Despite early ART, mortality remains high in infants. High baseline VL and adverse maternal social environment increased the ...

Many people (including me) will have experienced a family member or loved one who, rendered essentially non-verbal by ...

Sexual corruption or sextortion has gained recent attention in the anti-corruption space. It occurs when a sexual favour is used as the currency for a bribe. Sexual corruption is a manifestation of ...

The increasing number of bacterial infections globally that do not respond to any available antibiotics indicates a need to ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) remains a major cause of life-threatening respiratory illness in older adults. Estimates ...

In 2016, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was gaining political attention at the highest levels. At a UN high-level meeting ...

Peng et al. (2024) expertly outline the significant burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Western Pacific Region (WPR).1 However, oral diseases as a key group of NCDs are absent from the ...

Medical and health humanities (MHH) offer an antidote to the highly technical, mechanistic, medical specialties that students ...

The French National Assembly's formal recognition on March 14, 2024, of the state's responsibility for the chlordecone contamination affecting populations in Martinique and Guadeloupe represents an ...

In 2018, we asked WHO to adopt the sexually transmitted oncovirus, human T-cell leukaemia virus 1 (HTLV-1) as a threat to human health.1 Consequently, WHO announced that HTLV-1's elimination is ...

Why does it matter that we study health as an institute dedicated to international affairs?” asks Suerie Moon in her lectures as the Co-Director of the Global Health Centre at the Geneva Graduate ...

Each year, an estimated 7·7 million deaths are attributed to bacterial infections, of which 4.95 million are associated with drug-resistant pathogens, and 1·27 million are caused by bacterial ...