Subscribe to our weekly International update on Health Policies
Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
While we were reeling with the effects of COVID-19, around 243 million women and girls around the world faced domestic abuse and violence during the pandemic. Before 2020, donors like USAID, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the Canadian Government along with other major philanthropic organizations pledged vast sums of money...
In September 2021, activists celebrated Mexico’s Supreme Court decision on the decriminalization of abortion. Although not a total surprise in light of recent debate and campaigning, it was still a landmark ruling in Latin America’s second largest Catholic nation. See the related tweet by the Executive Director of the Women’s Equality Centr...
Today is World Health Day 2022, though I will likely remember it as my 38th birthday. There is ample room for progress in the field of health today. Yet, three days after the latest IPCC report, and three days before the (first round of the) French presidential elections, I suspect it is clear to everyone that handing over a non-livable planet t...
Prologue We aim for patient-centered healthcare, but the patient remains a passive recipient of care in that model. In malaria-endemic countries, lower-level facilities lack the human resources, equipment, supplies and structural arrangements needed to provide care. What if communities became stewards of their own health? What if they were act...
Women’s History Month ended on a rather depressing note, with GH5050’s hard-hitting 2022 report, Boards for All?. Through “A review of power, policy and people on the boards of organizations active in global health”, the report revealed that men from high income countries (HICs) continue to dominate and control the positions of power and...
The world is in a dire state and everybody is talking about it – and I want to just say a few words about how we do this. The Wintermanifest (published at the start of the Omicron wave in Belgium) questioned the perceived dominance of virologists and epidemiologists in the battle against the Corona virus in Belgium. The manifest was mainly c...
Anna is a 36-year old woman living on the streets of New York. She has been homeless since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. She has been using toilet paper as her sanitary pads when she can, otherwise she would reuse old fabrics. She doesn’t have access to clean underwear, and she lives in shame and uncertainty every month. Before Covid...
In 1978, the Alma Ata declaration affirmed that care is a fundamental right as well as a social justice target. Furthermore, it set primary health care (PHC) as the key to meet this target and emphasised full participation (and self-reliance and self-determination) of the community. More than four decades later, community participation remains e...
COVID-19 was a watershed moment for all countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, especially after decades of geopolitical and economic shocks. But even before the pandemic struck, sustainable development was already jeopardized by an unstable economic environment and scarce resources, among other challenges. See for example ...