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A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other People by Randall M. Packard

<i>A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other People</i> by Randall M. Packard

Randall M. Packard. A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples

Randall M. Packard. A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples

A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples by Randall M. Packard

A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples by Randall M. Packard

Getting to 90-90-90 targets for children and adolescents HIV in low and concentrated epidemics: bottlenecks, opportunities, and solutions.

Combating HIV has seen some of the greatest achievement in the history of global health, for example, reaching 15 million people with antiretroviral therapy (ART) is one of the greatest achievements, which when the Millennium Development Goals were adopted in 2000, seemed impossible.

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Offline: 2015—the year to rebuild WHO

The best book about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was written, not by an expert in infectious diseases, but by a lawyer. David Fidler's SARS, Governance, and the Globalization of Disease (Palgrave, 2004) deserves to be pulled from its dusty shelf and read with intense care. By the standards of most infectious epidemics—tuberculosis, malaria, or HIV, for example—SARS now seems worthy of only a short footnote in global health history: 8422 cases and 916 deaths between November, 2002, and August, 2003.

Neglected tropical disease and emerging infectious disease: An analysis of the history, promise and constraints of two worldviews

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are medical terms referring to a group of diseases, yet they are simultaneously socio-political constructs (EID and NTD). When viewed as such, public health interest in EID has been criticised as prioritising free market, Global North interests. This paper asks if the recent turn to NTD, which directs attention and resources to ‘the bottom billion’ of the world's population, addresses the limitations of focusing on EID. Our approach involves comparing the specific socio-political framing, or ‘worldview’ of NTD, with that of EID. We examine the distinct history, rationales, morals, political and economic tensions and loci of power entailed in each worldview. This analysis suggests that efforts to foreground NTD constitute a site where humanitarian and biomedical industry actors and actions are increasingly blurred. We examine whether the NTD worldview constitutes a break with or a new version of a free market approach to global health, and whether it reworks or solidifies paternalistic Global North–South relations. We consider some of the limits of work on NTD to date, suggesting that although the NTD worldview does not escape the neo-colonial history of global health, it can actualise it under a different form.

Leveraging HIV Treatment to End AIDS, Stop New HIV Infections, and Avoid the Cost of Inaction

We have the tools at our disposal to significantly bend AIDS-related morbidity and mortality curves and reduce human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence. It is thus essential to redouble our efforts to reach the goal of placing 15 million people on life-saving and -enhancing antiretroviral therapy (ART) by 2015. In reaching this milestone, we can write a new chapter in the history of global health, demonstrating that a robust, multidimensional response can succeed against a complex pandemic that presents as many social and political challenges as it does medical ones. This milestone is also critical to advance our ultimate goal of ending AIDS by maximizing the therapeutic and preventive effects of ART, which translates into a world in which AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections are exceedingly rare.

A historical portrait of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is an ancient disease that has plagued populations for centuries. The history of attempts to eradicate this consuming illness can be charted through the work of international charities, national governments, local health-care groups, and dedicated individuals. The Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York (York, UK) has now brought together a wide variety of information in Tuberculosis: a short history to allow people to explore the more recent history of this endemic global disease.

A Secure Future

Medical History is embarking on an exciting new journey. Thanks to the Wellcome Trust, the ownership of this journal has passed to Cambridge University Press. The Press is committed to running the publication as its flagship journal in the history of medicine, related sciences and health, and is keen to offer authors full flexibility when it comes to publishing and archiving their articles. Medical History's editorial office has moved to the Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York, which is housed within its Department of History; the Centre and Department are honoured to be associated to this world-leading journal.

A renewed agenda for global mental health

A renewed agenda for global mental health

Alison Bashford (ed.), Medicine at the border: disease, globalization and security, 1950 to the present, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xiv, 271, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-230-50706-7).

Alison Bashford (ed.), Medicine at the border: disease, globalization and security, 1950 to the present, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xiv, 271, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-230-50706-7). - Volume 52 Issue 2

The Century of Vaccines

In this issue of the Journal we highlight the promise and controversies surrounding vaccines in the developed and developing world. We are honored and gratified that Associate Editor Daniel J. Tarantola was willing to pull together our first issue on this topic since the October 2000 disease eradication and elimination issue. Leading vaccine authorities worldwide contributed their views including Ciro A. de Quadros author of the this month’s Editor’s Choice. Additional papers on vaccines will appear in November 2004 in the context of global health history again with papers contributed by experts from around the world. (authors)