No continent can sustainably outsource its public health security. Africa must begin to treat healthcare investment as seriously as national security because epidemics can destabilise economies...
What is happening now goes beyond one organization. It's a fight between whether global health will be kept as a common legal-moral responsibility or descend into...
FAAN and health agencies have strengthened surveillance at airports to prevent the spread of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria.
Global health solidarity means nothing unless it is measurable in timeliness, flexibility and adequacy of emergency financing. Not slogans. Not commemorative speeches. Not annual expressions of...
In fact, Nigeria’s heart-health crisis is not merely medical. It is cultural and psychological. Too many harmful behaviors have been normalized by peer pressure, pride, poor...
A deadly swap is being normalized: deliver unprecedented levels of personal medical information, submit to opaque algorithmic management of care and relinquishment or lackclarity over who...
If honesty brings isolation as governments are likely to predict and want to avoid then they will not report danger, but rather secrecy that can buy...
The hypocrisy is staggering. Rich governments talk about global health equity, universal coverage and resilience with enthusiasm. But many are insidiously balancing their own hospitals by...
This does not imply letting governments that violate international norms off the hook. It means acknowledging that current modes of enforcement are doing violence every bit...
What is unfolding in Lagos is not a conclusion. It is a transition still in progress. The arguments are not settled, and the outcomes are not...