Perspectives

Beth Waldman Abstract The United States spends more per capita on health care than nearly every other country; yet despite this level of spending,quality outcomes in the United States are lower than in many developed countries. This poor quality is due…

Joseph J. Amon, Françoise Girard, and Salmaan Keshavjee [Editor’s note: A PDF version of this article is available here.] Abstract Recent attention to multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR- and XDR-TB) has increased…

Camila Gianella-Malca, Oscar Parra-Vera, Alicia Ely Yamin, y Mauricio Torres-Tovar [Editor’s note: A PDF version of this article is available here.] Executive Summary [English] Democratic deliberation or social marketing? The dilemmas of a public…

Agnès Binagwaho, Niloo Ratnayake, Mary C. Smith Fawzi [PDF version] At a time when accountability is a key message for countries, constituencies, and organizations, it is important that major multilateral agencies such as the World Health Organization…

In 1995, after producing a successful weekly TV program about apartheid in South Africa against all odds, we broadcast an edition of a new series that explored revolutionary ideas about human rights, such as those then being formulated by a visionary at…

I’ve been supporting Partners In Health’s project in Lesotho for more than two years – almost since it began. Lesotho is a world away – both literally & figuratively – from the FXB Center office in Boston where I work and where the Health and Human…