Dr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah: A Pioneer in Safe Abortion Law Reform
Dr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah’s advocacy work contributed to a 40% reduction in deaths from unsafe abortion in sub-Saharan Africa since 2000.
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Read more: How Comparative Law Can Counter Threats to the ‘Most Successful Global Health Program in Modern History’ How Comparative Law Can Counter Threats to the ‘Most Successful Global Health Program in Modern History’
Illegitimate concerns should not get in the way of renewing life-saving HIV/AIDS funding for years to come.
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Read more: The Not-So-Sacred Human Genome: What South Africans Think About Heritable Human Genome Editing The Not-So-Sacred Human Genome: What South Africans Think About Heritable Human Genome Editing
The participants overwhelmingly supported changing the human genome if this offers promise of a better life.
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Read more: Relying on the Unreliable? COVID-19 Claims Can’t Proceed Without a Proper Standard of Care Relying on the Unreliable? COVID-19 Claims Can’t Proceed Without a Proper Standard of Care
Without a reliable standard of care, COVID-19 tort claims should not see the success achieved in other contagious disease cases.
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Read more: Fighting Diagnostic Discrimination and Stigma in Monkeypox Fighting Diagnostic Discrimination and Stigma in Monkeypox
Amid the U.S. monkeypox outbreak, phlebotomists from Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics reportedly turned away blood samples for testing.
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Read more: The Right to Participation in Global Health Governance: Lessons Learned The Right to Participation in Global Health Governance: Lessons Learned
We argue that the human right to participation should extend to permanent seats and votes for civil society and affected communities on governance boards.
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Read more: Whose Global Health Security? Whose Global Health Security?
The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how “Global Health Security” is triggered when new diseases reach, or threaten to reach, the global north.
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Read more: Expendable Lives and COVID-19 Expendable Lives and COVID-19
Medical neocolonialism does not exist in a vacuum. It is tied to the presumed expendability of Black life.
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Read more: One of the Biggest Public Health Initiatives in History: PEPFAR and HIV One of the Biggest Public Health Initiatives in History: PEPFAR and HIV
By Daniel Aaron In October, the Petrie-Flom Center hosted a conference of world-leading experts in HIV/AIDS to discuss one of the biggest public health successes in history: PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. PEPFAR was launched in 2003 in response to a burgeoning global epidemic of HIV. The program offered $2 billion annually,…
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Read more: Southern Indiana’s HIV Outbreak: A Lesson on the Importance of Incentivizing HIV Testing Southern Indiana’s HIV Outbreak: A Lesson on the Importance of Incentivizing HIV Testing
By Mark Satta By 2015, major news outlets were reporting on what the CDC was calling “one of the worst documented outbreaks of HIV among IV users in the past two decades.” Between 2011 and 2015 over 200 people in southern Indiana’s Scott County acquired HIV. The primary source of the spread was the sharing…
