Listen to The Lancet Global Health

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.

Chronic respiratory diseases 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. 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.

Meredith Hawkins and Nihal Thomas explain how Type 5 diabetes, which they estimate affects 25 million people worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, is now becoming more widely recognised and better understood.