Life in Tanzania Refugee Camps
Refugee camps are realities hard to describe, especially to people who have never been to one. I just spent nearly a month in two of them—the Nyarugusu and Mtendeli refugee camps in Western Tanzania—yet often find myself struggling for words when friends ask me what it’s like. I was there for exactly that purpose, however. To tell the story of these camps, massive and overwhelming, and of those refugees who find themselves living in them, and how the Red Cross is helping life become just a little bit more bearable.
In May 2015, after violence pushed thousands of fleeing Burundians into neighboring Tanzania, already s...
Source: Red Cross Chat - April 18, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Niki Clark Tags: International Source Type: news
NGO Pledges $500 Million Towards Sustainable Development Goals
On the right Bruce Wilkinson, President and CEO of CMMB - Healthier Lives Worldwide. Next to him (in the middle) stands Ambassador Mwaba Kasese-Bota, Permanent Representative of the Mission of Zambia to the United Nations, at the CMMB conference on $500 million for the U.N. SDGs, event on March 21. Photo: CMMBBy Valentina IeriUNITED NATIONS, Mar 25 2016 (IPS)The Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) – a leading international nonprofit health non-governmental organisation (NGO) – has pledged 500 million dollars to help implement the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)– with a specific focus on materna...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 25, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Valentina Ieri Tags: Civil Society Development & Aid Editors' Choice Gender Global Global Governance Headlines Health Human Rights IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Source Type: news
No End in Sight
Voice from the FieldNo End in Sight
March 21, 2016
Medical Team Leader Katy Brown returned from Tanzania in February. It was her eleventh emergency placement with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), this time assisting refugees who have fled the unrest in Burundi. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - March 21, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jess Brown Source Type: news
The U.S. Ranks 13th In Happiness. Here's How We Get To No. 1.
If you're happy and you know it, the United Nations knows why. Ahead of the International Day of Happiness on March 20, the U.N. just published its 2016 World Happiness Report, complete with insights into how the most cheerful countries got that way. Of the 157 countries listed in the report, the U.S. ranks 13th -- with a score of 7.104 on a 10-point scale. By comparison, the happiest country, Denmark, scored a 7.526, and the least happy country, Burundi, scored a 2.905. That means Americans are not exactly unhappy, but there's room for improvement. Here's what the 12 happier countries are doing that w...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Burundi: Condoms Are My Friends, My Everyday Protection
[Key Correspondents] On 14 February, Valentine's Day, more than 50 young Burundians lined up to get condoms at a youth centre in the capital, Bujumbura. They came to the centre, run by the National Network of Young People Living with HIV (RNJ+), to protect themselves against unwanted pregnancies and HIV. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 11, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: MSF Treats More Than 60 People Wounded in Bujumbura Grenade Attacks
[MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated more than 60 people on Monday morning after a series of grenade explosions in several locations across the capital city of Bujumbura, Burundi. This influx of wounded occurs just five days after two other grenades attacks, on Thursday 11 February, which resulted in 55 wounded people being treated at l'Arche, MSF's trauma centre in Bujumbura. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 18, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: MSF Treats More Than 60 Wounded in Grenade Explosions
Field newsBurundi: MSF Treats More Than 60 Wounded in Grenade Explosions
February 16, 2016
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated more than 60 people on the morning of Monday, February 15, after a series of grenade explosions in several locations across Burundi's capital city of Bujumbura. This influx of wounded patients occurred just five days after two other grenade attacks wounded dozens of people, 55 of whom were treated at l’Arche, MSF’s trauma center in Bujumbura. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - February 16, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Elias Primoff Source Type: news
Violent offending promotes appetitive aggression rather than posttraumatic stress-a replication study with burundian ex-combatants - Köbach A, Nandi C, Crombach A, Bambonyé M, Westner B, Elbert T.
Research has identified appetitive aggression, i.e., the perception of committed, violent acts as appealing, exciting and fascinating, as a common phenomenon within populations living in precarious and violent circumstances. Investigating demobilized soldi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 11, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Intergenerational violence in Burundi: experienced childhood maltreatment increases the risk of abusive child rearing and intimate partner violence - Crombach A, Bambonyé M.
BACKGROUND: Experiencing abuse during childhood affects the psychological well-being of individuals throughout their lives and may even influence their offspring by enhancing the likelihood of an intergenerational transmission of violence. Understanding th... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 25, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Burundi: West's Aid Cuts to Burundi Worsen Crisis As Govt Suspends Free Health Care
[Nation] New York -Cuts in budgetary aid to Burundi by donor nations are worsening already dire conditions in one of the world's poorest countries, two United Nations officials warned on Tuesday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 17, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
War and peace in the ‘princess of Burundi’
Conflict with outsiders promotes affiliation between group members in the ‘princess of Burundi’, an East African fish, according to new research from the University of Bristol, published this week in The American Naturalist. Surprisingly, territorial intrusions by neighbours elicited a stronger reaction than those by strangers. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - December 16, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Research; Faculty of Science, Faculty of Science, School of Biological Sciences; Press Release Source Type: news
Cholera – Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has notified WHO of ongoing outbreaks of cholera across the country. Although the overall trend is decreasing, there are still areas reporting a high number of cases. Since the beginning of the year, 19,705 cases have been reported in DRC. As of 29 November, the following provinces had reported cases: South Kivu (4,906), ex-Katanga (4,565), Maniema (3,971), North Kivu (3,294) and ex-Oriental (2,969). A high number of cases are still reported in the province of South Kivu where the situation is particularly worrying because of the presence of camps hostin...
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - December 15, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: cholera [subject], vibrio cholerae, cholera [subject], vibrio cholerae, health promotion [subject], health campaigns, health awareness, water [subject], safe water, wastewater, greywater, clean water, African Region [region], Democratic Republic of the Co Source Type: news
Appetitive aggression and adverse childhood experiences shape violent behavior in females formerly associated with combat - Augsburger M, Meyer-Parlapanis D, Bambonyé M, Elbert T, Crombach A.
This study investigated the impact of violent experiences during childhood, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and appetitive aggression on everyday violent behavior in Burundian females with varying participation in war. Moreover, group differences in t... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 11, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Burundi: MSF treats 60 people wounded in grenade explosions
After grenade explosions, a mass casualty plan was launched and a second operating room was opened to cope with the influx of patients. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - November 21, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Rob Source Type: news
