[video] Impact on gender justice and health during conflicts or other humanitarian crises

We cannot turn a blind eye to preventable epidemics if we are to deliver on SDGs

The epidemic-proportion diseases and untimely deaths caused by tobacco use are entirely preventable. Likewise, we have science-based tools and approaches to find all TB cases, treat all of them and prevent transmission of the disease. When even one TB or tobacco death is a death too many, how can one explain 1.25 million TB deaths and over 8 million tobacco-related deaths in 2023 alone? How can TB disease, that is entirely preventable (and curable), become the deadliest infectious disease worldwide?

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SHE & Rights | Impact on gender justice and health during conflicts or other humanitarian crises

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The seventh session of SHE & Rights (Sexual Health with Equity & Rights) will be organised on the theme: "Impact on gender justice and health during conflicts or other humanitarian crises." It will also feature highlights of The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health report released earlier this month.

Gender justice and health equity are inextricably linked but are programmes linked?

The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health launched a new report in April 2025 on "achieving gender justice for global health equity" in Delhi, India. The report reflects how a lack of understanding of the link between gender and health is negatively affecting health outcomes.

Will all children be born free of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis-B by 2030?

[हिंदी] Despite knowing how to prevent vertical transmission (from mother to the baby) of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis-B infections, we are failing with every child who is born with either of these preventable infections. We have the science-backed tools to ensure that all children are born free of these three infections. Failing to deploy them with utmost effectiveness is highly unacceptable.

High-Level Roundtable to mark World Health Day: Strengthening South-South partnerships for improving access to health technologies developed by Global South for achieving UHC

Half of women cannot make decisions about their reproductive health and bodily autonomy

In the lead up to 2025 World Health Day, it is important for us to review why almost half of women are not able to make decisions pertaining to their own reproductive health and bodily autonomy.