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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Lead poisoning remains a massive but “largely invisible” public health crisis, contributing to 3.5 million deaths in 2023—particularly in countries that still lack regulations and surveillance, reports Health Policy Watch.
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Global Health NOW 10.15.26
Fighting a Persistent Poison; and Hidden Threats in Siberia’s Hinterlands
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the DRC has triggered a broader health crisis as barriers to medical access lead to cascading dangers that “could strain the healthcare system for years to come,” reports Reuters via U.S. News & World Report.
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Global Health NOW 10.14.26
Ebola’s Collateral Damage; and RIP, Helen Branswell
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Major gains have been made in the fight against FGM in recent years. But in some regions, the practice has not stopped, but rather migrated from traditional settings to clinical providers, creating new obstacles and new opportunities for intervention.
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Global Health NOW 10.13.26
New Fronts in the FGM Fight; and Africa's Widening Contraception Gap
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
With two-thirds of South Africans living below the poverty line, pregnant women are at risk of undernourishment and delivering underweight babies, leading to long-term complications. A social grant might be a solution, but policy progress is slow.   Read more: globalhealthnow.org/2026-10/nutr...
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Over the next 75 years, humans will face a series of “interlinked catastrophic threats” to health and survival—but even the most formidable dangers are preventable if policy leaders act today, finds the new Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health.
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Global Health NOW 10.12.26
Averting ‘Apocalyptic’ Health Threats Starts Today; and Cambodia’s Garment Factory Workers Face Perilous Heat
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A possible plague death at a Russian research institute is raising international concerns as WHO presses for answers. Here’s what we know. Stay informed on global health news by subscribing to Global Health NOW, brought to you by @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social: globalhealthnow.org/subscribe
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The leading cause of maternal death worldwide—postpartum hemorrhage excessive bleeding after childbirth—kills nearly 43,000 people a year. Yet it is fully preventable and treatable. Read the article to learn what it takes to adapt PPH across different settings: globalhealthnow.org/2026-10/one-...
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A possible plague death at a Russian research institute is receiving intensifying international scrutiny, as health officials press for more clarity amid limited information from Russian authorities, reports Forbes.
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Global Health NOW 10.07.26
Russian Lab Death Draws International Scrutiny; and The Climate Crisis is a Girls’ Crisis
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Survivors of Nepal’s apocalyptic August floods face a wide range of post-disaster public health hazards while relying on a devastated health care system, reports Think Global Health.
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Global Health NOW 10.06.26
In the Wake of Nepal's Flooding, Health Threats Surge; and Japan Reshaping Science Oversight
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The fight against Ebola in the DRC is at an inflection point: While the Bundibugyo outbreak shows signs of slowing transmission, sudden surges of violence and displacement are making it harder to sustain progress—and to ascertain the true state of the outbreak.
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Global Health NOW 10.05.26
Ongoing Obstacles in the Ebola Battle; and One Global Standard, Different Paths to PPH Care
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Each year, more than 1.3 million children are born with congenital heart disease—yet pediatric cardiac care is rarely prioritized when it comes to difficult decisions about allocating limited healthcare resources, writes Rob Raylman, CEO of Gift of Life International. tinyurl.com/2t7fe9ev
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Renewed fighting in Yemen is battering the country’s already fragile health system, as health workers warn that cholera, measles, and dengue are all on the rise and that hunger is reaching critical levels among children amid widespread displacement, reports UN News.
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Global Health NOW 9.30.26
Fighting Fuels Yemen’s Health Crisis; and Bolstering Menopause Care Behind Bars
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Roughly 164 million women around the world who want to delay or avoid pregnancy are not using contraception, the WHO reports—underscoring the need for better access and more options.
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Global Health NOW 9.29.26
New Male Contraceptives on the Horizon; and Rethinking Suicide Prevention Strategies
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Countries failed to reach consensus Friday on a UN declaration aimed at strengthening pandemic preparedness after the U.S. and Italy rejected the draft, reports The New York Times.
