July 2: “Ann Merriman, ‘Mother of Palliative Care’ in Uganda, Dies at 90” (New York Times)
July 8: “First Malaria Treatment for Babies Approved for Use” (BBC)
July 9: “The World Bank Set Out to Transform Health Care for the Poor in Africa. It Drove Patients Deeper into Poverty” (ICIJ)
July 11: “Burkina Faso’s Only Eye Doctor for Children Sees the Trauma of Both Play and Conflict” (AP)
July 11: “In the Country with the World’s Lowest Birth Rate, Fertility Clinics Are Booming” [South Korea] (BBC)
July 15: “Israel and Iran Usher in New Era of Psychological Warfare” (New York Times)
July 15: “Big Brother Gets New Powers in China with Digital ID System (Washington Post)
July 16: “WHO, UNICEF Say More than 14 Million Infants Worldwide Remain Unvaccinated” (Medical Xpress)
July 23: “’We Faced Hunger Before, But Never Like This’: Skeletal Children Fill Hospital Wards as Starvation Grips Gaza” (The Guardian)
July 25: “Weak Regulation Causing Deaths Due to Contaminated Medicines, WHO Says” [Global] (Reuters)
July 29: “Famine Is Unfolding in Gaza, U.N.-Backed Group Says” (Wall Street Journal)
July 30: “Google Failed to Warn 10 Million of Turkey Earthquake Severity” (BBC)
August 8: “The World Nearly Beat Polio. But Fake Records, an Imperfect Vaccine and Missteps Aided Its Comeback” (AP)
August 8: “China Has Declared War on the Chikungunya Virus. How Much of a Threat Is It?” (NPR)
August 13: “’Our Children Are Dying’—Rare Footage Shows Plight of Civilians in Besieged Sudan City” (BBC)
August 15: “This Virus Seems Like It’s No Longer a Problem. It’s Still a Threat” [Africa] (NPR)
August 19: “One Neurosurgeon, 8 Million Patients” [Sierra Leone] (NPR)
August 22: “Famine Is Now Gripping Parts of Gaza, Says Global Body” (Wall Street Journal)
August 22: “Revealed: Israeli Military’s Own Data Indicates Civilian Death Rate of 83% in Gaza War” (The Guardian)
August 27: “Pregnancy Has Become a Nightmare for Many Women in Nigeria’s Conflict-Hit North” (AP)
September 1: “Latam-GPT: Meet the Open Source AI of Latin America” (Wired)
September 2: “Critical Medical Supplies Run Out as Cases of Rare Syndrome Rise in Gaza, WHO Says” (Reuters)
September 3: “An Ancient Disease Makes Yet Another Comeback” [Africa] (NPR)
September 5: “WHO Adds GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs to List of the World’s Essential Medicines for the First Time” (Quartz)
September 11: “$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders from Trump Officials” (New York Times)
September 22: “This Country’s Government Vowed to Eliminate TB by the End of 2025. It’s Not Going Well” [India] (CNN)
September 25: “Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.” [Global] (New York Times)
October 6: “Bad Practice: How Doctors Jump Borders to Leave Troubling Pasts Behind” [Global] (National Post)
October 10: “Iran Lures Transgender Foreigners for Surgery But Forces Operations on Locals” (New York Times)
October 14: “W.H.O. Warns of Sharp Increase in Drug-Resistant Infections” [Global] (New York Times)
October 15: “Good News About Christian Hospitals in Africa” (CT)
October 22: “‘I Fear We Are Sitting on a Time Bomb.’ Scientists Debate Mass Distribution of Antibiotics in Africa” (Science)
October 24: “This Nation Has the Fastest Rising Rate of Cancer Cases—and Deaths—in the World” [Lebanon] (NPR)
October 24: “In a Regional First, Uruguay Passes a Law Allowing Euthanasia” (AP via MSN)
October 29: “Hundreds Killed in Massacre at Sudanese Hospital, W.H.O. Warns” (New York Times)
November 7: “AI Steps in to Detect the World’s Deadliest Infectious Diseases” [Global] (Wired)
November 13: “New Malaria Drug Could Be a Life-Saver as the Standard Drug Shows Signs of Weakness” [Africa] (NPR)
November 24: “Bad Drugs or No Drugs: Cancer Patients Face Scary Reality Tied to Foreign Supply Chain” [United States] (The National News Desk)
November 24: “Unesco Adopts Global Standards on ‘Wild West’ Field of Neurotechnology (The Guardian)
December 1: “WHO Warning Over Shortage of Obesity Jabs” [Global] (BBC)
December 2: “These Zika Mothers Went to Battle—And Their Cry Was Heard” [Brazil] (NPR)
December 15: “They Answered an Ad for Surrogates, and Found Themselves in a Nightmare” [Global] (New York Times)
December 16: “The Biggest Mosquito-Borne Disease in the World Has a Cure. There’s Just One Problem” [Global] (Vox)
December 24: “The Quiet Violence of Surveillance Developmentalism” [India] (The Hedgehog Review)
December 31: “A Deadly, Drug-Resistant Fungus Threatens People Around the World, Scientists Warn” (Gizmodo)
Heather Zeiger, “Global Health Timeline (July–December 2025),” Dignitas 32, no. 3–4 (2025): 36–37, www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/global-health-timeline-july-december-2025.