A Regional Approach to HPV Vaccine Design Can Advance Equity and Cervical Cancer Elimination 13/07/2026 Marco Cavaleri HPV vaccines have transformed cervical cancer prevention, but the next generation of vaccines must better reflect regional disease patterns, including the HPV35 genotype prevalent in Africa. The recent WHO Global Status Report on Cancer paints a sobering picture. Among the many challenges, human papillomavirus, or HPV, is one of the world’s most serious infectious causes of […] Continue reading -> From Crisis to Capital: Why Cancer Care is Africa’s Next Great Economic Investment 10/07/2026 Rispah Walumbe & Paul Chilwesa Africa can no longer afford to manage cancer care as a perpetual crisis. Instead, policy leaders must recognize this crisis for what it truly is: the ultimate ‘stress test’ for national health systems. The WHO Global Status Report on Cancer, published this week, highlights the persistent inequities in access to timely cancer diagnosis and treatment […] Continue reading -> An Equitable Pandemic Agreement is a Global Public Good 09/07/2026 Mokgweetsi Masisi & Michael Weinstein As the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group reconvenes in Geneva in the quest to nail down an accord on Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS), the former President of Botswana and the President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation argue that this critical annex to the 2025 Pandemic Agreement needs to ensure benefit-sharing commitments are just as mandatory and […] Continue reading -> UN Member States Have an Unmissable Responsibility to Better Protect Us Against Outbreaks and Pandemics 29/06/2026 Helen Clark, Victor Dzau, Joy Phumaphi & Shingai Machingaidze This is a fact: a new pandemic threat is not a question of if, but when. Armed with this knowledge, all leaders must ask themselves: Are we ready, and what more must be done to protect our people and avoid an Ebola- or COVID-sized catastrophe? Over the last decade, outbreak and pandemic monitoring bodies and […] Continue reading -> Mind the Gap on Ebola: It’s the People, Not Just the Virus 26/06/2026 Githinji Gitahi Treatment tents are burning in Ituri, burial teams are facing hostility, and suspected patients are fleeing quarantine centres, disappearing into communities. These heartbreaking incidents are often described as obstacles to controlling the current Ebola outbreak. For the dedicated frontline workers risking their lives every day to contain the virus, these challenges are deeply frustrating. But […] Continue reading -> Wildfire Smoke: The Health Emergency That Urgently Needs a Seat at the Climate Table 25/06/2026 Angela Churie Kallhauge As Europe sweats through the hottest week on record for June, the continent faces the looming spectre of wildfires – just one year after last year’s deadly events in Turkiye and Southern Europe. But wildfire season is no longer episodic. It has evolved into a year-long threat, fueled by a warmer climate and its side […] Continue reading -> How Ghana Slashed Child Malaria Deaths by 86% 23/06/2026 Selorm Kutsoati For decades, malaria has been one of Africa’s most persistent health challenges. In Ghana, it was once the leading cause of death for children under five. Bed nets and antimalarial drugs reduced deaths substantially, but by the mid-2010s, the pace of improvement had declined. Climate change was altering the length and intensity of transmission seasons. […] Continue reading -> Palau banned e-cigarettes. Now we’re asking the harder question 22/06/2026 Valerie R Whipps The island country in the western Pacific Ocean has initiated a World Health Organization (WHO) review of nicotine in terms of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances In 2023, I stood in a room among other Palauan mothers, school principals, teachers, and students who had come to witness the signing of Palau’s comprehensive […] Continue reading -> Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
