As deaths rise, vaccine opponents find a foothold in Bosnia
Hospitals across Bosnia are again filling with COVID-19 patients gasping for air, and the country’s pandemic death toll is rising (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - September 30, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Ratko Mladic Loses Final Appeal in Genocide Conviction
The confirmation of the verdict against the Bosnian Serb former commander, convicted in 2017 of crimes against humanity for his role in... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Genocide conviction upheld against former Bosnian Serb military leader Mladic
War crimes judges on Tuesday upheld a genocide conviction and life sentence against former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UN judges to rule on Ratko Mladic appeal against convictions
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — U.N. appeals judges on Tuesday upheld the conviction of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Struggling Bosnia sees infection surge in migrants, refugees
Bosnia is seeing a rise in coronavirus infections among migrants and refugees living in its camps, as it struggles to cope with one of the Balkans’ highest COVID-19 death and infection rates among the general population (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
As infections rise, Sarajevo's hospitals feel the pressure
As Bosnia faces soaring coronavirus infections, pressure has grown on hospitals in the capital of Sarajevo that have struggled with rising numbers of patients (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Bosnia receives jabs from Serbia amid COVAX dispute
Bosnia has received 10,000 vaccines from neighboring Serbia amid a dispute with the international COVAX mechanism over a delay in planned shipments (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 2, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Trash fills Bosnia river faster than workers can pull it out
Environmental activists in Bosnia are warning that tons of garbage floating down the Balkan country’s rivers are endangering the local... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 25, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bosnian Serb health workers get COVID-19 jabs in Serbia
Hundreds of Bosnian Serb medical workers have crossed into neighboring Serbia to receive a COVID-19 vaccine shot as Belgrade seeks to put on display its regional reach and influence following its launch of a nationwide inoculation drive (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - February 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Coronavirus live: German border shut to parts of Czech Republic and Austria; Trump sicker with Covid than reported
Germany will bantravel from Czech border regions as well as Austria ’s Tyrol; Trump much moreill with Covid-19 than reportedTrump ’s case of coronavirus was far worse than he admitted, report saysAustralia: snap five-day Covid lockdown for VictoriaPlan to vaccinate town in Brazil against Covid sparks real estate rushPfizer vaccine found to give strong immune response to new variantsUK coronavirus – latest updates1.16pmGMTSweden, which hasspurned a lockdown throughout the pandemic, registered 3,834 new coronavirus cases on Friday, Health Agency statistics showed.The country of 10m registered 58 new deaths, taking the ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 12, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Yohannes Lowe (now); Ben Quinn and Ben Doherty (earlier) Tags: Coronavirus Biden administration Infectious diseases Science World news Brazil New Zealand Source Type: news
The wars in Former Yugoslavia continue in the classroom
(University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Humanities) According to the Education Act, schools in the ethnically divided Bosnia and Herzegovina must teach students " democratic ideals in a multicultural society. " But according to new research from the University of Copenhagen, the opposite happens: Segregated schools perpetuate ethnic divisions between Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks, making reconciliation after the 1992-1995 wars extremely difficult. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
The diplomatic community lends a hand to help women ’s shelters in Bosnia and Herzegovina
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina– As in many parts of the world, the eight women’s shelters across the country saw rising numbers of survivors of violence seeking refuge during the pandemic. To support the shelters and mark International Human Solidarity Day on 20 December, UNFPA and the British Embassy organized #Cook4Good, i nviting 10 members of the diplomatic community – including ambassadors from the United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway and the USAID director – to lead solidarity efforts. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - January 25, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund Source Type: news
A BASIC TRUTH: Facing an Existential Threat, Humanity Must Work Together
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Excerpt: Siddharth Chatterjee, is UN Resident Coordinator (RC) in Kenya, and RC designate to China
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 20, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Siddharth Chatterjee Tags: Climate Change Development & Aid Economy & Trade Environment Global Global Governance Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Peace Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Migrants in Bosnia camp health checked after days in cold
Aid workers say migrants staying at a camp in northwestern Bosnia have complained of respiratory and skin infections after spending days in makeshift tents and containers amid freezing weather and snowstorms (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - January 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
