Archive: 2019

James Elliott The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its Essential Medicines List (EML), a guide to nations about which drugs should be widely available. Analogue insulins, developed in the 1990s and the mainstay of type 1 diabetes treatment…

Anna Malavisi The editors of the special section on Global Health Fieldwork, Ethics and Human Rights are to be lauded for making visible some of the ethical challenges that arise in global health fieldwork within a context of human rights. The issue…

Caroline Voyles In April 2019, Caster Semenya, the two-time Olympic champion sprinter from South Africa, lost her appeal with the Court for Arbitration for Sport. The court ruled, with judges voting 2-1, in favor of a cap on testosterone levels for…

Julie Hannah and Tasneem Sadiq  We are who we are because of other people – Ubuntu saying Relationships matter.  Relationships—the vital connections between individuals, families, communities, and with the natural environment,…

Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 287 – 291 PDF Audrey Chapman Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World, edited by Gillian MacNaughton and Diane F. Frey, Cambridge University Press, 2018 Neoliberalism, the dominant political ideology…

Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 283 – 285 PDF Julie Hannah Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World, edited by Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence Gostin, published by Oxford University Press, 2018 …