From Crisis to Capital: Why Cancer Care is Africa’s Next Great Economic Investment 10/07/2026 Rispah Walumbe & Paul Chilwesa Africa can no longer afford to manage cancer care as a perpetual crisis. Instead, policy leaders must recognize this crisis for what it truly is: the ultimate ‘stress test’ for national health systems. The WHO Global Status Report on Cancer, published this week, highlights the persistent inequities in access to timely cancer diagnosis and treatment […] Continue reading -> An Equitable Pandemic Agreement is a Global Public Good 09/07/2026 Mokgweetsi Masisi & Michael Weinstein As the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group reconvenes in Geneva in the quest to nail down an accord on Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS), the former President of Botswana and the President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation argue that this critical annex to the 2025 Pandemic Agreement needs to ensure benefit-sharing commitments are just as mandatory and […] Continue reading -> UN Member States Have an Unmissable Responsibility to Better Protect Us Against Outbreaks and Pandemics 29/06/2026 Helen Clark, Victor Dzau, Joy Phumaphi & Shingai Machingaidze This is a fact: a new pandemic threat is not a question of if, but when. Armed with this knowledge, all leaders must ask themselves: Are we ready, and what more must be done to protect our people and avoid an Ebola- or COVID-sized catastrophe? Over the last decade, outbreak and pandemic monitoring bodies and […] Continue reading -> Mind the Gap on Ebola: It’s the People, Not Just the Virus 26/06/2026 Githinji Gitahi Treatment tents are burning in Ituri, burial teams are facing hostility, and suspected patients are fleeing quarantine centres, disappearing into communities. These heartbreaking incidents are often described as obstacles to controlling the current Ebola outbreak. For the dedicated frontline workers risking their lives every day to contain the virus, these challenges are deeply frustrating. But […] Continue reading -> Wildfire Smoke: The Health Emergency That Urgently Needs a Seat at the Climate Table 25/06/2026 Angela Churie Kallhauge As Europe sweats through the hottest week on record for June, the continent faces the looming spectre of wildfires – just one year after last year’s deadly events in Turkiye and Southern Europe. But wildfire season is no longer episodic. It has evolved into a year-long threat, fueled by a warmer climate and its side […] Continue reading -> How Ghana Slashed Child Malaria Deaths by 86% 23/06/2026 Selorm Kutsoati For decades, malaria has been one of Africa’s most persistent health challenges. In Ghana, it was once the leading cause of death for children under five. Bed nets and antimalarial drugs reduced deaths substantially, but by the mid-2010s, the pace of improvement had declined. Climate change was altering the length and intensity of transmission seasons. […] Continue reading -> Palau banned e-cigarettes. Now we’re asking the harder question 22/06/2026 Valerie R Whipps The island country in the western Pacific Ocean has initiated a World Health Organization (WHO) review of nicotine in terms of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances In 2023, I stood in a room among other Palauan mothers, school principals, teachers, and students who had come to witness the signing of Palau’s comprehensive […] Continue reading -> Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
An Equitable Pandemic Agreement is a Global Public Good 09/07/2026 Mokgweetsi Masisi & Michael Weinstein As the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group reconvenes in Geneva in the quest to nail down an accord on Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS), the former President of Botswana and the President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation argue that this critical annex to the 2025 Pandemic Agreement needs to ensure benefit-sharing commitments are just as mandatory and […] Continue reading -> UN Member States Have an Unmissable Responsibility to Better Protect Us Against Outbreaks and Pandemics 29/06/2026 Helen Clark, Victor Dzau, Joy Phumaphi & Shingai Machingaidze This is a fact: a new pandemic threat is not a question of if, but when. Armed with this knowledge, all leaders must ask themselves: Are we ready, and what more must be done to protect our people and avoid an Ebola- or COVID-sized catastrophe? Over the last decade, outbreak and pandemic monitoring bodies and […] Continue reading -> Mind the Gap on Ebola: It’s the People, Not Just the Virus 26/06/2026 Githinji Gitahi Treatment tents are burning in Ituri, burial teams are facing hostility, and suspected patients are fleeing quarantine centres, disappearing into communities. These heartbreaking incidents are often described as obstacles to controlling the current Ebola outbreak. For the dedicated frontline workers risking their lives every day to contain the virus, these challenges are deeply frustrating. But […] Continue reading -> Wildfire Smoke: The Health Emergency That Urgently Needs a Seat at the Climate Table 25/06/2026 Angela Churie Kallhauge As Europe sweats through the hottest week on record for June, the continent faces the looming spectre of wildfires – just one year