Kat Lay

London

Global Health Correspondent at The Guardian

Global health correspondent at The Guardian

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Articles

‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age-old tropical illnesses

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kat Lay

Since 2013, for around two weeks each year, Sulaiman Tarawallie has pulled on his community drug distributor (CDD) uniform and gone from household to household in his remote farming community to hand out medication to fight river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. Once he has completed the rounds of his village, he heads further out to take the drugs to even more remote homes – keeping the diseases that had plagued generations at bay with a handful of pills.
Aid cuts could have ‘pandemic-like effects’ on maternal deaths, WHO warns

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kat Lay

More women risk dying in pregnancy and childbirth because of aid cuts by wealthy countries, which could have “pandemic-like effects”, UN agencies have warned. Pregnant women in conflict zones are the most vulnerable, and face an “alarmingly high” risk that is already five times greater than elsewhere, according to a new UN report on trends in maternal mortality.
India trains thousands of medics to promote vaccine in huge push to end cervical cancer

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Kat Lay

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India trains thousands of medics to promote vaccine in huge push to end cervical cancer

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kat Lay

Tens of thousands of doctors across India are being trained to promote the HPV vaccine, in a push to eliminate cervical cancer in the country. They will check with mothers attending medical appointments that they intend to vaccinate their daughters, and visit schools and community centres armed with facts and slideshows to counter vaccine disinformation. One in five occur in India – and the overwhelming majority of those are caused by the human papillomavirus, or HPV.
Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 - study

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kat Lay

Up to 2.9 million more children and adults will die from HIV-related causes before 2030 because of aid cuts by countries including the US and Britain, a new study has found. A resulting resurgence of the HIV epidemic would have “devastating consequences” globally, researchers warned, after estimating between 4.4m and 10.8m extra new infections in the next five years due to the cuts.
UK experts urge prioritising research into 24 types of deadly pathogen families

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kat Lay

Deadly disease-causing organisms from pathogen families that include bird flu, plague and Ebola pose a threat to health in the UK and should be prioritised for research, government experts have said. The first tool of its kind from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) lists 24 types of viruses and bacteria where a lack of vaccines, tests and treatment, changes due to the climate crisis or growing drug resistance pose a biosecurity risk.
‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kat Lay

This year the world should have been “talking about the virtual elimination of HIV” in the near future. “Within five years,” says Prof Sharon Lewin, a leading researcher in the field. “Now that’s all very uncertain.”Scientific advances had allowed doctors and campaigners to feel optimistic that the end of HIV as a public health threat was just around the corner. Then came the Trump administration’s abrupt cuts to US aid funding.
the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts

1 month ago | msn.com | Kat Lay

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US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kat Lay

Dangerous new forms of tuberculosis (TB) for which there is no treatment could emerge as a result of US aid cuts, a top doctor has warned. Dr Lucica Ditiu, who heads the Stop TB Partnership, said she feared that interruptions to people’s treatment would allow the airborne bug to mutate into a new, untreatable form. Moreover, a lack of diagnostic services, which have also been badly affected by the Trump administration’s aid cuts, would allow TB to spread more easily, she said.
US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’

1 month ago | aol.co.uk | Kat Lay

Dangerous new forms of tuberculosis (TB) for which there is no treatment could emerge as a result of US aid cuts, a top doctor has warned. Dr Lucica Ditiu, who heads the Stop TB Partnership, said she feared that interruptions to people’s treatment would allow the airborne bug to mutate into a new, untreatable form. Moreover, a lack of diagnostic services, which have also been badly affected by the Trump administration’s aid cuts, would allow TB to spread more easily, she said.