In the News: Ethical Considerations for Ebola Care
Recent CIHA Blog posts about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa have focused on the ethics of the vaccine treatment and on the ethical considerations that governments and […]
Critical and Conventional Perspectives on Global Health
In the News: Fighting Ebola in West Africa
For about four months, the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia have been facing the worst-ever epidemic of Ebola in the capital cities as well as rural […]
Microbicides: Another “Silver Bullet” Needs Ongoing Socio-Cultural Analysis
Part I: Microbicide: a magic bullet in HIV prevention strategies for women?
By Veronica Noseda, Social sciences project officer, Sidaction, Paris
Every international Aids Conference needs a big announcement to go down […]
Forty Years of Pandemic Quiescence Ushers in New Questions about the Focus of Global Health
By Dele Ogunseitan
On Thursday 11 June 2009, Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) invoked the highest level of global alert (level […]
Shrinking Malaria’s Map- but who gets left behind?
By Uli Beisel
The last decades have been characterised by a resurgence of malaria, mainly caused by resistance against the malaria drug chloroquine. In the […]