Honduras is a Caribbean country located between Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. It is a country of dusty red shingles, wet cobbled streets, and laughter. I went there this past August, to volunteer at Dr. San Manuel Hospital in the town of Gra...

Bougainville is an island rich in mineral deposits. It fought a war of independence after reacting to the mistreatment of its people and land by foreign mining corporations as well as foreign governments. The island’s people were victorious in thei...

I have never heard of Nakuru. Like so many other places, it is a new name from a far off land: foreign to my imagination and experience. But for the handful of Queen’s students who travel to Africa each year through Queen’s Health Outreach (QH...

On October 25, 1977, a young Somali man developed a rash. It was smallpox. The man, who survived, was remarkable for he was the planet’s last case of naturally occurring smallpox. Eleven years after smallpox became the first disease to be wiped ...

Bangladesh is one of the poorest and most populated countries of South East Asia and has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Despite enormous investments in family planning and child survival programmes, pregnancy and childbirt...

Globalization creates and propagates social and health inequalities, constituting one part of the argument of its numerous detractors. Jamaica is one of several countries in which policies to promote economic and social development have resulted in ...