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15 Jul 2013 3 minute read

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Haiti: missing healthcare on the frontline of HIV

Despite improvements in prevention and treatment, many Haitians are still struggling to get the help they need, says ...

Haiti: mistakes plus negligence equals death

4 Jun 2013 4 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

Haiti: mistakes plus negligence equals death

Where is the urgency in helping the poor and sick, like Baby Willgesta? asks Sokari Ekine.

From cradle to grave – supporting Haiti’s poor

12 Mar 2013 4 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

From cradle to grave – supporting Haiti’s poor

Sokari Ekine meets a community worker helping poor women help themselves.

The pain of blows

11 Mar 2013 6 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

The pain of blows

A violent mugging in Montevideo brings New Internationalist editor Vanessa Baird face to face with...

Haiti’s struggling healthcare system

25 Feb 2013 3 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

Haiti’s struggling healthcare system

It’s easy to blame the 2010 earthquake, but there are other factors involved, says Sokari Ekine.

Unfulfilled promises leave Haiti ‘sick and broken’

7 Feb 2013 3 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

Unfulfilled promises leave Haiti ‘sick and broken’

Sokari Ekine sees hospitals without hope and women traders being swept from the streets.

1 Nov 2012 9 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

Bad medicine

Inequality squeezes both how healthy we are and the healthcare we get. Time to get past it, believes Dinyar Godrej...

1 Nov 2012 1 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

Healthcare and inequality - The Facts

A matter of life and death: the contrasting rates of mortality, access to medicine and care across the globe.

1 Nov 2012 8 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

Moral medicine: the Cuban way

A revolutionary example of efficient and affordable healthcare, by John M Kirk and Chris Walker.

1 May 2010 7 minute read

This article is more than 13 years old.

The waiting room

War and underfunding have decimated Iraq’s public health system, once the best in the Arab world.

2 Dec 2009 4 minute read

This article is more than 13 years old.

Standing up to Big Pharma

A meeting of the Word Psychiatric Association provides food for thought for *Joanna Cheek*.

Dont write off the sick!

10 Nov 2009 3 minute read

This article is more than 13 years old.

Dont write off the sick!

Chagas disease sufferers are still neglected, a hundred years after the illness was discovered.

Promises, promises

28 Sep 2009 2 minute read

This article is almost 14 years old.

Promises, promises

Sierra Leones President Ernest Bai Koroma must keep his promise on healthcare.

Punishing the victims

30 Mar 2009 3 minute read

This article is more than 14 years old.

Punishing the victims

Normality doesnt exist in Gaza and
the situation inside the worlds largest prison is getting slowly worse.

Elusive Promise

5 Jan 2001 7 minute read

This article is more than 22 years old.

Elusive Promise

A History Of Public Health

5 Jan 2001 6 minute read

This article is more than 22 years old.

A History Of Public Health

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