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Dainius Pūras – UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health Many of the problems in global health stem from power imbalances in the health workforce, and these can be traced back to medical education systems. There is an urgent need to overhaul…

Dainius Pūras We cannot effectively prevent suicide by increasing the use of prescription medicines. Instead, we need to acknowledge that emotional pain frequently comes from social problems, including being a victim of violence, discrimination, or…

Fran Quigley Rhonda Cree has diabetes, significant vision loss, and high blood pressure, and relies on Medicaid to cover her prescriptions and other healthcare costs.  But Cree, 61 years old, lives in the town of Logansport in north-central…

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…