Women in Guinea-Bissau speak out against female genital mutilation: “I’m lucky to be alive”
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Source: UNFPA News - September 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Ron DeSantis warns Florida about COVID vaccine booster
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is rejecting newly approved COVID-19 vaccine booster shots on the basis that they "have not been proven to be safe or effective." DeSantis, a candidate for the Republican 2024 presidential nomination, on Wednesday warned Floridians against being used "as guinea pigs"…#florida #rondesantis #desantis #floridians #fda #cdc #floridasurgeon #josephladapo #williamschaffner #schaffner (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sea piracy in maritime transportation: a study of the Gulf of Guinea - Raji BA, Dina AO, Oduwole IO.
Sea piracy poses a significant threat to seafarers and the economic well-being of nations. While the international coordinated fight against piracy resulted in a significant reduction in attacks around the Gulf of Aden, a similar effort among countries wit... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Holdouts in the South Pacific: explaining death penalty retention in Papua New Guinea and Tonga - Pascoe D, Novak A.
The South Pacific forms a cohesive region with broadly similar cultural attributes, legal systems and colonial histories. A comparative analysis starts from the assumption that these countries should also have similar criminal justice policies. However, un... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Former NATO commander warns of " devastating " full-blown war in Africa
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James Stavridis warned on Sunday that the conflict in Niger amid a looming deadline for coup leaders to cede power could potentially lead to a "full-blown war in Africa." The Sunday deadline established by a coalition of West African nations for Niger to…#nato #europejamesstavridis #niger #africa #westafrican #burkinafaso #abdelfataumusah #chad #guinea #musah (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
West Africa bloc threatens force on Niger coup leaders, French Embassy attacked
NIAMEY/ABUJA (Reuters) -West African nations imposed economic and travel sanctions on Niger's new military leaders on Sunday, threatening to use force if they fail to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Bazoum within a week. The 15-nation ECOWAS bloc's response to the Sahel region's seventh coup…#niamey #african #niger #mohammedbazoum #frenchembassy #nigeria #westafrican #burkinafaso #guinea #unitednations (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Is Putin's stranglehold on wheat ruining Russia's ambitions in Africa?
At the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, Guinea diplomat Lama Jacque Sevoba said his shirt displaying multiple faces of Vladimir Putin showed his "love" for the Russian president. Among his continent's representatives, he was in the minority. Putin had hoped that the meeting in his home city…#africa #stpetersburg #guinea #jacquesevoba #vladimirputin #russian #moscow #ukraine #globalsouth #african (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: Taxation for Development: the Impact of the Ebola Epidemic On Citizen Support Across West Africa
[Afrobarometer] Health shock shifts attitudes in favour of taxation in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 28, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Ebola Governance Health and Medicine Sustainable Development West Africa Source Type: news
Germany ’s new national security strategy is strong on goals, less so on means
T do it. The Dutch do it. Even Jamaica, Honduras and Papua New Guinea regularly state the formal goals of their defence and foreign policies. And so now does Germany. Long squeamish about flexing its muscles despite being the world’s fourth-biggest economy and a pillar of European stability, the…#dutch #jamaica #honduras #papuanewguinea #euroatlantic #ukraine #coldwar #christianlindner #thorstenbenner #berlin (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
India ’s Rice Export Ban May Drive Global Food Prices Even Higher
India—the world’s largest exporter of rice—banned all exports of “non-basmati white rice” late Thursday in an effort to keep domestic prices in check, raising fears it could further threaten global food security, which has already been impacted by Russia’s scrapping a key UN-brokered deal that…#blacksea #nepal #african #benin #angola #cameroon #djibouti #guinea #ivorycoast #kenya (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How an Innovative Deal Will Give Millions Access to Cheaper Tuberculosis Drugs
The patent on the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline expires today (July 18). But while its manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, intends to use secondary patents to extend its exclusive right to sell the drug, an innovative deal will lower its price and expand access to millions around the globe.
The drug improves the outcomes for patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, reducing the risk of death by approximately 10%, according to a study in BMC Infectious Diseases, a U.K. medical journal. Tuberculosis is the world’s deadliest infectious disease, infecting approximately 10 million people per year and killing 1.5 ...
Source: TIME: Health - July 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Anna Gordon Tags: Uncategorized Disease News Source Type: news
China woos Papua New Guinea with free trade push
SYDNEY/BEIJING -- China is bolstering economic ties with Papua New Guinea as the Pacific nation seeks to expand trade with the world's second-largest economy even while deepening military cooperation with the U.S. The state-owned Bank of China (BOC) has opened its first representative office in…#sydney #beijing #papuanewguinea #pacific #bankofchina #xijinping #gehaijiao #portmoresby (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
South Africa: Hospital Histories - Valkenberg Today... and 130 Years Ago
[spotlight] In Cape Town between the Liesbeek and Black Rivers, Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital's original building - dating from around 1770 - cuts an imposing silhouette. One of the area's oldest surviving homesteads, it is three storeys high, light pink with a steeply pitched roof and one tall turret flanked by dormers. Around it shrubs are neatly trimmed, lilies bloom in winter-wet soil, and guinea fowl chase around on lawns. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 11, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
The U.S. Scientist At the Heart of COVID-19 Lab Leak Conspiracies Is Still Trying to Save the World From the Next Pandemic
Ralph Baric stepped onto the auditorium stage at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and looked out at the sparse audience that had come to hear him speak. On the large projector screen hanging behind him, the following words appeared: How Bad the Next Pandemic Could Be, What Might It Look Like, and Will We be Ready. The date was May 29, 2018.
“Well, I have to admit I’m a little worried about giving this talk,” Baric said. “The reason is being labelled a harbinger of doom.” The screen shifted, and images of the four horsemen of the apocalypse—Death, Famine, War, and Plague&mda...
Source: TIME: Health - July 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Werb Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature freelance Source Type: news
Harvard astrophysicist says he may have found alien tech from a meteor that crashed in the Pacific in 2014
with Stephen Hawking. Lucas Jackson/Reuters Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes that he may have found alien technology. His team found 10 tiny spheres from a meteor that landed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014. "It could be a spacecraft from another civilization, some technological…#stephenhawking #lucasjacksonreuters #harvard #aviloeb #papuanewguinea #meteor #cbsnewsboston #loeb #silverstar #usspacecommand (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
