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What the Tuberculosis Foreign Aid Trajectory Tells Us about COVID-19: An Analysis

In the wake of COVID-19, our global public discourse and policy execution measures have frantically adopted “unprecedented” into routine vocabulary. As the virus rapidly pushes globally interdependent socio-economic systems into isolation, the notion of “public” in public health is simultaneously evolving. While our pandemic-centric histories do not deliver frameworks of certainty, they leave us with… Continue reading What the Tuberculosis Foreign Aid Trajectory Tells Us about COVID-19: An Analysis

Regulations and COVID-19 Response: Concerns in the Indian context

Introduction “Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down or our heads from a blue sky.” – Albert Camus (The Plague, 1948) The world today is grappling with global COVID-19 public health emergency and its social, economic and… Continue reading Regulations and COVID-19 Response: Concerns in the Indian context

COVID 19 and War Terminology of World Leaders

In speeches, dialogues, conversations and TV commentaries, the usage of war metaphors to describe anything related to the COVID-19 pandemic are being deployed. These include “war cabinet” and, implicitly, “threat.”[i],[ii]This assists in projecting a perception of the extraordinary circumstances that are facing our reality today. Hundreds of millions cannot get out of their homes in… Continue reading COVID 19 and War Terminology of World Leaders

Tackling COVID-19: The Need for Effective Capacity Utilisation of Health Professionals

In India, the labor market in the healthcare sector runs in acute supply shortage. The doctor-patient ratio is 1:1248 and there are only 1.5 nurses available per thousand patients. Public health capacity is inadequate and mostly asymmetrically distributed across states. While there are 38.3 government hospitals for a million people in Kerala, there are only… Continue reading Tackling COVID-19: The Need for Effective Capacity Utilisation of Health Professionals