July 4: “Japan’s Top Court Orders Government to Compensate Disabled People Who Were Forcibly Sterilized” (ABC News)
July 4: “WHO Emergency Listing Urgent for DRC Mpox Outbreak” (SciDevNet)
July 5: “China Is Finally Starting to Do Something About the U.S. Fentanyl Crisis” (Wall Street Journal)
July 11: “He Was Operating on a Baby When a Russian Missile Struck” [Ukraine] (Wall Street Journal)
July 12: “The One-Child Policy Supercharged China’s Economic Miracle. Now It’s Paying the Price.” (Wall Street Journal)
July 16: “Kids’ Vaccination Stalls Globally, WHO Finds” [Global] (Axios)
July 16: “Gambia Upholds Its Ban on Female Genital Cutting. Reversing It Would Have Been a Global First” (Associated Press)
July 18: “Even with No Drug or Vaccine, Eradication of Guinea Worm Is in Sight” [Africa] (Nature)
July 23: “How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter” (Wired)
July 25: “An Unwelcome Attendee Has Joined the Paris Olympic Games: Covid-19” (CNN)
July 26: “Why Sudan Is Being Called a ‘Humanitarian Desert’” (NPR)
July 30: “As Doctors Leave Puerto Rico in Droves, a Rapper Tries to Fill the Gaps” (Associated Press)
July 30: “Lice, Scabies, Rashes Plague Palestinian Children as Skin Disease Runs Rampant in Gaza’s Tent Camps” (Associated Press)
July 30: “A New Way to Prevent HIV Delivers Dramatic Results in Trial” [Africa] (NPR)
August 5: “Argentina Will Use AI to ‘Predict Future Crimes’ but Experts Worry for Citizens’ Rights” (The Guardian)
August 5: “Have Babies for Russia: Putin Presses Women to Embrace Patriotism Over Feminism” (Washington Post via MSN)
August 6: “Every Day of Infancy Is Safer Than in the Past” [Global] (Our World Data)
August 6: “Many of Gaza’s Medical Workers Have Been Detained or Killed” (New York Times)
August 8: “Gaza to Get 1.2m Polio Vaccines Amid Outbreak Fears” (BBC)
August 8: “UN Health Agency Convening Experts to Determine If the Mpox Outbreak in Africa Is a Global Emergency” (Associated Press)
August 12: “First Imported Cases of Zika-Like Virus Detected in Europe” (Politico)
August 13: “Africa CDC Declares Mpox Outbreak a Public Health Emergency” (The Guardian)
August 14: “WHO Declares Mpox Outbreaks in Africa a Global Health Emergency as a New Form of the Virus Spreads” (Associated Press)
August 14: “Doctors Strike Across India to Protest Rape and Murder of Trainee Medic” (CNN)
August 19: “Congo Says It Will Receive Its First Mpox Vaccines Next Week to Address New Global Emergency” (ABC News)
August 21: “Gastroenteritis Rates Higher in Seine Events Than in Previous Olympics” (MedPage Today)
August 23: “Pulling Back the Curtain” [Mpox in Africa] (Science)
August 26: “Baby Paralyzed in Gaza’s First Case of Type 2 Polio for 25 Years, WHO Says” (Reuters)
August 27: “New Mpox Strain Is Changing Fast; African Scientists Are ‘Working Blind’ to Respond” (Reuters)
August 29: “This Ancient Disease Still Kills 1 Million People Every Year” [Hepatitis B and C, Global] (Vox)
August 29: “WHO Says Its Deal with Israel Will Allow Limited Pauses in Gaza Fighting for Polio Vaccinations” (ABC News)
September 2: “Large-Scale Polio Vaccinations Begin in War-Ravaged Gaza After First Case in 25 Years” (ABC News)
September 2: “An Ethical Way Forward for Indigenous Microbiome Research” [Tanzania] (Nature)
September 5: “First Doses of Mpox Vaccines Arrive at the Heart of Africa’s Outbreak. What Took So Long?” [DRC] (NPR)
September 6: “China’s One-Child Policy Sent Thousands of Adoptees Overseas. That Era Is Over.” (Wall Street Journal)
September 10: “Children Show Up in Droves for Gaza’s ‘Dangerous and Difficult’ Polio Campaign” (ABC News)
September 11: “Cholera Deaths Soar Worldwide Despite Being Easily Preventable” (New York Times)
September 16: “‘For Me, There Was No Other Choice’: Inside the Global Illegal Organ Trade” [Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea] (The Guardian)
September 17: “This Preventive Drug Could Be a ‘Game Changer’ in Ending the HIV Epidemic” [Global] (NPR)
September 18: “Doctors Without Borders Closes Operations in Russia” (Associated Press)
September 23: “Lebanese Doctor Races to Save the Eyes of Those Hurt by Exploding Tech Devices” (ABC News)
September 23: “US to Donate 1 Million Mpox Vaccine Doses to Halt Outbreak in Africa” (Reuters)
