Kat Lay

World leaders have been urged keep a promise to the millions of people who died during Covid – by finalising an agreement on how to deal with future pandemics.

Campaigners welcome announcement cutting levies on menstrual health items, but say their work to end period poverty is ‘far from over’

Fears hard-won gains in reducing child mortality over 20 years are at risk after end of USAID funding for nutrition programmes

Child malnutrition in Nepal has reached “alarming” levels, according to the largest ever survey of under-fives in the country.

The whereabouts of almost 300 people who have tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently unknown, according to Africa's top public health official.

British-born, older men among those most likely to have disease found only postmortem, say researchers

Kat Lay Global health correspondent A homegrown catnip lotion has proven “just as effective as Deet” as a mosquito repellant in trials carried out in Uganda.

Remarkable scientific progress against cancer has changed very little for millions of patients globally, who face devastating physical, emotional

Two drugs are being trialled in the Ituri region in a programme set up just six weeks after the outbreak was declared, with hopes it will reduce mortality rates