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Margareta Matache and Jacqueline Bhabha There is a new global comity taking shape. Across the world, from the markets of Wuhan to the streets of New York, Rome, Rio, and Delhi, people are sharing the experience of facing the COVID-19 pandemic as a…

Weijun Yu and Jessica Keralis The global public health community is grappling with COVID-2019, a respiratory disease outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus originating from Wuhan, China in late December 2019.[1] A number of countries implemented…

Lisa Forman As a graduate student in the early 2000s coming to grips with the meaning and interpretation of the right to health, few publications had as great an impact on me as the Harvard Law School and Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center’s 1993…

Pierre Somse and Patrick M. Eba Almost 40 years ago, the Central African Republic, like other countries in Africa and around the world, was confronted with the HIV pandemic that would shake the human, social, and economic foundations of entire…

Natalia Linos Countries across the globe have instituted radical measures in the fight against the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, to create physical distance: closing schools; shuttering shops and restaurants; asking families to barricade themselves…

Swarupa Deb In this Viewpoint I draw attention to the distresses faced by the transgender community in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. I acknowledge the direct health risks of COVID-19 as well as related perils arising from discrimination. I also…

Tenu Avafia, Boyan Konstantinov, Kene Esom, Judit Rius Sanjuan, and Rebecca Schleifer The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world has and will continue to have an incredibly disruptive impact on many lives. As of 24 March 2020, at least…

Joseph J. Amon The world is increasingly focused on COVID-19. By March 23, 2020, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), 332,935 people had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in 190 countries and territories around the world and 14,510 had…

Letter to the Editor, 12 March 2026 Natalie Kate C. Ramirez The viewpoint by Joseph J. Amon, “Politicized Science and Attacks on Public Health,” highlights a pressing concern regarding the growing politicization of scientific discourse and its…

Sameena Azhar, Atmaja Acharya, Imtyaz Ahmad, Muhammad Arshid, Md. Saimum Islam, and Dania Malik Abstract In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, religious leaders play a significant role in shaping public attitudes toward khwaja sira, people who identify…