Category: Drugs

World Patient Safety Day: The impact of fake and poor quality medicines in developing countries

By Tallulah Gordon In December 2014, several patients arrived at health centres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri district experiencing shivers, stiffness,...

Where private foundations stand in global health governance?

Bridget Jeanne addresses the complex position private foundations are in within global health, and how their soft power may possibly supersede the influence states...

The Changing Face of Risk

With the largest celebration of LGBT communities in London taking place on Saturday 27th June as part of International Pride week, and the decision...

Breaking Good: The transcendence of social reintegration programs for Mara Salvatrucha and other gangs’ members

Oscar is 29 years old and lives in San Salvador. He used to be a member of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) gang. Nowadays,...

Coca and development

Sean Mowbray examines the continued presence of Coca as a staple of economic life in South America and asks why the ‘War on Drugs’...