Issues

Daumantas Stumbrys and Dainius Pūras Abstract Mental health is increasingly recognized as a human rights issue, yet little is known about how mental health is debated within political institutions, particularly in post-socialist societies. This…

Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Eric D. U. Gutierrez and Pedro Arenas  Introduction: Starting with the people who live from prohibited crops The 2029 global review of the international drug control…

Sofía Gutiérrez Pérez and Raúl Bermúdez Camarena Abstract Between 2019 and 2025, more than two-thirds of Mexican states decriminalized voluntary abortion, and in September 2023 the Supreme Court removed abortion from the Federal Penal Code. No…

Mnotho Ngcobo Abstract The 2025 US foreign assistance freeze exposed the extent to which the continuity of HIV care in donor-dependent health systems can rest on financing arrangements that remain legally and institutionally fragile. Focusing on…

  Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Daniel Wolfe Introduction Focused on reducing negative consequences of drug use without requiring abstinence, harm reduction advocates have long worked at the…

Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Martin Jelsma Introduction For thousands of years, coca has been a cornerstone of the cultural, spiritual, and medicinal traditions of Indigenous Peoples in the…

Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Ann Fordham Interviews Laura Gil Laura Gabriela Gil Savastano is an internationalist, political scientist, and journalist. She served as Colombia’s vice minister for…

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…

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.…

Vol 28/1, 2026, pp. 203-205 PDF Bram Wispelwey The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences, by Margareta Matache (Routledge, 2026) While Margareta (Magda) Matache’s The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences is…