Viewpoints

VIEWPOINT 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 Republic of the Congo (DRC),…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT 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 Insurance (NHI)—which has achieved 99.9% universal health…

11 May 2025 FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Fiona Bloomer, Suzie Heaney, and Claire Lougarre  Authoritarian populist governments around the globe are attacking reproductive rights as part of political strategies to reinforce traditional gender…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT 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 thousands of low-income households that were behind in paying…

VIEWPOINT 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] The year 2023 was the…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Moses Mulumba, Jessica Oga, Juliana Nantaba, and Ana Lorena Ruano The recent shifts in global health policy, particularly the United States’ sudden retreat from key funding commitments and the Dutch government’s decision…