Ethnographies of health systems are a theoretically rich and rapidly growing area within
medical anthropology. Critical ethnographic work dating back to the 1950s has taken …

In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign
donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of …

At an understaffed and underresourced urban African training hospital, Malawian medical
students learn to be doctors while foreign medical students, visiting Malawi as clinical …

Based on fieldwork in the city of Kisumu, Kenya, the article examines the survival of HIV‐
positive people on antiretroviral (ARV) medicines and situates this within broader moral …

This article traces how scarcities characteristic of health systems in low-income countries
(LICs), and increasing popular interest in Global Health, have inadvertently contributed to …

After two long days on the bus, I arrived in Sumbawanga in the beginning of February 2014,
the rainy season well underway. The next day, I reported to the Mawingu Regional Hospital …

Since the mid 2000s, degree programs in global health have proliferated at universities
around the world, attracting a growing number of students. 1 At Dartmouth College, for …

In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the US Diversity Visa Lottery is a national
obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street …

The work that NGOs now do has undergone significant change since they came to
prominence as development actors in the 1980s. NGOs in Africa are shaped by a …

This paper tracks the intertwined biographies of a community home-based care (CHBC)
volunteer, Arminda, the community-based organisation she worked for, Mufudzi, and the HIV …