The shortlist of five finalists to serve as the next Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was disclosed by the organisation on Wednesday (30 September), launching the final phase of its leadership search. The incoming chief will assume office in early 2027, facing a massive funding shortfall and mounting geopolitical pressure to overhaul the global health architecture.

In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...

The next phase of the process will include interactions with members of the Global Fund board, starting with a board retreat scheduled in the next two days.

The next major advancement in TB might not be a new drug, but a better understanding of how and why resistance to medicines emerges.

The organization cannot be reshaped without confronting its internal structure, partnership rules, and expanding operational role

Switching the Poles in International Health Policies

Brazil's environment minister João Paulo Capobianco said their new rainforest fund proposal has raised billions in record time, which he hopes will convince more investors

Newsletter Edition #384 [The Files In-Depth]  Subscribe Now! Readers, One of the most powerful actors in global health - the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria - is choosing its ne...

The State Department is reportedly weighing whether to end funding for the 40-year-old famine monitor just as a "Super El Niño" threatens to push tens of millions more people into acute hunger.

Merck discontinued Recarbio, an important antibiotic in the U.S., despite concerns over resistance to superbugs.

A High-Level Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response appeared likely to win approval by the United Nations General Assembly, but only

Five candidates are vying to succeed Tedros in 2027

Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.

With an eye toward pandemic preparedness, a U.N.-backed agency has signed sub-licensing deals related to generic versions of a Roche influenza treatment.

Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.

Defeatist narratives abound. Yet Germany’s latest elections suggest voter dissatisfaction is benefiting the left as well as the right, says the political scientist Cas Mudde

Dr John Nkengasong, a former WHO adviser who worked with Biden administration on Aids policy, says decolonising curriculums and investment are key to unlocking potential of continent’s graduates

At least five candidates are in the running to become the next director-general of the WHO, a job that will come with extraordinary challenges.

A recent court decision in Indonesia sends an important message to other countries to challenge the pharma industry's use of "patent evergreening," patient advocates say.

Assuming a fortune of $140 billion, and factoring in investment growth, that could mean annual giving of up to $23 billion a year by Warren's 2034 target, Devex's Raj Kumar discussed with Howard.

Body would be modelled on climate panel and recognise inequality as a global challenge threatening world security

New research found that after the US sdministration suspended its embassy air pollution monitoring initiative, air pollution increased by 23-33%, particularly

Editorial: As the secretary general, António Guterres, prepares to step down, the general assembly is highlighting the scale of the organisation’s challenges

The Ebola virus is still spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo and threatening neighboring countries, according to the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

What comes after growth, aid, and optimism?

One year after Accra Reset launch, panel lays out next steps

Leaders highlighted the national security risks posed by global warming and fossil fuel dependency at New York Climate Week

With Thursday’s 24 September deadline looming, international scientific societies and civil society leaders are pushing Spain to sponsor a last-minute WHO Director-General nomination for Dr María Neir...

The world has ridden fast to rescue DRC from Ebola. But four months on, nobody can say for sure how many agencies are responding, how many people they employ,

As countries continue negotiating the unfinished WHO Pandemic Agreement, one of the original accord's architects warns that delays could put the process

Move would mean deaths would rise in wealthier nations, according to NUS-Lancet Prime commission – which modelled a response to a flu pandemic based on population size, not purchasing power

We need to strengthen our system of co-operation, not replace it

Stronger cooperation between China and Europe is important for the future of global health governance, particularly in areas such as artificial intelligence, primary health care and healthy aging, sai...

The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...

The Ebola disease outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is far from over. The number of new cases has not fallen, and MSF teams are seeing cases spread into new areas.

The 14 Latin American countries will be able to purchase the HIV prevention injectable lenacapavir through PAHO's revolving funds, which pool demand for health products across Latin America and the Ca...

Nearly 60 organizations from the U.S. and across the world have joined forces to support the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a non-binding political agreement that urges countries to reject an internati...

Newsletter Edition #171 [Treaty Talks] Subscribe Now! Readers, Policy design is complex precisely because it needs squaring technical constraints with political realities. While health authorities...

The Health Aid Transition Fund aims to help countries prioritize scarce domestic resources primarily through grants for technical support.

More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’