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Cash transfers have emerged as an essential part of social protection systems globally, most recently during COVID lockdowns.

Women and girls in low-income countries are disproportionately likely to be affected by the plastic waste that’s flooding our planet.

There has been an epidemic outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea for the first time. Here’s what you need to know about the virus, and how it spreads.

One of the oldest and deadliest diseases, malaria caused more than 627,000 deaths in 2020. A new treatment based on a drug initially developed to fight cancer has shown considerable promise.

The World Health Organization has created more memorable and less stigmatising names for coronavirus variants.

The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola causing the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo currently has no vaccine. The Conversation Weekly podcast speaks to two researchers working to develop one.

The COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity to think critically about the place of prisons in society and how and why prisoners have been released in the past. COVID-19 could spark systemic change.

Overnight, Chinese people found themselves classed as “aliens” in India, which for some was the only country they’d ever known. But worse, many were detained for up to five years.

The Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola, currently has no approved treatments or vaccines to protect against it.

A vaccine designed entirely by AI has been tested in people for the first time.