Author Archives: Carmel Williams

News to 21 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now ICE awards itself a superior grade Despite 23 people having died in its US detention centers so far this year—the highest rate in over 20 years—the Immigration and Customs…

Paper in Press, 27 August 2026 Maria Teresa Moreira, Andreia Lima, Christina César Praça Brasil, Vânia Peixoto, and Rita Alegria Abstract Autistic people experience systematic exclusion within health care systems organized around neurotypical…

VIEWPOINT Sebastian León-Giraldo, Juli Salamanca, and Lina Quevedo Introduction The fight over gender is also a fight over data. Anti-gender politics operate through laws, speeches, and restrictions on care.[1] But they also reach census…

News to 14 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Public health research for accountability in Gaza Public health researchers who have been documenting Israeli actions against the health system in Gaza since October 2023, write…

News to 7 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now AIDS 2026: Decades of progress threatened Throughout last week’s AIDS 2026 conference there was an inescapable theme of continuing, and escalating, threats facing key…

News to 31 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Türk secures reappointment as Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has been reappointed as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights by an overwhelming 144-10 margin, with the United States,…

VIEWPOINT Joseph J. Amon Woven throughout the presentations and poster sessions at AIDS 2026 was an inescapable theme of continuing, and escalating, threats facing key populations, including criminalization, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, and funding…

Edwin J Bernard AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.27 July 2026.OP01. Openning Session.In the photo: Protests AIDS 2026, the biennial global conference on all things HIV, closed on July 31 after a week of…

News to 24 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Increasing Ebola deaths among health workers in DRC The World Health Organization confirms 2124 cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been reported with 830 deaths.…

STUDENT ESSAY Noor Abbasi Abstract Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) occupy a central yet largely unaccountable role in the United States’ pharmaceutical supply chain, controlling access to essential medications for over 275 million Americans.…