Many human rights and health gains have been made in Afghanistan over the past two decades. The international community must ensure that these are not reversed under Taliban rule, says […]
Three years ago I travelled to Gaborone, Botswana for my medical elective. I was there to learn about glaucoma—the complex eye disease and so called “silent thief of sight.” After […]
After a rapid start, the pace of the United Kingdom’s (UK) covid-19 vaccination programme has slowed down while the UK still faces high infection, hospitalisation, and death rates, and a […]
That rhetorical questions like the recent one posed by some in the media are even asked shows how deeply ill-informed and distorted the discourse on healthcare has become in the […]
Maternal mortality and morbidity have been at the forefront of the public health agenda for the past three decades. However, despite global efforts, avoidable injury and death remain a considerable […]
What are the challenges and options for East Asian countries that pursued “elimination” strategies? […]
To many ethnic minority doctors, an employment tribunal’s damning verdict, that “there might be discrimination infecting the referral process” at the General Medical Council (GMC) is not surprising. The regulator […]
Institutions that deliver healthcare and conduct research must prove themselves good neighbors to the communities they serve, say Anika Hines and Lisa Cooper […]
The unequal burden of covid-19 is etched along ethnic and racial lines. [1] While the risks from covid-19 are now better established, mitigation efforts remain insufficient, particularly among more marginalised […]
The UK government report on race disparities is a missed opportunity and will lead to a worsening of systemic inequalities, say these authors […]
