(1/5) An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives. Increased levels of a simple chemical is having disastrous health effects for those in Bangladesh’s sprawling river deltas. Dispatch by Tom Parry and Simon Townsley telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

🚨Dispatch: ‘They marry off girls because they are a burden’: The battle to save Bangladesh’s child brides Reporting by Tom Parry and photos from Simon Townsley in Bhola telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Dispatch for Telegraph Global Health Security I visited a school on the silt island of Bhola which is part of a Bangladeshi programme to keep children in education to prevent child marriage. 60% of families practice child marriage, according to recent research telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

The government’s decision to cut aid to unprecedentedly low levels is short-sighted and damaging. Increasing defence spending is right, but doing so at the expense of health and security risks to the UK, on the backs of the world’s poorest is, plain and simply, wrong.

(1/4) Life in the shadow of a toxic mountain of plastic waste. In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are children. Dispatch by Tom Parry and Simon Townsley - free to read 🔓 telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Dispatch for Telegraph Global Health Security from Bangladesh where ragpickers sift through mountains of rotting garbage for plastic scraps which are recycled in sweatshop factories where children work. Bangladesh one of the countries worst affected by plastic pollution telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

The best explanation I've read yet of why overseas development spending is so directly intertwined with our own security and health by Paul Nuki 🦋 for Telegraph Global Health Security America's star is waning. Now Britain and Europe must step up – with bombs and aid telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Excellent work by ⁦Enfield Dispatch⁩ shining a light on cars parked on pavements, which has somehow become normalised. As ever, digging into the stories that need to be explored. A local paper ⁦performing vital function

‘Measles is back’: cases in the EU have jumped by ten-fold. Cases of the Victorian-era disease in Europe surged by nearly 30,000 from 2023 to 2024. Maeve Cullinan has the latest. telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Counterfeit motorcycle helmets contribute to so many people being seriously injured or killed in many cities across Africa and Asia. I would never have appreciated this before interviewing victims and their families in Togo and Kenya. A lifesaving initiative by Road Safety Alliance

Interesting feature by Tom Parry on the funding crisis in international aid - some models more resilient than others, it seems International aid sector looks to new business models as government funding dries up telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Dispatch for Telegraph Global Health Security from Honduras, where I saw the distressing impact of New World screwworm on vulnerable people. This parasite had been eradicated from much of Central America but is again prospering, with illegal cattle ranching being blamed telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

‘Man-eating’ screw worm turns hospital into horror show A long-forgotten parasite has made a comeback and is reasserting its dominance in Honduras Words Tom Parry and photos by Simon Townsley telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

My Glastonbury review for Louder Than War

Read and weep. This conflict needs to be wrapped up now….⬇️⬇️⬇️ Malnutrition surging in Gaza as snipers target ‘heads, legs and genitals’, says Oxford surgeon telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

My dispatch from the most plastic-polluted river in the world, the Rio Las Vacas near Guatemala City. Ahead of plastic treaty talks next month, myself and Simon Townsley watched people throwing their trash directly into the ravine, with dire consequences telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

My dispatch from the most plastic-polluted river in the world. Ahead of plastic treaty talks next month, myself and Simon Townsley saw the disastrous impact of a whole city throwing its household trash into a once beautiful valley. Plastic production has doubled in last 25 yrs

Very pleased to have made the shortlist in the Environmental Journalism (National) category for this year’s Society of Editors UK Media Freedom Awards for three dispatches I wrote for Telegraph Global Health Security - on plastic pollution and health impacts of rising salinity societyofeditors.org/events/media-f…

My dispatch for Telegraph Global Health Security from Guyana's disputed border with Venezuela, where recent US attacks on boats has prompted the smugglers to switch tactics, with Simon Townsley - Caught between corruption and the cartels in South America’s new drug war telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

‘We can’t become a narco-state’ South America's tiny state of Guyana could soon find itself caught in the crossfire of Donald Trump’s renewed war against drug smuggling Dispatch by Tom Parry and Simon Townsley Free to read🔓 telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…