Subject: Access to medicine

05.11.24

Global Health

Ex-Trump official and abstinence advocate strikes secretive health deal in Uganda

Key documents relating to Valerie Huber’s Protego project are being kept away from the public eye

27.09.24

Global Health

UN pledges to cut superbug deaths by 2030

Signatories have agreed to secure clean water in medical facilities and cut antibiotic pollution in the environment

24.09.24

Global Superbugs

‘The final warning sign’: drug-resistant typhoid is spreading across Pakistan

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

Global Superbugs

Superbugs will kill three every minute by 2050

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

Global Superbugs

When the drugs don’t work: the people facing the reality of a superbugs crisis

Deaths from drug-resistant infections are projected to soar – and everyone is at risk

09.08.24

Global Superbugs

What is antimicrobial resistance – and why is it a global health threat?

Drug-resistant infections are a growing threat worldwide. Here’s the science behind it – and how we can tackle the issue

17.07.24

Trans+ Voices

Puberty blockers: what are they and why are they in the news?

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

Global Superbugs

I went to Pakistan to see the cost of a superbug crisis

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

Global Health

Revealed: USAID’s $10bn health project beset by failings and fraud allegations

Agency’s biggest ever project has failing in its aim to building last supply chains to poorer countries

09.11.23

Global Health

‘A disaster waiting to happen’: how USAID’s $10bn health project unravelled

US development agency’s supply chain project has been riddled with failings, inefficiencies, indictments and fraud allegations

06.10.23

Global Health

New test in the works to catch defective cancer drugs

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

Global Health

UK could use vaccine donations to slash £140m from foreign aid spending

New rules could let countries claim back more than they paid for surplus doses that were given away

04.02.22

Our Impact

Community power, corporate change and courtroom justice: the Bureau’s impact in 2021

Unearthing facts, uncovering wrongdoing, collaboration and meaningful storytelling made the Bureau’s journalism more impactful than ever in 2021

08.10.21

Global Health

How Covax failed on its promise to vaccinate the world

The inside story of how an ambitious global collaboration fell badly short of its lofty goals

22.09.21

Global Health

Oxygen giant spreads misinformation in Namibia

Namibian hospitals were wrongly told that switching to onsite oxygen generator plants could put human life at risk, the Bureau has learned

01.09.21

Global Health

Red tape keeping Covid vaccine out of reach for nearly 4m undocumented migrants across Europe

Administrative barriers in at least 10 European countries are blocking access to vital vaccines

25.08.21

Global Health

Oxygen companies put profit above patients by spreading misinformation in Mexico

As Covid-19 threatens to overwhelm Mexico’s health services, gas companies have spent time, effort and money deterring hospitals from installing cheaper, more reliable on-site oxygen plants

15.07.21

Health Inequality

Most GP surgeries refuse to register undocumented migrants despite NHS policy

Survey finds official guidelines being extensively ignored to leave hundreds of thousands facing vaccine labyrinth

16.06.21

Global Health

Breakthrough deal to help solve Covid oxygen crisis

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

Global Health

After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis

Dozens of countries face severe oxygen shortages because of surging Covid-19 cases and low vaccination rates, a Bureau analysis has found

Ex-Trump official and abstinence advocate strikes secretive health deal in Uganda

UN pledges to cut superbug deaths by 2030

‘The final warning sign’: drug-resistant typhoid is spreading across Pakistan

Superbugs will kill three every minute by 2050

When the drugs don’t work: the people facing the reality of a superbugs crisis

What is antimicrobial resistance – and why is it a global health threat?

Puberty blockers: what are they and why are they in the news?

I went to Pakistan to see the cost of a superbug crisis

Revealed: USAID’s $10bn health project beset by failings and fraud allegations

‘A disaster waiting to happen’: how USAID’s $10bn health project unravelled

New test in the works to catch defective cancer drugs

UK could use vaccine donations to slash £140m from foreign aid spending

Community power, corporate change and courtroom justice: the Bureau’s impact in 2021

How Covax failed on its promise to vaccinate the world

Oxygen giant spreads misinformation in Namibia

Red tape keeping Covid vaccine out of reach for nearly 4m undocumented migrants across Europe

Oxygen companies put profit above patients by spreading misinformation in Mexico

Most GP surgeries refuse to register undocumented migrants despite NHS policy

Breakthrough deal to help solve Covid oxygen crisis

After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis

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