Claire Pierson, University of Liverpool Abortion was decriminalised in Northern Ireland in October 2019. In March the following year, the legal framework was in place to provide terminations. A year...
Jo Finch, University of East London and Janet Hoskin, University of East London When it comes to people with learning disabilities and COVID-19, the statistics are damning. In the UK, people with...
The first shipment of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, landed in South Africa on 1 February. This was a moment of brilliant hope. However, a shameful...
As the Covid-19 vaccine rollout gets underway here in the hard-hit US, chaos continues to reign. Down in go-it-alone Texas - yes, that state with its own standalone, cheap energy-providing electrical...
Some administrations hide or minimize problems and divert the public's attention in a direction they prefer. But measures taken to gain public sympathy and distract from ineffective / late responses...
Over a fifth of the UK population, or 7 million people, are disabled. As an autistic person who struggles with fluctuating mental health, I’m one of those 7 million. Disabled people are a diverse...
Access to Covid-19 vaccines in Latin America will be more limited than in other parts of the world, at least initially. According to a report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), coverage of...
The toy box has a lot of plastic dinosaurs in it. Jesús Daniel plays on the floor and looks at us shyly. Later, he gives us a master class on dinosaurs. If you ask him about each one, he immediately...
Entering the second year of the pandemic, many countries are now busy rationing and administering vaccines to their citizens. At last, there's a slight hope for fighting this virus. The US Government...
Roderick Bailey, University of Oxford According to one recent estimate, more than half of all vaccines against COVID-19 have been reserved for one-seventh of the world’s population. At the time of...
