Health

On Wednesday 3 July the London International Development Centre (LIDC) hosted a webinar titled "Children in Palestine: Mental Health Crisis and Actions for Trauma Recovery". Chaired by Dr. Saleyha Ahsan, ...

By Belen Torondel-Lopez, Associate Professor LSHTM   In a #PeriodFriendlyWorld, the stigma and taboos surrounding menstruation are history. It is a world where everyone can access the products, period education ...

Science journalist Dann Okoth of LIDC member insitution SciDevNet recently reported on research conducted by a collaborative team from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kamuzu ...

Writing in the science journal SciDevNet (an LIDC member organisation, Jackie Opara asserts that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could emerge as a potent remedy for long-standing challenges in Africa’s health care sector if innovators, researchers ...

Deaf Child Worldwide (DCW) is the international arm of the National Deaf Children’s Society,the UK's leading international charity for deaf children in developing countries. DCW works with partners in low- ...

The panel “How Women and Health NGOs Use Communications Strategically to Advocate for Gender Equality and Reproductive Health” was held on 19 April to mark the launch of Dr Carolina ...

  We’re grateful to our colleagues Hugh Sharma Waddington, Sarah Bick, Sandy Cairncross and Edoardo Masset (LSHTM) for their work on this rigorous systematic evidence on the impacts of water ...

“We understood that it’s time to work beyond the lab, travel to communities and understand their problems in production.”  - Biotechnologist Carla Crespo Melgar  We are delighted to share this ...

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) poses a threat to humanity equal to that of climate change. Both are global challenges. Both affect the sustainability agenda. Both are accelerated by human activity. Both ...

LIDC recently had the opportunity to talk to the dynamic Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE. She has received numerous plaudits for her work advocating for and empowering fellow Sierra Leoneans. In 2015, ...