Health & health facilities

This report provides an overview of Action Against Covid-19 Transmission in Nairobi (ACT Nairobi), a community-based, participatory public health project in an informal settlement of the city.

Alarmed by the surge in mpox cases, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has taken the unprecedented step of declaring the outbreak sweeping through African countries a continental public health emergency.

In response to new and resurging mpox outbreaks in multiple African countries, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention declared mpox a continent-wide public health emergency Tuesday.

Rutgers researchers examined particulate matter from a June 2023 fire that triggered advisories for more than 100 million Americans in the Northeast.

Fires create new risks like toxic contaminants in drinking water, where plastic pipes exposed to intense heat leach harmful substances, affecting communities unaware of compromised water quality. And more.

The risk of acute gastrointestinal illness increases by up to 62% after certain kinds of sewer overflows, according to recent research. And with increasing extreme rainfall events in the forecast, climate change could make the problem worse.

An international study led by researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has used a new method to identify the various sources of aerosols that create smog in Beijing.

It's not just high and low temperatures that matter. How many degrees the temperature swings within a day – the daily temperature variation – itself poses health risks.