21.02.25
Global Health
Country that ‘achieved the impossible’ in reducing deaths to zero now faces closure of key treatment centre
13.02.25
Sub-Saharan Africa has access to just 2.5% of the snake antivenom treatments it needs
5.4 million people are bitten by snakes each year – and of these, 80,000 to 140,000 people die
In sub-Saharan Africa patients face a “Wild West” where treatments for snake bites cost the earth or don’t work
The first snake antivenom was made in the 1890s and the method to make them hasn’t changed much since
09.01.25
Global Superbugs
Sweeping antibiotic use in the US means a once innocuous condition now leaves some suffering for years
07.12.24
Trans+ Voices
Reports of treatment being refused or withdrawn are on the rise – and no official figures exist to track the issue
19.11.24
Israeli blockades and bombings have left doctors without basic medicines to treat infections
05.11.24
Key documents relating to Valerie Huber’s Protego project are being kept away from the public eye
27.09.24
Signatories have agreed to secure clean water in medical facilities and cut antibiotic pollution in the environment
24.09.24
The vast majority of people around the world who get sick from typhoid are now infected by a drug-resistant strain. Options are limited and death rates are higher.
16.09.24
A study in The Lancet has forecast that without action 39 million people will die of drug resistant diseases over the next 25 years
04.09.24
Deaths from drug-resistant infections are projected to soar – and everyone is at risk
09.08.24
Drug-resistant infections are a growing threat worldwide. Here’s the science behind it – and how we can tackle the issue
17.07.24
As Wes Streeting prepares to uphold ban on private prescriptions, we explain what it could mean for trans and non-binary people – what happens next
14.12.23
On top of the 1.27m yearly deaths attributed to antibiotic resistance, millions of other people around the world are living with drug-resistant infections.
09.11.23
Agency’s biggest ever project has failing in its aim to building last supply chains to poorer countries
US development agency’s supply chain project has been riddled with failings, inefficiencies, indictments and fraud allegations
06.10.23
Researchers are using TBIJ's findings to create device that will screen for poor-quality medicines that are sold around the world
10.03.22
New rules could let countries claim back more than they paid for surplus doses that were given away
