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A child wears a blue and white striped t-shirt and plays with lego blocks which are rested on the arm of a sofa

27 May 2022 4 minute read

Switzerland wants to deport a boy with half a heart

Danieli is trying to access life-saving surgery – but his family could be forced to leave before he is able to get it. An...

5 Jan 2021 2 minute read

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Passing it on

We meet three women bound together across borders by their caring responsibilities and struggles to meet them.

Albertina is 15 and the oldest of three sisters. When her mother died she took over responsibility for raising her younger siblings. Now she wants to become a nurse. CHRIS DE BODE/PANOS

23 Nov 2020 10 minute read

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The hidden debt of care

It’s essential work yet it is undervalued across the world. Amy Hall makes the case for putting care front...

Health workers in action at the Mpilo Central Hospital Covid19 Testing laboratory. Bulawayo, 25 April 2020. Credit: KB Mpofu / ILO

12 Oct 2020 2 minute read

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Doctors priced out

Joylean M Baro on how Zimbabwean doctors on the frontlines of Covid-19 care have been priced out of...

Healthcare workers in Kerala are pictured wearing personal protective equipment. Credit: Javed Anees/Wikicommons

14 Apr 2020 1 minute read

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‘Our colleagues are dying, we need PPE now’

Healthworker Coronavirus Activist Group issue an urgent call for personal protective equipment – and for...

29 Mar 2020 4 minute read

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Profiting from crisis

The UK’s coronavirus healthcare policy exposes the farce at the core of the privatization project, writes Ellen Lees...

10 Oct 2018 4 minute read

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The trouble with Modicare

Privatization now comes cloaked in the language of social movements, warns campaigner Jo Land.

F.A. Cole at Women Safe Institute, January 2018. Photo: Kyle G. Brown

8 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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Survivors and doctors fight back against FGM

Without proper care, the value of post-FGM reconstructive surgery can be limited. Kyle G. Brown reports.

18 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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UK pushing dodgy Public-Private Partnerships

Carillion highlights how disastrous these can be – this policy must stop, argues Jenny Nelson.

Drug costs: Protesters march against the pricing of Sovaldi in 2014, wearing masks of John C Martin – former CEO now Executive Chairman of Gilead.

1 Nov 2017 7 minute read

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Shopping for their lives

Breakthrough hep C drugs are so costly, patients are defying the system to get them. Sophie Cousins writes...

30 Apr 2015 3 minute read

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There’s a health crisis in West Africa – and it’s not Ebola

Chelsea Radler looks at a healthcare system near breaking point.

17 Mar 2015 3 minute read

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Syria’s shameful healthcare quagmire

Tom Templeton looks at a country’s ruined health, four years after the conflict started.

7 Jul 2014 3 minute read

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Injecting healthcare into Nairobi’s slums

Phoebe Shiu argues for public immunization programmes to become a top health priority.

28 Jan 2014 3 minute read

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Millions in developing countries still denied access to palliative care

Can it be right that access to palliative care is largely determined by where you live?

10 Jan 2014 4 minute read

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Shut up, stay put – and have nice babies

Spain’s new abortion law is just one more example of the government’s patriarchal, patronizing and hypocritical attitude, says...

2 Oct 2013 4 minute read

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Haiti and the white saviour industrial complex

Sokari Ekine’s concern at Haitians’ dependence on outside help is alleviated when she meets a local doctor...

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