health care

Baghdad streets [AFP/Getty]
Iraq
Health
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Iraq blames overseas travel and tattoos for rise in HIV cases

Iraq has recorded a slight rise in HIV cases, with health officials warning that overseas travel and unregulated tattooing are key risk factors.

Mohammed Bassim Rashid
20 January, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement on “significant medical and scientific findings for America’s children” in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on September 22, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Trump administration
Health
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Trump ties autism risk to Tylenol as scientists urge caution

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
23 September, 2025
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Egypt
Society
Live Story

The multifaceted factors behind Egypt’s declining birth rates

The New Arab Staff

Nadia Mabrouk

03 June, 2025
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Morocco
Health
Live Story

In Morocco, anti-vax conspiracies spawn measles outbreak

Basma El Atti
31 January, 2025
Palestinian and international doctors gather for a press conference to call for the treatment of 25,000 patients from Gaza . (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Gaza War
MENA
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Doctors urge medical evacuations from Gaza to east Jerusalem

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 December, 2024
health care
MENA
Live Story

Amnesty condemns Egypt's public healthcare privatisation law

Nabila El-Gaafary
30 July, 2024
Gaza War
MENA
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Israel's bombing of Gaza clinics 'manifestation of genocide'

The New Arab Staff
17 May, 2024
health care
MENA
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1,055 Palestinian killed by Israel so far: health ministry

Sally Ibrahim
11 October, 2023
Palestine
Health
Live Story

World Bank approves $10mn grant to improve Palestine health

The New Arab Staff
09 April, 2023
NHS
NHS
Perspectives

The Tories are destroying our NHS

TM

Tariq Mehmood

14 October, 2022
Argentina
Health
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Argentine ministry links four deaths to Legionnaires' disease

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
04 September, 2022
NHS
NHS
Narrated

We have to talk about racism in the UK’s health care system

Anandi

Anandi Ramamurthy

22 June, 2022
Syria
MENA
Live Story

Assad regime jailed medics longer than other detainees: PHR

Aisha Aldris
12 November, 2021
Syria
MENA
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Protesters slam choice of Syria for board of UN health body

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
01 June, 2021
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system
MENA
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Egypt's Sinai threatened with humanitarian catastrophe as coronavirus spreads

The New Arab Staff
11 June, 2020
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Tunisia
MENA
Live Story

Tunisia announces social reforms after week of unrest

The New Arab & agencies
14 January, 2018
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Syria
MENA
Live Story

Raqqa: Civilians under fire with no access to healthcare

Robert Cusack
23 March, 2017
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Syria
MENA
Live Story

Relentless bombardment puts East Aleppo hospitals 'out of service'

Martin Armstrong
19 November, 2016
MSF Syria
Syria
Narrated

'East Aleppo is being devastated in front of us'

The New Arab Staff

Hani Dweik

11 October, 2016
MSF hospital destroyed in Syria [AFP]
WHO
MENA
Live Story

Syria the world's most dangerous place for health workers

The New Arab & agencies
27 May, 2016