Jennifer Rigby
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Global health correspondent @Reuters, formerly @TelGlobalHealth and @Channel4News, briefly in Myanmar
London, England
Joined August 2010
DEATH BY THE DOSE - toxic cough syrup made in India has killed scores of children. Here's how this happened - and why no-one has been held to account w/@krishnadas56 .
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Indian parents whose children died after taking toxic syrups want justice. Some of the drugmakers haven’t shown they even tested their products.
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On Gaza malnutrition ward, a child's limb is as wide as mother's thumb
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On the pink walls of Nasser hospital’s child malnutrition ward, cartoon drawings show children running, smiling, and playing with flowers and balloons.
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RT @akannampilly: U.S.-funded contraceptives valued at nearly $10 million will be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the UN….
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U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations...
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The floor is lava - how modern urban cities heat up and stay hot when the temperature rises
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How concrete, asphalt and urban heat islands add to the misery of heat waves
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Gavi & Global Fund talk about merging functions to face global health cash crisis
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Two global health groups that fund billions of dollars worth of critical medical aid - from childhood vaccines to malaria treatments - are in talks about merging some functions to help combat a...
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RT @Reuters_Health: Nigeria to receive leprosy drugs after a year-long delay
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The World Health Organization says it will send leprosy drugs to Nigeria this weekend after resolving testing hold-ups that led to a year-long delay in thousands of patients, including children,...
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Medical oxygen that could help hundreds of thousands of adults and children worldwide with often life-threatening breathing problems is stalled at several points in the supply chain after the USAID freeze -
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Hundreds of millions of dollars of life-saving medical supplies are stranded in warehouses and on ships around the world due to President Donald Trump's move to freeze foreign aid, half a dozen...
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Trump team considers pushing for WHO reforms, including an American in charge, to stay in the agency
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Trump's executive order to exit the World Health Organization was among his first policy moves.
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And a reminder that short-term crises can have long-term repercussions - a story I've worked on for a while:
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A surge in the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip since the truce between Israel and Hamas took effect on Jan. 19 is likely to ease the acute food emergency afflicting people in the war-ravaged territ...
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'Shock and confusion' - aid, health groups worldwide uncertain if/how to proceed after Trump aid freeze, waiver:
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Health and humanitarian groups around the world were still uncertain on Wednesday if and how they could resume work after the United States issued a waiver for "life-saving" assistance in President...
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Trump order set to halt supply of HIV, malaria, TB drugs, plus life-saving supplies for newborns, to poorer countries supported by USAID .
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The Trump administration has moved to stop the supply of lifesaving drugs for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as medical supplies for newborn babies, in countries supported by USAID around the...
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As Trump moves to quit WHO - global health giants ask companies/philanthropy for more cash amid fears govts won't give as much
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One of the world's biggest global health funders will ask the private sector for a steep increase in donations as concern of a shortfall in government contributions grows following a U.S. decision to...
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Beyond BMI: global commission proposes new way to diagnose obesity
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Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition causes ill-health, according to a new framework drawn up by experts and...
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With thanks to the long COVID patients who spoke to @JDSteenhuysen and I about how it feels to hear 'feel better soon' as the world moves on
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There are certain phrases that Wachuka Gichohi finds difficult to hear after enduring four years of living with long COVID, marked by debilitating fatigue, pain, panic attacks and other symptoms so...
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Rwanda declared its first ever Marburg cases less than a fortnight ago - on 27 Sept. Yesterday vaccination trials began, prioritising those at highest risk
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Rwanda said on Sunday it had begun administering vaccine doses against the Marburg virus to try to combat an outbreak of the Ebola-like disease in the east African country, where it has so far killed...
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RT @Reuters_Health: Rwanda is poised to start vaccine and therapeutic clinical trials to treat Marburg viral disease, state minister for he….
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Rwanda will start cinical trials of experimental vaccines and treatments for Marburg disease in the next few weeks, its health minister said on Thursday, to fight the country's first outbreak of the...
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RT @Nature: Researchers are in a race against time to deploy vaccines and treatments against the deadly Marburg virus outbreak that has exp….
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Nature - There are no approved treatments for the Ebola-like haemorrhagic fever, which is spreading in Rwanda.
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As famine ravages Sudan, the UN can’t get food to starving millions via @SpecialReports.
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Sudan's warring parties are blocking delivery of food aid. The crisis is a grim example of what happens when a key part of the global system for combating famine falters.
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