Mali: Carter Center Celebrates Trachoma Elimination Milestone in Mali
[VOA] The Carter Center was already a decade into its fight against Guinea worm globally when former President Jimmy Carter and his nonprofit took on another neglected tropical disease in the African nation of Mali. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 24, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Mali Sustainable Development West Africa Source Type: news
The New Frontier: Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson goes hunting for aliens & UFOs
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is currently searching for a UFO — or some sort of space object — that has crashed near the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. The search is part of the Galileo Project that received $1.5 million in funding from Hoskinson in March. The project is…#charleshoskinson #papuanewguinea #pacificocean #galileoproject #hoskinson #harvard #aviloeb #amirsiraj #meteor #galileo (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
“My life completely changed”: Treating bodies, minds and lives affected by obstetric fistula in Guinea-Bissau
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau– “I didn't know what obstetric fistula was, let alone that it could be treated,” says 33-year-old mother-of-two Maria. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - June 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Migrants ’ Perilous Route to Europe Is at Its Busiest—and Deadliest
SFAX, Tunisia—Mohamed Sanoh and nine cousins and friends from Guinea paid thousands of dollars to get on a crowded iron vessel leaving the country for the shores of Italy last month. About halfway through a roughly 10-hour journey, Tunisia’s border guards caught them and forced them back to land.#mohamedsanoh #guinea #tunisia (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: Govt Declares the End of Marburg Virus Disease
[Africa CDC] Addis Ababa/ Bata -- Today, Equatorial Guinea announced the end of the outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) which was confirmed on 13 February 2023 in the north-western part of the country in the province of Kie Ntem. This was the first Marburg epidemic in the country with a total of One confirmed case, nine deaths and 16 suspected cases reported from two communities in the province. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 11, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Central Africa Equatorial Guinea Health and Medicine Source Type: news
Outbreak of deadly Marburg virus ends in Equatorial Guinea: WHO
The outbreak of Marburg virus infection in Equatorial Guinea has ended, the World Health Organization's regional office for Africa said on Thursday. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Guinea-Bissau votes to elect legislature more than a year after president dissolved parliament
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau -- Bissau-Guineans voted Sunday in a highly anticipated election to fill Guinea-Bissau's national legislature, more than a year after the West African nation's president dissolved parliament. Nearly 1 million voters were registered to elect more than 100 lawmakers from six…#guineabissau #westafrican #african #portugal #umarosissocoembalo #ak47s #luciabird #justino #santosleguissimo #guineans (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Guinea-Bissau votes to elect legislature more than a year after president dissolved parliament
Bissau-Guineans are voting in a highly anticipated election to fill Guinea-Bissau’s national legislature.#bissauguineans #guineabissaus (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Opening Bell: 5.17.23
Papua New Guinea no fan of the debt ceiling; Canuck concerns; there’s a new financial artist out there and he learned from the best; and more!Continue reading#newguinea (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Of the Sahel and the Merchants of Death
Fake or substandard antimalarial medicines kill as many as 267,000 sub-Saharan Africans every year. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPS By Baher KamalMADRID, Jun 2 2023 (IPS) There is a tangled trafficking web that has been woven across the Sahel, which spans almost 6.000 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and is home to more than 300 million people in 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
This is how several international specialised bodies, mainly the United Nations, depict the aggravated situation in this already highly fragile African re...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Baher Kamal Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news
The US ’s multiple Indo-Pacific strategies, explained
Andrew Kutan/AFP via Getty Images A Papua New Guinea pact reveals the complexity of creating partnerships in the region. The US has accelerated its security and cooperation agreements in the Indo-Pacific region in recent months, renewing strong ties to the Philippines, enhancing cooperation with…#andrewkutanafp #indopacificregion #philippines #papuanewguinea #pacific #jamesmarape #antonyblinken #portmoresby #pacificisland #pacificislands (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Intimate partner violence as a determinant of pregnancy termination among women in unions: evidence from the 2016-2018 Papua New Guinea Demographic and Health Survey - Agyemang-Duah W, Asare BYA, Adu C, Agyekum AK, Peprah P.
There is a demonstrated link between intimate partner violence (IPV) and pregnancy termination, and this association has received much attention in developed settings. Despite the high prevalence of IPV in Papua New Guinea (PNG), little is known about the ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Jimmy Carter, 3 months into hospice, is aware of tributes, enjoying ice cream
Ex-president Jimmy Carter, now 98, has been in hospice care since February. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images Jimmy Carter is still alive — and even enjoying ice cream — three months after entering hospice. The 98-year-old former president is receiving care at his home in Plains, Georgia,…#jimmycarter #paulhennessy #plains #georgia #rosalynncarter #norcross #cartercenter #jasoncarter #guinea #andrewyoung (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Modi extends'Global South' outreach to Pacific islands after G-7
HIROSHIMA, Japan -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday attended a forum in Papua New Guinea with numerous Pacific island leaders, as he positions New Delhi as a top advocate for the so-called Global South. The trip came straight after a Group of Seven summit where Modi "forcefully"…#hiroshima #narendramodi #papuanewguinea #pacificisland #newdelhi #globalsouth #modi #ukraine #volodymyrzelenskyy (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
US-Papua New Guinea Pact Won ’t Militarize Indo-Pacific, New Zealand Leader Says
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Source: Reuters: Health - May 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
