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China is facing a dwindling birth rate despite policies aimed at increasing access to reproductive treatment services. Read how policymakers could address gender inequality and financial constraints to help people balance family life.

India’s decision to suspend the Indus Water Treaty could worsen Pakistan’s domestic water shortages and increase pollution, leading to more cases of waterborne illness. Read more:

Summertime departures have left the White House without a senior official for pandemic preparedness. Former deputy director of the White House’s pandemic office @NikkiRomanik explains how the consequences extend beyond domestic biosecurity and biodefense.

Hospitals receive essential protections under international humanitarian law, yet conflicts in the Middle East continue to target and obliterate health systems.

Governments are tasked with improving pandemic preparedness before the next infectious threat emerges. A World Health Assembly roundtable showed how artificial intelligence can improve health communication, fill information gaps, and optimize resources.

Chronic conditions stemming from infections were first documented in ancient Greece. The long history of postviral illness could provide warnings to how societies deal with conditions like Long COVID in the present.

As Pope Leo XIV completes the first 100 days of his papacy, leaders and policy experts speculate how his roots in supporting vulnerable communities could inform his leadership on public health initiatives.

In 2022, 64.3% of Gaza's population was already classified as being moderately or severely food insecure. As the Gaza Strip approaches famine, read how the seeds for the starvation crisis were planted long before the Israel-Hamas war. [April 2024]

Each year, more than 720,000 people die worldwide by suicide. By leveraging interpretable machine learning, artificial intelligence can analyze patient data and help clinicians create targeted interventions for those at high risk of suicide.

Advertisements recruiting college students for egg donations offer anywhere from $10,000 to $120,00 for a donation. Although this procedure is considered low risk, there is limited research on the long-term consequences.

In 2024, there were more than 3,600 attacks on health care. @InsecurityInsig’s Tim Bishop analyzes who is behind those attacks and urges governments to hold perpetrators of the violence accountable.

Nearly six months after the United States announced sweeping cuts to development assistance for health, researchers are beginning to decipher how the move is reshaping governance and health programs. @allisonkrugman offers a breakdown:

The COVID-19 pandemic reversed decades of progress on routine childhood vaccination, imperiling the @WHO’s target of 90% coverage for key vaccines by 2030. A new study outlines how renewed political will could put countries back on track.

Amid cuts to its aid, Africa is at a crossroads as it seeks to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2030. Read how regional governments can seize this moment to build resilient TB responses that don’t hinge upon foreign goodwill.

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The United States has seen an exponential rise in state-level action plans on aging—as national policies on healthy aging expand around the world.

In July, Colombia opened its second safe injection site in nearly as many years. @write_noise reports on how these organizations foster trust to ensure client safety, paving the way for a new approach to overdose prevention in Latin America.