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Bangladesh’s health care system has significantly improved over the past decades, among others reducing maternal and child mortality, increasing life expectancy and universal immunisation coverage. International indices point in the same direction. By way of example, even on the – since the pandemic somewhat notorious – (2021) Global Health S...
It’s no doubt not the only one in these dire times of ours, but Myanmar is a prime example of a country that had to confront dual stressors, Covid-19 and “political conflict” (understatement), in recent months. To make matters worse, its population faces numerous obstacles to receiving essential mental health services. Indeed, the mental ...
The World Health Summit (WHS) is a bizarre animal of global health dichotomies. Public sessions full of prepared remarks and platitudes, some bordering on the advertorial. Splashy evening sessions where powerful speakers preach to the converted. The real action must be in private, right? The public portion is window dressing for the real (trans...
