Global medicine and women’s health
Professor Alison Fiander, former clinical lead of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist’s Centre for Women’s Global Health and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology...
Global Reach
The Global Reach category highlights health issues, systems and innovations from around the world. It brings international perspectives on public health, equity, policy and practice, showcasing how different regions confront shared challenges and opportunities in health and care.
Global fund to eliminate trachoma
A new global fund has been set up to help finally eliminate one of the most devastating causes of blindness. The blinding eye disease trachoma...
Psychotherapy with children in Lesbos
Myriam Abdel Basit is an Irish cultural mediator who has spent seven months with MSF in Lesbos in Greece this year. Working alongside a psychologist,...
HIV – getting new cases down to zero
To mark World Aids Day (1st December 2018), Marc Thompson of the Terrence Higgins Trust talks about progress on reducing new cases of HIV in...
HIV testing in the UK – black African communities
With black African people disproportionately affected by HIV in the UK, promotion of regular testing remains a key priority. While there have been some success...
Understanding type 2 diabetes in Malawi
Researchers at the University of Glasgow are collaborating with Malawian scientists to try to find out why some people in Malawi develop type 2 diabetes...
Remembering Stephen Hawking
When Stephen Hawking and I first met through our families’ common interest in autism, I respectfully addressed him as Professor Hawking. To be immediately (or...
Operation Smile
Since 1982, Operation Smile has provided hundreds of thousands of safe surgeries for those born with cleft conditions. Last year, we provided more than 21,000...
Global audit of colorectal operations
The European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) has undertaken a major international audit of colorectal operations to understand which are most widely used techniques across the...
The EpiPen shortage
If you are one of the estimated 250,000 people in the UK who are prescribed emergency adrenaline for life-threatening allergies, you may be feeling nervous...
