Viewpoints

VIEWPOINT, 17 December 2025 Allan Maleche, Sharifah Sekalala, Timothy Wafula On 4 December 2025, Kenya and the United States signed a health cooperation framework aimed at “guiding collaboration to eliminate HIV, malaria, TB, and other emerging…

EXPLORING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HEALTH RIGHTS, VIEWPOINT, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 23-26 PDF Tania Agosti, Andrea Baldwin, Susana T. Fried, Jaime M. Gher, Mariah Grant, Alice M. Miller, Mindy Jane Roseman, and Nerima Akinyi Were We write this viewpoint as…

EXPLORING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HEALTH RIGHTS, VIEWPOINT, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 17-20, PDF Goran Zangana, Shokh Mohammad, Baxan Jamal, Azadeen M. Amin, Isis Elgibali, and Thomas von der Osten-Sacken Introduction In fragile and conflict-affected…

EXPLORING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HEALTH RIGHTS, VIEWPOINT, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 13-16, PDF Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe, Jessica Peñaranda, and Alice M. Miller This viewpoint is a product of a long-standing set of coalitional academic-community projects,…

EXPLORING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HEALTH RIGHTS, VIEWPOINT, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 9-12, PDF Dhananjay Kakade Introduction The Community-Based Monitoring and Planning (CBMP) initiative emerged in 2007 as a collaborative effort between the government of…

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…

VIEWPOINT, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 285-289  PDF Joseph J. Amon  On September 2, 2025, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “politicized science had corroded”…

VIEWPOINT, 10 September 2025 Winona Xu Introduction: A narrowed human rights lens The United States State Department has reported annually on the state of human rights around the world since Congress mandated it to in the 1970s. But this year’s…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Patrick Tang On September 5, 2023, Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal delivered a landmark victory for LGBTQ rights in the semi-autonomous city state. In Sham Tsz Kit v. Secretary for Justice, the de facto supreme court…