Drop In Malaysia’s IP Ranking Is Reversible
Malaysian progress and achievements in encouraging, cultivating and boosting home-grown innovation are also at risk.
Challenges In Balancing Access To Affordable Medicines And Supporting Health...
We need to discuss how we can move forward, address concerns related to intellectual property protections, and support the government’s agenda of ongoing national healthcare reform.
Public Health #1: What will it take to convince the anti-vaxxers?
The anti-vaccine movement is causing harm.
Criminalising glue sniffing solves nothing
When responding to the children and young people who suffer from inhalant addiction and dependency, let us first do no harm.
Eliminating roadside stalls will bring hardship
“Taking away this convenience and the ease of doing such small scale businesses, deprives a person from a lower income household to improve their financial situation and contribute towards economic stability.”
Dealing with discrimination this World AIDS Day
Now, more than ever, compassion, not hate and discrimination, is absolutely necessary in dealing with the many challenges we face as a society.
Punitive public policies hurt the most vulnerable
“By not considering potential variables that contribute to transgressions or non-compliance, it punishes an already vulnerable community for something that may not have been avoidable, of their fault or ability to control. It is a recipe to drive people to the brink.”
Budget 2018: Bold step towards sustainable health financing but falls short on...
There is cause for concern as an insufficient allocation could result in shortages of essential drugs.
National health insurance scheme in 2018?
A national health insurance scheme could be a game changer to catapult the entirety of Malaysian healthcare into the 21st century, rather than piecemeal, as it is today.
Hepatitis C: Government decision is last resort to save lives
What does success look like?