The ultimate control and prevention of the Covid-19 pandemic would rely largely on human behaviours. Therefore, people’s action or inaction is crucial in mit...

Key points Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses one of the most important global health issues of the 21st century Mortality associated with antibiotic-resis...

Following on from World Health Day on the 7th of April, when there was a spotlight on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as a Sustainable Development Goal, this...

“Universal Health Coverage (or UHC) is a political choice … Health is a right and not a luxury,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the ...

Key points There have been several recent cases of tech companies accessing people’s data and using it without explicit consent. This includes medical data. ...

President Trump has recently reinstated the Mexico City Policy, originally enacted by President Reagan in 1984, an extension of the 1973 Helms Amendment prev...

What started as an uprising in 2011 has now developed into a full civil war with multiple regional and international stakeholders. The war has been described...

Falling in line with countries including Mexico, France and Norway, the UK Government has announced plans to impose a tax on beverages with high sugar conten...

When being interviewed about internet surveillance, Gen. Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA, once joked that the organisation he headed was “the...

The national breast cancer screening programme, introduced in 1988, gave promise in reducing mortality of the most common cancer in the UK (1). Inviting wome...

Image left to right: Lord Chidgey (chair of Africa APPG), Tom Hird, Samara Linton and Richard Dowden (director of the Royal African Society) On Wednesday nig...