Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training as ‘grotesque’

Philip Morris International has supported non-smoking programmes around the world ‘to advance its own interests’, say health professionals

Pregnant in Gaza with no clinics: ‘I have no idea where I will give birth’

As one of 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza, Noor Hammad faces a traumatic birth and fraught start in life for her first baby

Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women

Only a third of countries with climate crisis plans include access to sexual, maternal and newborn health services, UNFPA report finds

‘Agents of change’: Kenya’s traditional midwives help cut deaths of mothers

Kenya has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates but rural birth attendants are now helping make deliveries safer

Indoor wood fires ‘dangerous’ for some pregnant women

Study finds link between smoke-related deaths and eclampsia, helping explain worse maternal health

Eye for an eye: Javier Bardem iris NFT to be sold for sight-saving charity

Image of actor’s eye to be auctioned to fund Ojos del Mundo in preventing blindness in developing world

Activists call for revolution in ‘dated and colonial’ aid funding

Aspen Institute’s new voices want donors to exercise humility and trust grantees to know what their communities need

True numbers of FGM victims could be far higher as countries fail to record cases

New report calls for national surveys by governments to underline scale of worldwide abuse

Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? review – thrills, pills and big pharma

This hard-hitting exhibition explores the impact of graphic design in health and pharmaceuticals as companies seek to educate, save lives, and sell their wares

Pains and needles: brain scans point to hidden effects of acupuncture

Placebo acupuncture can ease short-term pain but the real thing might help to reverse the underlying pathology of a disease