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Global Health NOW 9.28.26
Pandemic Pact Stalls at UNGA; and Children’s Heart Disease: A Crisis Governments Are Overlooking
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Extreme El Niño weather conditions will continue to take a devastating public health toll over the coming year, warn climate experts calling for governments and aid groups to make urgent preparations, per The Guardian.
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Global Health NOW 9.24.26
An Urgent El Niño Warning; and How a Chatbot Connects Kenyan Mothers With Care
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The toll of chronic ailments like heart disease, cancers, and diabetes, which now account for almost half of deaths in Africa, will soon eclipse the continent’s infectious disease toll, finds a new analysis for the Lancet Global Health’s Global Burden of Disease Study.
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Global Health NOW 9.23.26
Africa’s ‘Epidemiological Transition’; and Human Neurons, Mouse Brains
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Trump administration is weighing an executive order to create an external panel to review—and potentially veto—NIH research grants that conflict with administration priorities, escalating ongoing White House efforts to steer the health research agency.
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Global Health NOW 9.22.26
The White House Pushes for Further NIH Oversight; and Nigeria’s Quest for Safer Births
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Federal health datasets are becoming a battleground in the U.S. as public health experts question Trump administration changes to how agencies collect and publish information, reports Axios.
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Global Health NOW 9.21.26
The Shifting Landscape of American Health Data; and The Bacterial Threat Emerging in Bangladesh
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As spiraling new HIV infections strain the small Pacific island of Fiji, officials declared a national HIV emergency this week and scaled up their response, reports CNN.
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Global Health NOW 9.17.26
Fiji’s HIV Emergency; and The Long Road for Syria’s Chemical Attack Survivors
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nicole Baumgarth, director of the Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute at @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social, gets a lot of emails from aspiring young scientists. Last year, one of them—from a group of Georgia high school students—stood out. Read the article: tinyurl.com/y5e43rxv
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Over the last five years, several countries have passed legislation to end child marriage. But the practice is still too pervasive, reports UNICEF.
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Global Health NOW 9.16.26
Spotlight on Stopping Child Marriage; and The Growing Struggle to Inspect Imported Foods
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Rabies has been making headlines across multiple states this summer. Natalie Armstrong talks about what you need to know about rabies and how to stay safe.
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ebola is still gaining ground in the DRC, reaching new areas and intensifying in some regions even as transmission declines in others.
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An Ever-Shifting Ebola Fight; Lasering In on Long-COVID Mechanics
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As the global measles resurgence continues, Bangladesh and the U.S. provide a picture of how vaccination gaps give the highly contagious virus a foothold. In Bangladesh, the country’s devastating outbreak has led to 166,000+ suspected cases and 999 deaths this year, reports the AP.
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Global Health NOW 9.09.26
Where Measles Finds Footholds; How Climate Change Accelerates AMR
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The global health jobs market has buckled under sweeping funding cuts from the U.S., Germany, and the U.K., the dismantling of USAID, and upheaval at the NIH. But opportunities are out there for those willing to adapt, experienced practitioners and educators say. tinyurl.com/m86ept9r
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Planetary health has emerged over the past 10 years from a recognition that Earth’s natural systems play a critical role in supporting human health, and the degradation of those systems is becoming a dominant driver of global burden of disease.
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Turning the Bus: Why Global Health Needs a Planetary Health Strategy
The Earth crisis is now driving a health and humanitarian crisis. Global health professionals must change how they do their jobs.
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Childhood obesity is plateauing in wealthier nations but accelerating in many low- and middle-income countries—several already battling undernutrition and unable to afford treatments, Reuters reports.
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Global Health NOW 9.03.26
Hunger and Obesity: A Double Threat to Children’s Health; and Widening Obstetric Care Gaps in Rural U.S.
