Chile has become the first country in the Americas to be officially verified as having eliminated leprosy, marking a major milestone in the global fight against one of humanity’s oldest diseases.
After decades of steady progress, cancer is increasingly being treated not as an automatic death sentence, but as a chronic and often manageable disease.
Children across the UK will now be far better protected from junk food advertising, as tough new rules come into force in a major push to tackle childhood obesity and improve young people’s health.
Australia is quietly approaching a historic medical milestone. It is on track to become the first country in the world to eliminate cervical cancer, with experts confident the disease could all but disappear by 2035.
For the first time ever, women in England can now pick up the morning‑after pill free of charge from almost 10,000 high‑street pharmacies, without needing an appointment at a GP surgery or sexual health clinic.
It began with a quiet announcement from the World Health Organization, the kind of news that seems small at first but grows larger the more one thinks about it.
In a ground breaking milestone for global health, the Maldives has achieved what no other country has done before: ending mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially validated the achievement in October 2025, recognizing the Maldives as the first nation in the world to reach this “triple elimination.”
England’s NHS has just launched something truly groundbreaking—the world’s very first gonorrhoea vaccination programme. This bold move could stop up to 100,000 infections and save the NHS nearly £8 million over the next ten years.
Senegal has reached a remarkable public health milestone. On 15 July 2025, the World Health Organization officially validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The country is now the ninth in Africa and the 25th in the world to achieve this status.
In a groundbreaking move that could revolutionize how women approach sexual health, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first ever over the counter home test for three common sexually transmitted infections: chlamydia, gonorrhoea, and trichomoniasis.
