Officials say at least 812 people killed and 2,817 injured after magnitude 6 earthquake strikes eastern Afghanistan.

The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

HPV vaccines offer a rare opportunity to effectively eliminate one type of cancer. By taking this opportunity, it’s possible to save hundreds of thousands of women each year.

The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting USAID.

Youth rely on mobile health clinics to help curb the spread of HIV. But what happens now?

The pandemic dealt a heavy blow to vaccination rates, with an estimated 15 million children missing routine shots between 2020 and 2023, said an author of the study published in The Lancet. The world ...

Power and resource imbalances experienced by African non-government organisations must be remedied to ensure that people with lived experience in the global south can participate meaningfully in creat...

So grateful to be attending my first Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers Conference here in Halifax, Nova Scotia 🍁 Lots of inspiring talks and discussions on refugees and migrants. Excited and ho...

Fiona Havers, who oversaw CDC respiratory virus data, told colleagues she no longer had confidence the data would be used objectively to set vaccine policy.

UNHCR’s Global Trends report provides the official global figures on the number of refugees, IDPs, stateless people and returns. View the latest report and data.

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

DOGE has cut funding to USAID and PEPFAR — lifelines for people living with HIV. Now, hundreds of thousands are being forced off treatment, thousands have perished & millions more may die. Not bec...

Oncologist who co-chaired global research says finding changes landscape of treating the disease

In the proliferating conversations about decolonizing Global Health, a basic assumption has been that global South actors should be the conceptualizers, leaders, and makers of change with global North...

As Canada’s measles outbreak continues to grow, the country is at risk of losing its measles elimination status — a bar set by the World Health Organization. That could have implications for the entir...

Bill Gates announces plans to spend nearly all his wealth over the next 20 years to tackle global health and poverty challenges. Udani Samarasekera reports.

The latest criticism from the Trump administration of Harvard University highlighted the number of international students entering the United States each year for higher education.

WHO has validated Mauritania as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the seventh country in WHO’s African Region to achieve this significant milestone. The certification wa...

In St. Thomas, Ontario, Asmaa Hussain is on the frontlines treating unvaccinated patients. As vaccine refusal grows in Canada, she wonders if other preventable diseases are next.

Over the past 40 years, diagnostics have become the backbone of HIV prevention, treatment, and retention in care, and are central to the achievement o…

A staff exodus, dwindling resources and declining public trust are among the issues plaguing Toronto Public Health, a recent report found.

American civil rights activist Maya Angelou once wrote, “prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible”.1 At a time of unprecedented national...

Background Despite rising forced displacement globally, refugees’ health and research priorities are largely unknown. We investigated whether a diverse refugee committee could utilize participatory me...

“Wherever we found positive ticks, there were cases."

“Be human first, a scientist second.” I read this in an article by Alison Antes in Nature, and it’s been sitting with me ever since. As a PhD student, there are days when everything feels like blur ...

American civil rights activist Maya Angelou once wrote, “prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible”.1 At a time of unprecedented national...