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News to 7 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now AIDS 2026: Decades of progress threatened Throughout last week’s AIDS 2026 conference there was an inescapable theme of continuing, and escalating, threats facing key…

News to 31 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Türk secures reappointment as Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has been reappointed as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights by an overwhelming 144-10 margin, with the United States,…

VIEWPOINT Joseph J. Amon Woven throughout the presentations and poster sessions at AIDS 2026 was an inescapable theme of continuing, and escalating, threats facing key populations, including criminalization, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, and funding…

Edwin J Bernard AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.27 July 2026.OP01. Openning Session.In the photo: Protests AIDS 2026, the biennial global conference on all things HIV, closed on July 31 after a week of…

News to 24 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Increasing Ebola deaths among health workers in DRC The World Health Organization confirms 2124 cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been reported with 830 deaths.…

STUDENT ESSAY Noor Abbasi Abstract Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) occupy a central yet largely unaccountable role in the United States’ pharmaceutical supply chain, controlling access to essential medications for over 275 million Americans.…

VIEWPOINTSamar Al-Hajj and Rakan Nassereldine In the early months of 2026, renewed hostilities in Lebanon once again placed the country’s emergency medical services directly in the line of fire. Figure 1 shows a Lebanese Civil Defense ambulance,…

News to 17 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Latest US-Iran strikes pose grave risks to human rights Following escalating military strikes and the reported closure of the Strait of Hormuz this week, UN Human Rights High…

Param Khandekar Prominent Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk has been on a hunger strike in Delhi since 28 June 2026 demanding the resignation of the education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged irregularities in examinations to study medicine.…

News to 10 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Mariângela Simão: Next Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Dr Mariângela Simão of Brazil has been appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as the fifth Special Rapporteur on the…

News to 3 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now UN, PHM call for solidarity to support Venezuela A week on from the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, the deaths of more than 1,719 individuals have been confirmed. Around 12,000…

VIEWPOINT Grace Lee The World Health Organization defines attacks on health care as “any act of verbal or physical violence or obstruction or threat of violence that interferes with the availability, access, and delivery of curative and/or preventive…

News to 27 June 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now UN: Israeli targeting of Palestinian children called genocide Israeli authorities have deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and…

News to 20 June 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Human Rights chief calls for report on school attack to be made public In welcoming the announcement that the United States and Iran have agreed on a peace deal, UN Human Rights High…

News to 13 June 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Health as an enabler of dignity In her final report to the HRC Special Rapporteur on the right to health Tlaleng Mofokeng returns to the issue she identified at the start of her…

News to 6 June 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Attacks on health are a feature of modern conflicts The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition report on violence against health care in conflict for 2025, published this week,…

Vol 28/1, 2026, pp. 203-205 PDF Bram Wispelwey The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences, by Margareta Matache (Routledge, 2026) While Margareta (Magda) Matache’s The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences is…

Vol 28/1, 2026, pp. 155-166  PDF Young Su Park, Doris Shroeder, Orla Drummond, and Ock-Joo Kim Abstract Informed consent is both a foundational principle of research ethics and a human right grounded in self-determination and bodily integrity.…

Vol 28/1, 2026, pp. 85-103 PDF Rula Ghandour, Abdullatif Husseini, Shiraz Nasr, and Rita Giacaman Abstract The well-being of Palestinians living under prolonged Israeli occupation is deeply conditioned by the structures of deprivation and…

Vol 28/1, 2026, pp. 71-84  PDF Janani Shanthosh, Georgia White, Emma Feeny, Shiming Zheng, Uday Adavi, Jane Hirst, Nadia Mohd Rasidi, Bronwyn Pithey, and Anna Palagyi Abstract Globally, gender inequality is deepening, with nearly 40% of…