Indian hospitals are running out of two life-saving cancer drugs as the war in Iran continues to disrupt the supply of raw materials. Stocks of cisplatin and carboplatin, two of the most widely used chemotherapy drugs in the country, have begun running dry over the last three weeks, doctors and pharmaceutical industry representatives have said. The two closely related drugs are derived from platinum, a precious metal that has surged in cost due to the Middle East conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and form the backbone of treatment for about 60 per cent of advanced cancer cases. India reports about 1.4 million new cancer cases annually, with an estimated 2.5 to 3 million patients battling the disease at any given time. Dwindling drug stocks have forced major facilities like All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi and private hospitals across India to delay or modify treatment schedules, sending patients and families on frantic hunts through pharmacies and distributors.

A suspected mpox outbreak has hit Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region, threatening hundreds of thousands of people living in overcrowded displacement camps, aid groups say. At least 200 suspected mpox cases have been identified across five towns in the remote Jebel Marra region, a rugged mountain range in central Darfur. Francesco Lanino, @save_children's deputy country director in Sudan, said the outbreak has been fuelled by the ongoing conflict, which has devastated healthcare and restricted aid access. “We really think the number [of cases] is much, much higher,” he told The Telegraph

EXCL from @maeve_cullinan The first Ebola case in the current epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) may date back as far as January, according to local medics. The information was shared with several international NGOs, including the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Action Aid and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), by local medics last week, sources have told The Telegraph. The medics believe the outbreak began with a patient treated at a hospital in Rwampara, a town in eastern DRC, in late January. They said the patient went on to infect eight healthcare workers before dying in February.

Israel has been added to a United Nations watchlist of groups using sexual violence as a weapon of war, according to a leaked report seen by The Telegraph. The UN secretary-general’s annual report on conflict-related sexual violence lists countries, organisations and armed groups that are “credibly suspected” of “committing or being responsible for patterns of rape and other forms of sexual violence”. Israel appears alongside more than 70 others, including Russia’s armed forces and the terror groups Hamas, Islamic State, Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab. The list, first established in 2009 under UN Security Council Resolution 1888, aims to reduce sexual violence in conflict by defining it as a preventable crime rather than an inevitable by-product of war.

A Kenyan high court has temporarily blocked a plan for an American Ebola quarantine centre, hours before the facility had been due to open. The plan to set up an isolation centre so that United States nationals returning from Congo could quarantine in Kenya rather than in America was opposed by health groups who feared it could import the deadly virus. A high court judge on Thursday night blocked the centre until a legal challenge could be heard. Campaign groups have accused the Kenyan government of endangering public health and compromising national sovereignty by agreeing the deal with Washington. The country’s main medical union had also threatened strike action.