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In memoriam

Dr John C Martin, former chairman and CEO of Gilead Sciences, Inc, passed away on March 30 in California at the age of 70. A true innovator, John transformed Gilead…

The development challenge

Global wisdom is increasingly reaching the conclusion that the holistic model of human development is the real answer to the present and evolving challenges faced by the global community. In…

Visas of the future

WE are in the darkness before dawn. There is hope: one, two and now three vaccine candidates have been found to be efficacious against the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged…

Vaccine for all?

For months, experts have repeatedly told us that no one is safe from coronavirus until we are all safe. If that is true, we should be going all out to…

Misguided attacks

As an international public health consultant, I have carried out several public health missions for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO)…

Hunger season

As the moral philosopher Peter Singer asserts, we are just as obligated to save a child half a world away than we are to save a child that is drowning…

Learning from Ratodero

A year ago, Pakistan was put under the international spotlight because of the HIV outbreak in Ratodero, Larkana in Sindh that infected over =a thousand children under 15 years of…

The coronavirus pandemic

Modern calculations confirm that a solar eclipse occurred on January 27, 632 AD. Quoting from Sahih Bukhari “the sun eclipsed in the life-time of Allah's Apostle on the day when…

Dangerous metaphor

I have been feeling troubled by the use of war metaphors to describe how the United States is or should be responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Research by psychologists Paul…

Human rights & mental health

A DECADE ago, world-renowned psychiatrist and medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman termed the standard of mental healthcare across the world a ‘failure of humanity’. He noted that the worse deficiencies of…