The 73rd World Health Assembly resumes virtually next week at a time when large parts of Europe including Switzerland are locked down. What’s more the Director General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is currently in self-quarantine after coming in contact with a COVID-19 confirmed case. It is as somber a milieu that one could be faced with,...

The gaps around the enjoyment of the human right to health in Latin America and other parts of the world are still alarming. Inequity in access to basic services persists, especially for vulnerable groups. In response to these inequities in Latin America and other countries, judicial litigation around the right to health has expanded significant...

In many parts of the world, COVID-19 has caused sudden disruption in essential health services, including for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). A recent WHO report indicated that, due to the pandemic, as many as 75 % of its member states  had experienced acute service interruptions for NCDs. The pandemic has hit hard both ostensibly “strong”...

Mayeni: ‘’I wanted to exhaust labor at home… but it was too late’’ “My name is Mayeni… I am 28, I have four kids, three girls and a boy… That day, my husband was on trip in Forécariah [city]. In the afternoon, when I was drying up rice seeds in the sunshine, I felt pain in my stomach. I realized that this was labor because durin...

If anyone ever doubts the value of the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) programme, they only need to watch the just concluded Africa Convening to be convinced. Two EVs and young rising public health stars, Shehnaz Munshi (EV 2018) and Lance Louskieter (EV 2020), collaborated with Health Systems Global (HSG), the Atlantic Institute, Teka...

In early February when I began to understand that there would be some sort of cross-border epidemic emanating from China, I began to become obsessed by the prospect that the crisis would be taken advantage of by individuals, groups, institutions, and even, countries for their own benefit.  Some of you reading this might be thinking that is a rea...

Indian civil society networks and health professionals are urgently demanding better regulation of the for-profit private healthcare sector. India’s health system is dominated by the for-profit private healthcare sector, which accounts for around 75% of outpatient care. In 2016-17, the hospital industry in India was already worth around Rs. 4 ...

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing” (Arundhati Roy) In March 2019 a group of researchers and practitioners met in Accra, Ghana, the first sub-Saharan nation freed from colonial rule, to interrogate what a decolonial lens offers for developing an activist agenda for health policy an...

Within the global health community, the need to decolonise global health is becoming increasingly clear, and indeed, the idea may soon become a “universally acknowledged truth” (which may, admittedly, take years to actualise). When we talk about decolonising global health however, the focus is often on the Global South, representation (diver...