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Archive: 2019

EDITORIAL Global Health Fieldwork Ethics: Mapping the Challenges

Volume 21/1, June 2019, p 1 – 5 PDF Rachel Hall-Clifford, David G. Addiss, Robert Cook-Deegan, and James V. Lavery Introduction As Paul Farmer has observed, “global health remains a collection of problems rather than a discipline.”1 An…

Kenyan High Court Threatens the HIV Response

Allan Maleche and Tabitha G. Saoyo The Kenyan High Court has unanimously dismissed a petition challenging two provisions of the Penal Code that are applied to criminalise consensual same-sex sexual acts. On 24 May, Justices Chacha Mwita, John Mativo…

Stigma and Discrimination Linked to Increasing HIV in Hong Kong

Jason Hung Over the past decade, HIV rates have increased exponentially in Hong Kong. The number of individuals diagnosed has doubled every year between 2006 and 2017, although the rapid increase in HIV diagnosis may be ascribed to the increasing…

Drug Price Transparency: Calls Move from South Africa to WHA

Katrina Perehudoff and Jennifer Sellin Over 30 states and 40 business and civil society groups debated strategies for affordable and sustainable medicines prices at last month’s second WHO Fair Pricing Forum—co-sponsored by the government of South…

Asylum Medicine: Standard and Best Practices

Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 215 – 225 PDF Hope Ferdowsian, Katherine McKenzie, and Amy Zeidan Abstract Due to global events in recent years, applications for political asylum have increased, although the number of people granted asylum…

Contemporary Transformations Seen in the Use of Human Rights

Tine Destrooper and Sally E. Merry Human rights are increasingly described as in crisis. The rising populist tide that puts nation, religion, and race first poses new kinds of threats to human rights. But are human rights, underpinning the universal…