Doctors and other medical staff take part in a protest over pay and working conditions in downtown Nairobi on Tuesday 16 April 2024.Photo: Brian Inganga /AP Photo/Alamy

Doctors strike a deal

Report from Kenya, by Lara Gibson.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
Halilu Abdullahi lives at the Amanawa leprosy colony on the outskirts of Sokoto state, Nigeria.Photo: Promise Eze

‘I will live with the scars for life’

Leprosy had been almost eliminated in Nigeria, but the disease has made a resurgence. Promise Eze reports on how patients continue to be abandoned by the government and stigmatized by society.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
A 11-year-old Afghan girl stands in the middle of a crowd at the Sheidaee camp near to Herat, Afghanistan. Her father is asking for around $300 for Shirbaha, a price paid for a bride.Photo: Mahshad Jalalian/Alamy

One kidney village

Where the debt-ridden and desperate come to heal from kidney donation surgery, by Subi Shah.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
The placard reads ‘Less nonsense and more paediatrics’.Photo: Colorsandía/Alamy

Sign of the Times

Protest in support of the doctors’ strike in Madrid, Spain.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
View from India

View from India

Nilanjana Bhowmick on oxygen inequity and the price paid by her country’s citizens.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
Protesters against the US trade embargo on Cuba drive past the US Embassy in Havana in a motorcade, 28 March 2021. Photo: ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI/REUTERS

Cuba’s crossroads

Will Miguel Díaz-Canel, the Castros’ hand-picked successor, wield a new broom of change? Wayne Ellwood weighs up the island’s options.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
View from Brazil

View from Brazil

While women in Argentina have won the right to abortion, in Brazil even child survivors of rape may be forced to give birth, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
A woman at breaking point as she queues along with other relatives of Covid-19 patients to try to recharge oxygen tanks for their loved ones at the regional hospital in Iquitos, the largest city in the Peruvian Amazon.Photo: Cesar Von Bancels/AFP/Getty

‘You’ve done nothing!’

Stephanie Boyd reports from the Peruvian Amazon on the fight to get adequate healthcare that respects indigenous tradition.

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NI 528 - A caring economy - November, 2020
Coronaman: Delhi Police get creative with this cut-out poster warning residents to stay at home – a tough ask for daily wage earners.Photo: Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto/PA Images

Beyond borders

Can we rescue the notion of global health from the jaws of the pandemic? asks Dinyar Godrej.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
From left to right: Theresa Jusu, Marta Lado, Mohamed Camara, and Mamadu Baldeh.

First Ebola, then Covid-19

Hazel Healy re-connects with communities in Sierra Leone.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
Illustration: Emma Peer

Reasons to be cheerful

Land justice; Ebola-free; Transition triumphs

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
Exit denied: Palestinian workers disinfect a mosque as a preventive measure amid fears of the spread of coronavirus, in Gaza, which is under blockade by Israel.Photo: Majdi Fathi/Nurphoto/PA

Covid-19: Those most at risk

Husna Rizvi writes that informal settlements and refugee camps are perhaps the most dangerous places of all.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
Outbreak of support: Julie Siddiqi and Nick Garcia from the Slough branch of the UK's Covid-19 mutual aid network are volunteering their time to do food deliveries, prescription pick-ups and dog walking for vulnerable residents.Photo: Baylis Media LTD

Covid-19: Helping others

Husna Rizvi reports that many people refuse to treat the vulnerable as expendable.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
Toxic Air - The Facts

Toxic Air - The Facts

How many die?, Air inequality, Noxious journeys, and Cleanest vs dirtiest.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020

Action on Air Pollution

Links for campaigning and more reading on air pollution/air quality.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
A young boy wears a gas mask to protect himself from the fumes during a fire in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya.Photo: Donwilson Odhiambo/Sopa Images/Lightrocket via Getty Images

To protect life

Covid-19 has shown us that swift action on global health is possible, even if it still falls short. What could we achieve, asks Amy Hall, if we took an urgent approach to air pollution, another widespread killer?

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020

Our bodies, our rights

According to the UN, most surgeries on intersex babies amount to torture. And yet that is the practice in almost every country in the world today. Valentino Vecchietti calls for urgent change.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
Illustration: Stine Deja

Unhappy 70th birthday NHS?

The British National Health Service is seen across the world as a beacon of medical provision. But, hollowed out by privatization by stealth, it needs a radical prescription to restore it, explains Youssef El-Gingihy.

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NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Abortion July, 2024
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
A world to win March, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Vaccine equality May, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
A caring economy November, 2020
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
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