What if…

What if…

Drug patents were scrapped? Husna Rizvi makes a vital suggestion.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
Health Ministry employees empty a shop selling fake medicine in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.Photo: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty

When the drugs don’t work

There has been a dramatic rise in heart disease in Africa over the past 25 years – a situation made worse by fake medicines on the market. Now doctors are beginning to fight for change, as Lea Surugue reports.

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018
Protesters march against the pricing of Sovaldi in 2014, wearing masks of John C Martin – former CEO now Executive Chairman of Gilead.Photo: AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Shopping for their lives

The patented breakthrough drugs for hepatitis C are so expensive that even the wealthiest of nations strictly ration them. Now desperate patients are going where their governments will not, by defying the system to get their meds from India. Sophie Cousins reports.

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NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017
Lay off the pills

Lay off the pills

Emma Rose explains why animals should not be given so many antibiotics.

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NI 487 - Paris climate summit - November, 2015
Reasons to be cheerful

Reasons to be cheerful

Good news from around the world this month.

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NI 478 - NGOs - Do they help? - December, 2014
Ranbaxy, which sells generic drugs all over the world, was fined $500 million by a US court.Photo: Kamal Kishore/Reuters

Cheap drugs and the millionaire whistleblower

Sandhya Srinivasan writes from India on the curious tale of Dinesh Thakur and the generics maker Ranbaxy.

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NI 471 - The war on whistleblowers - April, 2014
Mental health: the facts

Mental health: the facts

Prevalence, provision, dangerousness and discrimination-related figures for mental illness worldwide: a zoomable infographic.

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NI 452 - Mental health - May, 2012
John Mc Carthy, founder of Mad Pride Ireland, followed by Molly Buckley, Mayor of Tullamore, and supporters at a Family Fun Day in the town in 2010. Mc Carthy’s goal – to battle stigma through community, laughter and love.Harvey Photography

A healthy mind in a healthy society

Mental health shouldn’t just be about individuals, we need strong communities too. Dinyar Godrej makes the case.

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NI 452 - Mental health - May, 2012
No more tears? Drug patents deny poor children access to life-saving HIV treatment.Eric Miller/Panos

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.

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NI 448 - The arms trade - December, 2011
Standing up to Big Pharma

Standing up to Big Pharma

A meeting of the World Psychiatric Association provides food for thought for Joanna Cheek.

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NI 428 - Welcome to Copenhagen! - December, 2009
The drugs don't work

The drugs don't work

Why young rural Indians end up addicted to pills

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NI 414 - We need to think about toilets - August, 2008

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
Humans vs robots November, 2017
Paris climate summit November, 2015
NGOs - Do they help? December, 2014
The war on whistleblowers April, 2014
Mental health May, 2012
Mental health May, 2012
The arms trade December, 2011
Welcome to Copenhagen! December, 2009
We need to think about toilets August, 2008
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