Last month in Nairobi, 9,500 delegates from government and civil society convened in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). In 1994, the ...
According to the WHO and Interpol, over one million people die annually from counterfeit medicines. Such medicines have a serious impact on population health, including treatment failure, toxicity, and contribution to antimicrobial ...
Just a few weeks ago, the world’s leaders gathered for the first United Nations High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), issuing a forceful call to place the Sustainable ...
We seem to have finally arrived in that space in policy making where we are pausing to recalibrate our planning processes, from sectoral planning (where sectors are considered separately) to ...
The growing popularity of short-term engagements in global health (STEGH) highlights why global health and development efforts must begin to refocus their planning around outcomes rather than interventions. STEGH typically ...
Tremendous advances have been made in global health in the past few decades, from fewer infant deaths to progress in ending polio, yet many programs are falling short of achieving ...
In its recently published Mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) operations manual, the World Health Organization stressed the enormous global disease burden that mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) conditions ...
Poor oral health is an important contributor to morbidity worldwide. Oral diseases have consistently been listed among the top causes of years lived with disability . Dental caries (tooth decay) ...
In 2017, in response to gender-based violence in Achham, Nepal and incidents of gender-based harassment in the workplace, Subeksha Poudel created a Gender Equity Committee with other leaders in her ...
Effective delivery of health services in rural areas remains challenging in most low- and middle-income countries (1). This includes rural India, where acute shortages of medical health professionals persist across ...