Viewpoints

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 109-111, PDF Published 29 May 2025 Jacqueline Pitanguy Health and human rights are part of a political battlefield in which interpretations of religion, culture, science, and judicial systems are…

 FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 91-94, PDF Published 26 May 2025 Tlaleng Mofokeng The world is experiencing unprecedented attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) that threaten decades of progress.[1] From…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 121-124, PDF Published 20 May 2025 Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin On April 1, 2025, Forbes published a list of a record 3,028 billionaires worldwide, including 902 in the United States,…

VIEWPOINT PDF published 18 May 2025 Patrick Ndeba, Faraan O. Rahim, Meriem Boukaabar, Mohamed Shilleh, Omar Shilleh, Alaa Shilleh, and Dang Nguyen On January 27, 2025, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels entered the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 125-128, PDF Published 13 May 2025 Tsung-Ling Lee and Yi-Li Lee Taiwan, with a population of 23.56 million, implemented a nationwide single-payer health care system in 1995—the National Health…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 113-115, PDF Published 11 May 2025 Fiona Bloomer, Suzie Heaney, and Claire Lougarre  Authoritarian populist governments around the globe are attacking reproductive rights as part of political…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 129-131, PDF Published 17 March 2025 Martha F. Davis In 2014, in the midst of the financial crisis in the US city of Detroit, the city began systematically shutting off water service to tens of…

VIEWPOINT PDF published 11 March 2025 Adriana Petryna International humanitarian law (IHL) provides a framework to protect health workers and health facilities from violent attacks in conflict zones, which are on the rise and well documented.[1]…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 87-90, PDF Published 2 March 2025 Moses Mulumba, Jessica Oga, Juliana Nantaba, and Ana Lorena Ruano The recent shifts in global health policy, particularly the United States’ sudden retreat from…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 133-136, PDF Published 2 March 2025 Thomas Pogge The billionaires fight a two-front war. Within the United States, they fight to convert the country into an enduring plutocracy in which their…