Climate change is a global health threat—contributing to heat waves, storms, floods, droughts and fires, altered infectious disease patterns, food shortages, and air pollution. It adds an increased burden on healthcare systems across the world. But less is known about the reverse: the environmental footprints of the healthcare sector have Read more…
Dr. Preeti Shakya is a medical doctor from Nepal who founded Project “In Her Hands” in 2017 with an aim to destigmatize menstruation and normalize conversations around it. In this interview, she tells us about what led to starting this initiative and how it’s like working with the local community. Read more…
“It may always be necessary for us as a society, to pay careful attention to the impact of our laws, policies, and practices on racial and ethnic groups and consciously strive to ensure that biases, stereotypes, and structural arraignments do not cause unnecessary harm or suffering to any individual or Read more…
The Option B+ PMTCT programme for HIV infected women at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa Background South Africa’s National Department of Health has adopted World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2013 consolidated guidelines on the use of ARVs for treatment and prevention of HIV infection. The guidelines Read more…
In honor of World Refugee Day, Anila Noor joined us for an interview about her experience as a refugee and work as a Gender Migration Policy Expert. We don’t have to look far to find strong, inspiring women around us, but what stands out the most about Anila is her Read more…
For anyone using Facebook, Instagram or other Social Media: have you ever been bothered by ads popping up that completely match your interests? This is called targeted advertising and is based on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. I don’t want to demonize it. It is actually quite fascinating. As with Read more…
What determines health and causes disease? From ancient times to the 21st century, the determinants of health have morphed and shifted along with our understanding of disease etiology – from Hippocratic principles and miasmatic forces, to germ theory and hereditary factors such as genetics and epigenetics. However, in modern medicine and public health, we have come full circle to incorporate ancient and modern paradigms.
Credits: WHO/P. Virot “Taking action means saying ‘no’ to indifference… It is a choice: whether or not to support a woman, whether or not to protect her, whether or not to defend her rights” Dr. Denis Mukwege Each year between 50,000 and 100,000 women and girls worldwide are affected by Read more…
Health authorities include those with asthma among the list of groups most vulnerable to developing severe illness. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition characterized by recurrent attacks of dyspnea and wheezing, which may vary in severity and frequency from person to person. The Read more…
By Nnamdi Eseme In Nigeria many young people do not fully understand the meaning of family planning, options available and how to go about it. This is evidenced in the high rate of unsafe abortions among girls and women, maternal deaths and alarming increase in population. Despite huge efforts made Read more…