The global health community promotes itself as an organization striving for peace and justice. Yet, its actions display ignorance and insensitivity. In humanitarian outreaches throughout the world, there is a clash between culture and medicine. The domain of global health is dominated by ideas of power and alteration of others’ cultures, causing these humanitarian outreaches to not be one of right but a continuation of colonialism.
President Joe Biden issued an executive order to unfreeze $7 billion in funds from Afghanistan’s central bank, which was frozen late last year following...
