January 1: “Japan Lowers Its Tsunami Warning But Still Tells People Not to Go Home After a Series of Earthquakes” (Associated Press)
January 2: “China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No” (Wall Street Journal)
January 3: “A Potent Antibiotic Has Emerged in the Battle Against Deadly, Drug-Resistant Superbugs” [Global] (Los Angeles Times)
January 3: “Whatever Happened to Zika?” [South America/Caribbean/USA] (The Atlantic)
January 3: “Long COVID Is a Double Curse in Low-Income Nations—Here’s Why” (Nature)
January 3: “Thermo Fisher Says It Has Halted Sales of DNA Technology in Tibet” (Wall Street Journal)
January 5: “U.S. Readies Aid as Death Toll from Japan Earthquake Nears 100” (NBC News)
January 10: “Guatemala’s Baby Brokers: How Thousands of Children Were Stolen for Adoption” (The Guardian)
January 11: “Looming Starvation in Gaza Shows Resurgence of Civilian Sieges in Warfare” (New York Times)
January 17: “Chinese Lab Mapped the Deadly Coronavirus Two Weeks Before Beijing Told the World, Documents Show” (Wall Street Journal)
January 19: “With Harsh Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Law, Uganda Risks a Health Crisis” (New York Times)
January 22: “Rollout of a New Malaria Vaccine Kicks off in Africa” (STAT News)
January 22: “If You Donate DNA, What Should Scientists Give in Return? A ‘Pathbreaking’ New Model” [Kenya] (NPR)
January 23: “Why Diphtheria Is Making a Comeback” [West Africa] (NPR)
January 24: “How the World’s Deadliest Crisis Goes Unseen” [Central African Republic] (Undark)
January 24: “The Malaria Vaccine That Just Rolled Out Has a Surprise Benefit for Kids” [Africa] (NPR)
January 26: “World Court Rejects Demand for Gaza Cease-Fire” (Wall Street Journal)
January 26: “Once in the Millions, Guinea Worm Cases Numbered 13 in 2023, Carter Center’s Initial Count Says” [Africa] (Associated Press)
February 2: “UN Food Agency Says It Has Reports of People Dying from Starvation amid the Conflict in Sudan” (PBS News)
February 5: “About 13 Children Die Each Day at a Camp in Sudan for Displaced People, Medical Charity MSF Says” (Associated Press)
February 5: “Rio de Janeiro Declares a Dengue Health Emergency Days Ahead of Carnival” (Associated Press)
February 8: “Why a Cheap, Effective Treatment for Diarrhea Is Underused” [India] (Nature)
February 9: “Ecuador’s High Court Decriminalizes Euthanasia, Following a Lawsuit by a Terminally Ill Patient” (Associated Press)
February 13: “The Death of the World’s Best Marathon Runner Is Part of a Troubling Global Trend” (Vox)
February 14: “Thailand Made Pot Legal Two Years Ago. That Could Change Soon” (Associated Press)
February 14: “Forced Labor Still Haunts China’s Xinjiang, Report Finds” (Politico)
February 15: “Cholera Vaccine Stocks ‘Empty’ as Cases Surge” [Global] (Reuters)
February 16: “Kyiv Is Using Homegrown Tech to Treat the Trauma of War” [Ukraine] (Wired)
February 21: “Zimbabwe Starts an Emergency Polio Vaccination Drive After Detecting Cases Caused by a Rare Mutation” (Associated Press)
February 21: “1 in 6 Children Malnourished in Northern Gaza: UN” (The Hill)
February 27: “Peru Has Declared a Health Emergency in Most of Its Provinces as Dengue Cases Soar” (Associated Press)
February 28: “Cholera Vaccine Shortage Reaches Worst Point Yet, with Experts Fearing Deadly Outbreaks” [Global] (STAT News)
March 1: “Worldwide Obesity Tops 1 Billion” (Axios)
March 1: “Chikungunya Vaccine Approved for Select Groups by CDC Advisory Pane” [USA] (STAT News)
March 4: “With a Million Cases of Dengue So Far This Year, Brazil Is in a State of Emergency” (NPR)
March 6: “World Bank, Gates, UN Pledge Close to $600 Million to End Cervical Cancer” [Global] (Reuters)
March 8: “Female Genital Cutting Continues to Increase Worldwide” (New York Times)
March 11: “Thousands of Pregnant Women in Gaza Suffer from Malnutrition, Health Authorities Say” (New York Times)
March 11: “Three Is Best: How China’s Family Planning Propaganda Has Changed” (New York Times)
March 14: “Fungal Diseases Are Spreading Undetected” [Global] (Nature)
