On 18 January 2017, the issue of the human rights of agricultural workers with no land of their own and other people working in rural areas was placed on the […]
Global health
Forgetting Aleppo: Fatalism has no place in this tragedy
William Faulkner wrote, “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practise it.” Such freedom cannot be better encapsulated than by the herculean health workers in […]
Vanessa Yarwood: Stories of Samos refugee camp—“The situation seems to be reaching boiling point”
Our team arrives on mass to the camp, greeted by cold steel fences criss-crossing up two metres high and crowned by coils of sharp barbs. This is juxtaposed by colourful […]
R N Karuga: “Building a resilient and responsive health system needs strong community support”
“Forget about these people in the national office,” said Maria (not her real name). “They are not in touch with reality!” Maria is a district health manager in Kenya. This […]
Daniel R Lucey: “Much more must be done to implement post-Ebola reforms”
In a recent Analysis in The BMJ, Suerie Moon and colleagues convincingly argue that not enough has been done to implement actions recommended by seven post-Ebola reports in order “to […]
BMJ winter charity appeal: “Orbis was the platform from which I progressed”
The year was 1992 and the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital had landed at Chiang Mai International Airport in the north of Thailand. Its mission: to provide training and mentorship to […]
Colin D Butler: Regional overload and the consequences it has for health
Almost 1% of the world population, mostly children, is forcibly displaced (including 11.7 million Syrians), an increase of over 50% from 2011. [1] Here I propose that the public health catastrophe […]
What can we learn from the European Union’s first right to food law?
By Tomaso Ferrando and Roberto Sensi. In this second article on the #RightToFood, part of a BMJ Global Health series, we discuss our experience of the conception and enactment of a right to […]
Seth Berkley: The new priority in Syria is preventing epidemics
Regardless of how the current ceasefire agreement in Syria came about, it has—to a large extent—brought a welcome halt to hostilities in many parts of the country. But as one […]
BMJ Christmas charity appeal: Orbis’s Flying Eye Hospital—going places where other charities often can’t
I think if I wasn’t an anaesthetist, I would have liked to have been a pilot. There are a lot of similarities between the two: in terms of responsibility, and […]