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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
This morning I felt chirpy and on top of things. I fitted in a cycle-ride early morning, had a great conversation over chai mid-morning, and I could re-schedule events so I could collect my daughter staying late at soccer practice. I have skills to deal with stressful events and know where to get help if I am mentally distressed and largely beca...
La crise sécuritaire s’aggrave dans le Centre du Mali, dans la zone des trois frontières (Mali, Burkina Faso et Niger). L’insécurité et la peur ont entrainé une forte dégradation de l’accès aux soins de santé pour les populations et l’État est en manque d’initiatives pour y faire face. Pour pallier cette absence de l’État, ...
I was this week in New York, at the United Nations. More specifically I participated in the UN High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage as a representative of the Medicus Mundi International Network Health for All! The UHC meeting was part of a series of high-level political meetings taking place before and during the 74th session of the ...
Last week’s Third Planetary Health meeting in Palo Alto at Stanford University marked nearly four years since the Lancet with support from the Rockefeller foundation launched The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health. The same year (2015), Wellcome Trust established the Our planet, Our health: responding to a changing ...
Ethnic minority groups tend to be marginalised across the globe, and the situation might be even worse in South Asia. Nepal, the country where I’m from, is a multi-ethnic (125 ethnic groups) and multilingual (92 spoken languages) country with still lingering caste-based hierarchies. In this hierarchical system, set up (formally) mid-19th centu...
Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in the 19th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry in Lisbon (21-24 August). In case you didn’t know, WPA stands for ‘World Psychiatric Association’. But as we all know (or should know), there is no health without mental health, and I was therefore proud to represent ITM at this Congress! Back in ...
A few weeks ago the near-final political declaration of the UN High level Meeting (UNHLM) on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) became available. The main contentious issues are on language related to sexual and reproductive health, rights and gender equality (par. 68 & 69) and access to health care for migrants, refugees, internally displaced pers...
My grandmother, later alone my mother were smallholder farmers in Uganda, and I grew up in the era where malaria was highly prevalent. So, I think I qualify to tell you a little bit about pesticide use for food production and public health. Quickly, I have witnessed both the use of sustainable (unconventional) and conventional food production pr...
Assaulting medical staff at government hospitals has unfortunately become a common phenomenon in the Indian subcontinent these days, and India is certainly not an exception. According to a study by the Indian Medical Association, over 75% of Indian doctors have already faced violence at work. The risk of violent incidents (with almost 70 % of ...
