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Book Review by Fran Quigley Although I have not met Adam Gaffney, I feel indebted to him. Through his new book, To Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History (Routledge), Gaffney, a physician and instructor at Harvard Medical School and active…

Oagile Bethuel Key Dingake Through the leadership of UNAIDS, the African Think-Tank on HIV, Health and Social Justice (the Think-Tank) was created in March 2015 to provide a platform for strategic thinking, leadership and collaboration to support,…

Photo credit: Alliance for Choice, Northern Ireland Claire Pierson and Fiona Bloomer Restrictive abortion legislation in Northern Ireland (NI) results in approximately 1000 women per year travelling to England to access the procedure. But these…

Fran Quigley Despite President Trump’s repeated promises to take on the pharmaceutical industry and drug pricing, his recently released Executive Order shows he will do no such thing. In fact, Trump hired industry executives to lead the process of…

WHO Watchers in Geneva Fran Quigley, in Geneva The election of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as the new director-general of the World Health Organization has dominated the news from the 70th World Health Assembly. But, arguably, it was not the…

Fran Quigley, in Geneva In his first press conference as director-general-elect of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today made his core mission clear. “As I traveled in recent months, the message I heard around the world…