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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Since 2017, Goa has reported no human deaths from rabies. Through sustained dog vaccination, surveillance, and community engagement, the state has done something once considered impossible in my country, India: it has interrupted the transmission of one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases. This achievement did not happen overnight. It b...
From July 26-31st 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS2026), took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I was fortunate to attend one of the largest HIV-related events. This year’s conference theme was “Rethink. Rebuild. Rise”, referring to the huge changes in the funding landscape, the need to thoroughly rethink the HIV/AIDS ba...
On 27 April 2026, my father (age 83) died peacefully at home after a rapid decline from advanced liver cancer. Just over a month earlier, what had begun as seemingly common symptoms gradually developed into a terminal diagnosis of metastatic liver and bile duct cancer. From late March to the end of April, my family moved between several places o...
“My ten-year-old son has a fixed activity in his daily routine—30 minutes to one hour of watching scrolling videos on the phone. If he misses this even for a day, he quickly reminds me, ‘Today I haven’t watched the phone at all, give me your phone.’” What began as a small allowance for entertainment has slowly turned into an expectat...
Walk into almost any government school in India and you will likely find a toilet block for girls. On paper, the progress is real: the government’s own school-records system, the Unified District Information System for Education, (UDISE+) 2024–25 data, which tracks every recognized school in the country, reports that 97.3% of schools have girl...
No society achieves genuine progress when a significant portion of its people faces systematic exclusion from essential services. As someone previously involved in implementing social health insurance at the state level in Abia, (South-East) Nigeria, I have seen how national UHC frameworks — often shaped by donor priorities — collapse at the...
Launched by the Honourable Prime Minister in 2023, India’s Viksit Bharat@2047 vision imagines a nation that is more productive and prosperous by 2047 – when the country completes 100 years of independence. Achieving this ambition will not only require investments in economic growth and infrastructure, but also in the people who will shape India’...
The Global Health Security Conference 2026 took place in Kuala Lumpur from June 9-12th. The timely event, especially in the wake of recent Ebola and Hantavirus outbreaks , brought together a large number of international stakeholders and provided critical reflections on advancing the health security agenda by reinforcing policies, governance, ...
From 24 to 26 June 2026, Bamako will host the second edition of the Scientific Days of the Francophone Africa & Fragility Network (AFRAFRA), dedicated to the resilience of health systems in the face of crises in Sahel countries. Researchers, healthcare decision-makers, community stakeholders and technical partners will come together to address a...
