Over the past sixty years, antibiotics have played important roles in medicine, farming, and beyond. They have become an important backdrop to the modern era, enabling the rapid treatment of […]
Global health
Universal quality healthcare coverage—a commitment to building a healthier and more productive society
Providing high quality healthcare is an imperative of UHC […]
Alice Willson: What cycling taught me about rural Rwandan healthcare
A recent Mail and Guardian article reported the dramatic decline in Rwanda’s neonatal mortality rate. A video documentary in the article features Nyamata Hospital, where I have been working as […]
Maternal mortality in low resource settings: are doctors part of the solution or the problem?
Progress on reducing maternal mortality in Uganda remains “stagnant’” despite substantial on-going international (and UK) investment. Figures from the WHO indicate a maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of 343 deaths per […]
George Gillett: The global community is failing on health conditions in Palestine
Some tragedies in health arise from complex biological processes; others are born out of political choices, says George Gillett […]
Svetlana Axelrod and Katie Dain: A blueprint for tackling NCDs
In 1990, a student photographer called Therese Frare took one of the most iconic images of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. David Kirby’s sunken cheeks and fearful stare as he lay on […]
Adolfo Rubinstein: Building more effective health care coverage in Argentina
Argentina, an upper middle income country, has a developed healthcare system. Compared with other countries in Latin America, its healthcare system performs well. Health outcomes lag behind the country’s potential, […]
Sania Nishtar: Non-communicable diseases must be part of Universal Health Coverage
The move towards universal health coverage (UHC) has been spurred on by the risk of a pandemic and the premise of the sustainable development agenda. But, as countries move towards […]
Paying and investing in last-mile community health workers accelerates universal health coverage
Illness is universal, access to healthcare is not. The 71st World Health Assembly will be the first since the World Bank and World Health Organization released new findings showing that […]
Kent Buse and Sarah Hawkes: Gender—global health’s dirty little secret
All global health organisations need to understand how gender dynamics impact on the health outcomes of both women and men—as well as on their staffing […]