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HEAL & COVID-19

Frontline health workers from Sub-Saharan Africa share the reality of the current COVID surge

Frontline health workers from Sub-Saharan Africa share the reality of the current COVID surge

After more than a year of intensive service on the frontlines of the pandemic, HEAL Initiative fellows from rural Liberia, Malawi, Uganda…
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Bearing Witness to Resilience

Bearing Witness to Resilience

Reflections from working on Navajo Nation during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Is Sorry Enough?

Is Sorry Enough?

Dear beautiful girl, I’m sorry.
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Sam Percy and Carlie Field
Inequities of COVID-19: You Cannot Shelter-In-Place If You Have No Shelter

Inequities of COVID-19: You Cannot Shelter-In-Place If You Have No Shelter

How can we ask someone to shelter in place while simultaneously denying them shelter? It sounds cruel and counterintuitive, but this is…
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Abhi Kole
The Rural Front Line

The Rural Front Line

In a Chhattisgarh hospital, patients bear the brunt of the poorly planned COVID lockdown
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Poverty — the real pandemic

Poverty — the real pandemic

Long before coronavirus came along a rural Nepal hospital has been battling a pre-existing public health crisis
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In riot aftermath, it’s scorched health care too

In riot aftermath, it’s scorched health care too

As north-east Delhi shows, a population losing trust in the care system can affect other health-care indicators as well
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What is the role of medical students during the COVID-19 surge?

What is the role of medical students during the COVID-19 surge?

We are in the midst of an unprecedented moment in the history of medical education: Match Day ceremonies canceled, clinical rotations…
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India cannot fight Coronavirus without taking into account its class and caste divisions

India cannot fight Coronavirus without taking into account its class and caste divisions

The country must rethink its strategy of epidemic management to be more inclusive of the marginalised sections of the society.
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What the “Global North” needs to learn about COVID-19 ?

What the “Global North” needs to learn about COVID-19 ?

There are times where our world can feel so different and certain diseases seem relegated to other times and other places. As Covid-19…
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