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Articles tagged with "Health inequality"

01.05.25

Environment

Dirty water, toxic air: Life beside Glencore’s mammoth coal mine

The Cerrejón mine in northern Colombia has polluted rivers and threatened public health. Its damage cannot be undone, say locals

16.04.25

Global Health

India’s drugs industry: how one country took over the global medicine market

Its a huge exporter of generic drugs – but are are they safe? And what could Trump’s tariffs mean for the ‘pharmacy of the world’?

01.03.25

Environment

JPMorgan investing ‘sustainable’ funds in mining giant Glencore

World’s biggest bank has used ESG funds to funnel quarter of a billion dollars to company causing devastation in South Africa

21.02.25

Global Health

Eswatini’s success against snakebite under threat after USAID funding freeze

Country that ‘achieved the impossible’ in reducing deaths to zero now faces closure of key treatment centre

13.02.25

Global Health

The new snake oil: antivenoms that are as useless as water

In sub-Saharan Africa patients face a “Wild West” where treatments for snake bites cost the earth or don’t work

05.02.25

Global Health

Trump’s data deletions pose a stark threat to public health

By gutting government records, the president is obscuring information about life-and-death issues

09.01.25

Global Superbugs

‘Nobody cares’: the women living with untreatable UTIs

Sweeping antibiotic use in the US means a once innocuous condition now leaves some suffering for years

07.12.24

Trans+ Voices

Trans+ people finding it harder to access ‘lifesaving’ treatment

Reports of treatment being refused or withdrawn are on the rise – and no official figures exist to track the issue

03.12.24

Global Health

Why Trump’s next presidency poses a new threat to women’s health

Figures close to new president have already been making moves to influence reproductive services around the world

05.11.24

Global Health

Ex-Trump official and abstinence advocate strikes secretive health deal in Uganda

Key documents relating to Valerie Huber’s Protego project are being kept away from the public eye

09.08.24

Global Superbugs

What is antimicrobial resistance – and why is it a global health threat?

Drug-resistant infections are a growing threat worldwide. Here’s the science behind it – and how we can tackle the issue

Baby Yusra lies in a hospital bed connected to machines and tubes

08.08.24

Global Superbugs

‘It’s at the scale of a pandemic’: superbug emergency puts babies on the frontline

In Nigeria and Ethiopia, neonatal sepsis poses a major threat to newborns. And as antibiotic resistance grows, a crisis is mounting

06.06.24

UK Elections

What does the UK election mean for gender policies?

TBIJ’s Trans+ Voices project sets out what the vote could mean for policy on healthcare, education and more

21.02.24

Global Health

‘Not corruption or fraud’: USAID pleads its case to Congress on supply chain project

Major questions remain over agency’s response to lawmaker following TBIJ investigation

25.01.24

Health

‘The response defies belief’: year of inaction leaves children at risk from bad cancer drugs

No proven ‘issues of concern’, insists WHO as substandard medicines remain on sale around the world

05.12.23

Revealed: escalating effects of hot summers on UK housing

TBIJ carried out groundbreaking community research to show the impact of climate change on south London residents

09.11.23

Global Health

Revealed: USAID’s $10bn health project beset by failings and fraud allegations

Agency’s biggest ever project has failing in its aim to building last supply chains to poorer countries

09.11.23

Global Health

‘A disaster waiting to happen’: how USAID’s $10bn health project unravelled

US development agency’s supply chain project has been riddled with failings, inefficiencies, indictments and fraud allegations

06.10.23

Global Health

New test in the works to catch defective cancer drugs

Researchers are using TBIJ's findings to create device that will screen for poor-quality medicines that are sold around the world

22.02.23

Global Health

Major milestone in oxygen access at World Health Organization

‘The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s expose of the tragedy in August 2020 was a turning point in our efforts to rally an international oxygen emergency response’

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