A health worker gives an injection of human papillomavirus vaccine to a girl during a campaign aiming to protect girls from cervical cancer, at a school in Lahore, Pakistan, September 2025. (Keystone/AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

💉Gavi and partners reached HPV vaccine goal, immunizing 86 million girls. The vaccine alliance estimates the accomplishment will prevent about 1.4 million deaths from the human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted infection that can cause cervical cancer.

💷UK warned that 15 per cent cut to health fund will force ‘impossible choices’ on Africa. The British government announced last week it would commit £850 million to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria, ahead of the fund's replenishment summit, which the UK and South Africa are co-hosting in Johannesburg on Friday.

🚦Save the Children resumes work with Boston Consulting Group following Gaza controversy. The aid organisation suspended its contract with the BCG after it was revealed that two of its partners helped set up the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which ran militarised aid distribution sites where thousands of Palestinians were killed and injured.

🇮🇳India open to lead WTO reforms, but seeks consensus on agenda: Piyush Goyal. The commerce and industry minister insisted developing nations must be involved in any decisions about the world trade body's future form, responding to a call by the WTO chief for India to step up.

⚔️Australia rejects co-hosting climate summit with Turkey as standoff grows. Both countries have refused to back down from a years-long clash over who should host Cop31 next year, with the growing likelihood that Bonn will have to play host by default if the two can't sort it out despite Germany's reluctance.