FPIF Issues: Health

WHO Under Siege From Private Sector

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:10:10 -0400

This article examines the greater role that private sector actors are playing in the WHO and its negative impact on the capacity of the organization to fulfill its commitment.

Psychologists and Torture, Then and Now

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:54:53 -0500

U.S. psychologists cast ethics aside when they forged relationships with the state to aid in torture.

Obama Requests Slightly Higher Aid Levels for 2013

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:02:24 -0500

President Obama's new budget requests an increase in State Department funding, but simultaneously decreases funds vital for humanitarian, health, and other aid groups.

The Under-Examined Story of Fallujah

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:54:53 -0500

Although you're unlikely to have read about it in the press, the ongoing health crisis in Fallujah shows that the legacy of the U.S. war in Iraq is far from over.

Mexican Constitution Now Recognizes Right to Food

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:41:49 -0400

"To die of hunger is to be assassinated." Alberto Morlachetti

The Politics of Nuclear Crisis and Renewable Energy in Japan

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:06:06 -0400

This article examines why, in the midst of an unprecedented cascade of disasters, natural and nuclear, the Kan problem trumped all others.

CIA Vaccination Program to Catch Bin Laden Makes Middle-East Even More Suspicious of Vaccinations

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:07:37 -0400

The global anti-polio campaign has recently been complicated by the CIA operation to verify Osama bin Laden's location by gathering DNA samples through a hepatitis B vaccination program.

Will Fukushima Survivors Be Doubly Victimized With Radiation Sickness and Stigmatization?

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:45:42 -0400

Let's hope that, unlike with Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, bias against Fukushima refugees will be kept to a minimum.

Agent Orange in Korea

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:00:00 -0400

Whistleblowers have unearthed the widespread use of Agent Orange by the U.S. military in Korea.

Game Changers in Global AIDS Fight

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:42:18 -0400

On the 30th anniversary of the first reported case of AIDS, we may just have turned the corner on battling the disease -- if we commit the resources.