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This World Health Day, The World Health Organization is calling for action to eliminate health inequities, as part of a year-long global campaign to build a fairer, healthier world. COVID-19 has brought to the fore long-standing systemic health and social inequities and pushed many more people i

By Avram Finkelstein, author of After Silence: A History of AIDS through Its ImagesHome, Avram Finkelstein 2020Home. It’s a leitmotif that underpins every conversation about COVID-19, and a word used with escalating frequency. It implies acceptance and safety. Home, however, has a different

In the midst of the medical, economic, and psychological fight against COVID-19, it is prudent to examine past outbreaks of disease in order to gain a greater understanding of what may lie ahead.The most immediate parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic include other outbreaks of novel coronaviruses,

Stonewall was, as the slogan goes, a riot. The uprising began June 28, 1969, in response to a police raid at The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York. After the six days of protests that followed, the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) formed, calling for sexual and gender liberation for all people. GLF's r