Our reluctance to look at capitalism when we investigate global patterns of health and disease has a cost, writes Nicholas Freudenberg […]
Global health
Covid-19: Bolsonaro tells Brazilians to stop “being a country of sissies”
Brazil’s covid-19 response is failing women by actively condemning them to greater vulnerability and risk from covid-19, say these authors Brazil is the epicentre of the covid-19 pandemic. With almost […]
European migration policies should prioritize health needs and life saving strategies
Adequate responses to migration flows have been increasingly hampered in Europe by policies that limit freedom of movement and foster stigmatisation of humanitarian assistance. [1,2] These policies are based on […]
Mongolian pastoralists face covid-19 with traditional calm
Nomadic people represent an unusual challenge during pandemics. With herders comprising a large part of Mongolia’s population, Troy Sternberg looks at their experiences of covid-19 […]
Equity is key to ending this pandemic and preparing for the next
Prioritise the most vulnerable women, children, adolescents and health workers with covid-19 vaccines and essential health services, write Helen Clark and Anuradha Gupta. We all know covid-19 is a killer. […]
Enhancing UK action and promoting equity of access to global covid-19 vaccines
Richer nations have a vital role to play in ensuring equity of access to covid-19 vaccines around the world, say Maggie Rae and Helen Stokes-Lampard […]
Exhausted, grieving, and struggling not to lose hope—an emergency physician in Iran
Before the covid-19 pandemic, if I was asked whether I still would have chosen to become an emergency medicine specialist after 10 years of practice, I wouldn’t have felt even […]
A pandemic treaty: where are we now that the leaders have spoken?
Devastated by covid-19, the world is braced for future pandemics. If we are to avoid this fate, then bolder global solutions will be required. On 30 March 2021, twenty eight […]
What should we ask of a new global treaty for pandemic preparedness?
Supra-national health action agencies are needed in every WHO region or continent, to predict, prevent and respond to pandemics Twenty five of the world’s leaders recently called for a new […]
Is waiving intellectual property rights to fight covid-19 the best thing to do?
Proposals for adjusting intellectual property rules and practices to augment production and promote global access to vaccines and other technologies have provoked controversy. Promoting voluntary sharing of intellectual property and […]