Violence and threats against health facilities and workers, both in peacetime and during armed conflict, and the ...

The latest data from WHO show that tuberculosis remains a formidable global health concern, with an estimated 10·8 million ...

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Systemic rheumatic diseases, the immunomodulatory medications used to treat them, and the comorbidities associated with them, might predispose individuals to these syndromes. This Series in The Lancet ...

As we enter London Global Cancer Week (Nov 11–15, 2024), cancer care is at a crucial juncture in the UK. Although cancer survival in the UK has improved in the past 50 years, it is still worse than ...

Tremendous successes have been achieved in treating and caring for people living with HIV and in developing HIV prevention technologies such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure ...

Medical care for individual conditions is insufficient for improving overall health and reducing persistent disparities in ...

Progress of COVID-19 vaccination programmes for older adults is uneven across countries, emphasising an ongoing challenge to achieve vaccine equity for this high-risk age group. Therefore, it is ...

SARS-CoV-2—initially thought of as an acute respiratory virus—can lead to post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID), a chronic multisystemic illness that develops in some people who have been ...

International migration has become a major global issue generating huge economic, social, and cultural consequences in both countries of origin and countries of destination. Europe has become an ...

Since the current outbreak of mpox clade I began in eastern DR Congo in 2023, there has been a rapid increase in cases, primarily in DR Congo, and spread of the monkeypox virus to other countries in ...