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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
A lot has been written about the potential link between excessive use of pornography and poor mental health; sexual violence, and more generally whether addiction to pornography is a public health problem. There is neither a definitive clinical consensus nor a decisive scientific stance on this potential causality. However, there is no denying ...
For more than two decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been recording a boom in the production of health professionals, especially doctors and nurses. This situation is directly linked to the liberalization of higher and university education which has led to the uncontrolled proliferation of schools of medicine and nursing in almo...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted Africa’s overdependence on imports to meet vaccine needs for epidemic response and routine immunization. The continent imports over 90% of its vaccines. In response to these needs, the African Union (AU) and the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) launched th...
As was the case last year, IHP launches a call for correspondents for the weekly International Health Policies Newsletter & Network. The weekly IHP newsletter/digest is a flagship knowledge management activity of the IHP network, funded by the Belgian Government (DGD), providing a trusted source of curated health policy news, key global health a...
The Sahel region, and in particular the G5 countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad), face complex and interconnected challenges including chronic poverty, food crises, political instability and violence, as well as recurrent epidemics (in addition to Covid, there’s Ebola, Rift Valley fever, dengue etc.). This situation is the...
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has a podcast channel called ECDC on air. With the support of industry specialists in the healthcare sector, the channel focuses on communicating about emerging threats to human health in the EU. On September 29, they aired an episode in which the topic of community engagement in heal...
Today, November 25th, is the first of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. This UN-led campaign ends on December 10th, Human Rights Day, thereby aptly reminding us that violence against women and girls is part and parcel of brutal disrespect for human dignity in general. Now, most of you might wonder why a yearly campaign for activ...
It’s no doubt not the only one in these dire times of ours, but Myanmar is a prime example of a country that had to confront dual stressors, Covid-19 and “political conflict” (understatement), in recent months. To make matters worse, its population faces numerous obstacles to receiving essential mental health services. Indeed, the mental d...
I am, of course, referring to the People’s Health Hearing: Health Justice means Climate Justice that convened on Sunday 7th November, and which can be viewed on YouTube in both English and Spanish. Unlike other events on health held over the mid weekend of COP26, this hearing was conceived primarily as a platform for people from around the wor...
