By Manasi Jiwrajka We look back at some of our case reports: Gender remains an important determinant of health. For example, in HIV in India: the Jogini culture , we read that female gender ensured a lifestyle that exposed the patient to HIV.1 “The patient never attended school. At menstruation, she awoke to a startling reality as […]
Category: Global Health
Back to Basics with Female Genital Mutilation
By Manasi Jiwrajka The 6th of February marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. Last year I had the privilege to listen to Khadija Gbla at the Global Health Conference in Newcastle, Australia organised by the Australian Medical Student Association. Khadija is the voice and face of female genital mutilation (FGM) in […]
Global Health Workshop, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia with Dr Seema Biswas, BMJ Case Reports Editor in Chief
By Manasi Jiwrajka In October, 2016, we conducted a Global Health workshop at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. We advertised the event to medical and dental school students, and had an overwhelming interest in the workshop. We had attendees ranging from first year medical students to faculty members at the University of Queensland. Prof […]
“The Crossroad between Dentistry and Medicine” at ADEE & AMEE
By Prof. Rui Amaral Mendes and Dr. Seema Biswas In August, taking advantage of having our annual meetings in the same city – the beautiful Barcelona – ADEE (the Association for Dental Education in Europe) and its medical counterpart, AMEE (the Association for Medical Education in Europe), convened efforts to hold a joint scientific and business […]
World Health Summit
By Seema Biswas The World Health Summit was held in Berlin last week. Leaders in Global Health from universities, health services, policy institutes and the humanitarian sector came together to discuss the health of populations, including some of the world’s most vulnerable communities affected by conflict and disaster. The topics for discussion were timely. No […]
Empowering women; Gender Equality and Healthcare
By Catrin Morgan ‘There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women’ – Kofi Annan The leading cause of death worldwide for a young woman is HIV. (1) The literature shows that teenage girls and young women are twice as likely to be at risk of HIV infection than teenage boys […]
World Humanitarian Day 2016
Events are to be held all over the world today as we mark World Humanitarian Day. At BMJ Case Reports we look back at our Global Health case reports and thousands of clinical cases from across the globe that remind us of the place of Medicine in the alleviation of suffering, advocacy for human rights and rights to health […]
The 2015 Student Elective Competition: And the winners are…
By Hemali Bedi It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the 2015 BMJ Case Reports Student Elective Competition! Each entry has been carefully reviewed and judged by our expert Editorial Team. It was a difficult task to judge all of our excellent entries, and the Editorial Team thoroughly enjoyed reading each […]
Urban violence in Honduras: a global health challenge
By Hemali Bedi Honduras has had one of the highest rates of urban violence in the world since 2010. [1] With an average of one violent death per hour in 2013, rates of lethal violence exceed those in many war-affected countries. [2] As well as having humanitarian implications, the violence in Honduras also presents a […]
Why should students write a global health case report?
By Manasi Jiwrajka Recently we published a paper on the reasons for medical students to write a Global Health case report. We don’t often hear about a Global Health case report, and usually it is about something weird and wonderful that we have read in a Pathology text book. Medical students find Global Health overarching We, […]