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A vendor writes as she stands in a legal pharmacy, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on October 16, 2018.

Africa's Shift From Aid Dependency

by Muhammad Ali Pate, Philippe Duneton

The future of African health systems will be driven by domestic investment and demand for regionally made drugs

Urbanization
An InSite staff member directs drug users outside the supervised injection site on Hastings Street, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on March 25, 2020. 

Homicide Rates Near Supervised Consumption Sites: A Study from Canada

by Suhanee Mitragotri, David T. Zhu

New findings debunk stereotypes around violent crime and Toronto's supervised consumption sites

A boy holds a handful of antiretroviral pills before taking his medication at Nkosi's Haven, in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 28, 2014.
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Executive Order to Lower U.S. Drug Prices Could Hurt the Poorest Countries

by Prashant Yadav

Cascading adoption of most-favored-nation drug pricing could erode affordable access to essential medicines

An employee of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces prepares to test Artemisia annua plant extract and artemisinin derivatives in a laboratory, in Potsdam, Germany, on October 15, 2020.
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Mapping Supply Chains: Global Health Agencies Lead the Way

by Prashant Yadav

Global health agencies can teach valuable lessons about drug supply risks and upstream supply chains

The Growing Lack of Prescription Drugs
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Importing Generic Drugs Could Ease U.S. Shortages

by Chloe Searchinger, Allison Krugman, Thomas J. Bollyky

Two-thirds of generic sterile injectable drugs in shortage could be imported from well-regulated foreign markets

Workers at Biofem Industries processing facility stick authentication labels on drugs.
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Nigeria's Counterfeit Drug Epidemic

by Pius Adeleye

Health experts in Nigeria worry about the rising danger of fake and substandard medications

Michael Campbell, 58, receives his daily dose of medication for AIDS at Broadway House for Continuing care
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How a New HIV Medicine Reduced Carbon Emissions

by Vincent Bretin

The HIV medication dolutegravir is lowering the health sector's carbon footprint across several countries

U.S. Drug Prices Overshadow Those in Other Countries
Governance

A First Step to Fairer Drug Prices for Young Americans

by Allison Krugman

U.S drugs have been historically more expensive, but the Inflation Reduction Act signals a shift toward fairer prices

DOCUMENT DATE:  February 28, 2020  Travis Hayes, 65, injects what he says is the synthetic drug fentanyl, across the street from where San Francisco mayor London Breed just held a news conference introducing legislation in curbing the rise of deadly overdoses in the city, at the Tenderloin section of San Francisco, California, U.S., February 27, 2020.
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Fentanyl and Foreign Policy

by David P. Fidler

A domestic crisis confronts transnational challenges and geopolitical calculations

Bar Manager Nicolas de Soto mixes a Calvados-based cocktail at ECC in Chinatown, London December 3, 2010.
Governance

Alcohol: A Public Health Blind Spot

Richard Yoast on alcohol consumption and how philanthropies could help curb excess drinking   

Colombian anti-drugs policemen guard stacks of marijuana seized from the rural area of El Jagual at a military police base in Popayan October, 23, 2011.
Governance

Changing Drug Use in Colombia and Peru

by Alfonso Silva-Santisteban

People who use drugs should use them in the safest and most informed way

A silky medusa, Colobonema sericeum, its white tentacles against a deep blue background, seen during a mid-water transect during the third Voyage to the Ridge 2022 expedition.
Environment

Deep Sea Discoveries and Global Health

by Mary Brophy Marcus

Humans have only begun to explore the ocean's potential for healing diseases

A worker dries fabrics at a dye factory in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, on March 9, 2022.
Poverty

Tolerating the Pain: Accessing Medical Morphine in Bangladesh

by Tasnim Ahmed

Roadblocks to getting opioids leave seriously ill patients coping with unbearable pain

A security agent wearing a white protective mask, white polo shirt, and black slacks, walks along the shoreline of a white sand beach with crystal blue waters in Cuba
Governance

Wanted: Global Access to Paxlovid

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Elizabeth Serieux, Christopher Troeger

Equitable access to COVID-19 antiviral therapy remains elusive, with many middle-income nations left out