Health

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.

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

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

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

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

Fresh hell by Kate Evans.

Fresh hell by Kate Evans.

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.

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

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

Hazel Healy re-connects with communities in Sierra Leone.

Land justice; Ebola-free; Transition triumphs

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

Doctors and patients are fighting back against new rules to restrict migrants’ access to the NHS, writes Simon Childs.