after last year’s deadly events in Turkiye and Southern Europe. But wildfire season is no longer episodic. It has evolved into a year-long threat, fueled by a warmer climate and its side […] Continue reading -> How Ghana Slashed Child Malaria Deaths by 86% 23/06/2026 Selorm Kutsoati For decades, malaria has been one of Africa’s most persistent health challenges. In Ghana, it was once the leading cause of death for children under five. Bed nets and antimalarial drugs reduced deaths substantially, but by the mid-2010s, the pace of improvement had declined. Climate change was altering the length and intensity of transmission seasons. […] Continue reading -> Palau banned e-cigarettes. Now we’re asking the harder question 22/06/2026 Valerie R Whipps The island country in the western Pacific Ocean has initiated a World Health Organization (WHO) review of nicotine in terms of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances In 2023, I stood in a room among other Palauan mothers, school principals, teachers, and students who had come to witness the signing of Palau’s comprehensive […] Continue reading -> Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
UN Member States Have an Unmissable Responsibility to Better Protect Us Against Outbreaks and Pandemics 29/06/2026 Helen Clark, Victor Dzau, Joy Phumaphi & Shingai Machingaidze This is a fact: a new pandemic threat is not a question of if, but when. Armed with this knowledge, all leaders must ask themselves: Are we ready, and what more must be done to protect our people and avoid an Ebola- or COVID-sized catastrophe? Over the last decade, outbreak and pandemic monitoring bodies and […] Continue reading -> Mind the Gap on Ebola: It’s the People, Not Just the Virus 26/06/2026 Githinji Gitahi Treatment tents are burning in Ituri, burial teams are facing hostility, and suspected patients are fleeing quarantine centres, disappearing into communities. These heartbreaking incidents are often described as obstacles to controlling the current Ebola outbreak. For the dedicated frontline workers risking their lives every day to contain the virus, these challenges are deeply frustrating. But […] Continue reading -> Wildfire Smoke: The Health Emergency That Urgently Needs a Seat at the Climate Table 25/06/2026 Angela Churie Kallhauge As Europe sweats through the hottest week on record for June, the continent faces the looming spectre of wildfires – just one year after last year’s deadly events in Turkiye and Southern Europe. But wildfire season is no longer episodic. It has evolved into a year-long threat, fueled by a warmer climate and its side […] Continue reading -> How Ghana Slashed Child Malaria Deaths by 86% 23/06/2026 Selorm Kutsoati For decades, malaria has been one of Africa’s most persistent health challenges. In Ghana, it was once the leading cause of death for children under five. Bed nets and antimalarial drugs reduced deaths substantially, but by the mid-2010s, the pace of improvement had declined. Climate change was altering the length and intensity of transmission seasons. […] Continue reading -> Palau banned e-cigarettes. Now we’re asking the harder question 22/06/2026 Valerie R Whipps The island country in the western Pacific Ocean has initiated a World Health Organization (WHO) review of nicotine in terms of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances In 2023, I stood in a room among other Palauan mothers, school principals, teachers, and students who had come to witness the signing of Palau’s comprehensive […] Continue reading -> Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Mind the Gap on Ebola: It’s the People, Not Just the Virus 26/06/2026 Githinji Gitahi Treatment tents are burning in Ituri, burial teams are facing hostility, and suspected patients are fleeing quarantine centres, disappearing into communities. These heartbreaking incidents are often described as obstacles to controlling the current Ebola outbreak. For the dedicated frontline workers risking their lives every day to contain the virus, these challenges are deeply frustrating. But […] Continue reading -> Wildfire Smoke: The Health Emergency That Urgently Needs a Seat at the Climate Table 25/06/2026 Angela Churie Kallhauge As Europe sweats through the hottest week on record for June, the continent faces the looming spectre of wildfires – just one year after last year’s deadly events in Turkiye and Southern Europe. But wildfire season is no longer episodic. It has evolved into a year-long threat, fueled by a warmer climate and its side […] Continue reading -> How Ghana Slashed Child Malaria Deaths by 86% 23/06/2026 Selorm Kutsoati For