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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Much of the world is focused on fentanyl. But across Africa, a different opioid catastrophe has been quietly building for years, and it is getting worse. In the markets of Kumasi, Ghana, a motorbike taxi driver starts his shift before dawn. Before his first passenger, he swallows a handful of small white pills bought the night before from a road...
Last week the World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2026, themed ‘Reimagining Africa’s Health systems: innovation, integration and interdependence’, took place in Nairobi, Kenya at a critical moment for global health. WHS Nairobi (and side events on the margins) brought together policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to reflec...
As development assistance for health declines, many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are rethinking how to finance health systems that are equitable, resilient, and increasingly self-reliant. The shift from aid dependence towards fiscal sovereignty is not merely financial; it reflects a deeper transformation in governance, accountability...
As the Lyon “One Health” summit pledges face their first real test at the upcoming World Health Summit Regional Meeting in Nairobi, Africa must finally reject extractive Western engagement and build sovereign, resilient community health systems anchored in professionalised CHWs and genuine local ownership. Western engagement with Afr...
The introduction of the “America First” strategy in Burundi has not received much attention in Burundian media. Even media in exile, which are less concerned by Burundian authorities’ control and therefore freer to express themselves, did not raise questions around the recently signed bilateral health cooperation MoU between the US and the...
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...
