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Global health
Jose Luis Vivero-Pol and Tomaso Ferrando: Let’s talk about the right to food
Legal recognition of the right to food and nutrition can create the grounds for effective and systemic solutions for hunger and malnutrition. Recently, the media was abuzz with news of […]
Chris Simms: The Global Risk Report 2016—who listened?
What has the global community learnt from the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risk Report released last January? The evidence suggests it has not learnt enough to prioritize and take […]
Adesoji Ademuyiwa: Improving child survival following emergency surgery
As a paediatric surgeon in Nigeria, my experience is that child survival following emergency surgery is lower compared to children in more developed countries. This is especially the case in […]
Nitika Pant Pai: HIV self-testing can help end the AIDS epidemic
Although much progress has been made in tackling HIV, in 2015 there were over 36 million people living with HIV, and over 2 million people become newly infected with HIV […]
BMJ Christmas appeal: Training eye teams is vital to producing change
The BMJ has chosen Orbis for this year’s Christmas charity appeal. Orbis has been working in Vietnam since 1996, and over the past 20 years has helped to establish five […]
Matthew Harris: Is this Brazil’s healthcare “Brexit” moment?
I spoke at the Pan-American Health Organization symposium in Brasilia on the 11 November to senior officials from the Ministry of Health. The symposium was to guide and shape the Ministry […]
Students are the key to addressing the gap between academia and action in global health
The last decade has seen an unprecedented growth in the number of students from England, the United States, and other high-income countries involved in global health and development projects in […]
Daniel Whitney: Mental health has still not achieved “parity of esteem”—even among some medical professionals
It’s late morning; little piles of lists and notes from assessments carried out in the past 24 hours are littered between me and the PC. The assorted paraphernalia that seems to […]
Tiago Villanueva: Primary care in Brazil’s largest favela
Walking through Rio de Janeiro’s largest slum, Favela da Rocinha, in the pouring rain is probably not the wisest thing for a foreign visitor to do. But on a recent trip to […]