A study published this week in a key scientific journal shows the extent to which developing even a moderately effective vaccine would be a total game changer in humanity’s 35 year fight against HIV. There is already one major HIV vaccine...
We know now exactly which drug-resistant “superbugs” are most likely to kill us. This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a “global priority list,” of bacteria intended to guide research and discovery of new drugs and treatments. It is...
New research on the 2014 ebola outbreak reveals important new details about how ebola spread so quickly across Western Africa–and what can be done to stop the next outbreak before it becomes a full blown pandemic. The research, published in...
Malaria is a quiet problem, killing children and pregnant women in 97 countries; children under five make up 70% of malaria deaths. Malaria’s mosquito vector makes it difficult to eradicate, and pregnant women lack access to lifesaving protective drugs. The...
Air pollution is deadly. It doesn’t generally cause deaths directly. Instead, it’s an exacerbating factor, contributing to lung diseases like asthma, respiratory infections, and even cancer. In 2012, air pollution was linked to 1 out of every 8 deaths in...
Motherhood is still deadly for far too many women. In 2015, an estimated 303,000 women died in childbirth. Many more suffered injury, disease, or infection as a result of pregnancy. Most of these deaths could have been prevented if women...
This is bad. Tuberculosis (TB) has been a global pandemic for over a decade now; we already knew it was a serious global health problem. It’s worse, though, than we knew. The new World Health Organization (WHO) global TB report finds...
Ed note. The worst Hurricane in a decade has just touched land in Haiti. Of course, any single weather event cannot be traced to climate change. But the fact is storms are getting stronger and coming with greater frequency because...
Ed note. This is a special edition of The Takeaway, a regular feature in which global health and development expert Alanna Shaikh breaks down key reports from the global development community. In this post, Alanna dissects a new report from...