A malaria-carrying species that thrives in urban areas and resists all insecticides is causing outbreaks in places that have rarely faced the disease.
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Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress
Climate change and the rapid evolution of the insect have helped drive up malaria deaths and brought dengue and other mosquito-borne viruses to places that never had to worry about them.
‘Only God Can Thank You’: Female Health Workers Fight to Be Paid
Community health workers put in long hours to protect people in developing countries from diseases such as malaria, Covid-19 and H.I.V. But most are compensated minimally, or not paid at all.
Racism and Sexism Underlie Higher Maternal Death Rates for Black Women, U.N. Says
Black women in Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States are more likely than their white counterparts to report denial of medication or physical and verbal abuse in health care settings.
Shot to Protect Against Polio and Five Other Diseases Is Approved by Gavi
The international vaccine aid group agreed to provide developing countries with a new shot to prevent a global resurgence of the paralyzing virus.
FDA Panel Recommends RSV Shot to Protect Infants
Advisers to the agency overwhelmingly agreed that a new treatment would help to prevent a potentially lethal respiratory illness in very young children.
How to Lower Deaths Among Women? Give Away Cash.
Mortality rates fell by 20 percent among women in countries that began cash transfer programs to the poor. Children also benefited.
An African Country Faces Challenges to Protect Girls From HPV
Almost all cervical cancer deaths now occur in developing countries. Tanzania is trying to inoculate girls against the virus that causes the disease — nearly 20 years after rich countries began offering the shot.
W.H.O. Ends Mpox Global Emergency
The virus was contained in most countries with a combination of vaccination and behavioral change.
W.H.O. Ends Covid World Health Emergency Designation
The decision has little practical effect but is a significant moment in the struggle against a virus that has killed millions and upended lives throughout the world.