Author Archives: Carmel Williams

Speech to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 2025 Joseph J. Amon My first thought when invited to speak at this American Public Health Association annual conference about current challenges in global health was of a…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT, Published 4 November 2025 Tenesha Myrie The fight for equal citizenship On July 29, 2025, the Commonwealth Caribbean recorded its seventh court victory in constitutional challenges to laws criminalising consensual…

Shambhavi Singh and Rudra Singh Krishna The Supreme Court of India has re-anchored the right to health within the constitutional framework of custodial dignity, holding that incarceration curtails liberty, not humanity. In its July 2025 decision of L.…

Week ending 25 October 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now The practice of medicine is not a crime The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, called for an end to widespread attacks against healthcare workers…

Week ending 18 October 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Financial support urged for UN Speaking at the UN General Assembly, UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk called on governments to support the UN and its Human Rights…

Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 331-342  PDF Diederik Lohman, Nina Sun, and Joseph J. Amon Abstract Discriminatory laws and punitive policing practices have long been known to impede access to HIV and other health services. While the 2021–2026 Global AIDS…

Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 363-374 PDF Evonne Miller, Lisa Scharoun, Jane Phillips, Roslyn Williams, Jane Hwang, Abbe Winter, Linda Carroli, and Lisa Nissen Abstract In Queensland, Australia, adults in custodial facilities do not have discretionary…

Anubhuti Raje When the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) began mining in 1967, uranium was framed as a national security necessity. Environmental and health safeguards were absent; baseline studies were never conducted. For the…

PERSPECTIVE Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 343-349  PDF Olivia Cordingley, Natalya Zholnerova, Ekaterina Grigorchuk, Denis Gryazev, Karina Alipova, Sholpan Primbetova, Assel Terlikbayeva, Brooke West, Victoria Frye, and Tara McCrimmon Introduction In…

Week ending 11 October 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Amon: medical community can help end atrocities HHR editor-in-chief Joseph J. Amon and Shatha Elnakib urge the medical community to play its part in ending atrocities in an…