When I traditionally conceive of effectively combating the global HIV epidemic, my mind turns immediately to the infectious disease doctors who dominated the early response to the crisis. After doing this set of readings, I am increasingly aware of the rising and essential role in primary care in HIV treatment and management. Obvious evidence for […]
No Magic Bullets
When the field was first, established global health or as it was then known, tropical medicine consisted almost entirely of doctors for the Royal Navy, Home and Indian Armies, Colonial Service, Foreign Office Service and trading and mining corporations. These newly minted medicos arrived in the colonies with the perfect understanding that their enemy was […]
Infectious Capitalism
The connection between inequities in healthcare and nutritional access and metabolic conditions like diabetes has been well established. What is often overlooked is that these diseases represent matters of environmental justice as well. While this second point is becoming increasingly apparent in MDC, the connections of environmental issues and the epidemic of non-communicable disease in […]