September 27: “The Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance” (New York Times)
September 30: “CDC Communicates with Health Authorities Amid Marburg Virus Outbreak in Rwanda” (UPI)
October 2: “Chronic Diseases Cause 75 Percent of All Deaths Globally. The Toll Is Likely to Rise.” (Vox)
October 2: “In Genetic Data, Gaps That Affect Indigenous Communities” [Latin America] (Undark)
October 4: “Rwanda to Start Vaccine Trials for Marburg Disease in a Few Weeks” (Reuters)
October 4: “Mpox Vaccine Rollout Begins in Africa: What Will Success Look Like?” (Nature)
October 8: “CDC to Screen Travelers for Marburg, as Outbreak of Ebola-Like Disease Grows” [Rwanda] (CBS News)
October 8: “Access Questions Hang Over Gilead’s HIV Shot” [Global] (Axios)
October 8: “So, Are You Pregnant Yet? China’s In-Your-Face Push for More Babies.” (New York Times)
October 10: “Africa CDC Faults U.S. Government Over Marburg-Related Travel Advisory to Rwanda” (STAT News)
October 10: “‘Catastrophic Situation’ at Children’s Hospital as Israel Renews Gaza Attacks” (The Guardian)
October 15: “Therapeutic Food Shortage Puts African Children at Risk of Starvation, U.N. Agency Says” (New York Times)
October 17: “Years of War in Congo Have Created a Dire Mental Health Crisis. But Little Support Is Available” (Associated Press)
October 18: “Africa’s Mpox Deaths Surpass 1,000 as Health Officials Urge International Support” (Associated Press)
October 22: “As Ukraine’s Birth Rate Plunges, Here’s What One Doctor Is Doing to Reverse the Trend” (NPR)
October 24: “Animal-to-Human Viral Leap Sparked Deadly Marburg Outbreak” [Rwanda] (Nature)
October 25: “Malaria Is Surging in Ethiopia, Reversing a Decade of Progress Against the Disease” (New York Times)
October 29: “8 Million People Were Infected with TB in 2023. WHO Says That’s the Highest It Has Seen” [Global] (Associated Press)
November 4: “Deal Reached on Proceeds from DNA Data-Sharing” [Global] (Axios)
November 4: “An ‘Unprecedented’ Good News Story About a Potentially Deadly Viral Outbreak” [Rwanda] (NPR)
November 6: “Russian Drone Jockeys Hunt Front-Line Shop Clerks and Repairmen in Ukraine” (Wall Street Journal)
November 8: “Dozens Die of Mysterious Illness in Besieged Sudan Town” (Reuters via MSN)
November 8: “WHO Study Lists Top Endemic Pathogens for Which New Vaccines Are Urgently Needed” [Global] (Medical Xpress)
November 14: “More than 800 Million People Around the World Have Diabetes, Study Finds” (The Guardian)
November 22: “The World’s Biggest EV Maker Has the Industry’s Worst Human Rights Appraisal” [Global] (Wired)
November 25: “Home Is the Most Dangerous Place for Women, Says Global Femicide Report” (The Guardian)
November 26: “Modern Warfare Is Breeding Deadly Superbugs. Why?” [Middle East] (New York Times)
December 4: “Afghan Women Reportedly Barred from Studying Nursing and Midwivery” (NPR)
December 6: “13 Children Die in Mexico from Suspected Contaminated IV Bags” (Associated Press)
December 6: “A Mysterious Respiratory Disease Has the Democratic Republic of the Congo on High Alert” (Wired)
December 9: “Sex, a Hex and a Sick Child Offer Clues to an Epidemic’s Birth” [DRC] (New York Times)
December 10: “Some ‘Mystery Disease’ Patients in DRC Have Malaria, WHO Says” (The Guardian)
December 18: “Tiny Coffins: Measles Is Killing Thousands of Children in Congo” (New York Times)
December 23: “HIV Is Spiking in New Hot Spots. Here’s What’s Being Done to Control It” [SE Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America] (NPR)
December 23: “The Invisible Russia-Ukraine Battlefield” (Wired)
December 24: “Mpox Is Spreading in Congo’s Capital, Threatening Global Efforts to Contain the Virus” (New York Times)
December 24: “The ‘Invisible Wall’ Amplifying China’s Population Doom Loop” (Wall Street Journal)
December 30: “Jimmy Carter’s Quiet but Monumental Work in Global Health” (New York Times)
December 31: “WHO, Family Call for Release of Detained Gaza Hospital Director” (Washington Post)
December 31: “What Was ‘Disease X’ and What Can We Learn from It?” [DRC] (NPR)
Heather Zeiger, "Global Health Timeline (July–December 2024)," Dignitas 31, no. 3-4 (2024): 31–33, www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/global-health-timeline-july-december-2024.