Global Health

6/12/2025: The UHC Global Monitoring Report 2025 reveals that an estimated 4.6 billion people worldwide still lack access to essential health services and 2.1 billion people experience financial hardship to access health care. This annual report monitors the Sustainable Development Goal that everyone, everywhere can access the care they need without financial hardship by 2030. Despite positive direction, the global progress rate has slowed since 2015 and persistent gaps and inequalities are on the rise.

Source: World Health Organization

4/12/2025: The World Health Organization's annual World Malaria Report reveals that, despite progress in the use of vaccines, there were an estimated 282 million malaria cases and 610 000 deaths in 2024 – roughly 9 million more cases than in 2023.  An estimated 95% of these deaths were in the WHO African Region, with most occurring among children under 5.

Source: World Health Organization

4/12/2025: The number of children dying before their 5^th birthday is projected to rise, reversing decades of global progress, according to new data published in the Gates Foundation’s 2025 Goalkeepers Report. At the same time, global development assistance for health fell sharply this year—26.9% below 2024 levels.

Source: Gates Foundation

28/11/2025: Nearly 59 million lives have been saved by the measles vaccine since 2000. Despite fewer deaths, measles cases are surging worldwide, even in high-income countries that once eliminated it. There were an estimated 11 million infections in 2024, nearly 800 000 more than pre-pandemic levels in 2019.

Source: World Health Organization

28/11/2025: After over 3,000 years of battling the world’s leading infectious cause of avoidable blindness, Egypt has successfully eliminated the disease. While 30 countries are still considered endemic for trachoma, Egypt’s achievement offers hope to the 100 million people still at risk around the world.

Source: Devex

25/11/2025: The global response to HIV has suffered its most significant setback in decades, especially in low- and middle-income countries, warns a new UNAIDS report. The funding crisis has combined with a deteriorating global human rights environment, with particularly severe consequences for marginalized populations.

Source: UNAIDS

24/11/2025: Health and development experts are concerned that African governments are losing their collective bargaining power under the “America First” principle. The US State Department has sent roving teams to visit African countries to negotiate bilateral health agreements, as opposed to working through the African Union as a bloc.

Source: Devex

21/11/2025: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has received pledges for more than half of its target funding for 2026-2029. There was relief that the US contributed $4.6 billion, remaining the largest donor.

Source: Devex

19/11/2025: The global health body has warned that it expects to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce by June 2026, in consequence of the US withdrawal from the organisation in January. Analysts and campaigners said the cuts would probably leave the WHO less able to help countries facing disease outbreaks.

Source: The Guardian

12/11/2025: Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people in 2024, despite being preventable and curable. Cuts to international donor funding could result in up to 2 million additional deaths and 10 million people falling ill with TB between 2025 and 2035.

Source: World Health Organization