Adolescent pregnancy is a preventable crisis - UN report - ohchr

Preventable infectious diseases continue to climb worldwide amid stalled progress with immunization campaigns, shifts in vaccine acceptance, and reductions in public health funding. In 2026, measles continues to spread in North America, with case counts already exceeding those from all of 2025. Hotspots include South Carolina, Utah, and Pennsylvania, which has confirmed five measles-associated deaths and surpassed 1,000 infections as of October 2026. According to new data from the CDC, U. S. vaccine exemptions—driven by personal or religious exemptions—are at an all-time high, after increasing 18% between the 2024-25 school year and the 2025-26 school year. The U. S. incidents extend the emergency that surfaced in early 2025, after an outbreak in Texas sparked the country's largest bout of measles in the United States in three decades and fueled a deadly outbreak in northern Mexico.

Bioengineer.org news storyFor people living with HIV, modern antiretroviral therapy can suppress the virus to levels below what standard laboratory tests can detect. Yet some patients on long-term treatment experience a curious phenomenon: a single test result showing a small, transient amount of virus in the blood, followed by an immediate return to undetectable levels. These events, known as viral blips, have puzzled clinicians and researchers for years, raising questions about whether they represent harmless statistical noise, brief bursts of viral production from hidden reservoirs, or early warnings of impending treatment failure. A new nationwide Swedish study, published in BMC Infectious Diseases, offers one of the most comprehensive answers to date. Drawing on the Swedish national InfCareHIV cohort, researchers analyzed data from 4,210 treatment-naïve adults who began antiretroviral therapy from 1 January 2007 onward, with follow-up data extracted through 30 September 2020. The median observation time was 5.5 years, with some individuals followed for as long as 13.7 years.

European Medical Journal news storyPeople living with HIV may experience subtle changes in heart muscle function even when conventional measures of cardiac performance remain normal, according to findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis. Researchers identified significantly impaired global longitudinal strain (GLS) among people with HIV compared with HIV-uninfected individuals, despite preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in both groups. The findings suggest that speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) could provide additional information about early myocardial dysfunction in this population. Read the full news story here.

Among cancer patients, the high financial cost of cancer care is a prevalent problem. This financial burden is also associated with potentially harmful behavioral strategies that patients might use to cope with costs, such as delaying or forgoing treatment and skipping medications. Collectively, researchers refer to this impact as financial toxicity.