Archive: Feb 2022

Hyeyoung Lim, Ralf Jurgens, Alexandrina Iovita, and Joanne Csete Tuberculosis disproportionately affects people marginalized by poverty, people in detention, and individuals living with and vulnerable to HIV. The End TB Strategy of the World Health…

Editor-in-Chief Paul Farmer died in his sleep, in Rwanda, on February 21. It is with great sadness that we write this news, remembering our leader at the Journal, a man deeply committed to human rights and health, to exposing and overcoming the…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 77-84 |  PDF Mohammed Alkhaldi, Rachel Coghlan, Simon Miller, Aisha al Basuoni, Osama Tanous, and Yara M. Asi Introduction In early June 2021, Scientific American published a statement by health care workers,…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 125-127 |  PDF Abby Stoddard Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War, by Leonard Rubenstein (Columbia University Press, 2021) In the mid-19th century, a brief and…

Yazid Barhoush On March 25th, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic escalated, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, called for governments to “not forget those behind bars” and “act quickly to reduce the number of people in…