Three Ways to End Gender-based Violence — Global Issues

Three Ways to End Gender-based Violence — Global Issues

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Opinion by Jacqui Stevenson – Jessica Zimerman – Diego Antoni (united nations) Wednesday, November 30, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Nov 30 (IPS) – How are the multiple shocks and crises the world is facing changing how we respond to gender-based violence? Almost three years after the COVID-19 pandemic triggered…

New Injection Could Boost the Fight, But Some Hurdles Remain — Global Issues

New Injection Could Boost the Fight, But Some Hurdles Remain — Global Issues

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Access to PrEP has been slow and mostly limited to high income countries. Some countries, like Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, and Nigeria, have been more proactive than others, but it is still hard for many to get PrEP. Credit: Shutterstock Opinion Wednesday, November 30, 2022 Inter Press Service Nov…

Proven solutions must be put in place to end AIDS by 2030: Guterres — Global Issues

Proven solutions must be put in place to end AIDS by 2030: Guterres — Global Issues

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“The world has promised to end AIDS by 2030”, said Secretary-General António Guterres in his official message, but “we are off track.” “Today, we risk millions more new infections and millions more deaths”, he added, calling on governments everywhere to make the “Equalize” slogan a reality. He said the “proven practical…

Vaccine Refusal, Floods Impact Polio Drive in Pakistan — Global Issues

Vaccine Refusal, Floods Impact Polio Drive in Pakistan — Global Issues

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A young child receives vaccine drops in Pakistan, but the region has experienced an upsurgence of cases because of vaccine refusal. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS by Ashfaq Yusufzai (peshawar) Tuesday, November 29, 2022 Inter Press Service PESHAWAR, Nov 29 (IPS) – Vaccine refusal is impacting the eradication of polio in Pakistan. Pakistan…

Three Ways to End Gender-based Violence — Global Issues

Accelerated action needed to save 12,000 lives a day due to injury, violence — Global Issues

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“People living in poverty are significantly more likely to suffer an injury than the wealthy”, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.  “The health sector has a major role in addressing these health inequities and in preventing injuries and violence, through collecting data, developing policies,…

Three Ways to End Gender-based Violence — Global Issues

Three years of flatlined progress on HIV treatment and prevention affect 2.7 million youth — Global Issues

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Three years of flatlined progress on HIV treatment and prevention affect 2.7 million youth   Some 110,00 youth under age 19 died last year from AIDS-related causes, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, noting that coupled with 310,000 newly infected, the total number of young people living with HIV…

Like Lindsay Lohan, I meditate in the shower — it ‘changed my life’
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Like Lindsay Lohan, I meditate in the shower — it ‘changed my life’

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In October 2021, yoga instructor Meka Taylor was in the throes of an identity crisis.  The 30-year-old had been shaken by the discovery that she was adopted — which was revealed after a paternal cousin reached out to her on Facebook. The startling truth of her biology came just days…

Three Ways to End Gender-based Violence — Global Issues

UNICEF seeks $27.5 million to step up cholera response in Haiti — Global Issues

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The outbreak began two months ago and is unfolding amid economic crisis and rising insecurity due to gang violence.  Ninety per cent of confirmed cases have been in areas with a high burden of severe acute malnutrition. A ‘triple threat’ Children suffering from the condition, which is also known as…