Today, Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, reminds us that one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. But this isn’t just a target; it is part of the fundamental human right to health because “… no one person has a greater right to health care than anyone else…” Today, on World AIDS Day, what exactly does this mean for developing countries? If you are the head of a developing country’s ministry of health (MoH), what would your opt...
When people ask me where I come from, my thoughts inevitably take me way back in time to the early 1930s and to a place on the other side of the globe, the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This is where my story starts. During those years of economic crisis, tens of thousands of Japanese people, including both my mother’s grandparents, decided to emigrate to Brazil, in the genuine belief that they would soon be back home, having made a fortune after a few years of hard labour in the coffee bean plant...