review https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/gaza-infectious-disease-amr-review A narrative review synthesising WHO, UNRWA and Gaza health-ministry field data reports the re-emergence of hepatitis A and poliovirus, over 200,000 diarrhoeal cases, and drug-resistant hospital pathogens. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/mena-diabetes-burden-gbd-2023 https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/mena-diabetes-burden-gbd-2023 New GBD analysis across 21 countries finds one group whose burden fell — children — while incidence rose 92% overall and the sex pattern inverted. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/oropouche-loreto-peru-febrile-illness https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/oropouche-loreto-peru-febrile-illness A rescreen of 1,000 acute febrile illness samples from Loreto found the virus circulating endemically rather than in a single outbreak, including in a remote riverine community. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/ecdc-europe-hepatitis-elimination-2030-off-track https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/ecdc-europe-hepatitis-elimination-2030-off-track ECDC data show near-zero hepatitis B in under-fives and vertical transmission below 2%, alongside five million chronic infections and only seven countries meeting the harm-reduction benchmark. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/lenacapavir-africa-rollout-supply-gap https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/lenacapavir-africa-rollout-supply-gap Nine countries have launched lenacapavir for HIV prevention, with roughly 66,000 people newly started on it. In at least two countries, demand has already outrun the available doses. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/pabs-annex-igwg7-july-round https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/pabs-annex-igwg7-july-round The seventh session on the pathogen-sharing annex ran nearly twice as long as previous rounds. WHO says the text is narrowing. A new deadline, set in May, gives them until next year. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/malaria-resurgence-altamira-belo-monte https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/malaria-resurgence-altamira-belo-monte An analysis of 15 years of case data from Altamira, in the Xingu Basin, finds forest edge and local population size — not climate — explained where transmission returned. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bundibugyo-ebola-outbreak-five-provinces-july https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bundibugyo-ebola-outbreak-five-provinces-july Two months after the emergency declaration, confirmed cases in DRC have passed 2,100 and spread to 46 health zones. There is still no approved vaccine or treatment — but patients are now being enrolled in one. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bangladesh-dengue-rural-shift https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bangladesh-dengue-rural-shift Two 2026 papers describe the same shift: rural incidence now exceeds urban in some years, the peak has slid to October and November, and one in six hospitalised patients progressed to severe disease. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/japanese-encephalitis-nsw-vaccine-uptake-gap https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/japanese-encephalitis-nsw-vaccine-uptake-gap Four years after the virus was first detected in south-eastern Australia, interviews in Tamworth find eligibility for a free vaccine has not translated into uptake. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/us-measles-2026-surpasses-2025-total https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/us-measles-2026-surpasses-2025-total CDC data through July 2 puts 2026 at 2,170 confirmed cases, just short of all of 2025's 2,289. Ninety-three percent of this year's cases are linked to active outbreaks. Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-declared-over https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-declared-over Thirteen cases and three deaths, tracked across 33 countries and territories. The final determination rested on one thing: 653 contacts completing 42 days of monitoring without a single new case. Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health