Global

Dec 03, 2025

How the Global Fund might cover a $6.7B shortfall in donations

With large donor countries – especially the U.S. – pulling back, a global development think tank has a new idea for funding programs that fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

William Herkewitz

GlobalGlobal

Nov 19, 2025

How to climate-proof world’s health systems: Brazil offers a roadmap

The heart of the guidance is not a list of shiny new, expensive programs. Instead, it is a dramatically unsexy push to make health systems more flexible and more anticipatory.

William Herkewitz

GlobalGlobal

Nov 12, 2025

Who in the world will get access to new weight-loss pills?

Eli Lilly is building a new plant in the Netherlands to produce a pill form of its popular Mounjaro injection. About two-thirds of the world’s 1 billion obese adults live outside the developed world. Will they be able to get the medicine?

William Herkewitz

GlobalGlobal

Nov 05, 2025

Why mpox is persisting around the world

Cases are on the rise, with a new, faster-spreading strain turning up in several countries — and California. Here’s the long-term outlook.

William Herkewitz

GlobalGlobal

Oct 29, 2025

Polio can still be eliminated – it just may take longer with $1.7B shortfall

Officials working on the global eradication of the deadly virus are finding ways to do more with less, stretch vaccine supplies, and other efforts to wipe polio from the planet.

William Herkewitz

GlobalGlobal

Oct 22, 2025

Toxic cough syrup killing children in the ‘pharmacy of the world’

What the tragedy means for drug oversight in India. Plus, updates on world hunger, biodiversity loss, global health funding, and a tuberculosis comeback.

William Herkewitz

GlobalGlobal

Oct 15, 2025

A promising moment in Ebola outbreak, early-bird flu, and more in global health

An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a test of how major health emergencies will be handled without help from two major U.S. aid agencies.

William Herkewitz