In 2024, a 25-month-old boy arrived at a hospital in Banjul, Gambia, with fever, seizures, and a bloodstream infection caused by Enterobacter cloacae, a bacterium that in previous generations might have been beaten with the standard antibiotics. This strain was multidrug-resistant, impervious to at least one agent in nine different antimicrobial...

The Gates Foundation and OpenAI recently announced  a pilot initiative to advance artificial intelligence capabilities for health in Africa. Together they are committing $50 million dollars in funding and technical support with the goal of supporting 1,000 primary healthcare clinics in Africa by 2028, starting with Rwanda. In a time of dwindlin...

The global healthcare landscape is currently witnessing a digital renaissance. Across Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), the acceleration of telehealth, AI-enabled diagnostics, and national digital health missions—aligned with the WHO Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020–2027—promises a future where geography no longer dictates th...

“Because we offer food to our ancestral deities every year… that food must come from our land… it’s not optional, it’s our duty.” says Ammukutty Amma, an elderly Kurichiya woman from the district of Wayanad, in Kerala (South India). For her, farming is not a matter of choice or livelihood alone, it is a moral commitment woven into an...

In recent years, global health discourse has increasingly adopted the term “ polycrisis” to describe the confluence of different global crises — armed conflict, the climate emergency, pandemics, and economic instability — that collectively strain health systems and governance structures. The concept indeed captures an important reality a...

Since May 2023, Manipur, situated in the North-easthern part of India, has experienced a prolonged period of ethnic violence that has killed more than 250 people and displaced over 60,000 residents across the state. Much of the national attention has focused on political instability and the breakdown of law and order. However, inside relief camp...

The International Day of Happiness (IDoH), celebrated on March 20, raises a simple question every year: what makes a society happy? This year’s theme of “caring and sharing” may seem to find its answer in individual acts of kindness. However, decades of global statistics tell a different story. It turns out that happiness is not something ...

Dans un contexte de recomposition des relations internationales, la transition du multilatéralisme vers des accords bilatéraux dans le cadre de la stratégie « America First » constitue pour le Mali à la fois une opportunité de dialogue direct et un risque accru de dépendance. La capacité du pays à négocier des partenariats équilibré...

For centuries, societies have sought to understand health through the data they could collect. From Roman censuses to parish registers in Florence and from the earliest civil registration systems to large-scale digitized population databases. Today, India is generating an unprecedented volume of health information through its rapidly expanding d...