Single-Issue Advocacy in Global Health: Possibilities and Perils - Speaking of Medicine and Health

PLOS is a non-profit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice. Building on a strong legacy of pioneering innovation, PLOS continues to be a catalyst, reimagining models to meet open science principles, removing barriers and promoting inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing, and publishing research outputs that enable everyone to learn from, reuse and build upon scientific knowledge. We believe in a better future where science is open to all, for all. By guest contributors Madhukar Pai and Katri Bertram “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives” – Audre Lorde In 2014, during the height of the West African Ebola crisis, Liberian nursing assistant Salome Karwah was profiled on the cover of Time Magazine as person of the year. Three years later, Time Magazine reported that Ms. Karwah had died in childbirth. Ms. Karwah’s survival from Ebola, but tr

By guest contributors Madhukar Pai and Katri Bertram "There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives" - Audre Lorde In 2014, during the height of the West African Ebola crisis, Liberian nursing assistant Salome Karwah was profiled on the cover of Time Magazine as person of the year. Three years later, Time Magazine reported that Ms. Karwah had died in childbirth. Ms. Karwah's survival from Ebola, but tragic death from childbirth complications, is not a unique case. During the Covid-19 pandemic, many people who survived the virus died from other diseases

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