INVISIBLE VICTIMS: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN IN MEXICO

By: Arun Kumar Acharya, Ph.D. Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries. Since the United Nation’s Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons was signed into law in 2001 and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act was passed in 2000, much research has been conducted around the world.  According to the U.S. … Read more

Current Issues in Healthcare: Johnson & Johnson forms R&D group to target global health issues

Tackling the health challenges facing the citizens of lower-income countries will take coordinated efforts from governments, health care practitioners, thought leaders, NGOs, and pharmaceutical companies.  Now, one of those pieces is hopefully falling into place: Johnson & Johnson’s pharma arm, Janssen, recently announced the creation of Janssen Global Public Health, a group devoted to “research, … Read more

International Study Finds Additional Links between Mother’s Poor Health and Young Children’s Death

A recent study published in PLOS Medicine by researchers from Washington, Oxford, and Witwatersand Universities found that in poorer countries, young children risk of dying begins to rise in the months prior to their mother’s death when she is seriously ill. According to the paper, these results add to the existing body of evidence which indicates that … Read more