Single-issue advocacy in global health: Possibilities and perils

“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives"-Audre Lorde In 2014, during the height of the West African Ebola crisis, Liberian nursing assistant Salome Karwah was profiled on the cover of Time Magazine as person of the year. Three years later, Time Magazine reported that Ms. Karwah had died in childbirth [1]. Ms. Karwah’s survival from Ebola, but tragic death from childbirth complications, is not a unique case. During the Covid-19 pandemic, many people who survived the virus died from other diseases and complications as health systems became strained or collapsed [2]. Every primary health care worker will have a story to share about a child surviving measles or malaria thanks to vaccines or timely emergency care, but suffering from or succumbing to malnutrition, violence, or diarrhea.