Health

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 19, 2020 • 10 min read

Refugee camps and COVID-19 When social distancing isn’t an option

By Miriam Deprez and Andrew Haffner • Mar 19, 2020
As the world locks down and social distancing goes into full effect to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in Bangladesh don’t hold such a luxury. What happens if the virus takes hold in the world’s most vulnerable communities?

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 17, 2020 • 6 min read

Whatever happened to Cambodia’s ‘HIV village’

By Paul Millar • Mar 17, 2020
Archive Top Read: In 2014, an unlicensed medic infected almost 300 people with HIV in Battambang province's Roka village. In 2017, we visited the residents of the village, who were still picking up the pieces three years on

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 27, 2020 • 11 min read

Indonesian public health Meeting the mark

By Alastair McCready • Feb 27, 2020
Despite being Southeast Asia's largest economy, Indonesia's children are among the most stunted and malnourished in the world. The Globe looks at the causes of this public health crisis in the vast archipelago nation

Health • Feb 12, 2020 • 4 min read
Disease control

A virus grows

The coronavirus at the heart of the global outbreak now has a name: COVID-19. Here's what we know about the virus that has infectd more than 44,650 people in China and beyond.
By Andrew Haffner and Samantha McCabe

Health • Jan 28, 2020 • 11 min read
Mental health

‘Behind the times’

Top Read from 2018 print archive: Malaysia is grappling with mental healthcare. Affordable and effective treatment exists but is out of reach to many, thanks to a confounding and constricting system
By Foong Li Mei

Health • Nov 20, 2019 • 7 min read
Drugs in Cambodia

Second chances

A deluge of cheap pills from the nearby Golden Triangle means many young Cambodians are vulnerable to getting hooked on drugs. But community-based organisations could hold the key to pushing back against addiction
By Thim Rachna

Health • Nov 06, 2019 • 15 min read
Cambodia's healthcare

Health, wealth and happiness

With the help of foreign donors, Cambodia has taken steps toward universal health coverage. Those in the system say it’s still not enough
By Andrew Haffner

Health • Nov 05, 2019 • 9 min read
Ageing in Asia

Singing sad songs

From our print archive. Ten years ago, we looked at a number of initiatives in the northern Thai town of Chiang Mai that were helping people cope with the poverty and loneliness of age
By Tiep Seiha

Health • Oct 18, 2019 • 15 min read
Meth addiction

Pipe dreams

A Chinese-funded property boom in Cambodia’s Sihanoukville is casting the city’s meth addicts to the margins
By Andrew Haffner

Health • Sep 12, 2019 • 14 min read
Counterfeit goods

Bad medicine

Fake medicine remains a scourge in Southeast Asia despite years of widespread coverage of the issue and promised government crackdowns
By Andrew Haffner

Health • Sep 06, 2019 • 14 min read
Agent Orange

Agents of death

Almost five decades since the US sprayed Agent Orange on Vietnam, lives are still being ruined by the herbicide – and German company Bayer, which acquired original manufacturer Monsanto, may now be forced to pay its own price for reckless herbicide use
By James Springer