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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Last year, on June 19, Colombia elected its first leftist president, committed to sustainable peace and tackling social and economic inequality and corruption, in a historic result. The stewardship of the country’s health system, headed by the Ministry of Health (MoH), was henceforth going to be presided over by civil and political forces root...
In emergencies, women and girls are often at particular risk. Response agencies have recorded this pattern during disasters such as the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war, the 2022 floods in Pakistan, and now the Turkey-Syria earthquake. According to the UN Refugee agency, UNHCR’s latest data released in mid-2022, 10...
As Africa navigates the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, it faces a growing number of health threats. Recently, during the opening plenary of the biannual Africa Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC) in Kigali, Rwanda, Dr. Githinji Gitahi, the Global Chief Executive Officer of Amref Health Africa outlined “the four C’s” facing t...
The weekly International Health Policies (IHP) newsletter is a flagship knowledge management activity of the IHP network, funded by the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (DGD) and produced out of ITM Antwerp. The IHP network aims to “empower committed groups of global health experts based in the Glob...
As we see women taking up leadership positions around us, we often feel that we have come a long way in terms of achieving gender equality! It is only when one sees the startling facts around female representation that one realizes how much work remains to be done. Women hold only a quarter of global health leadership positions, while 75% of he...
Community engagement is key to the sustained success of public health and social measures (PHSMs) in response to outbreaks. As witnessed during the Covid pandemic (among others), public health and social measures are a key strategy to reduce the transmission of pathogens with epidemic or pandemic potential. The pandemic also reminded us of the ...
On 20th September 2022, the Uganda Ministry of Health (MOH), together with the World Health Organization declared an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) due to Sudan ebolavirus in Mubende District, after one fatal case was confirmed. The index case was a 24-year-old man, a resident of Ngabano village of Madudu sub-county in Mubende District. T...
After talking for some hours with this guy, the one with the “candy”- emoji (🍬) in his profile, we decided to see each other at his house to play some video games. With the talk, the euphoria of the gameplay, and the chemistry, things began to flow. Our lips were getting closed, our hands were discovering each other, when suddenly he took ou...
Over the past four decades the world has seen the privatisation of health and other social services. Stemming from the ‘Structural Adjustment Programmes’ that the IMF, World Bank and other international financial institutions imposed on countries of the Global South, as well as the attacks on unions and other democratic avenues for social ac...
