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Workers at Biofem Industries processing facility stick authentication labels on drugs.

Nigeria's Counterfeit Drug Epidemic

by Pius Adeleye

Health experts in Nigeria worry about the rising danger of fake and substandard medications

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Michael Campbell, 58, receives his daily dose of medication for AIDS at Broadway House for Continuing care

How a New HIV Medicine Reduced Carbon Emissions

by Vincent Bretin

The HIV medication dolutegravir is lowering the health sector's carbon footprint across several countries

U.S. Drug Prices Overshadow Those in Other Countries
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A First Step to Fairer Drug Prices for Young Americans

by Allison Krugman

U.S drugs have been historically more expensive, but the Inflation Reduction Act signals a shift toward fairer prices

DOCUMENT DATE:  February 28, 2020  Travis Hayes, 65, injects what he says is the synthetic drug fentanyl, across the street from where San Francisco mayor London Breed just held a news conference introducing legislation in curbing the rise of deadly overdoses in the city, at the Tenderloin section of San Francisco, California, U.S., February 27, 2020.
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Fentanyl and Foreign Policy

by David P. Fidler

A domestic crisis confronts transnational challenges and geopolitical calculations

Bar Manager Nicolas de Soto mixes a Calvados-based cocktail at ECC in Chinatown, London December 3, 2010.
Governance

Alcohol: A Public Health Blind Spot

Richard Yoast on alcohol consumption and how philanthropies could help curb excess drinking   

Colombian anti-drugs policemen guard stacks of marijuana seized from the rural area of El Jagual at a military police base in Popayan October, 23, 2011.
Governance

Changing Drug Use in Colombia and Peru

by Alfonso Silva-Santisteban

People who use drugs should use them in the safest and most informed way

A silky medusa, Colobonema sericeum, its white tentacles against a deep blue background, seen during a mid-water transect during the third Voyage to the Ridge 2022 expedition.
Environment

Deep Sea Discoveries and Global Health

by Mary Brophy Marcus

Humans have only begun to explore the ocean's potential for healing diseases

A worker dries fabrics at a dye factory in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, on March 9, 2022.
Poverty

Tolerating the Pain: Accessing Medical Morphine in Bangladesh

by Tasnim Ahmed

Roadblocks to getting opioids leave seriously ill patients coping with unbearable pain

A security agent wearing a white protective mask, white polo shirt, and black slacks, walks along the shoreline of a white sand beach with crystal blue waters in Cuba
Governance

Wanted: Global Access to Paxlovid

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Elizabeth Serieux, Christopher Troeger

Equitable access to COVID-19 antiviral therapy remains elusive, with many middle-income nations left out

A community police officer in blue jeans squats low to the ground and holds out two hands full of shiny metal 45mm caliber bullets
Governance

A Gram Per Gun

by José Pablo Ampudia

How U.S. guns fuel Mexican cartels' drug empire

Girls stand in a truck during a campaign to raise awareness about illegal and false drugs in Abobo, a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on October 11, 2018.
Governance

What the African Medicines Agency Needs Most to Succeed

by Michelle D. Gavin

The formation of the AMA is a milestone for drug safety and trust in Africa

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reflected in a woman's eye as she watches his address to the nation following the outbreak of coronavirus in Manchester, England, on September 22, 2020. The photo shows a macro lens image of an eye with the image of the PM reflected in it. REUTERS/Phil Noble
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Britain's Moral Bankruptcy Over COVID-19 Vaccines

by William A. Haseltine

Why a study set to deliberately infect people with coronavirus is unethical, unnecessary, and likely to be uninformative

Addressing pandemic preparedness after COVID-19 will require going deeper than the surface. Here a worker sanitizes surfaces inside the Inox Leisure movie theatre in Mumbai, India, October 13, 2020. The photo is striking, showing a worker spraying disinfectant wearing a blue suit descending down a theater staircase where all the seats and carpet are bright red. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni
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Back to Basics After COVID-19

by Sonya Stokes

Investing in Primary Care Now Will Prepare the U.S. for the Next Pandemic

People at a coronavirus testing center on July 2, 2020 in Mugda Medical College in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where half of the medical equipment in public health facilities goes unused according to the authors. The photo shows a crowd of people wearing masks waiting on line in chairs while a health worker in full protective gear walks beside them. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Poverty

Who Gets What and Why?

by Héctor Castro

Countries need informed decision-making through health technology assessment to allocate resources during the pandemic