Global Health Security

‘Drone snipers’ firing at targets around Gaza hospitals, says trapped British doctor

Remote-controlled quadcopters patrol warzone as Israeli defence minister declares that Hamas has 'lost control' of the strip

‘Huge leap forward’ as world’s first vaccine for chikungunya virus is approved

FDA green lights single-dose shot developed by European firm, for those at heightened risk from the mosquito-borne disease

Myanmar junta faces ‘biggest threat’ since coup as fighting engulfs border region

The UN warned 50,000 have been forced to flee, with the junta conceding the country could be split if it cannot contain the clashes

Inside Gaza’s bombarded hospitals: ‘I told Israel, I cannot move my patients or they will die’

Water shortages, power cuts and constant air strikes cause chaos in healthcare facilities as disease and infection spread

Doctor who caught Crimean-Congo fever at Pakistan hospital dies in ambulance traffic jam

The medic was one of several healthcare workers who contracted the virus at the same hospital after ‘critical lapses’ in infection control

Gaza’s largest hospital hit by Israeli strikes while others surrounded

Strikes have damaged the al-Shifa hospital, killing at least one person and wounding others

‘Nothing short of astounding’: How Egypt defied the odds to eliminate hepatitis C

Within a decade, the country has gone from having among the worst global rates of the disease to near eradication

Hamas terrorists’ last stand at Gaza hospital

In showdown witnessed by a Telegraph reporter, Israeli warplanes, tanks and infantry corner last remains of 1,000-strong battalion

Global tuberculosis rates reach record levels, WHO warns

Seven and a half million new infections were diagnosed in 2022 – the highest ever recorded by the UN agency

Experts warn of ‘respiratory health disaster’ as toxic air engulfs New Delhi

Heavy smog triggers a surge in hospital admissions, school closures and a suspension of construction work in the Indian capital

‘Bodies scratched, bleeding and full of flies’: Infections plague Gaza’s hospitals

Doctors say critically wounded patients are becoming infected with parasites as medicine and clean water runs out

Hamas ‘puts fighters on evacuation lists to stop wounded Palestinians leaving’

Security checks rumble terrorist group’s attempt to delay evacuation of injured civilians

'I'll have to marry off my daughters': Refugees await deportation to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

Migrants say they fear what awaits the women in their family when they cross border

Monkeypox ‘circulating for five years’ before 2022’s global health emergency

The infection mutated to better spread between humans after silently circulating since at least 2016, according to new research

North Korean defectors take on China over forced returns of fellow escapees

Those returned to North Korea face prospect of life-long imprisonment, torture and even execution, activists say

Jail for Indonesian drug manufacturers over cough syrup linked to 200 child deaths

Company’s chief executive and three other senior employees given two-year prison sentences and fined £52,000

How Sydney beat back HIV – and what other cities can learn

Thirty years after it became the epicentre of Australia’s Aids crisis, transmission of the virus has been ‘virtually eliminated’

Concern over aid delivered to Gaza

Save the Children fears terror group may commandeer supplies but believes organisation’s knowledge of the Strip will help ‘navigate’ threats

Meet the elderly Britons swapping the NHS for luxury care homes in Thailand

With social care in the UK on its knees – and the NHS in a similar state – retirement resorts are becoming an attractive alternative

Israel bombs Gaza refugee camp in strike targeting top Hamas commander

Fiercest day of fighting yet as bunker-busting munitions used to kill leaders of terrorist group

Doctors in Gaza perform caesareans by torch light as mothers die in childbirth, aid groups warn

Lives of thousands of pregnant women, mothers and newborn babies at risk, charities say

Afghan women died in earthquake as they feared Taliban punishment for not wearing hijab

Strict laws forbidding men from mixing with women who are strangers led to a larger female death toll

Rampant mistrust leaves the world more vulnerable to pandemics, experts warn

Deteriorating international relations and increasing polarisation has created a ‘fragmented and broken world’, says new report

Survivors and grieving families left adrift a year on from South Korea’s deadly Halloween crush

As the tragedy’s first anniversary approaches, victims say they are still waiting for answers – and accountability

‘There is no safe place’: Newborns share incubators as supplies run low at Gaza’s swamped hospitals

Palestinians are sheltering among the sick and dying at overcrowded hospitals, with one doctor warning that patients will lose their lives

WHO urges Hamas to provide ‘proof of life’ for hostages

Head of the World Health Organization asks for immediate medical access to ascertain the health status of hostages

Gender inequality fuelling ‘Great Resignation’ of women health workers across the world

Mass exodus has escalated into a ‘moral emergency’ in wake of the pandemic, according to new report

Bird flu detected in Antarctica for first time as fears grow of mass wipe-outs

Experts fear rapid spread of disease after sampling confirms presence of H5N1 among continent’s birds

Water and first aid reach besieged Gazans as Rafah border crossing briefly opens

US calls for Israel to allow more supplies in for 2m trapped residents

Almost half the world’s population could be at risk from dengue due to global warming

Once specific to small pockets of Asia, the infection can now be found across several continents of the world, say researchers