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The concept is simple but achieving it presents an enormous challenge.. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) will be in centre spotlight for the political, development and health communities in 2013. Set to…
This article was written by Toni Kuguru, Sebastian Rodríguez Llamazares, Alessandro Demaio and A/Prof Felicia Knaul. This year more than half of the nearly 13 million new cancer cases diagnosed worldwide…
Fast food is marketed as exciting and family-friendly, it’s marketed using bright colours and catchy names, it’s even marketed alongside sporting events including our national sports and the Olympics…
This is likely to cause controversy, but I am going to draw a line in the sand. We have a number of massive Global Health challenges to address as a society, but to me, there are none more pressing, threatening…
Coming to the business end of a PhD on NCDs, I often get asked by colleagues and peers “what are Non-Communicable Diseases?”.. Let’s explore.. NCDs, or Non-Communicable Diseases, literally mean diseases…
In 2012, the global health community is at a crossroads – politically, socially, economically and technologically. Facing some of the largest health challenges in history, we must critically re-think our…
In 1996, the United Nations together with its global technical body on health - the World Health Organization (WHO) - established a new UN initiative charged with the mitigation and prevention of HIV and…
Put simply, social determinants of health (SDoH) are the “causes behind the causes”. The upstream social and economic factors that largely but insidiously dictate the health - and disease - of individuals…
Recently, I was delivering a lecture to 500 young, inspired students. I made a clear and alarming point that the current young generation in many societies including our own, could be the first in history…