Welcome to the official website of the Global Medicine magazine, an initiative of IFMSA-NL. Through this magazine we wish to alert medical students to their possible role in the improvement of global health; now as a student, and in their future jobs being a doctor.

On this website you will find most of the published articles digitalized and categorized in the archive. Of course we offer some extras through our website. All the information needed to publish in Global Medicine magazine can be found here as well.

The third edition of Global medicine, published in april 2005, is now available online. Click here to read it.

 

In this edition:                                    

Appraisal of development aid and cooperation

Nowadays, development aid is increasingly the target of criticism. From colonial times, countries in the North have strived to 'develop' poor countries in the South, their strategies with respect to development cooperation continuously changing. This article gives an overview of the different approaches to eradicate poverty over the past decennia.

• Global health news September 2011
• Rice: vaccine of the future?
• Haiti, one year after the earthquake
• Dumping asbestos in India
• Hit the needle where it hurts
• Onchocerciasis
• Sand Storms
• Column by Renske de Greef
• In the line of fire
• Global careers: Humatarian response officer at UNFPA
• Studying medicine in Gijon