Beyond Healthcare

People with rare diseases face stigma, isolation, and neglect. Addressing social and emotional impacts is crucial for better support.

Innovative collaborations are helping rare disease patient groups campaign for change and training medical students to be advocates.

Significant strides have been made to bring advocacy and engagement on rare diseases from Kenya to the global stage.

Conflict, crises, and other disruptions often drive countries to build more equitable health systems.

Poor research leads to gaps in access and quality of healthcare for women. Identifying systemic barriers is crucial for achieving UHC.

Building collaborative cancer research infrastructure can help develop affordable, scalable, and regionally appropriate solutions.

De-pathologizing higher-weight bodies is essential for combating stigma and creating a more evidence-based, weight neutral paradigm.

Research into the long-term effects of cancer treatment on children’s brains is helping guide post-recovery care.

Open conversations and better access to menstrual products are helping to destigmatise menstruation in Côte d'Ivoire.

Female genital mutilation impacts millions of girls and women. Breaking the silence around the clitoris is a global health imperative.

The relationsship between social media, cosmetic procedures and poor mental health is becoming increasingly problematic.

South Asian communities in the UK continue to grapple with toxic side effects of skin lightening practices.

Rooted in colourism and perpetuated by popular culture, the growing market for skin bleaching products is spawning a public health crisis.

Awareness of legal maternity protections can help secure the income and rights of Hong Kong’s female migrant domestic workers.

Bangladesh grapples with climate change, a rising sea, water salinity, and chronic disease. What can it do to reverse the tide?

As medical care and research remain stubbornly male-centric, a global movement is afoot to end the invisibilisation of women.

How blended finance can mitigate investment risks to attract private funds for healthcare, especially focused on NCDs.

Women make up 70% of the healthcare workforce but continue to be led by men. Why aren’t more women leading the health sector?

Locked out by stigma, transphobic politics and inequity, trans people around the world struggle to access quality and timely healthcare.

Women in India are at heightened risk for cardiovascular disease, yet struggle to access preventative, emergency and follow-up care.

What happens in the body after quitting smoking?

The most effective population-wide approach to preventive mental health care is nuanced and tailored to the needs of diverse communities.

Cases of depression and anxiety continue to skyrocket, as it is becoming clear that the pandemic will leave a legacy of poor mental health.

Caribbean youth have set their governments an agenda for change in a region hobbled by inadequate mental health services.

Hear from Suntosh Pillay, a clinical psychologist based in Durban, South Africa.

The consequences of climate change on mental health can be direct or indirect, short-term or long-term.

The growing phenomenon of climate anxiety, how it presents itself, and who is affected by it.

The unfettered world of social media can have a negative impact on mental health. Improving education can have a protective effect.

Mental health conditions remain untreated in large parts of Africa. Community-led initiatives are bridging the gap by training lay...

The growing economic burden of diabetes globally, and its particular impact on emerging markets, has highlighted the importance of...

Air pollution is an invisible threat to human health as well as the planet—and not only because of its connection with respiratory...

With every day comes new evidence of the devastation caused by climate change, and paralleling this rise is the rapid escalation of the...

Obesity is one of the most urgent global health challenges of the 21st century. Prevalence rates have reached pandemic proportions,...

Better prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) could avert millions of years of lost productivity. Increasing risk factors cause...

As COVID-19 pandemic-priorities escalated, care of non-communicable diseases got pushed aside, particularly in less well off countries....

Already strained healthcare systems further burdened by the Covid-19 pandemic are struggling to pay sufficient attention to NCDs, the...

Before the pandemic crisis, women’s lives were already heavily affected by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as women constitute the...

Populations in more than one in three low-income countries are hit by a double burden of malnutrition in the form of both obesity and...

The number of people living in cities is projected to rise from 55 % to 68 % of the world’s population by 2050, according to the United...