Gaurav Sharma

Women’s health and maternal care services: seizing missed opportunities to prevent and manage preterm birth - Reproductive Health Progress The past ten years have seen uneven developments in women's and adolescents' health and reproductive rights. Globally, reductions of maternal and neonatal mortality rates and adolescent birth...

13.4M babies were born preterm in 2020—still the top cause of under-5 deaths. We have solutions but must act:
➡️ Count every baby (live & stillborn)
➡️ Strengthen care for women & newborns
➡️ Include stillbirths in the response
🔗 reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Measles cases in Texas rise to 683, state health department says The Texas health department reported 683 cases of measles in the state on Friday, an increase of 20 since April 29, as cases of the childhood disease surpass the 900-mark in one of the worst outbreaks in the country.

Texas measles update today: 20 more cases since Tuesday, 89 of the 683 cases have been hospitalized
US-wide tally likely many thousands across 25+ states, with much under-reporting www.reuters.com/business/hea...

When biomedical science and global health face existential threat, by @daltmann.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social @natrevimmunol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"The attack on some of us is an attack on all of us, and we must stand together."

Vaccines save lives by the millions, this is not a point of debate.

Myanmar's Collapsing Health System Crushed Beneath Earthquake And Civil War - Health Policy Watch Myanmar's health system was collapsing. Then the earthquake hit.

Terrible to see what happening to Burmese health and health system, weakness of global health in 2025 is on full display ….
healthpolicy-watch.news/myanmars-col...

📸 Here’s a few photos from Professor Tim-Powell Jackson's Inaugural Lecture @lshtm.bsky.social

Tim spoke about his journey trying to understand why some health system reforms work & others fail

If that sounds interesting, you can watch the recording 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Understanding the health impacts of climate change

#climatechange effects include sea level rise, extreme weather events, food and water shortages and infectious diseases

New summary in the @futurehealthj.bsky.social

@uclgeography.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gavi does more than save the lives of children – cutting it will impoverish us all Trump is poised to stop funding vaccines for developing countries. It’s a huge mistake for MAGA from an economic and security point of view

“Gavi does more than save the lives of children – cutting it will impoverish us all,” writes @paulnuki.bsky.social

Trump is poised to stop funding vaccines for developing countries. It’s a huge mistake for MAGA, he says.

Link here 🔗
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Jonas Salk is a hero.💕

Netanyahu has not allowed any aid into Gaza in 22 days. He broke the ceasefire, resuming a bombing campaign that has killed more than 50,000 people. Now he is threatening a long-term occupation of Gaza.

NO MORE MILITARY AID TO NETANYAHU’S WAR MACHINE.

Small acts of kindness ripple infinitely outwards. We may not be able to change the big things happening around us, but we can keep our dignity and compassion towards others and towards ourselves. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊

#Cornwall #kindness #peace #life #mindfulness #photography

STRESS KILLS.

60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to keep their families going.  

The result: working class people die 7 years earlier than the rich.

We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal USAID memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway.

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

Thousands of fired USAID employees were given 15 minutes today to clear out their personal belongings from headquarters.

Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

Call for Discussion Papers: Global (Dis)Order

How do we respond to these times of global disorder? We are offering £2,500 for discussion papers of around 4,000 words on this topical theme. Deadline for proposals: 14th April. Please pass on to interested networks
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...

The chart titled "Women live longer than men in every country" shows a scatter plot of life expectancy for men and women in 2023, categorized by continent. Each dot represents a country, with its color indicating the continent: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, or South America. The x-axis displays life expectancy for men, while the y-axis shows life expectancy for women. A diagonal line indicates where life expectancy for both genders would be equal. All dots are above this line, meaning women have a higher life expectancy than men in every country. The trend shows increasing life expectancy for both genders, with women consistently living longer. Data source: UN World Population Prospects (2024).

In every country in the world, women tend to live longer than men

A data visualization titled "Nine Asian countries where child mortality has halved since 2000." The chart shows the estimated percentage of newborns dying before age five in nine countries: Afghanistan (13% in 2000 to 6% in 2022), Cambodia (11% to 2%), Laos (11% to 4%), Bangladesh (9% to 3%), Myanmar (9% to 4%), India (9% to 3%), Nepal (8% to 3%), Indonesia (5% to 2%), and China (4% to 1%). Each country is represented by a line graph showing a significant decline in child mortality over time. Data source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2024), CC BY.

In these nine Asian countries, child mortality has more than halved since the year 2000