January 6: “Isreal Tells Doctors Without Borders to End Its Work in Gaza” (New York Times)
January 19: “Families of Israeli Soldiers Killed in Gaza Are Retrieving Sperm from Their Bodies” (NPR)
January 26: “Amid Botched Procedures, China Is Cracking Down on Cosmetic Surgery” (Washington Post via MSN)
January 29: “Why These Women Break the Law to Sell Their Eggs for IVF” [India] (NPR)
February 3: “‘Biblical Diseases’ Could Resurge in Africa, Health Officials Fear” (New York Times)
February 10: “Guinea Worm Nears Eradication, May Be Second Human Disease Wiped Out After Smallpox” (Optimist Daily)
February 13: “WHO Slams US-Funded Newborn Vaccine Trial as ‘Unethical’” [Guinea-Bissau, Africa] (Ars Technica)
February 13: “4 Months Trapped in a Hospital for an Obsolete Way of Treating Their Disease [Tuberculosis]” (New York Times)
February 24: “Community Health Project in Kenya and Uganda Dramatically Cuts News HIV Infections” (Science)
March 3: “Iran War Heralds Era of AI-Powered Bombing Quicker than ‘Speed of Thought’” (The Guardian)
March 10: “The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History” [Sudan] (The Walrus)
March 13: “Somali Conjoined Twins Rahma and Ramla ‘Successfully Separated’ in Riyadh” (Arab News)
March 20: “What the World Happiness Report Reveals About Social Media and the World’s Happiest Country” (Associated Press)
March 23: “How These Secretive Traditional Circumcision Rites Are Responsible for Dozens of Deaths” (Associated Press)
March 26: “Maternal Mortality Rises in US Aid-Dependent Countries Under Republican Presidents, Study Shows” (The Guardian)
April 2: “The Gig Workers Who Are Training Humanoid Robots at Home” (MIT Technology Review)
April 13: “Mutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race” (New York Times)
April 16: “Ukraine Says Russians Are Surrendering to Robots” (404 Media)
April 20: “The Killer Robots Are Coming. The Battlefield Will Never Look the Same.” (New York Times)
May 1: “Long a Dream, It’s Now Real: A Fast and Accurate TB Test That Doesn’t Need Phlegm” (NPR)
May 7: “’Spreading Like Wildfire’: Fiji Grapples with Soaring HIV Cases” (The Straits Times)
May 11: “Hantavirus Is on the Rise in Argentina, Where a Stricken Cruise Ship Began Its Journey” (AP)
May 15: “The World Is on Track to Miss Its Health Targets” (MIT Tech Review)
May 18: “India’s DNA Map Uncovers Millions of Missing Genetic Variants” (Nature)
May 19: “Ebola Raged for Weeks in Congo Before Anyone Raised the Alarm” (New York Times)
May 21: “Efforts to Contain Ebola May Have Been Hindered by Lack of U.S. Involvement” [Democratic Republic of Congo] (New York Times)
May 21: “How Wet Weather in Argentina Helped Fuel the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak” (Wired)
May 26: “Residents Burn an Ebola Treatment Center in Congo as Anger Grows Over the Outbreak” (AP)
May 28: “U.S. Races to Set Up Quarantine Facility in Kenya for Americans Exposed to Ebola” (Wall Street Journal)
May 29: “Contagion of Conspiracy Theories Makes Ebola Epidemic Harder to Contain” [Democratic Republic of Congo] (Washington Post via MSN)
June 5: “Moderna Gets $50 Million to Develop mRNA Ebola Vaccine Against Bundibugyo” (Ars Technica)
June 11: “This Could Be the Worst Ebola Outbreak in History” (New York Times)
June 15: “Ukraine’s Defense AI Chief Predicts ‘New Paradigm’ of Warfare” (Reuters)
June 18: “Scientists Confronting the Rising Global Threat of Mosquitoes” (Phys.org)
June 25: “France Identifies Its First Case of Ebola” (New York Times)
Heather Zeiger, "Global Health Timeline (January–June 2026)," Dignitas 33, no. 1–2 (2026): 33–34, www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/global-health-timeline-january-june-2026.