Healthcare Policy
Health & Medicine
A Mother's Account of Medical Negligence and Loss in Lagos
A Nigerian author describes the death of her young son following what she characterizes as criminal negligence by an anesthesiologist during routine procedures at a Lagos hospital. The piece details lapses in monitoring and protocol that she argues led directly to her child's death, and raises questions about institutional accountability.
Feminising Healthcare: Four Reasons Why It Serves Universal Health Coverage
A physician argues that centering women's health, leadership, economic power, and decision-making authority is not ideological but pragmatic—a necessary framework for achieving universal health coverage across Africa. The writer draws on personal experience and systemic observation to show how gender equity in healthcare directly improves outcomes and health system resilience.
Why Feminism Matters for Universal Healthcare in Africa
A Cameroonian physician argues that achieving universal health coverage across Africa requires centering women's health, leadership, economic power, and decision-making authority—not as a peripheral concern, but as a structural necessity rooted in feminist principles of equality and rights.
Four Good Reasons Why Feminising Healthcare Can Help Achieve Universal Health Coverage
The writer, a practising physician in Cameroon, argues that gender equality and women's empowerment are essential tools for achieving universal health coverage in Africa. Drawing on personal experience—from societal pressure against a medical career to clinical moments where women's decision-making authority is overridden—she identifies four intersecting domains: women's health outcomes, women's leadership in healthcare systems, economic justice, and equitable decision-making power.
Should the Government Legalize Abortion? A Cameroon Perspective
An analytical overview of the abortion legalization debate in Cameroon, where current law permits pregnancy termination only when the mother's life is at risk. The piece systematically presents both pro-life and pro-choice arguments, acknowledging the real toll of illegal abortion on young lives while resisting easy resolution.