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Kawaldip Sehmi: Shopping around for the best system of universal health coverage
In September 2015, 194 member states of the United Nations agreed to adopt the resolution A/RES/70/1 from Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. By accepting this resolution they […]
Nora Hellman: Responding to an outbreak of yellow fever
Responding to an outbreak of yellow fever is not as exotic as you may imagine. What kind of exciting and interesting things do you do as an emergency response nurse […]
Lee Schroeder, Timothy Amukele, and Madhukar Pai: Why the world needs an essential diagnostics list
Without diagnostic tests, medicine is blind. And yet, diagnostics receive much less attention than vaccines and drugs. Imagine a sick infant with bacterial sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa. Without diagnostics, they […]
Diana Quirmbach, Laura Cornelsen, Richard Smith: The rise of soft drinks—sugar is not the only concern
While sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) are increasingly being targeted by governments in their efforts to halt and reverse rising levels of obesity, energy drinks in particular have been singled out […]
Jean-Hervé Bradol: Humanitarian emergency in northeast Nigeria
Several days ago I returned from Borno state in northeast Nigeria, where a catastrophic humanitarian emergency is quietly unfolding. I was there to assess the situation and help set up […]
David Hughes: London, Zika, and the Rio Olympics
I remember clearly the night of the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. I was team doctor for the Australian women’s basketball team, the Opals. The Australian Olympic Team (AOT) usually […]
Pietro Dionisio: The shortage of medicines in Venezuela is a humanitarian crisis
Venezuela is a powder keg. A major objective of the Chávez government after the Bolivarian revolution was to improve healthcare for the Venezuelan people, and they built thousands of new […]
Chris Simms: The Iraq war, Chilcot, and cherry picking data: How to find a way forward?
The first week of July 2016 was a week to remember. A cluster of war related stories dominated the media, including the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme (1 […]
Madhukar Pai: How drug resistant TB can show the path to tackling antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health threat, and it is estimated that if we do not find solutions to tackle the rise of drug resistant pathogens, by 2050 10 million […]