It would be sad and ironic if the main legacy of this year’s Winter Olympics is to advance unhealthy eating and obesity […]
Fiona Sim: The Winter Olympics and junk food—who cares about the health legacy?
Category: Global health
Michel Kazatchkine: Winds of hope on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?
The announcement by UNAIDS that some 21 million people living with HIV are now on treatment uncovers an extraordinary achievement and one of the great global health milestones of this century. It gives us hope that the other 15 million or so people living with HIV can also soon access anti-retroviral treatment, and hope that […]
Mihály Kökény and Gyula Kincses: Health can be a unifying issue in an era of polarised politics
Hungary is experiencing a deepening crisis in healthcare, but it is possible for parties of different interests to work together […]
Brenda Kelly and Filsan Ali: The narrative around FGM needs to move beyond prosecution
Communities must be listened to and grassroots expertise enlisted if we are to end this practice […]
Managing the conflicts between private interests and public responsibility
The Global Fund partnership is an important mechanism for transferring funds from national, multilateral, and private donors to low and middle income countries to assist in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Most of the Global Fund’s contributions come from governments, although there has long been private sector interest in engagement with the Fund […]
Isabelle Defourny and Christine Jamet: The bitter taste of Mosul
In the battle to retake Mosul, MSF was forced to witness the expendability of human life […]
Tessa Richards: Solidarity in a cold climate
Tromsø lies over 200 miles north of the Arctic circle and last week, after months of polar nights it celebrated its first glimpse of the sun; and hosted two international meetings. One on global health and cross national initiatives aimed at promoting solidarity on health. A second on how to foster environmentally and socially sustainable […]
Eric D Perakslis: It’s time to address the medical benefits and risks of the internet of things
It’s time for us to seriously consider which patient care and monitoring devices should be connected to the internet […]
Giorgia Sulis: Delamanid—a broken dream for patients with MDR-TB?
After decades of neglect by the drugs industry, the fight against tuberculosis will be even harder now that delamanid’s role seems to be rather limited […]
The international community needs to help reconstruct Somaliland’s healthcare system
The Horn of Africa, a region often synonymous with conflict and political uncertainty hosts Somaliland, a relatively peaceful breakaway costal region that declared its secession from Somalia in May 1991. [1,2] The collapse of the central government destroyed infrastructure and displaced thousands of civilians forcing a complete breakdown of the national economy. [3] Under subsequent […]