The coronavirus pandemic has hit communities in Ghana hard, either directly or indirectly through fear and panic of infection and the economic consequences of lockdown. As of 30 April, 2020, […]
Global health
Diagnostic tests for covid-19—improving accuracy and global harmonisation
As the epidemic outbreaks of novel respiratory tract infectious diseases SARS, MERS, and the ongoing pandemic of covid-19 have shown, the development of accurate diagnostic tests play an important role […]
Now is not the time to undermine the World Health Organization
Let’s find a solution rather than a culprit, particularly when it comes to the WHO and the coronavirus crisis, say Jose Martin-Moreno and John Middleton […]
Covid-19: an opportunity or risk to addressing health inequalities?
The results of the covid-19 pandemic will likely only make health inequalities worse. But can this crisis be an opportunity for real change? […]
We urgently need to start contact tracing to stop the spread of covid-19
Experience from Sheffield suggests that locally led initiatives can support rapid scale up of contact tracing […]
Covid-19 vaccines: global access means having enough
Covid-19 vaccine development is advancing at an unprecedented pace, with more than 80 candidates in early stage development, and a number already in human clinical trials. Through vaccination, we can […]
Covid-19 affects everything—more than a disease control plan, we need a manifesto
Across the world, scientists and public health experts are producing new ideas, knowledge, and technologies to combat covid-19. The degree of cross-border sharing of data, research methods, and evidence has […]
There is no relationship between covid-19 and altitude illness
There have recently been suggestions that covid-19 lung disease is similar to high altitude pulmonary oedema (HAPE). There have been proposals to treat covid-19 with medications that are used for […]
Pandemic parlance: public health needs new language for the coronavirus pandemic
Words matter. If officials want people to buy into lifestyle changes, they need to use more inviting terminology say Joanne Silberner and Howard Frumkin […]
The human cost of sanctions—covid-19 and beyond
Parsa Erfani and Laila Fozouni When we spoke with Maryam*, she recalled first noticing the lump in her neck in the summer of 2018. Sanctions on Iran had sharply increased, […]