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When we talk about healthcare in Solomon Islands, it’s back to the very basics. It’s more basic than doctors, hospitals or access to medical supplies. My visit to a coastal village in Ngela, Central Islands Province, really opened my eyes to how the absence of proper sanitation affects people’s health […]

With Hungary’s joining the EU, the country now faces a previously unforeseen challenge: with the new freedom of movement, it’s not just the Hungarian plumber who’s leaving the country for a better future abroad, but droves of doctors and nurses too in an exodus that has brought the healthcare system […]

  I dread the moment I need to see a doctor in Russia because I know that seeing a doctor in Russia is not a pleasent experience. The prospect of crass bureaucracy coupled with idiotic rules and endless waiting in line forces me to turn around and take the same […]

Initially, the thought of large-scale mining in Australia saddens me, imagining the inevitable scar it will leave on the landscape. Although I am not an indigenous Australian, I can imagine this sentiment must be much stronger for peoples who believe they do not own the Earth, but rather, they are […]

Immigration is largely looked at through an economic prism. But, that’s not all there is to it. In a country like Egypt, where competition for employment is fierce, and the jobs that are available are generally not financially, and at times not professionally rewarding, it is no surprise that many […]

In 2012, Uganda suffered two major hemorrhagic fever outbreaks. First the dread Ebola hemorrhagic fever hit the remote district of Kibaale in the western part of the country. As the country was trying to recover from the Ebola outbreak, another deadly disease, Marburg fever broke out in Kabale in south […]