Alexander Brown

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Second year student, Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia.

SDG 3.3 on HIV – A noble target with a dangerous blind spot

Posted in articles by Alastair Ashley and Alexander Brown on September 18, 2018

Ending the HIV epidemic by 2030 is undoubtedly a noble endeavour, and is the aim put forward by the UN in SDG 3.3. In full, the target states: “By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases”. … Read more »

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The role of Ayurveda in health and well-being and its continuing relevance for today

By Mahesh Madhav Mathpati on February 15, 2019

For over a century various physicians, philosophers and scholars have used medicine or medical science to define health. This has contributed to the emerging issues around medicalisation of human experience and changed the dynamics around control and power within the health system. While modern biomedicine has made immense strides in medicine and surgery, it has overshadowed traditional forms of medicine, until … Read more »

Decolonizing global health – starting at home?

By Werner Soors on February 15, 2019

Not every day we attend conferences that in their announcement declare global health to be “only the newest iteration of what was formerly international health, tropical medicine and colonial medicine”. Which is precisely what attracted this grey-haired whitey – working in what is still called an Institute of Tropical Medicine – to the “Decolonizing Global Health” … Read more »

#DecolonizeGlobalHealth: Rewriting the narrative of global health

By Renzo Guinto on February 11, 2019

The history of the field of global health is always traced back to tropical medicine, an earlier discipline started by former Western empires. Generally, the focus of tropical medicine was the study of infectious diseases prevalent in colonies in the tropics. The purpose was to find measures to protect the … Read more »

What the recent discussions on access to medicines at WHO’s Executive Board tell us

By Priti Patnaik on February 8, 2019

When the Tedros administration assumed office in 2017, there was some apprehension in certain sections of the global health community, about the extent to which WHO would protect and pursue the contentious issue of access to medicines. Less than two years on, one can be fairly convinced that this administration … Read more »

Political Economy of PMAC: Who Gets Invited, Who Doesn’t, and So What

By Renzo Guinto on February 6, 2019

Each year, the global health calendar (as graphically summarized by Kent Buse on Twitter recently – here’s part one) begins with the Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) in Bangkok – together with the WHO Executive Board Meeting in Geneva, of course. Under the patronage of the Thai royal family, PMAC … Read more »

Lassa Fever: Nigeria waiting for the lion to yawn

By Adie Vanessa Offiong on February 5, 2019

Yearly, since 1969, Nigeria suffers fatal Lassa Fever outbreaks. In a bid to increase awareness and curb the menace, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) hosted a two-day international conference on the disease. Participants at the event got some encouraging vaccine news among others. Tanko Al-Makura is governor of Nasarawa … Read more »

IHP | Switching the Poles in International Health Policies

switching the poles in international health policies

Articles by Alexander Brown

SDG 3.3 on HIV – A noble target with a dangerous blind spot