The President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief has saved 26m lives globally, but slashing of funds and dismantling of USAID have forced clinics to shut in dozens of countries

As a doctor who has worked in a conflict zone, I’ve seen spaces that were once considered sacrosanct become fair game in war. This has to end, says Seema Jilani, a paediatric physician

Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

Modelling suggests 5.4m children under five among those who could die if budgets of donor countries such as UK and US continue to be slashed

Geneva, 20 October 2025 - A new global survey by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) has revealed alarming funding disruptions facing organizations working to protect and prom...

For many women, the internet was their last resource. An internet shutdown threatens to end this.

Medics returning from Gaza say Israel deliberately targeting children with sniper, drone fire, Dutch newspaper reports.

The health secretary says nobody knows how many Americans died of Covid - but accepts Covid vaccines saved "quite a few" lives.

Media outlets have staged a front page protest to highlight the killings of more than 200 journalists in 22 months.

Exclusive: Critics warn move could worsen impact of Donald Trump’s rollback of funding for diversity and aid projects abroad

Principle of medical neutrality threatened as doctors and hospitals deliberately attacked, particularly in Gaza

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UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Amendment to crime and policing bill will change law to end prosecution of women who terminate pregnancies

Afghan fathers, brothers and husbands are, often unwillingly, inflicting the country’s repressive laws on their families, for fear of social shame or reprisals

Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body

The city of Islamabad has moved to ban child marriage which politicians say it is a mark of the country bucking global trends to stand behind its women

Exclusive: Contributors to Gaza: Medics Under Fire may withdraw consent due to BBC’s delays to broadcast it

Microsoft co-founder accuses Trump ally of ‘killing the world’s poorest children’ by slashing funding to USAID

The current revised guideline has an expanded scope, providing up-to-date, evidenceinformed recommendations for the health sector on FGM prevention as well as clinical management of complications.

Hundreds of women forced to confess to ‘moral crimes’ they did not commit have been publicly lashed in Afghanistan

Hospitals will see a surge of people with Aids-related conditions that we should no longer see in this age of effective treatment, warns Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan

Signatories from Board of Deputies say in open letter that ‘Israel’s soul is being ripped out’ and they ‘cannot turn a blind eye’ to loss of life

The agreement is designed to ensure more cooperation between nations in the event of another pandemic.