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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Against the backdrop of the global Covid-19 pandemic, “Test, test, test” has been one of the key messages of the World Health Organization (WHO), reiterated over and over again. In almost every country, there is a push to test more, regardless of government capacity. It’s not surprising that many people feel angry and frustrated over the weak he...
As of May 15, 2020, The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq has confirmed 397 COVID-19 cases and five deaths. While this number might seem low, the outbreak has serious political ramifications for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The outbreak triggered a reactionary response among authorities in KRI. Recognising that decades of auster...
Spending “May Day” by myself at home this year, seemed very strange. It was the first time in a very long time, that I did not attend some sort of protest or event of resistance. But I do not think there has ever been a time in my life when concerns of workers’ rights have been more pronounced than they are in India today. Like most of the...
(cross-posted from Ghent Centre for Global Studies where it was published first: https://www.globalstudies.ugent.be/the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-the-irrelevance-of-the-sdgs/2/ ) According to Remco van de Pas, SDG3 on health and wellbeing has been irrelevant to address global challenges in this area. The futility of this SDG and limits of the W...
You can download the full note “Questions & Reflections on SARS-CoV-2 & Covid-19 in sub-Saharan Africa” (work-in-progress, version 4) here, both in English and French: Corona-in-sSA-questions-and-reflections-v4Download Corona-in-sSA-questions-and-reflections-v4-FRDownload Based in Kinshasa since a number of weeks, supporting the ‘Riposte coron...
During the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, European nations have struggled to provide health information to immigrant and minority populations. Using Norway as a case example and taking the social and economic rights framework as the point of departure, this blog highlights six elements for a grounded and inclusive approach to health inf...
As Ecuador’s limited response to COVID-19 has hit the news in Europe and the USA, the country is still struggling to understand how everything may get even worse. By April 4, 2020, with 3,465 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country, there were 172 confirmed COVID-19 deaths and another 147 deaths due to acute respiratory failure, most of them ...
As of 5 April 2020, the total number of COVID-19 cases has crossed 1.2 million with over 60,000 deaths globally attributed to the novel coronavirus. Countries have been increasingly shutting their borders, imposing travel restrictions, and millions have been locked down to curb the spread of COVID-19. Three weeks ago, Italy was already the epice...
The corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to challenge the way the world has viewed and managed public health, everyday bringing new solutions and challenges. The pandemic has led to what is a “first” for civilization – a simultaneous lock-down of nearly 3 billion people across the world. India was coasting along with relative...
