The drugmaker cites a lack of government purchase commitments as it focuses on Merck’s experimental monthly pill alimatravir instead

As the DRC battles a rapidly growing Ebola outbreak, investment in community health surveillance is critical, writes Githinji Gitahi.

Jab brought ‘unprecedentedly strong responses’ in patients whose disease had become resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy

The plan to send Ebola-exposed US nationals to Kenya, which has no known cases of the virus, has provoked a backlash.

World Health Organization says outbreak poses ‘very high’ risk for Congo, but risk of disease spreading globally remains low Congolese authorities say that suspected Ebola cases have now passed 900 in the ongoing outbreak in the east of the country. The Congolese ministry of communication, in a post on X on Sunday, said there were 904 suspected cases and 119 suspected deaths. Continue reading...

As Europe’s leading donor countries slash budgets, the result could be more than 11.5m preventable deaths, report suggests

YouTube video by Associated Press

The political thinker Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) is often inaccurately attributed with the phrase “The old is not yet dead, and the new is waiting to be born; now is the time of monsters.”1 Regardles...

Ce dimanche 17 mai, le directeur général de l'OMS Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus a déclaré cette épidémie urgence de santé publique de portée internationale, soit le niveau d'alerte maximal du droit sanitaire…

Two campaign groups claim that change to how NHS treatments are approved amounts to ‘unlawful power grab’

Court forces Switzerland to release unredacted Covid vaccine contracts from the pandemic.

US President Donald Trump wants to eliminate $4.3 billion from the US government’s global health budget, including all funding for the Pan-American Health

The pharmaceutical giant has built a fortress of patents, traded in secrecy and relentlessly lobbied to guard its revenue kingpin Keytruda.

Our latest report on Sudan documents widespread and systematic sexual violence across roads, fields and displacement camps in Darfur, both in areas affected by conflict and far from frontlines.

I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

2026 may prove a pivotal year for obesity. GLP-1 receptor agonists have revolutionised obesity management over the past 10 years. Mounting evidence has established their benefits across many cardiomet...

With India’s semaglutide patent expiring on 20 March, about 50 branded generics are expected to enter the market.

There is a wide field of unofficial candidates. Whoever succeeds will take the helm of an agency in turmoil. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.

Our latest report from the TACTiC project provides details on near point-of-care tests for tuberculosis.

As the mandate of Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus approaches its expiration in August 2027, the high-stakes manoeuvring for the next WHO Director-General (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO) has ...

More high-income countries have used compulsory licenses to gain access to meds, study finds.

For the past three years, Buhle Sikade, 22, has been using an injection that gives her almost foolproof protection against getting HIV through sex — medicine that around 456 000 other HIV-negative peo...

The U.S. is due to officially exit the World Health Organization on Thursday, in the face of warnings it will hit both U.S. health and global health and also in violation of a U.S. law that requires W...

We are witnessing the human costs of actions upending aid programs around the world

Spotify video

The Cameroonian professor made the Time most influential list in 2025 and saw the project he co-founded receive $100m for its virus detection work. Now he is on a mission to transform Africa’s genomic...