Viewpoints

VIEWPOINT Roxanne Saucier, Diederik Lohman, and Kasia Malinowska Companies accused of catalyzing the United States’ overdose crisis are paying nearly US$60 billion in settlements to jurisdictions across the country for “opioid abatement.”[1]…

VIEWPOINT Isabella Frigerio, Mohammad Abu Hilal, Andrew Gumbs, Umberto Cillo, Gaya Spolverato, and Alessandro Vitale On October 10, 2025, a ceasefire in Gaza was greeted as a promise that the work of rebuilding could finally begin. Nine months…

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…

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…

VIEWPOINTSamar Al-Hajj and Rakan Nassereldine In the early months of 2026, renewed hostilities in Lebanon once again placed the country’s emergency medical services directly in the line of fire. Figure 1 shows a Lebanese Civil Defense ambulance,…

VIEWPOINT Grace Lee The World Health Organization defines attacks on health care as “any act of verbal or physical violence or obstruction or threat of violence that interferes with the availability, access, and delivery of curative and/or preventive…

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…

CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO HEALTH, VIEWPOINT,  Vol 28/1, 2026, pp. 7-9  PDF Mourice Onyango Okuon and Rita Babirye A recent ruling by the High Court of Kenya in HSO, AMO TA & Another v. Attorney General and 3 Others on May 20, 2026, has exposed…

VIEWPOINT,  Vol 28/1, 2026, pp. 67-69 PDF Joseph J. Amon and Rohini J. Haar In May 2026, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) and Insecurity Insight issued their 2025 annual report on attacks on health care in conflict, entitled…

CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO HEALTH, VIEWPOINT,  Vol 28/1, 2026, pp. 15-17  PDF Júnia Aparecida Laia da Mata and Sayed Abdul Basir Samimi The attack on a girls’ school in Minab On February 28, 2026, during coordinated US–Israeli air strikes against…