15.07.21
Health Inequality
Survey finds official guidelines being extensively ignored to leave hundreds of thousands facing vaccine labyrinth
06.07.21
Global Superbugs
The adoption of intensive farming practices in middle-income countries is estimated to account for up to a third of the increase in global use of antibiotics for livestock between 2010 and 2030
17.06.21
The use of a class of antibiotics prescribed for infections in humans more than doubled on UK pig farms between 2015 and 2019, and experts warn of a further rise
16.06.21
Global Health
Two of the world's largest oxygen companies have agreed to improve access to oxygen after the Bureau investigated high prices in Africa and shortages across the world
25.05.21
Dozens of countries face severe oxygen shortages because of surging Covid-19 cases and low vaccination rates, a Bureau analysis has found
Medical oxygen has become vital as Covid-19 spreads – and the gap in access to it is stark
10.05.21
At least 25,000 people who received care in their own homes died during the pandemic, with reported deaths doubling in many areas
25.04.21
Big Tobacco
The company has been running disguised adverts for its brands, enabling it to bypass social media site rules and national laws on marketing of cigarettes to teenagers and young people
19.04.21
Pharma giant had previously demanded governments put up state assets as collateral for Covid19 vaccine deals
11.04.21
Big Tech
The Bureau has identified more than 100 Instagram accounts using the platform to make money through spreading misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines
10.03.21
An unredacted Pfizer contract with the Dominican Republic shows the company has been given wide-ranging immunity against legal action, meaning it cannot be held liable for problems at any step of its...
04.03.21
Internal reports seen by the Bureau detail health concerns over ‘run down’ sites where hundreds of people have contracted Covid-19
23.02.21
The Bureau has learned that the pharmaceutical giant also insists on indemnity against its own negligence in hardball negotiations with Latin American countries
21.02.21
An employee of a Kenyan PR agency working for British American Tobacco (BAT) offered a bribe to a journalist to leak details of the Bureau’s investigation into how the company has targeted young non-s...
The Bureau has found British American Tobacco has attracted a new generation of non-smokers to addictive tobacco and nicotine products marketed as trendy and aspirational
06.02.21
Unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines will harm all of us – leaving reservoirs for the virus across the world in which new, potentially more dangerous strains will emerge and spread
31.01.21
The Bureau has found hundreds of pages using monetisation tools designed by Facebook while spreading dangerous misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines
27.01.21
Our Impact
A look back at the stories we revealed over the last year, and the change they helped drive
25.11.20
Health
How new pandemic rules were used to justify a violent raid on an LGBTQ+ homeless shelter in Uganda
Emergency legislation is being used to target and abuse LGBTQ+ and HIV-positive people around the world. Here are their stories