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As relief efforts continue in Nepal and China after last week’s flash flooding, residents also face longer-term questions as they reckon with escalating climate vulnerabilities. The latest numbers: 1,109 people have died in Nepal and China, while 4,400+ remain missing, per Al Jazeera today.
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Global Health NOW 9.01.26
In the Himalayas, Widespread Destruction and Warning; and Men Join the Ranks of Lesotho’s Midwives
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As Afghanistan's pipeline of female health workers rapidly narrows under the Taliban’s ban on women’s nursing and midwifery education, the country’s hard-won gains on maternal and child survival over the last 20 years are at risk.
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Global Health NOW 8.31.26
The Deadly Consequences of Afghanistan’s Medical Education Ban; and The NFL’s ‘Alarmingly High’ CTE Numbers
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Africa does not lack talent. It lacks systems that effectively engage health workers as part of a community of practice and that encourage them to stay, write Elizabeth Namugaya Igaga and Getaneh Assefa Siyum, who work with @smiletrainofficial.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/2vzkbn9h
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It’s peak West Nile virus season, and cases are on the rise. Swipe through to learn how West Nile virus spreads, why most infections go unnoticed, and why prevention remains the best defense. Read more: publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/what-to...
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Baltimore homicides have plummeted by nearly 60% since 2021, the lowest rate per 100,000 people in a half century. It preceded the national decline, and it fell further and faster than in any other American city. Let's take a look at the numbers. magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/baltimo...
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Outcry is building in Pakistan after fourteen newborns died yesterday in a fire at Islamabad’s largest public hospital, as advocates say the tragedy resulted from long-neglected healthcare infrastructure, reports The New York Times.
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Global Health NOW 8.27.26
A Fire in Pakistan and a Public Reckoning; and Africa Doesn’t Lack Talent, It Lacks Systems to Retain It
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Around the world, 1.75 billion children lack access to safe surgical care, and surgical disease makes up 30% of the global burden of disease—yet children’s surgery remains neglected. @ighsatucsf.bsky.social @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social globalhealthnow.org/2026-08/ensu...
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Global hunger and food insecurity continued to fall from the pandemic-era spike, finds a new Gallup analysis––but both rates still hit above pre-COVID-19 levels, with hundreds of millions of people still experiencing hunger and the world off pace to eliminate hunger by 2030.
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Global Health NOW 8.25.26
Hunger Declines—But Disparities Persist; and Ensuring Access to Safe Surgical Care for All Children
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The world has spent decades pushing polio to the brink of eradication, with key gains reported across Africa in recent days. But that progress faces mounting challenges, as funding cuts and falling vaccination coverage give the virus new openings to spread, reports Rolling Stone.
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Global Health NOW 8.24.26
The Precarious Struggle for a Polio-Free World; and Even in Asylum, a Lack of Safety
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Stroke is emerging as a litmus test of Indonesia’s commitment to universal, equitable, and sustainable health financing and its progress toward universal health care and sustainable development goal targets, write Muhammad Faruqi, Kee B. Park, and Asra Al Fauzi.
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Bridging the Equity Gap: Financing Indonesia’s National Stroke Strategy
Indonesia’s experience is instructive globally––showing that financing high-cost stroke care while expanding coverage is possible. The next challenge is to do so equitably and preventively.
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In a new research milestone, scientists have kept human brain organoids—tiny, lab-grown neural tissue clusters—alive and developing for up to five years, a dramatic time extension that unlocks new opportunities to investigate neural development, disease, and potential treatments.
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Global Health NOW 8.20.26
‘Mini Brains’ Breakthrough; and What’s Behind Baltimore’s Dramatic Homicide Decline?
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
An mRNA vaccine to treat the deadliest form of skin cancer has met a major milestone on the path to a new treatment, according to clinical trial results released today by Merck and Moderna.
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Global Health NOW 8.19.26
In the ‘Next Frontier’ in Cancer Treatment, mRNA Triumphs Over Melanoma’; and All Eyes on Australia as Social Media Ban Plays Out
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Older people may face serious health risks from heat at much lower temperatures than previously understood, per new research from Stanford University.
