Global health
Pay more attention to silent killers
IPN Opinion article
HIV/AIDS is a high profile disease that has received a disproportionately high amount of funding and attention, relative to "silent killers" such as pneumonia and diarrhoea
Poverty: The Real Threat to Health
IPN Opinion article
Philip Stevens challenges the conclusions reached by a recent study in The Lancet about climate change and health.
WHO's Got its Facts Wrong?
IPN Opinion article
The World Health Organisation makes great sport of taking the pharmaceutical industry to task for its inability to provide everyone in the developing world with the drugs they need. This so-called market failure is being used at negotiations in Geneva this month to bring research and patents under official control, managed by the WHO--but the WHO has trouble managing itself.
