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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kat Lay Global health correspondent

Five big global health wins in 2025 that will save millions of lives

A composite made up of five images: a vial of lenacapavir; a sign that says 'measles testing'; a man holding a stethoscope to a woman's chest while feeling her pulse; a boy behind mosquito netting; a man appearing to prepare a boy's arm for an injection
clockwise Malaria net, vaccination for cervical cancer prevention, Lenacapavir, Measles testing, a TB survivor Composite: Alamy/Getty Images/WHO

With humanitarian funding slashed by the US and other countries, including the UK, this year’s global health headlines have made grim reading. But good things have still been happening in vaccine research and the development of new and improved treatments for some of the most intractable illnesses.

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