Tom Parry

‘Man-eating’ screw worm turns hospital into horror show A long-forgotten parasite has made a comeback and is reasserting its dominance in Honduras

Dispatch from Honduras for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social where I saw the distressing impact of New World screwworm on vulnerable people. This parasite had been eradicated from Central America but is once again prospering, with illegal cattle ranching being blamed www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

24.06.2025 09:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

International aid sector looks to new business models as government funding dries up While many charities and NGOs are down, others like MSF – with a proud history of independence – continue to thrive and save lives

Interesting feature by @parrytom.bsky.social on the funding crisis in international aid - some models more resilient than others, it seems

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16.04.2025 09:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Life in the shadow of a toxic mountain of plastic waste In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are children

Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social from Dhaka where ragpickers sift mountains of trash for plastic scraps. Children work in sweatshop plastic recycling factories thick with an acrid burning stench. This is what happens to plastic waste in most of the world. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

27.02.2025 13:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Life in the shadow of a toxic mountain of plastic waste In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are children

(1/4) Life in the shadow of a toxic mountain of plastic waste.

In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are children.

Dispatch by @parrytom.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social
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26.02.2025 18:47 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives Increased levels of a simple chemical is having disastrous health effects for those living in Bangladesh’s sprawling river deltas

(1/6) An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives.

Increased levels of a simple chemical is having disastrous health effects for those living in Bangladesh’s sprawling river deltas.

Read more below ⬇️
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10.01.2025 15:19 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

‘They marry off girls because they are a burden’: The battle to save Bangladesh’s child brides As researchers find that more than 60 per cent of Bangladeshi families practise child marriage, campaigners fight to keep girls in education

Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social I visited a school on the silt island of Bhola which is part of a Bangladeshi programme to keep children in education to prevent child marriage. 60% of families practice child marriage, according to recent research www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

20.01.2025 19:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives Increased levels of a simple chemical is having disastrous health effects for those living in Bangladesh’s sprawling river deltas

"Invisible in the gently rippling water is the soluble salt stealthily destroying women’s lives."

Great dispatch by @parrytom.bsky.social & @simontownsley.bsky.social in Bangladesh, looking at the consequences of heightened salinity, driven by climate change: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

13.01.2025 03:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Dispatch by @parrytom.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social - free to read 🔓

10.01.2025 15:19 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A challenging journey on tracks made impassable by heavy rainfall and sticky clay soil on the edge of Mount National Park, during a recent trip to Kenya.

A challenging journey on tracks made impassable by heavy rainfall and sticky clay soil on the edge of Mount National Park, during a recent trip to Kenya.

A challenging journey on tracks made impassable by heavy rainfall and sticky clay soil on the edge of Mount National Park, during a recent trip to Kenya.

A challenging journey on tracks made impassable by heavy rainfall and sticky clay soil on the edge of Mount National Park, during a recent trip to Kenya.

A recent journey around the foothills of Mount Elgon, western Kenya, where heavy rainfall made unsurfaced tracks on sticky clay soil virtually impassable. Motorcycles and all-terrain 4WD vehicles were sliding around and unable to gain traction. This leaves many communities isolated.

13.12.2024 13:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thinking today of the many Syrian exiles I met in Jordan, Lebanon and across Europe, fleeing Assad's barrel bombs and persecution. People like Ahmed, a court clerk, in Zaatari refugee camp, and surgeon brothers Hassan and Mohammed, in South Wales, forced to keep tortured prisoners alive in Damascus.

09.12.2024 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘My screams went unheard’: Women and girls suffer in Kenya’s worst drought in 40 years Climate change isn’t only normalising acute malnutrition – it is exposing drought migrants to increased sexual violence and child marriage

Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social from northern Kenya, where I saw how disappearance of traditional pastures is having unexpected effects: girls forced further from homes are being raped and communities are locked in violent feuds over grazing territory www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

07.12.2024 15:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0