@katlay

Global health correspondent

 London
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Joined August 2008
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Great and tragic news at once. Emmanuel, the 5-year old featured in this report, has since recovered and left the Ebola ward, his father told me. But the lab technician I met in the next ward deteriorated and died last night. His name was Bienfaits. nytimes.com/video/world/afri…

Video: What I Saw Inside an Ebola Ward

Our chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, walked inside an Ebola ward where both adults and children were being treated, and where someone had recently died of the disease amid a spiraling...

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NEW:🚨 We finally know how the pandemic began! (No, not that one) The extremely surprising role of volcanoes in causing the Black Death to spread to medieval Europe and wipe out half the continent's population 🌋🦠 thetimes.com/uk/science/arti…

How volcanoes triggered the Black Death in medieval Europe

Eruptions wiped out crops in the Mediterranean forcing cities to import grain from the east, bringing with it fleas infected with bubonic plague

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‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK theguardian.com/global-devel…

‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK

British American Tobacco pushed Zambian ministers to drop or delay ad bans, health warnings and restrictions on flavoured products, letter shows

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When I last spoke to Mohamed Douda, he said RSF fighters were searching for him and threatening him online. When they seized El Fasher last week, where he was hiding, they killed him. These are some of our conversations during his final months alive. theguardian.com/global-devel…

He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true...

For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are...

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🚨 Imposter alert 🚨 Studies into everything from cancer and HIV being plagued by "fraudulent" participants Includes people pretending to have the diseases It's undermining the reliability of trials and potentially harming patients Stark warning here: thetimes.com/uk/science/arti…

Is this response real? Imposters are putting health studies at risk

Automated bots and people lying about their conditions risk skewing the results of medical research, Oxford academics have warned

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US ‘undermining global health’ by threatening to strip funding from aid projects that do not fit its political agenda theguardian.com/global-devel…

US ‘undermining global health’ by threatening to strip funding from aid projects that do not fit...

Trump administration reported to be planning expansion of ‘global gag rule’ to halt any initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion

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‘Most people are just toughing it out’: shortage of drugs leaves Gaza’s wounded without pain relief theguardian.com/global-devel…

‘Most people are just toughing it out’: shortage of drugs leaves Gaza’s wounded without pain relief

Operations are being carried out without proper anaesthetics and what painkillers there are have to be rationed, say doctors

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Proud to work with @katlay on this piece. I saw myself how aid cuts in Yemen leave mothers without care and families without answers. Grateful to those who shared their stories. Please read. theguardian.com/global-devel…

Death by aid cuts: how a decision in the US led to the loss of a mother in Yemen

While the Trump administration claims no one will die over the axing of its overseas development budgets, aid agencies say the action will cost at least 3 million lives. Fatima and her baby were...

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Who'd want to be Archbishop of Canterbury?! We'll soon find out who's got the job But how are they chosen? Who's in the frame? And what happens next? Is there any conclave-style ceremony to it? Peer behind the cloak of confidentiality, as I explain all: thetimes.com/uk/religion/art…

The ancient rituals to install the new Archbishop of Canterbury

As Sarah Mullally formally succeeds Justin Welby, here’s our visual guide to the pomp and ceremony

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More children and teens worldwide are obese than underweight for the first time, according to a UN report that blames increasing levels of junk food in their diets theguardian.com/global-devel…

Junk food leads to more children being obese than underweight for first time

Cheap ultra-processed food behind rise in overweight children, with one in 10 now obese globally, says Unicef

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Sudan’s children face growing threat of deadly infectious diseases as vaccination rates halve theguardian.com/global-devel…

Sudan’s children face growing threat of deadly infectious diseases as vaccination rates halve

The country, beset by war, has the world’s lowest rates of vaccination, says the World Health Organization, as global immunisation drive also stalls

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NEW: How a plague of 'mirror bacteria' could wipe out all life on Earth 🦠💀🌍 Creating microbes in the lab with ‘backwards’ molecules could lead to wonder drugs — or kill all living things on the planet. Is it worth the risk? Click here to read⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/science/arti…

How a plague of ‘mirror bacteria’ could destroy all life on Earth

Creating microbes in the lab with ‘backwards’ molecules could lead to wonder drugs — or kill all living things on the planet. Is it worth the risk?

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Perfect combo of my two roles as Science and Religious Affairs Correspondent at @TheTimes ⚛️✝️ Pope Leo hails "remarkable" James Webb Space Telescope Says it has revealed wonders that the "authors of ancient scriptures" could only dream of Read here: thetimes.com/uk/religion/art…

Pope Leo: James Webb telescope shows us what the Bible couldn’t

New Pope tells summer-schoolers at the Vatican Observatory that the telescope’s insight into creation brings ‘mysterious joy’

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World (finally) agrees pandemic accord for tackling future outbreaks theguardian.com/global-devel…

World agrees pandemic accord for tackling outbreaks of disease

Hailed as ‘a victory for public health,’ the agreement aims to build on the lessons of Covid-19 and protect the globe from pathogenic threats

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The deadly riddle of blackwater fever: the search for answers over illness killing Uganda’s children theguardian.com/global-devel…

The deadly riddle of blackwater fever: the search for answers over illness killing Uganda’s children

A dangerous complication of malaria turns urine dark with blood – but only affects some young patients in rural areas and not others. Puzzled experts are trying to find out why

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‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts theguardian.com/global-devel…

‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts

The abrupt halt to US funding threatens to undo decades of advances, dramatically increasing infections and deaths, but some see an opportunity for Africa to lead the response

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US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’ theguardian.com/society/2025…

USAid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’

Projects to detect, treat and research new ways to fight TB among those disrupted by sudden funding freeze

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Grow a 'baby in a bag' ? 🚼🎒 Most Brits are strongly opposed to use of artificial wombs outside the mother for developing foetuses. Apart from Gen Z, who back it. Public *does* support concept when mother or baby's life is at risk, however 👇⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/science/arti…

Grow a ‘baby in a bag’? Gen Z backs the use of artificial wombs

Scientists want to conduct human trials on supporting premature babies outside of their mother’s bodies, but the British public has reservations

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US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’ theguardian.com/global-devel…

US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’

Cuts could result in 500,000 deaths over the next 10 years in the country, research suggests

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