decades, malaria has been one of Africa’s most persistent health challenges. In Ghana, it was once the leading cause of death for children under five. Bed nets and antimalarial drugs reduced deaths substantially, but by the mid-2010s, the pace of improvement had declined. Climate change was altering the length and intensity of transmission seasons. […] Continue reading -> Palau banned e-cigarettes. Now we’re asking the harder question 22/06/2026 Valerie R Whipps The island country in the western Pacific Ocean has initiated a World Health Organization (WHO) review of nicotine in terms of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances In 2023, I stood in a room among other Palauan mothers, school principals, teachers, and students who had come to witness the signing of Palau’s comprehensive […] Continue reading -> Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Wildfire Smoke: The Health Emergency That Urgently Needs a Seat at the Climate Table 25/06/2026 Angela Churie Kallhauge As Europe sweats through the hottest week on record for June, the continent faces the looming spectre of wildfires – just one year after last year’s deadly events in Turkiye and Southern Europe. But wildfire season is no longer episodic. It has evolved into a year-long threat, fueled by a warmer climate and its side […] Continue reading -> How Ghana Slashed Child Malaria Deaths by 86% 23/06/2026 Selorm Kutsoati For decades, malaria has been one of Africa’s most persistent health challenges. In Ghana, it was once the leading cause of death for children under five. Bed nets and antimalarial drugs reduced deaths substantially, but by the mid-2010s, the pace of improvement had declined. Climate change was altering the length and intensity of transmission seasons. […] Continue reading -> Palau banned e-cigarettes. Now we’re asking the harder question 22/06/2026 Valerie R Whipps The island country in the western Pacific Ocean has initiated a World Health Organization (WHO) review of nicotine in terms of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances In 2023, I stood in a room among other Palauan mothers, school principals, teachers, and students who had come to witness the signing of Palau’s comprehensive […] Continue reading -> Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
How Ghana Slashed Child Malaria Deaths by 86% 23/06/2026 Selorm Kutsoati For decades, malaria has been one of Africa’s most persistent health challenges. In Ghana, it was once the leading cause of death for children under five. Bed nets and antimalarial drugs reduced deaths substantially, but by the mid-2010s, the pace of improvement had declined. Climate change was altering the length and intensity of transmission seasons. […] Continue reading -> Palau banned e-cigarettes. Now we’re asking the harder question 22/06/2026 Valerie R Whipps The island country in the western Pacific Ocean has initiated a World Health Organization (WHO) review of nicotine in terms of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances In 2023, I stood in a room among other Palauan mothers, school principals, teachers, and students who had come to witness the signing of Palau’s comprehensive […] Continue reading -> Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Palau banned e-cigarettes. Now we’re asking the harder question 22/06/2026 Valerie R Whipps The island country in the western Pacific Ocean has initiated a World Health Organization (WHO) review of nicotine in terms of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances In 2023, I stood in a room among other Palauan mothers, school principals, teachers, and students who had come to witness the signing of Palau’s comprehensive […] Continue reading -> Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Where You’re Born Still Decides Whether You Can Access Surgical Care 19/06/2026 Faustin Ntirenganya Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts of Africa, this remains the reality. At this year’s 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) in […] Continue reading -> Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Midwives: The High Return Investment That’s Not Being Made 18/06/2026 Anna af Ugglas, Lwazi Manzi, Chikusela Sikazwe & Rajat Khosla A return on investment of 16:1 should be irresistible. So why does midwifery keep losing the budget fight, and what would make funders and finance ministers finally move? When a young mother in Mtendere, Lusaka, began bleeding heavily hours after delivering her baby, her life was in grave danger. Three midwives assessed her immediately, recognised […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts