Mohamed Aden Ahmed on the effects of conflict on health care in Sudan

70 years ago this year, a researcher at University College of the West Indies in Jamaica published a paper in The Lancet describing a case series of patients with diabetes who did not have the typical hallmarks of type 1 or type 2 disease. They were young, underweight, resistant to insulin, and did not tend to have ketoacidosis. The condition was coined J-type diabetes, after Jamaica, and it was briefly recognised by WHO as malnutrition-related diabetes. However, WHO removed it from its official classification in 1999, because of insufficient evidence of its association with malnutrition. In this episode of In Conversation With, Professor Meredith Hawkins and Professor Nihal Thomas explain how this “lost” condition, which they estimate affects 25 million people worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, is now becoming more widely recognised and better understood, albeit with a long way to go in terms of additional research. They also propose a new name: type 5 diabetes. Listen now to explore the fascinating history of the disorder and the urgent need for effective treatments.Read the full Viewpoint:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00263-3/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_September_25_langloContinue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://thelancet.bsky.social/https://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv

Chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma are on the rise in many countries, including low-income and middle-income countries such as Kenya that also have a sizeable burden of tuberculosis. What does this mean for patients in terms of the affordability of potentially long-term management? How are government-run social health insurance schemes working for individuals and their families? And what might be the individual-level drivers of catastrophic levels of out-of-pocket health expenditure in this population? Listen to first author Dr Stephen Mulupi and corresponding author Dr Tom Wingfield discuss the nuances of their cross-sectional survey in public health-care facilities in Meru County, Kenya and what they mean for government policy going forward.Read the article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00061-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_June_25_langloContinue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://thelancet.bsky.social/https://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv

In a resource-constrained setting like Bangladesh, what proportion of a hospital's capacity is taken up with admissions for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)? How many children needing admission are turned away every year because of lack of bed space? And how many of these "denials" and subsequent deaths might be prevented by the introduction of a maternal RSV vaccine or the monoclonal antibody nirsevimab? Listen to Senjuti Saha, Deputy Executive Director of the Child Health Research Foundation, describe the results of her fascinating and potentially policy-changing study to our Editor-in-Chief, Zoë Mullan.Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00048-8/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_May_25_langloContinue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://thelancet.bsky.social/https://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv

Carina King and Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman outline the purpose and main findings of the new Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security and their hopes for its impact.Read the Commission:https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/medical-oxygen-security?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_langlooxygen25_langloContinue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://thelancet.bsky.social/https://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv

Hasin Jahan, Country Director of WaterAid Bangladesh, speaks to Lauren Southwell about water contamination in Bangladesh, how it affects the communities that live there, and how it is exacerbated by climate events.Continue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://thelancet.bsky.social/https://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv

Daniel Symons speaks to Dr Joe Bresee of the Task Force for Global Health on the threat posed by influenza H5N1, vaccine strategies, and strengthening systems to prepare for future epidemics and pandemics.Continue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://thelancet.bsky.social/https://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv

This podcast is in Portuguese.Episódio abordando saúde na Amazônia, destacando a telemedicina e tecnologias digitais como soluções para desafios de acessibilidade com o Dr Cleinaldo Costa. Discute barreiras tecnológicas, sensibilidade cultural, sustentabilidade, participação dos trabalhadores locais e inovações para melhorar o atendimento.Continue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://thelancet.bsky.social/https://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv

Mohamed Aden Ahmed, Deputy Head of Missions and Operations in West Darfur for MSF, speaks to Lauren Southwell about the ongoing conflict in Sudan and the subsequent effects on health care and health-care workers.Continue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://thelancet.bsky.social/https://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv

Prof. Bola Owolabi, Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England, speaks to Zoë Mullan about overcoming inertia, using data for action, and global health as a truly global - rather than LMIC - issue.Continue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://thelancet.bsky.social/https://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv

Zoë Mullan talks to Prof Kara Hanson of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research and Dr Michael Makanga of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership on funding for research involving collaborators in the Global North and Global South and how it can be made more equitable.Visit The Lancet Global Health at https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/homeContinue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://thelancet.bsky.social/https://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv