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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
In Latin America, an estimated 6.5 million abortions occurred every year between 2010 and 2014, with 95% of them performed clandestinely in unsafe and unsanitary conditions, representing 10% of maternal mortality in the region. As of today, only four countries in Latin America allow assisted abortion in all circumstances; in six countries it is ...
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, argued in a 2014 editorial that global health, despite its stated goals to assist the Global South, primarily benefits the Global North. This controversial take on a seemingly altruistic field has been met with some support, with most citing the net flow of benefits that seems to invariably flow i...
Quality of care in health services has been identified as one of the key elements on the path to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and fundamental towards achieving the health related goals and targets outlined under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The importance of QoC towards achieving our goals for better health services and outcomes...
With the majority of the world’s population living in urban settings, strengthening the capacity of social systems to adequately respond to the needs of mobile, urban populations, and revisiting older policies that no longer fit the needs of increasingly urban populations, is critical in the quest for universal coverage. Today’s urban societ...
The 2017 Global Evidence Summit was recently held in Cape Town, South Africa. From what we heard, it was a fascinating conference. Too bad we weren’t there. More importantly however, in spite of the organizers’ intention to be highly inclusive and diverse, and participants from 77 countries, a number of countries were not represented, showin...
The Sixth Regional Meeting on the Right to Health and Health Systems took place in Santiago de Chile from 6th to 8th of September. This event gathered country representatives (ministers and vice-ministers of health), academics and other stakeholders from different countries that are part of the World Bank Initiative Salud Derecho. This is an e...
Richard Horton published “The Case Against Global Health” in May 2014 as a summary of his role in a conference debate held by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, in Washington DC. He admitted to playing devil’s advocate by supporting the proposition that “global health investments benefit countries of the Global North mor...
You may think I haven’t gotten with the times i.e. not coming up (yet) here with deep reflections on the Health Systems Global 2018 theme (advancing health systems for all in the SDG era), but instead, being honest, that before we even get there we can’t move on from the 2014 focus in Cape Town – people- centred health systems. Not just,...
In Horton’s 2014 Editorial Comment in the Lancet he summarises his arguments from a recent conference debate in an attempt to affirm the proposition that global health investments benefit countries of the Global North more than those of the Global South. He begins with an admission of playing devil’s advocate and is consequently pleased his ...