Three years have elapsed since the onset of COVID-19, and it is evident that the timing of mitigation efforts shaped the trajectory and severity of national outbreaks in Latin America. ((Frenk, Julio, et al. "Covid-19 in the Americas: A Case in Contrasts." LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR A DAILY PUBLICATION OF THE…
Providing basic, maternal care costs only about $3 per person per year in low-income countries, yet a woman dies of pregnancy-related complications every minute. ((World Health Organization. "Improving maternal, newborn and child health in the South-East Asia Region." World Health Organization, 2005, apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/205324/B0263.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. Accessed 12 Feb. 2022.)) In their article “Countdown to…
A Book Review of Hector Abad Faciolince’s El Olvido Que Seremos In El Olvido Que Seremos, Hector Abad Faciolince celebrates the life of his father, a leading physician, population health scientist, and human rights activists in Medellín, Colombia, who was assassinated during the armed conflict in Colombia in the second…
The world's countdown to gender equality – total and absolute – has been slow, arduous, and occasionally regressive. The gender equality timeline has seen pushes and shoves towards an equal share of the pie for males and females, and now, finally, for non-conforming, trans and binary individuals. Even the smallest…
