Energy is central to human health, powering essential activities from cooking food, heating, and cooling in the home to operating equipment and refrigerating medicines and vaccines in health-care facilities. Despite progress in expanding access, many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) still experience energy poverty, forcing billions of people to breathe contaminated air from cooking with biomass fuels and walk to health centres that have difficulty keeping lights on and electrical equipment running.
The Lancet Global Health published a clinical update in Infectious Disease on 01 Apr 2026.
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