Viewpoints

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…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 137-140, PDF Published 26 February 2025 Beatrice Were and Vanessa Okumu-McCarron Uganda has been a pioneer in combating HIV, spearheading a multi-sectoral response coordinated by the Uganda AIDS…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 95-99, PDF Published 13 February 2025 Winona Xu Shortly after President Donald Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, 2025, he issued an executive order halting nearly all foreign assistance…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 83-86, PDF Published 3 February 2025 Joseph J. Amon Nearly 60 years ago, comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested for saying “forbidden” words in his stand-up show.[1] A few years later, George Carlin…