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Fran Quigley Rhonda Cree has diabetes, significant vision loss, and high blood pressure, and relies on Medicaid to cover her prescriptions and other healthcare costs.  But Cree, 61 years old, lives in the town of Logansport in north-central…

James Elliott The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its Essential Medicines List (EML), a guide to nations about which drugs should be widely available. Analogue insulins, developed in the 1990s and the mainstay of type 1 diabetes treatment…

Anna Malavisi The editors of the special section on Global Health Fieldwork, Ethics and Human Rights are to be lauded for making visible some of the ethical challenges that arise in global health fieldwork within a context of human rights. The issue…

Caroline Voyles In April 2019, Caster Semenya, the two-time Olympic champion sprinter from South Africa, lost her appeal with the Court for Arbitration for Sport. The court ruled, with judges voting 2-1, in favor of a cap on testosterone levels for…

Julie Hannah and Tasneem Sadiq  We are who we are because of other people – Ubuntu saying Relationships matter.  Relationships—the vital connections between individuals, families, communities, and with the natural environment,…

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…

Meg Davis and David Ruiz Villafranca In exploring what can be learned from the experience of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in the shift towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), speakers on a recent high-level panel in Geneva pointed to…

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…

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…

Sara L.M. Davis Do health aid donors transitioning out of middle-income countries have any obligations under human rights law? In February, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UNAIDS held a consultation on human rights…