United Nations Development Programme

Integrating the social and solidarity economy into global health: towards structural transformation for equity, resilience, and sustainability

Abstract Global health is shaped by complex and interdependent challenges across social, commercial, environmental, technological, and political domains that cannot be solved by the health sector alone. In response, alternative economic models and paradigms have gained attention....

National Implementation of a Tuberculosis Sample Referral Network to Expand Access to Molecular Diagnosis in the Republic of Congo: Pilot Evaluation and Programmatic Analysis (2023–2025)

Background: Limited access to rapid molecular diagnostics remains a major barrier to timely tuberculosis (TB) detection and drug-resistance surveillance in resource-constrained settings. In the Republic of Congo, GeneXpert MTB/RIF platforms remain concentrated in a few laboratori...

Spatiotemporal Variability of Near-Surface Temperature Inversion over Ulaanbaatar City, Mongolia

Near-surface temperature inversions are prevalent during the cold months in Ulaanbaatar city, Mongolia, and significantly degrade urban air quality by trapping hazardous pollutants within a shallow atmospheric boundary layer. This study investigates spatiotemporal variability, ph...