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Mortality associated with wildfires may be underestimated by 93% - ISGLOBAL

Wildfires and severe thunderstorms in the US drive global insured losses to USD 80 billion in first half of 2025, Swiss Re Institute estimates | Swiss Re

Unseasonal fires trigger above-trend catastrophe losses in first half 2025 | Swiss Re

UN warns of steep rise in sexual violence during conflict | UN News

“Help Us Live With Dignity, Not Just Survive” New UN report calls for scaled-up comprehensive services amid unprecedented levels of conflict-related sexual violence – United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict

Outcomes of the Fifth Global Conference on Climate and Health _WHO

WHO releases an update to the operational handbook on diagnosis of tuberculosis

WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis: module 3: diagnosis

Safe seas key to global prosperity, Security Council told | UN News

Social Protection Has Prevented More Than Three Million Child Deaths in 46 Low- and Middle-Income Countries - ISGLOBAL

Regional

UNHCR Regional Bureau for Asia and Pacific: Myanmar Situation Update (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand) May - June 2025 - Myanmar | ReliefWeb

Sustaining efforts to end mpox outbreaks in Africa | WHO | Regional Office for Africa

Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy | African Union

African Open Science Platform (AOSP) | Open Science Africa

Extreme weather events in the European Region are a health emergency not just a climate one - WHO Regional Office for Europe

Country

Four years on, here’s what total exclusion of women in Afghanistan looks like | UN News

Worst coral bleaching on record for Western Australian reefs - BBC News

Why a tropical paradise has the world's fastest growing HIV epidemic | The Telegraph

Jellyfish force French nuclear plant to shut down - BBC News

Guinea introduces malaria vaccine into routine immunization | GAVI

Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem | WHO

Pakistan: Violence against health care in conflict 2024 - Pakistan | ReliefWeb

Inside the Red Zone: Sierra Leone’s terrifying mpox outbreak | The Telegraph

‘Only hunger and bombs’ for besieged civilians in Sudan’s El Fasher | UN News

WFP calls for humanitarian access, as Sudanese city grapples with starvation | World Food Programme

Urgent action is needed as humanitarian needs of children and families in As-Sweida continue to surge | UNICEF

Chronic risks analysis - GOV.UK

Chronic Risks Analysis

Major incident declared as wildfire advances through unexploded ordnance zone near RAF Fylingdales, North Yorkshire - The Watchers

Wooler children's playground reopens after 177 bombs removed - BBC News

Evacuations in Alaska after glacial melt raises fears of record flooding in Juneau - BBC News

Aerial footage shows aftermath of massive train derailment in Texas - BBC News

Recent Papers of Note

Bone A, Tartarini F, Jay O. Fan‐first heat‐health protection. Med J Aust. 2025 Jun 16;222(11):538-541. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52662. Epub 2025 Apr 23. PMID: 40265208; PMCID: PMC12167609
Sers R. The environmental impacts of conflict. Lancet. 2025 Jul 25:S0140-6736(25)01531-4. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01531-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40720960.
Alari, A., Ballester, J., Milà, C., Benmarhnia, T., Sofiev, M., Uppstu, A., Hänninen, R., Tonne, C. Quantifying the short-term mortality effects of wildfire smoke in Europe: a multi-country epidemiological study in 654 contiguous regions. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2025
Landin Basterra E, Gentilini U, Medeiros Cavalcanti D, Ferreira da Silva A, Oliveira Ferreira de Sales L, Silva NJ, et al. Impact of social protection on child malnutrition and mortality across 46 LMICs: a longitudinal study over two decades with insights from the COVID-19 pandemic. eClinicalMedicine. 2025;87:103414. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103414

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