The World Health Organization has announced today that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

New research published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that menstrual cups are safe and may be as effective as other products.

As we approach the one-year mark of the world’s second largest-ever Ebola outbreak, there is no evidence that the end of this devastating epidemic is in sight. Rather, there is a real risk that this epidemic could further expand.

A new study published in The Lancet Global Health measures the impact of the Mexico City policy between 1995 and 2014.

Funded by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), the new programme will aim to help address the skills shortage in data science in the UK.

The number of people at risk of trachoma – the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness – has fallen from 1.5 billion in 2002 to just over 142 million in 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported.

New research looking at the impact of HPV vaccination programmes and published today in The Lancet finds that they have substantial impact in reducing HPV infections and precancerous cervical lesions.