Global health’s defining test
The successes and setbacks of 2025 show why international cooperation matters more than ever.
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Why has Pakistan’s HPV vaccine campaign faced a backlash?
Pakistan rolled out the vaccine for the HPV virus last month. The virus causes cervical cancer.
WHO warns $1.7bn funding shortfall threatens polio eradication efforts
The significant funding reductions mean certain activities will simply not happen: WHO’s polio eradication director.
![A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024 [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/AP24245471961214-1734520071.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Bangladesh rolls out typhoid immunisation drive for 50 million children
The campaign aims to protect the children from the drug-resistant disease spreading across South Asia.
![Children attending a floating school in Bhangura area of Pabna, Bangladesh [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-07T224137Z_87066588_RC2SYGA6ZQ7Z_RTRMADP_3_BANGLADESH-CLIMATE-EDUCATION-1760270834.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Orphaned by Israel, two child amputees find each other in Lebanon
Pulled from the rubble in Gaza and southern Lebanon, two boys are rebuilding their lives together.
WHO debunks Trump claim on autism link to paracetamol during pregnancy
US President Donald Trump has linked childhood vaccine use and paracetamol use by pregnant women to autism.
WHO warns hospitals ‘on the brink’ as Israel pushes Gaza City assault
Israel continues deadly bid to ethnically cleanse enclave’s largest city amid ‘cataclysmic’ humanitarian conditions.
![Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards on a road in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the central Gaza Strip following renewed Israeli evacuation orders for Gaza City on September 18, 2025. [Eyad Baba/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/000_74WU8Y4-1758191598.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Mpox no longer international health emergency but remains concern in Africa
‘While we are removing the emergency, we need to keep the urgency,’ says independent panel of experts for the WHO.
WHO adds weight-loss, diabetes drugs to essential medicines list
UN agency urges production of affordable generics for GLP-1 drugs to treat obesity and diabetes in developing countries.
DR Congo announces new Ebola outbreak
Authorities suspect 28 cases of the deadly virus, with the latest recorded in the southern Kasai province.
EXPLAINER
Why does the temperature feel hotter than the forecast says?
Ever wondered why the temperature is different from the “feels like” temperature on your weather app?
