Category Archives: HEALTH

HEALTH, POLITICS

Alice Evans: The Global Gag Rule, & the politics of abortion

Let’s not overestimate the influence of the US. The rest of the world can stand up for progress.

All around the world fewer women are dying in childbirth than they used to. Since 1990, the maternal mortality rate has almost halved. We are making progress. But this is jeopardised by the Global Gag Rule, reinstated by Donald Trump as one of his first acts as president. By restricting funding to NGOs that support women’s to access abortion and family planning, more women are at risk of death and injury.

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HEALTH, HUMANITARIAN

Q&A | Dr Martina Fuchs on delivering holistic humanitarian relief with RMF

In 2005 Dr Martina Fuchs, founder and CEO at Real Medicine Foundation (RMF), took her pediatric skills to Sri Lanka to assist in the relief efforts of the catastrophic 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami. What began as a one-person humanitarian response to deliver medical assistance quickly evolved into a broader reconceptualisation of humanitarian work in post-disaster settings.  Continue →