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28 Dec 2020 5 minute read

My ass and the oceans

Let down at every turn, Ally Bruener struggles to balance her own vital needs with her eco-warrior...

Cuban Health Specialists arriving in South Africa to curb the spread of COVID-19/GovernmentZAFlickr

9 Sep 2020 7 minute read

Beyond borders

A global pandemic demands we think in terms of global health, not vaccine nationalism, argues Dinyar Godrej...

In Kibera, Nairobi, Martha Apisa and Stacy Ayuma use their braids to raise awareness of the virus by imitating its shape. Community health efforts are intense as social distancing is impossible and sanitation is poor in Kenya’s largest slum. Donwilson Odhiambo/Sopa/Zuma/Alamy

2 Sep 2020 13 minute read

Lessons from the pandemic

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we...

Pennsylvania Public Health Laboratory in Exton tests for Covid-19 Tom Wolf/Flickr

4 Aug 2020 5 minute read

Covid-19 testing: Where did England go wrong?

Amelia Schofield of We Own It draws on lessons from contact tracing success stories around...

27 Jul 2020 2 minute read

Introducing...Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Richard Swift on the ambiguous figure managing the WHO’s pandemic response.

5 Jul 2020 1 minute read

The global fight for clean air

What’s in store for the future when it comes to stopping air pollution? Watch experts and campaigners discuss the fight for...

23 Jun 2020 3 minute read

What if…drug patents were scrapped?

Husna Rizvi makes a vital suggestion.

High school students wearing masks protest against high levels of air pollution outside the government building in Skopje, North Macedonia December 20, 2019. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

26 Apr 2020 5 minute read

Covid-19 cannot be an excuse for more toxic air

Air pollution kills millions of people each year. In the post-virus rush to return to ‘business as usual’, we could end up...

22 Apr 2020 5 minute read

If platforms do not protect gig workers, who will?

Coronavirus is showing that precarity and dangerous working conditions are a choice companies have been making for workers,...

16 Apr 2020 3 minute read

What if we got our attention back?

Vanessa Baird makes the case for being true to our brains.

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

14 Apr 2020 1 minute read

‘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

Profiting from crisis

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

A McDonald's employee holds a banner in protest of the Statutory Sick Pay offered by the goverment as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London, Britain, March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

28 Mar 2020 7 minute read

Coronavirus could reshape politics as we know it

Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation, argues...

Slum dwellers receive free food during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ahmedabad, India, March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Amit Dave

28 Mar 2020 3 minute read

Those most at risk

Husna Rizvi on how the virus will impact those already living in confinement.

The internally displaced queue at one of the five entry exist checkpoints, many of them pensioners. Credit: Right to Protection

20 Mar 2020 4 minute read

In Ukraine, COVID-19 is a threat multiplier

Frank Martin and Eric Fritz – of the Ukrainian humanitarian organization Right to...

Low-paid workers and those in the gig economy are, by the nature of their work, the least able to ‘socially distance’ themselves and may also, due to the precarious nature of their employment feel compelled to work when unwell. Credit: WikiCommons

16 Mar 2020 5 minute read

COVID-19 – who gets it?

Action – and inaction – on coronavirus is an equality issue, locally and internationally, writes Vanessa Baird...

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