Abrupt cuts to development aid by major donor countries could cause up to 22.6 million additional deaths in developing countries by 2030, including 5.4 million children under five, according to a new study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and other organizations.

In his new book, 'Fair Doses,' epidemiologist Seth Berkley discusses what went right -- and wrong -- with COVID vaccine distribution and whether the world is ready if a new pandemic were to strike.

Campaigners say 15% cut, which is smaller than had been feared, is serious setback in efforts to combat the diseases * UK politics live – latest updates The UK has cut by 15% its contribution to a leading aid fund combating preventable diseases, a decision that charities have said could lead to hundreds of thousands more otherwise preventable deaths. The UK will commit £850m to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria over 2027-29, against the £1bn pledged by the Conservative government for the last funding round. Continue reading...

Thousands of rare and uniquely American songs from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression are available for free listening thanks to a partnership between UCSB and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.

Details on an outbreak of infant botulism linked to infant formula, November 2025.

Maine described its HIV outbreak as a significant health concern, but the shutdown has kept a CDC team from coming to the state's aid.

Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

No vaccine is currently available for Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic disease that is estimated to cause thousands of deaths each year in western Africa. A replication-competent recombinant vesicu...

Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

ATLANTA—As the agency struggles to manage a measles caseload that has erupted to its largest size in decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated Monday that at this point, it would ...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported the first death from West Nile virus in 2025, in a patient from the San Fernando Valley.

Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects

Senegal has recorded 17 deaths from Rift Valley Fever in a rare major outbreak of the disease in the West African country.

Bangladesh launched a nationwide vaccination campaign on Sunday to protect millions of children from typhoid, a deadly and increasingly drug-resistant disease that poses a growing public health threat.

"Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life," Leo, the first U.S. pope, told reporters.