Viewpoints

Raquel Selcer and Sanjna L. Surya The World Health Organization (WHO) last week declared the situation in Gaza to be approaching “humanity’s darkest hour”.[1] Israel has killed over 19,000 Palestinians in Gaza to date, over 7,000 of whom are…

William C. Lieber, Faraan O. Rahim, Bhav Jain, Devesh Shah, and Mohammad Z. Sahloul In the wake of the devastating attack by Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, which resulted in over 1,200 Israeli deaths and the capture of 240 hostages, the Israeli…

Anurima Kumar and Meera Rothman In the face of the glaring humanitarian crisis in Palestine, the silence of American public health institutions has been deafening. After a month of relentlessly bombing Al-Shifa hospital (notably using American…

Jacob M. Appel The recent decision by the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) to hold its 17th annual World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) in Doha, Qatar, has been met with considerable backlash over the proposed host country’s record of human…

Audrey Chapman Access to sexual and reproductive health care is a fundamental right that all states must respect, protect, and fulfil, and is articulated in regional and international treaties including the International Covenant on Economic, Social…

Mahtab Jafari and Parya Saberi Is it the obligation of the scientific community to speak up against the violation of human rights of fellow scientists and healthcare professionals? We believe it is.[1] We see it as a moral imperative and the absolute…

Flavia Bustreo and Rajat Khosla According to the recently released Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000 to 2020, global progress in reducing maternal mortality stagnated between 2000-2015 and worsened in some regions between 2016 and 2020.[1] Overall…

Ira Memaj and Robert E. Fullilove People with the capacity to get pregnant have benefited socially and economically from the legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade.[1] Roe has allowed people to exercise their right to choose when, how, and under what…

Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 215-218 |  PDF Paul Hunt and Sophie Bradwell-Pollak New Zealand has a well-deserved positive reputation for its handling of the COVID-19 crisis. The early closure of the country’s border in March 2020, combined…

Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 211-214 |  PDF Ellen ‘t Hoen The scrambling for access to COVID-19 vaccines by developing countries has reignited the debate on the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of…