Dr. Treena Orchard is an author and award-winning professor at Western University. Her work on sexuality, gender, and health sheds new light on human behaviour in the 21st century. She has written for...

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

The financial toll on womens’ careers, wages and finances is often preventable

Background:Little is known of condom use self-efficacy (CUSE) trajectories over time and associations with HIV prevention engagement. We examined...

Jad Sinno, PhD (they/them) is the Director of Research at the Community Based Research Center and an affiliated Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto...

The Congolese government and international partners should prioritize community engagement and limit the role of security forces in responding to the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of C...

Sex workers face compounding social and health inequities driven by multiple stigmas—social processes of devaluation that reduce access to power, resources, and opportunities. In this Series paper, we...

Confirmed Ebola deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo have surpassed 1,000, prompting Africa’s top public health official to warn the outbreak could become one of the worst on record unless transmiss...

Ebola patients are fleeing treatment centers in the Democratic Republic of Congo in search of food, underscoring how hunger has become one of the biggest obstacles to containing the virus.

The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...

The webinar will draw on the expertise in academic publishing of the Editors of the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS). It aims to build skills in scientific writing and provides practic...

If Ebola poses enough risk to justify keeping exposed individuals away from the United States, why should the same risk be acceptable for Kenya?

In this episode we discuss stigma and homicide violence, in particular its impacts on Black communities, with Dr. Tanya Sharpe. Dr. Sharpe, Professor and Endowed Chair in Social Work in the Global Com...

Drought and flooding are linked with worse sexual health outcomes, but lived experiences of youth are understudied. Our multi-method qualitative study iden

This information was used to understand the problems Americans face. The consequences of its erasure, experts warn, could affect generations to come

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Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

The jury agreed that Meta engaged in "unconscionable" trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children. Jurors found there were thousands of violations, each counting separately toward a penalty of $375 million.

This year’s World Water Day focuses on how water access affects women and girls and why it matters for equality in 2026.

Unesco calls for action as lack of access and sanitation hits health, education and food security of women

A new rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution suggests that, based on a combination of observations and modeling, climate change has made the extreme temperatures forecasted for 18-22 March about ...

In an ideal scenario, someone with chronic cough, fever, and weight loss would promptly seek care at a public tuberculosis clinic, be tested immediately for tuberculosis with a rapid molecular test an...

After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.

Objectives. To estimate societal costs, comprising personal and external costs, of total abortion bans in the first year of enactment for 14 states after Dobbs overturned the constitutional right to a...

Caitriona Perry speaks to the former US ambassador Samantha Power who led USAID