Category: Ethics Along Bloody Edges

Approximately one month ago, hundreds of civilians in a market town in the Mi’irabawi Zone of the Tigray Region were murdered with axes, machetes, knives, and ropes.1 Witnesses from the Amhara populated area claim ethnic Tigrayan forces and allies are responsible for the attack. Tigrayan refugees claim Ethiopian federal forces and their allied Amhara groups…

That headline may not be a surprise to many, but it is a central finding of a study entitled “Mortality due to low-quality health systems in the universal health coverage era: a systematic analysis of amenable deaths in 137 countries” by Kruk et al. recently published in The Lancet. Other findings from said article include the…