Viewpoints

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…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 171-174 |  PDF Khalid Tinasti In Morocco, people incarcerated for drug offenses make up 69% of those in pretrial detention (22,587 out of a total of 32,732 people).[1] As of 2018, 25% of people incarcerated were…

Miriam Abaya, Nandita Bajaj, Warren Binford, Michelle Blake, Carter Dillard, James Dold, Hope Ferdowsian, Wendy Lazarus, Reid Maki, Shantel Meek, Jerry Milner, Jennifer Nagda, Vidya Kumar Ramanathan, Nevena Vuckovic Sahovic, and Jonathan Todres In a…

Hyeyoung Lim, Ralf Jurgens, Alexandrina Iovita, and Joanne Csete Tuberculosis disproportionately affects people marginalized by poverty, people in detention, and individuals living with and vulnerable to HIV. The End TB Strategy of the World Health…

Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 111-114 |  PDF Joseph J. Amon, Nina Sun, Alexandrina Iovita, Ralf Jurgens, and Joanne Csete Over the past two decades, considerable work has been done to theorize, understand, and quantify the impact of stigma…

Gideon Lasco, Raudah Mohd Yunus, Edward Christopher Dee, and Martin McKee Health workers have been on the clinical front lines of the struggle against COVID-19, enduring conditions they could never have anticipated. But many have also been engaged on…

PDF Timothy Arvan The recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow took place amid intensifying scrutiny on global leaders for collective failures of ambition and resolve in mobilizing climate action. A pre-COP synthesis report by the United Nations…