The Pandemic Treaty's True Cost
Is the multimillion dollar cost of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body worth the Pandemic Agreement?
Out Cold: The Most Common Wintertime Injuries in a Warming World
Shifting weather and rising heating costs create wintertime threats, namely among the elderly and other at-risk groups
Sudan's Genocide Deepens Famine
Ongoing conflict threatens Sudan's already weak food system, leaving millions at risk of famine
Importing Generic Drugs Could Ease U.S. Shortages
Two-thirds of generic sterile injectable drugs in shortage could be imported from well-regulated foreign markets
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2.5 Times
Rates of maternal death among Black women were 2.5 times those of white women in 2022
Maternal Health in Mississippi
1,200
Nearly 1,200 attacks on health-care workers and facilities have taken place in the three years since the coup
In Myanmar, Health Care Has Become a Battleground
1 in 4
One in four U.S. women will have an abortion by age 45
Abortion in the United States
500,000
UNRWA educates more than 500,000 children and provides basic health services to almost 6 million people
UNRWA Under Fire
70%
More than 70 percent of adult men smoke in Indonesia
Tobacco Control Goes Missing from Indonesia's Presidential Ballot
1967
In 1967, the WHO identified unsafe abortion as a serious public health problem in many countries
U.S. Abortion Law and Dissenting from the Norm
3.3 Times
Where there was trust in local health workers people were 3.3 times more likely to wear a mask during COVID
Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic Hinges on Trust
45 Percent
The number of people dying from opioid use in the U.S. in 2021 was nearly 45 percent higher than in 2020
Opioid overdose deaths in the United States
34 Million
The number of people who have died from AIDS-related illnesses
HIV/AIDS and COVID: A Dual Battle
1 in 3
One in three women—1.3 billion women and girls worldwide—experiences gender-based violence in her lifetime
Dual Pandemics: Coronavirus and Gender-Based Violence
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Regenerative Infrastructure, One Health, and City Diplomacy
Earth's thermodynamics can inform the application of integrative health approaches for building resilient infrastructure
Making City Diplomacy Work for Global Health
Collaborative governance among cities is expanding and should be central to global health diplomacy
The PEPFAR Files: Who Tried to End the Lifesaving HIV Program?
The first in a three-part series explores why the popular global health program is under threat
Trump Wants to Lower the Cost of IVF. A New Executive Order Seeks Ideas to Do That
The order directs Trump's assistant for domestic policy to generate a list of policy ideas for "protecting IVF access and aggressively reducing costs
Kennedy Says Panel Will Examine Childhood Vaccine Schedule After Promising Not to Change It
On Tuesday RFK Jr. vowed to investigate the childhood vaccine schedule that prevents measles, polio, and other dangerous diseases
Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate
The CDC estimates at least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths from the flu since the start of October
It's Like "Dead Birds Flying": How Bird flu is Spreading in the Wild
"The beaches were just loaded with carcasses. We saw basically every [elephant seal] pup dead. We estimate about 18,000 dead baby elephant seals."