Commentaries and programme notes are published here first. Longer briefs, legal research, and PDFs will sit in the same library as they are cleared.
CPR’s research is for use. Drafts stay internal until they can be stood behind.
Issued for Kabaza Day 2025, this statement treats motorcycle-taxi crashes as a public-health and human-rights emergency: thousands killed or injured, an estimated MK3.3 billion burden on the health budget, and rights to life and health left unprotected. CPR calls for licensing, safety standards, enforcement, insurance and coordinated action across transport, police, health and operators.
After the President merged Trade and Industry with Finance, CPR asks whether the same drive for efficiency should reshape how Health works with Water and Sanitation. It argues that cholera, maternal risk and child health still suffer from weak WASH–health coordination, and urges a formal inter-ministerial framework rather than disruption for its own sake.
Through an anonymised Blantyre clinic story, CPR shows patients travelling more than 50 km for anti-seizure medicines, chronic stock-outs, and a country with roughly one neurologist for millions of people. The piece links those gaps to preventable injury and death, and sets out the legal and policy duties Malawi still has to meet on epilepsy care.
Cervical cancer is among the most preventable cancers, yet Malawian women still die from it in large numbers. CPR treats those deaths as a failure of health systems and of the right to health — and presses for action on prevention, screening, treatment and the justice questions that follow when a treatable disease keeps killing.
FGM continues in communities across Africa, Asia and the Middle East despite having no health benefit. CPR sets out the immediate and lifelong harm — pain, bleeding, infection, and lasting psychological and social injury — and frames the practice as a health-and-human-rights issue that law, medicine and policy must confront together.