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After decades of steady progress that saved millions of lives, the reduction of infant mortality worldwide has stalled. The most recent data, published in 2026, indicates a worrying slowdown that threatens to erase years of effort and leave millions of children by the wayside.
A billion people live with a mental disorder, but health budgets allocated barely exceed 2% on average. This chronic underinvestment creates a gaping treatment gap, particularly in low-income countries.
In 2019, bacterial resistance to antimicrobials was directly responsible for 1.27 million deaths. The WHO publishes in March 2026 new guidelines to direct the development of the most urgently needed antibiotics.
According to a 2026 Ipsos global study conducted in 29 countries, 31% of Gen Z men believe a woman should always obey her husband, revealing significant adherence to traditional gender roles within this young generation.
Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology used sterilized mosquitoes as vectors for a recombinant vaccine to immunize bats against rabies and Nipah. First demonstration in an animal model, published in Science Advances.
More than 2.2 billion people live in urban areas in Asia-Pacific. 700 million of them live in slums or precarious housing, representing two-thirds of the world's slum population.
In 2024, 912,000 people applied for asylum for the first time in the European Union. This is 137,500 fewer than in 2023, representing a 13% decrease. In the first half of 2025, the trend accelerated: the EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA) recorded a 23% drop compared to the first half of 2024.
In February 2026, a clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, administered the first lenacapavir injections to young women who came for a routine prevention appointment. Two shots per year, in the arm or abdomen, and protection against HIV is ensured for six months. No daily pill to swallow, no medicine box to hide...
In August 2025, Eurostat published updated data on unmet medical needs in the European Union. The average figure, 3.6% of the adult population in 2024, seems modest. But it conceals considerable disparities between countries. In Greece, 21.9% of inhabitants report having foregone a medical examination or treatment during the past...
A child diagnosed with cancer in France has an 80% chance of survival. The same child, with the same diagnosis, born in Senegal, Bangladesh, or Bolivia, has a 30% chance of survival. This 50-point gap is not a natural phenomenon.
Malaria killed 608,000 people in 2022, with 95% in sub-Saharan Africa and 78% being children under five. For the first time, a vaccine deployed on a large scale is showing measurable results on the ground.
Since the approval of the first checkpoint inhibitor in 2011, immunotherapy has profoundly changed the management of certain cancers. However, results remain highly uneven depending on tumor types, and global access continues to be a considerable challenge.
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