Health
Articles about Health, ordered by date. 
A toilet makes a difference
Girls in Somalia now have a better chance of completing their education. Katharina Wecker explains.
Argument: Is male circumcision harmful?
Richard Wamai and Ronald Goldman go head to head.
Moral medicine: the Cuban way
A revolutionary example of efficient and affordable healthcare, by John M Kirk and Chris Walker.
Healthcare and inequality - THE FACTS
A matter of life and death: the contrasting rates of mortality, access to medicine and care across the globe.
Bad medicine
Inequality squeezes both how healthy we are and the healthcare we get. Time to get past it, believes Dinyar Godrej.
What would legalization of drugs look like?
Heroin in every lunchbox? Not quite. Medic Max Rendall answers your questions...
Legalize drugs - all of them!
NI editor Vanessa Baird looks at the many reasons why this is the only option that makes sense.
Johnson & Johnson shuns poor people with HIV
On World AIDS Day, a stark reminder of how Big Pharma drug patents deny HIV treatment to the developing world.
Is it ever right to buy or sell human organs?
Join the debate as US psychiatrist Sally Satel goes head-to-head with Jeremy Chapman, President of the Transplantation Society.
Dignity and the decent facility
Women desperately want toilets – but not as a health aid. Libby Plumb reports.
A lifetime in muck
Unbelievably, people still exist whose task in life is shovelling shit, as Mari Marcel Thekaekara explains.
For our convenience
Toilets have been around since the days of Elizabeth I. Systems old and new.
Toilets - The Facts
Everything you ever wanted to know about toilets.
To Sewer or Not to Sewer
David Satterthwaite speaks out in praise of sewers, and Mayling Simpson-Hébert retaliates on behalf of pits.
Stand up, stand up for toilets...
Toilet champions are not so rare a breed as you’d think. Here are some distinguished exemplars.
We need to talk about... toilets
2008 is the International Year of Sanitation. Or, asks Maggie Black, is it the International Year of Silence and Embarrassment?
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