March 18: “Haiti’s Hospitals Survived Cholera and Covid. Gangs Are Closing Them” (New York Times)
March 18: “Gaza Amputees Fight for Survival in Hospitals Hollowed Out by War” (Wall Street Journal)
March 18: “Pandemic Pact Crunch Time: Final Treaty Talks Start to Prevent Future Deaths” [Global] (Axios)
March 21: “World’s Population to Fall for the First Time Since the Black Death” (The Telegraph via Yahoo! News)
April 2: “Aid Organizations Suspend Operations in Gaza After World Central Kitchen Workers’ Deaths” (Associated Press)
April 3: “Kenyan Doctors Strike Over Pay and Training Extends Into Third Week” (Reuters)
April 3: “‘The Machine Did It Coldly’: Israel Used AI to Identify 37,000 Hamas Targets” (The Guardian)
April 9: “Dengue Fever Outbreak in Argentina Leads to Shortage of a Must-Have Item: Mosquito Repellent” (Associated Press)
April 11: “After IDF Retreat from Al-Shifa Hospital, Palestinians Sift Through Rubble for Their Dead” (NBC News)
April 12: “Global Stockpile of Cholera Vaccine Is Gone as Outbreaks Spread” (New York Times)
April 12: “The Push for a Better Dengue Vaccine Grows More Urgent” [South America] (New York Times)
April 16: “Mexico, a Leading Producer of Illicit Fentanyl, Can’t Get Enough for Medical Use, Study Finds” (Associated Press)
April 18: “Millions of Girls in Africa Will Miss HPV Shots After Merck Production Problem” (New York Times)
April 19: “Risk of Bird Flu Spreading to Humans Is ‘Enormous Concern’, Says WHO” [Global] (The Guardian)
April 19: “UN Approved an Updated Cholera Vaccine That Could Help Fight a Surge in Cases” [Global] (Associated Press)
April 22: “Toxic: How the Search for the Origins of COVID-19 Turned Politically Poisonous” [China] (Associated Press)
April 23: “Haiti Health System Nears Collapse as Medicine Dwindles, Gangs Attack Hospitals and Ports Stay Shut” (Associated Press)
April 23: “Monkeypox Virus: Dangerous Strain Gains Ability to Spread Through Sex, New Data Suggest” [Democratic Republic of the Congo] (Nature)
April 23: “Lethal AI Weapons Are Here: How Can We Control Them?” [Global] (Nature)
April 26: “UN Report Says 282 Million People Faced Acute Hunger in 2023, with the Worst Famine in Gaza” (Associated Press)
May 10: “The Impossible Goal of a Disease-Free World” (Undark)
May 13: “U.S. Medical Volunteers in Rafah Hospital Say They’ve Never Seen a Worse Health Crisis” [Gaza] (NPR)
May 13: “Pandemic Treaty Talks Will Go on After Missed Deadline, Some Progress, WHO Says” [Global] (Reuters)
May 13: “Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed” (Wall Street Journal)
May 22: “The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them from ‘Modern Day Slavery’” [Africa] (Wired)
May 24: “Extreme Weather. A Lack of Lifesaving Vaccines. Africa’s Cholera Crisis Is Worse Than Ever” (Associated Press)
May 28: “World Health Assembly Hopes to Reinforce Pandemic Preparedness After Bold Treaty Project Stalls” [Global] (Associated Press)
May 29: “Dengue Fever, Once Confined to the Tropics, Now Threatens the U.S.” (NBC News)
May 29: “How the Pandemic Gave Power to Superbugs” [Global] (NPR)
June 6: “Finland to Offer Bird Flu Vaccine to Select Groups of People, a Possible Global First” (STAT News)
June 13: “Elite Researchers in China Say They Had ‘No Choice’ But to Commit Misconduct” (Nature)
June 18: “Japan Reports Record Spike in Potentially Deadly Bacterial Infection” (CNN)
June 20: “South Africa Runs Out of Insulin Pens as Global Supply Shifts to Weight-Loss Drugs” (New York Times)
June 20: “It’s Hard to Find Treatment for Snakebites in Kenya. Thousands of People Are Dying Every Year” (Associated Press)
June 26: “WHO, Scientists Call for Urgent Action on Mpox Strain” [Africa] (Reuters)
June 26: “Estonians Gave Their DNA to Science—Now They’re Learning Their Genetic Secrets” (Nature)
Heather Zeiger, “Global Health Timeline (January-June 2024),” Dignitas 31, no. 1–2 (2024): 28–30, www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/global-health-timeline-january-june-2024.