essential medicines
Coverage of essential medicines in the Nexus archive.
- Cuba quantifies impact of US oil blockade on children's health and daily life
Cuba reports that U.S. energy restrictions have worsened children's health and daily life, including a 65% cancer survival rate for children (down from 85%), 100,000 children no longer receiving daily milk, and disruptions to dialysis and surgery. Fuel shortages and sanctions have also reduced essential medicines and power availability.
- Iran medicine shortages worsened by war
Amid a fragile ceasefire with the US and Israel, Iran faces worsening medicine shortages due to disrupted imports and payment systems.
- Improving access to essential medicines via decision-aware machine learning
A novel decision-aware machine learning framework was deployed nationwide in Sierra Leone to allocate essential medicines, resulting in improved healthcare access in a resource-constrained setting. The study was published in Nature on April 29, 2026.