World will miss ambitious TB targets without urgent technological breakthroughs
Tuberculosis killed an estimated 1.25m people last year, with a worrying sharp rise in cases across the Americas, annual survey finds
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Hidden casualties of war Palestinians dying as Israeli health ‘lockdown’ hits medical care across the West Bank
The destruction of Gaza’s health facilities has been well documented – but elsewhere patients face a quieter, more insidious deprivation
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A ‘dangerous and disastrous’ failure How decriminalisation made Vancouver the fentanyl capital of the world
The city is gripped in an opioid crisis worse than America’s. Locals say overly liberal drug laws have sparked a catastrophe
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From monster to minister Is the past about to catch up with Liberia’s war criminals?
They got away with murder during years of bloodshed. Now, a proposed war crimes court is making hardened killers uneasy
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Haiti’s gang hell ‘There were men everywhere with guns – they shot my mum in front of me’
As Haiti spirals into anarchy, the Telegraph meets the children caught between gang violence and societal collapse
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‘Everything went with the water – we have nothing’ Survivors count the cost of Kenya’s devastating floods
At least 228 people have been killed and 23,000 families displaced – but the situation in rural areas could be even worse
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Hazard or heritage? Mongolia saddles up for fight over child jockeys
Traditionalists and human rights groups clash over a dangerous custom that has killed at least 30 children over two decades
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Suicide by self-immolation ‘I poured gasoline then set fire to my clothes – the flames shot up my body’
A disturbing trend has swept Kurdish-governed Iraq. Many women see the horrifying act as their only escape from domestic abuse
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The deadly ‘dzud’ A deep freeze has decimated millions of farm animals in Mongolia
The East Asian nation is in the grip of a weather phenomenon known as the ‘dzud’ – its worst in decades. Is climate change to blame?
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‘What kind of man cries?’ The country with the highest suicide rate in the world
Mental illness is described as a ‘white man’s disease’ in Lesotho – it’s a mindset with deadly consequences
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Back from the brink The secret rewilding project that could save the white rhino
Poachers have driven the species to the edge of extinction – but an ambitious programme hopes to permanently secure its future
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Fifty days in chains The Thai hostage who survived Hamas
Phonsawan Pinakalo was taken prisoner on October 7. He endured beatings, bombings and solitary confinement – but lived to tell the tale
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‘They kill and play with their victims’ bodies like dolls’ The elephants terrorising Thailand
After years of endangerment, elephant numbers in the wild have surged – with deadly consequences for local communities
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Ebola 10 years on The survivors still infectious a decade after the world’s biggest outbreak
A decade after the virus ravaged West Africa, the threat of its return looms in an unlikely source: the testicles of men who survived
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Vaccine drought ‘Immunisation would have kept my child alive’
Unvaccinated children across Africa are dying from easily preventable diseases. A new project in Ethiopia is using solar power to fix this
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Kissinger’s legacy The invisible killer haunting Laos 50 years after the Vietnam War
US officials including Kissinger approved a relentless bombing campaign in Laos. The legacy remains deadly in the munitions-strewn country
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Virus jungles Inside one of the world’s deadliest forests – and the bushmeat hunters risking contagion
Ebola, Marburg and never-before-seen infections are spilling over into Guinea’s hunter communities. Scientists fear biological catastrophe
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One in five women ‘has suffered sexual violence as a child’
Technology and social media are fuelling a new wave of violence against women and girls, landmark study suggests
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‘I trekked pregnant through the jungle to get paracetamol’
A lack of the most basic medical supplies is driving thousands of people towards Uganda’s fragile health system
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‘We have to get children back to school’: Education goes underground in Ukraine
Windowless, bunker-style classrooms have been hardened against radiation and built six-and-a-half metres below the ground
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Water world: Something is wrong with the most basic planetary system of all
Rising global temperatures have warped the earth’s natural cycles, causing once easily predictable events to become increasingly erratic
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Europe’s medical students to receive training for climate-related health problems
Aspiring medics need to brace for illnesses linked to higher temperatures, such as heat stroke and dangerous mosquito-borne diseases
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Hunger threatens to undo decades of global development, Bill Gates warns
Is the global health boom over? Decades of progress at a cross roads as malnutrition rages
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Almost 200 ecological activists murdered last year while protecting environment, says new report
Latin America identified as the deadliest region on earth for activists, accounting for 85 per cent of reported murders
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This city was built on diamonds but its citizens are starving
Mbuji-Mayi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, made its wealth out of diamonds. Now, the city is overcome by poverty and malnutrition
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‘The new rock n roll stars of our time’: Photographer Rankin swaps celebrities for scientists
Acclaimed artist – renowned for his portraits of Kate Moss, Madonna, David Bowie and Queen Elizabeth II – fixes his lens on hidden heroes
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