Viewpoints

VIEWPOINT, 6 May 2026 Jessica Oga, Moses Mulumba, Stuart Ssebibubbu, Fatina Mwebe, and Nimrod Muhumuza On April 24, 2026, the Kenyan Court of Appeal at Malindi reinstated criminal proceedings against a girl who had been arrested at age 17 for…

VIEWPOINT, 16 April 2026 Mira Younes, Samirah Jarrar, Sahar Saeidnia, Malak Makki, and Nizar Hariri On March 13, 2026, amid Israeli preparations for a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, an airstrike killed two paramedics at a health facility in…

VIEWPOINT 15 April 2026 Felipe Agudelo-Hernández and Javier Díaz-Amaya When a conflict-affected adolescent appears before a juvenile judge in Colombia, the hearing often comes at the end of a much longer trajectory of harm. Many adolescents…

VIEWPOINT 9 April 2026 Richard Pearshouse Air pollution rarely appears on death certificates. With a notable exception from a London coroner’s report following the death of a nine-year-old girl in 2013, individual deaths are not typically…

Letter to the Editor, 12 March 2026 Natalie Kate C. Ramirez The viewpoint by Joseph J. Amon, “Politicized Science and Attacks on Public Health,” highlights a pressing concern regarding the growing politicization of scientific discourse and its…

VIEWPOINT Swarupa Deb This viewpoint critically analyzes contemporary global opposition to pediatric gender-affirming care (GAC) as a regulatory ideology that justifies human rights violations against transgender children. Pediatric GAC is a…

VIEWPOINT, January 28 2026 Joseph J. Amon Before its leadership and staff were gutted, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention provided technical assistance and disaster epidemiology training to state and local public health…

VIEWPOINT, 17 December 2025 Allan Maleche, Sharifah Sekalala, and 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…

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…