Health economist Rob Yates writes that if governments want to accelerate progress toward universal health coverage, they should concentrate on improving public financing mechanisms.
Human Rights Watch researcher Amanda Klasing underscores the public health imperative to end violence against women, noting that there are few instances in which the health and human rights of women and girls “intersect in such an immediate way as after violence.”
Evan Lieberman, associate professor of politics at Princeton University, asks who should be responsible for governing the threat of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria in South Africa.
In A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America, Ernest Drucker analyzes a pressing social issue through an epidemiologic lens.
Karyn Kaplan, policy and development director of Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group in Bangkok, addresses human rights violations and discriminatory laws that impede universal access to prevention and treatment for HIV.
A preliminary Nepal Demographic Health Survey finds that gender discrimination and neglect are fueling malnutrition in the isolated mid-western region of Nepal.
World health organizations estimate that 40 percent of children in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia suffer from chronic zinc deficiency, says Dr. Fernando Sempértegui, leader of several landmark studies on the effects of zinc deficiency.
In Senegal, a community-based organization is successfully using a human rights-based education approach to lower rates of female genital mutilation.
Trustlaw’s Lisa Anderson exposes the “silent health emergency” faced by child brides around the globe.