A guest post by Julia van Koeveringe, alumna of last year’s 2021-22 MPP cohort   After completing a Master’s in Global Health, I enrolled in the Master of Science in Public Policy and Human Development programme at UNU-MERIT to learn more about policy making and development. I am now working as a researcher for IKNL, an organisation concerned with cancer data, research and policy. Specifically, I’m working on a project that focuses on palliative care and the informal side ...

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...