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An update of the 2015 WHO estimates of foodborne disease shows that in 2021 alone, transmission of 42 different hazards in food caused 866 million illnesses and 1.52 million deaths. So what can be done about this huge burden of illness? How is data like this collated? And what don't we know?

Yuki Minato and Rob Lake, two authors of the papers, join Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, to discuss.

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Since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan again in 2021, women have been prevented from studying and therefore from training to provide services to mothers, newborns, and children. Dr. Shatha Elnakib and colleagues used the LiST (Lives Saved Tool) modelling system, to illustrate what effects this might have on the workforce, the acceptability of predominantly-male led MNCH services to service users, and the subsequent effects on maternal and child mortality from a lack of care-seeking. She joins Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, to discuss her study, the current state of MNCH provision in Afghanistan, and also what modelling studies like this one can't capture in the human stories.

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Coming to you from Women Deliver 2026 in Melbourne/Naarm, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health Gavin Cleaver speaks with Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro, the new director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, about her decades of work and activism in the field and the current situation for SRHR.
We also speak with Kinza Hasan, of Women Deliver, about the launch of her Feminist Health Systems Charter. We would like to acknowledge that this episode was recorded on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation and we pay our respects to their elders past, present, and emerging.

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Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, is joined by Isata Dumbuya and Allison Adamson to discuss the building and launch of the new Paul E. Farmer Maternal Centre of Excellent in Sierra Leone. Isata discusses her journey from working as a midwife in the UK's NHS for decades to returning to Sierra Leone, the sustainability of skills and training in LMICs, and raising the expectations and standards of maternal health in the country, while Allison talks about her architectural role in building the Centre, the unique challenges posed by the project, and training up locals with construction skills for life.

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What systems fix would unlock the biggest equity gains? Should countries target patients with TB or conduct universal interventions? What does self-reliance look like post-aid cuts?

Madhukar Pai joins Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, for an in-depth discussion on TB ahead of World TB Day.

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