Sex Education is a Human Right
BY SOOAH PARK Fans of the classic chick flick Mean Girls will be familiar with the sex education scene: “Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and die!”1 Though exaggerated for comedic effect, the global state of sex education is not far off. Less than one-third of adolescents from 155 countries surveyed by UNESCO…
Counterfeit Cures and Poisoned Promises: The Growing Burden of Substandard and Falsified Medicines
BY LILIA POTTER-SCHWARTZ Envision a child who has contracted pneumonia and is prescribed amoxicillin. After the child finishes their treatment, the ‘antibiotic’ is discovered to contain limited active amoxicillin, preventing full recovery while potentially increasing community rates of amoxicillin-resistant bacteria. Instances such as these represent a growing public health burden affecting individuals in every country:…
A Silent Cry: Medical Negligence in ICE Detention
BY NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA Impassioned immigration rhetoric echoes and booms across social media and national news. In the lexicon disseminated directly from the White House, immigrants are reduced to “killers, rapists, gangbangers, drug traffickers, and . . . violent criminals.”1 A swirl of outrage, protest, and demonization of immigrants has settled into the foreground of American…
Bridging the Stroke Divide: Reimagining Rural Stroke Education as a Right to Health
BY MRIDULA BHARATHI Every year, 12 million people experience an interruption in blood flow to their brain, with little warning, stealing them of their speech, mobility, and even life within minutes. Yet, while the biological mechanisms of stroke are universal, the chances of surviving one are not. In the United States, those living in rural…
“It Feeds My Soul”: Mutual Aid as a Radical Model for Food Sovereignty
BY ANDREA CHOW Certain names, identifying details, and organizational affiliations in this article have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals involved. All interviews were originally conducted in Spanish and have been translated into English for clarity and readability. There’s a saying widely known across Latin America: Panza llena, corazón contento, or “Full stomach,…
The Right To Be Silenced
Exploring how epistemic injustice marginalizes local expertise in authorship, policy, and research, shaping whose knowledge counts in global health BY OYINKANSOLA ADEBOMOJO It was late December 2013 in Guéckédou, Guinea, a time that should have been festive and filled with celebration. Instead, local clinicians felt a growing sense of dread. Patients were arriving with severe…
The Human Rights Crisis of CECOT
BY RISHABH GARG El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) is the largest prison in the Western Hemisphere with a capacity of 40,000 inmates.1 Construction of the massive 57-acre prison began in March 2022 as part of President Nayib Bukele’s anti-gang crackdown. The facility was built specifically to imprison “Maras,” gang members described as…
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