BY KELLY FARLEY One third of the world’s population is infected with a latent form of it.1 Without treatment, 50% of those with the active form will die.2 We have a cure. And yet every day 5,000 people die of tuberculosis (TB).2 Background TB is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.3 A … Continue reading Tuberculosis: Returning to the Disease that Never Disappeared
BY DEBBIE DADA “How we think about disease determines who lives and dies.”1 This is a quote from 1986 by Evelynn Hammonds, a scholar of the History of Science and African-American Studies. How does the manner in which disease is perceived affect the level of governmental and community mobilization to help afflicted populations? How might … Continue reading The American Response to the AIDS Epidemic Among African Americans and Continental Africans
BY BEN GROBMAN In December 2013, an unidentified disease began to spread in the small Guinean village of Meliandou. On March 22nd, more than 3 months after the initial transmission of the disease, the World Health Organization, confirmed the identity of the disease as Ebola virus disease.1 By the time Guinea was declared Ebola-free in … Continue reading Humanitarian Challenges in the Congo’s Ebola Epidemic
BY JUDE ALAWA In his 2018 budget, President Donald Trump called for a 24 percent reduction in spending on foreign assistance for global health. Though some of the greatest achievements in U.S. foreign policy history proceeded from global health investments- namely the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. response to the … Continue reading Trump Must Embrace Global Health
BY AASTHA KC Imagine a child whose survival is challenged even before it is born. Imagine a child whose mother was shot in the chest while escaping a terrorizer from Boko Haram and has ended up at the hospital not because of her gunshot wounds but because her child is malnourished. Such is the story … Continue reading The Silent Killer in Northern Nigeria: Implications and Challenges in Addressing Malnutrition
BY TOMEKA FRIESON Breaking news flashes across your phone screen. A new drug-resistant superbug, with symptoms such as fever, extreme fatigue, diarrhea, and searing muscle pain, has taken hold in a small Ethiopian town. So far, only one individual has died, but scientists are working as fast as they can to respond to the sudden … Continue reading Global Health Security: Cracking the Code to a More Health-Secure World
BY BEN GROBMAN On Wednesday, January 24, 2018, Marcos Carvajal, a former pitcher for the Colorado Rockies and Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball, died in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. The cause of death was pneumonia, a common disease which is easily curable by simple antibiotics. However, due to dire shortages of medicine in Venezuela, the … Continue reading Starvation and Sickness in the Wake of Venezuela’s Economic Collapse
BY DEBBIE DADA INTRODUCTION An estimated 40 million females are missing from classrooms, boardrooms, and political offices due to actions stemming from son-preference in India alone.1 Within the past thirty years, the frequency of sex-selective abortions against females has increased rapidly. This practice is most often cited in Asian countries, and India has one of … Continue reading Gendercide: Sex-Selection in India
BY MATTHEW PETTUS Dr. Lee is a distinguished psychiatrist and expert on violence who has written books and held conferences on the mental health and stability of President Trump. Her actions throughout 2017 have subsequently created opposition from political and psychiatric professionals regarding the proper interpretation of the Goldwater Rule (a section of the APA’s … Continue reading A Conversation with Dr. Bandy Lee: The Mental Health of President Trump
BY INDIRA FLORES On January 30, 2018, Trump delivered his first State of the Union address. Prior to the speech, 82% of registered voters in one poll stated that improving the healthcare system was important for the president to discuss, making it their most highly prioritized topic.1 To the disappointment of these many Americans, one … Continue reading A Necessity: The Healthcare Systems Abroad and at Home
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