January 7: “In Africa Danger Slithers Through Homes and Fields” (New York Times)
January 8: “They were going to be doctors. Instead, they had to dodge bombs and flee war” [Sudan] (NPR)
January 8: “In Tibet, Survivors of Strong Quake Face Freezing Weather Conditions” (New York Times)
January 21: “Singapore Is Turning to AI to Care for Its Rapidly Aging Population” (Rest of World)
January 23: “‘I Had Anti-Government Views so They Treated Me for Schizophrenia’” [China] (BBC)
January 24: “In a ‘Shocker’ Decision, Japan Approves Mpox Drug That Failed in Two Efficacy Trials” (Science)
January 30: “Nurse Dies as Uganda Confirms New Ebola Outbreak” (BBC)
February 3: “US Spells Out Life-Saving HIV Treatment That Can Continue During Aid Pause” (Reuters)
February 5: “Fear, Pain And Hunger: The Dire Impact of U.S. Funding Cuts in Africa” (Washington Post)
February 6: “Female Genital Mutilation Is a Leading Cause of Death for Girls Where It’s Practised—New Study” [Africa] (The Conversation)
February 12: “Ebola Cases in Uganda Rise to 9, While 265 Others Are Being Monitored Under Quarantine” (Associated Press)
February 14: “Haiti’s Shuttered Main Public Hospital Is Set on Fire in Latest Attack on the Institution” (Associated Press)
February 17: “Africa’s Sperm Donor Industry ‘Lacks Vital Safeguards’” (SciDevNet)
February 18: “Bandits’ New Demand in Brazil: Hand Over the Ozempic!” (New York Times)
February 18: “An Invisible Medical Shortage: Oxygen” (New York Times)
February 19: “Uganda Discharges the Last Ebola Patients. No New Deaths from the Contagious Virus Reported” (Associated Press)
February 19: “How Dirty Money from Fentanyl Sales Is Flowing Through China” (Wall Street Journal)
February 25: “A Mystery Illness in Congo Has Killed More Than 50 People Hours After They Felt Sick” (Associated Press)
February 25: “U.S. Joins WHO-Led Flu Vaccine Meeting, Despite Planned Withdrawal from Agency” (STAT News)
February 26: “How Many Have Died in Sudan’s Civil War? Satellite Images and Models Offer Clues” (Science)
February 27: “‘They Forced Me to Stand for Hours in the Cold, Arms Raised and Shackled’: Eight Gaza Doctors on Their Israeli Prison Ordeal” (The Guardian)
February 28: “U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World” (New York Times)
March 3: “Mystery Disease in Congo May Be from Poisoned Water Source, WHO Says. Here’s What to Know.” (CBS News)
March 3: “DR Congo Conflict: 500 Mpox Patients Flee Clinics After Rebel Looting” (BBC)
March 4: “‘We Wish We Could Have Taken More’: 29 Children Evacuated from Gaza to Jordan for Treatment” (The Guardian)
March 5: “Hundreds of Children Are Among the Rape Victims of Sudan’s War, U.N. Says [Content Warning]” (New York Times)
March 6: “Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Strain Has Hit All But 1 Continent” (Axios)
March 6: “Five Years on: The Countries That Never Locked Down for Covid-19” (BBC)
March 13: “Let’s Not Talk About It’: 5 Years Later, China’s Covid Shadow Lingers” (New York Times)
March 14: “Aid Workers Warn ‘People Are Dying and They’re Going to Continue Dying’ as Funding Cuts Hit” [Global] (The Guardian)
March 14: “Eye-Popping WHO Report Shows Measles Surging Across the Globe” (Gizmodo)
March 24: “One Family. One Attack. 132 Names.” [Gaza/Israel] (NPR)
March 25: “Skin Bleaching Is Terribly Popular—And Takes a Terrible Toll” [Nigeria] (NPR)
March 26: “U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries” (New York Times)
March 26: “World’s Largest ‘Baby Exporter’ Admits to Adoption Fraud” [South Korea] (New York Times)
March 31: “New 3D Technology Could Soon Bring Surgeons Closer to Patients in Africa’s Most Remote Regions” (Associated Press)
April 8: “Dozens Die in Floods Hitting Congo’s Capital” (New York Times)
April 10: “Inside the Chinese City That Said Cash Rewards Brought a Baby Boom” (WSJ)
April 15: “Haunted by Hopelessness: 12 Zambians Share Their Stories as HIV Drugs Run Out” (NPR)
April 16: “Sudan in ‘World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis’ After Two Years of Civil War” (The Guardian)
April 18: “Colombia Declares Health Emergency After Dozens Die of Yellow Fever” (BBC)
April 23: “Fentanyl Pipeline: How a Chinese Prison Helped Fuel a Deadly Drug Crisis in the United States” (ProPublica)
April 24: “Global Pandemic Treaty Finalized, Without U.S., in ‘a Victory for Multilateralism’” (Science)
April 30: “A Global Flourishing Study Finds That Young Adults, Well, Aren’t” (New York Times)
May 5: “World May Be ‘Post-Herd Immunity’ to Measles, Top US Scientist Says” (The Guardian)
May 12: “Why This U.S. Ambassador Cried at a Press Conference—And Is Being Called a Hero” [Zambia] (NPR)
May 15: “Hamas Celebrates Shooting That Killed Israeli Mother en Route to Deliver Baby” (New York Times)
May 15: “Mind Reader?” [India] (Science)
May 20: “The World Now Has Its First Ever Pandemic Treaty. Will It Make a Difference?” (NPR)
May 23: “Gaza’s Main Hospital Is Overwhelmed with Children in Pain from Malnutrition” (Associated Press)
May 27: “No Hospitals: How War Collapsed One City’s Health Care System” [Sudan] (NPR)
May 27: “New COVID-19 Variant NB.1.8.1 Causes Surge In China And Is Spreading in the U.S.” (Forbes)
May 28: “Hopes of Parenthood Crushed After IVF Embryos Destroyed in Israel’s Gaza Offensive” (BBC)
June 10: “A Killer Within Easy Reach” (Suriname) (New York Times)
June 10: “The Real Fertility Crisis: The Pursuit of Reproductive Agency in a Changing World” [Global] (UNFPA)
June 11: “AI Is Making Health Care Safer in the Remote Amazon” (Rest of World)
June 27: “The People Who Clean up Your TikTok Feed Are Starting to Fight Back” [Global] (Rest of World)
June 27: “Rising Poverty in Conflict Zones ‘Causes a Billion People to Go Hungry’” [Global] (The Guardian)
Heather Zeiger, "Global Health Timeline January (January–June 2025)," Dignitas 32, no. 1–2 (2025): 30–31, www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/global-health-timeline-january-january-june-2025.