CMAJ April 27 2015 Better results with HIV clubs in South Africa
Antibiotics have saved billions of lives, yet we’re increasingly immune to their benefits, in part because of their widespread, unregulated use in the chickens we eat. Consumers, growers, government — …
CMAJ 2014 South Africa Ground Zero for Reforming Drug Patents
News that an international team of investigators has found the flu drug Tamiflu of little medical use — despite billions spent stockpiling it in B.C. and around the world — comes as bittersweet vindication …
In a sign that international concern about infectious diseases is attracting attention in military circles, the United States government has launched the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), a multinational effort …
After the SARS disaster killed 44 people in Ontario in 2003, the federal government was advised by an expert panel to bolster a “system that will collect, analyze, and disseminate …
10 years after American and British forces toppled Saddam Hussein and helped initiate a decade of intense violence, life expectancy at birth in Iraq is 59 years—at least 12 years …
The incongruities and subtleties are sometimes startling, but then, they typically are when the worlds of religion and medicine intersect and there’s no reason to expect that Indonesia, the world’s …
Anajulia Caicedo and her two children fled 500 kilometers to Ciudad Bolivar, a huge slum outside Colombia’s capital city of Bogotá when fighting erupted in 2006 between the army and …
No money. No targets. No consensus on controversial issues such as guaranteeing access to affordable drugs, stiffened measures against the tobacco and alcohol industries, and regulations to curb international trade …