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Global Health NOW 8.18.26
Older People Face Higher Risk From Warming World; and California’s Deadly Silicosis Surge
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Indonesia carries one of the world’s highest burdens of stroke, which is emerging as a litmus test of the nation's commitment to universal, equitable, and sustainable health financing, write Muhammad Faruqi, Kee B. Park, and Asra Al Fauzi.
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Bridging the Equity Gap: Financing Indonesia’s National Stroke Strategy
Indonesia’s experience is instructive globally––showing that financing high-cost stroke care while expanding coverage is possible. The next challenge is to do so equitably and preventively.
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the eastern DRC is accelerating at a staggering pace, killing one person every 30 minutes and overwhelming response efforts—putting it on track to become the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record, the UN warns.
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Global Health NOW 8.17.26
‘Ebola Is Winning’; and Old Fears Amid a New Uranium Boom
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
President Trump’s latest executive order aiming to overhaul the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule is sowing further confusion about the future of U.S. immunization policy, even as measles cases continue to surge nationwide, reports CIDRAP. mailchi.mp/ad6edbc6d289...
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Injecting Uncertainty into the Childhood Vaccine Schedule; and Bridging the Equity Gap: Financing Indonesia’s National Stroke Strategy
A new Trump administration order to split the MMR vaccine, if adopted, would mean missed shots, higher costs, and parent confusion, doctors say.
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The hypothermia death of a patient at an Illinois hospital last year is just one portrait of widespread human risks increasingly associated with the financialization of healthcare, advocates say.
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Global Health NOW 7.30.26
Hazards of Investor-Driven Healthcare; and Farewell to GHN’s Editor-in-Chief
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The outlook for vaccine policy in the U.S. remains in flux as the White House pushes for sweeping changes even as state legislators, court rulings, congressional resistance, and polling indicate pushback against an anti-vaccination agenda.
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Global Health NOW 7.29.26
Ongoing U.S. Vaccine Volatility; and Support Networks Take Root in Nigeria
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Mary-Ann Etiebet took charge of @vitalstrategies.org just months before the U.S. government upended global health last year. The CEO says the cuts have cost lives and livelihoods, and caused “tectonic plate shifting in global health and global health financing.”
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Vital Strategies’ Mary-Ann Etiebet on Global Health’s Fundamentals
This is the time to build up public health by strengthening health systems and taxing harmful products, says Mary-Ann Etiebet.
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The world’s largest scientific conference on HIV/AIDS kicks off this week at an inflection point in the decades-long fight against the virus.
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Global Health NOW 7.27.26
Hope and Headwinds in the HIV Fight; and Unlocking the Medical Potential of Menstrual Blood
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The future of peptide drugs in the U.S. will be under scrutiny as an FDA advisory panel convenes today and tomorrow to review the safety of the increasingly popular products.
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Global Health NOW 7.23.26
The Deeper Dynamics of the Peptide Debate; and How the U.S. Is Exporting Anti-Abortion Politics
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
More than half the world’s population is now at risk of dengue as transmission—fueled by climate change, urbanization, and population mobility—has exploded. Yet Aedes-borne diseases draw far less attention and funding than other diseases, such as malaria and HIV, writes Michael Macdonald.
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Aedes-borne Diseases, Crisis, and Opportunity
Building on the momentum of the Asia Dengue Summit and proposed World Dengue Day, the dengue narrative needs to shift. It can no longer be seen just as a second-tier health issue behind malaria.
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Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Global childhood vaccination rates continue to gradually recover after their steep pandemic dropoff—but rates are still far off the pace needed to meet global immunization goals, and could further unravel under global health funding cuts, the annual WHO-UNICEF immunization report finds.
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Global Health NOW 7.16.26
Gradual, Vulnerable Vaccine Gains; and New Alzheimer’s Insights
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