Greater Horn of Africa Food Insecurity and Health Crisis, Strategic Response Plan (August 2026–January 2027) - ReliefWeb

A new review of research from across sub-Saharan Africa found that inadequate access to food is linked to depression, suicide attempts, HIV vulnerabilities, and poorer sexual and reproductive health outcomes among adolescent mothers. The findings, published in the journal PLOS ONE, suggest that food insecurity is not only a nutrition issue but also a critical health and equity challenge, highlighting the importance of placing adolescent girls becoming mothers at the center of policies and programs designed to improve food security, health, and social equity across sub-Saharan Africa.

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.