Suicide, Another Face of the Crisis in Venezuela
Suicide rates doubled in Venezuela during the harshest years of its humanitarian crisis. Males between the ages of 30 and 50, a productive age when it is very hard to be left without employment and income, are a group particularly vulnerable to self-inflicted violence. CREDIT: IhpiBy Humberto MárquezCARACAS, Nov 28 2023 (IPS) In the wee hours of one morning in early November, Ernesto, 50, swallowed several glasses of a cocktail of drugs and alcohol in the apartment where he lived alone in the Venezuelan capital, ending a life tormented by declining health and lack of resources to cope as he would have liked.
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Humberto Marquez Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Editors' Choice Featured Financial Crisis Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Latin America & the Caribbean Population Poverty & SDGs Regional Categories Suicide Venezuela Source Type: news
Donating to Doctors Without Borders can offer tax advantages and help provide life-saving medical care. Here's how
Doctors Without Borders The year ahead will no doubt hold new and unexpected challenges. Doctors Without Borders teams are already scaling up our efforts to provide patients with physical and mental health care along the dangerous migration route through Central America. We continue to treat…#centralamerica #haiti #yemen #sudan #donoradvisedfund #daf #learn #insiderstudios (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
My New USA Today Article on How Biden Can Ease Border Problems by More Fully Implementing His Own Plans to Make Legal Immigration Easier
USA Today has published my article (coauthored with Cato Institute immigration policy expert David Bier) on how Biden's border problems can be alleviated by expanding and more fully implementing the Administration's own plans to make legal migration easier: In response to high border crossings,…#usatoday #catoinstitute #davidbier #democrats #ukraine #cuba #haiti #nicaragua #venezuela #latinamerican (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
U.S. to Restrict Visas of Charter Operators Flying Migrants to Nicaragua
The U.S. government said Tuesday it would impose visa restrictions on individuals running charter flights into Nicaragua, flooding the Central American country with tens of thousands of U.S.-bound migrants, mostly from Haiti, Cuba and Africa. The authoritarian government of Nicaraguan President…#nicaragua #centralamerican #haiti #cuba #africa #nicaraguan #danielortega #caribbean #haitian (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dozens killed as torrential rains pummel Dominican Republic, Haiti
Torrential rainfall and severe flooding on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, killed two dozen people over the weekend, according to local authorities. At least 21 individuals, including three children, died in the Dominican Republic after the island was…#caribbean #hispaniola #haiti #dominicanrepublic #santodomingo #miamiherald #usembassy #dominican #luisabinader #herald (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Trump wins Texas governor Abbott's endorsement at US-Mexico border
[1/6] Texas Governor Greg Abbott makes remarks with former U.S. President Donald Trump at the South Texas International airport in Edinburg, Texas, U.S. November 19, 2023. Trump and Abbott served meals to Texas National Guard and Texas DPS Troopers that are stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border over…#gregabbott #donaldtrump #edinburg #texasnationalguard #texasdpstroopers #usmexico #trump #arizona #cuba #haiti (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Gang attack on Haitian hospital leads to a call for help
One of Haiti's most vulnerable and impoverished communities is recovering from a gang attack that targeted a hospital serving as a lifeline for many (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Kenya to Send Police to Help Quell Haiti Gangs
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Source: Reuters: Health - November 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Immigrants call on Biden for the unlikely: Work permits like those given to Venezuelans
Many recently arrived Venezuelans celebrated when the Biden administration granted those who were eligible the chance to work in the U.S. Consuelo Martinez said she felt deep sadness. Martinez, originally from Mexico, and her husband have worked in the U.S. for 27 years, without permission and in…#venezuelans #consuelomartinez #mexico #spanish #venezuelan #lafayettesquare #muzaffarchishti #cubans #haitians #nicaraguans (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hundreds leave to join Mexico migrant caravan headed for US
A caravan of at least hundreds of migrants left from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Sunday, heading for the U.S. southern border. The smaller caravan plans to join a larger one that left six days ago and is currently stopped about 25 miles (40 km) north in the town of Huixtla.…#mexican #huixtla #chiapas #cuba #elsalvador #guatemala #haiti #honduras #venezuela #selmaalvarez (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What Will It Take to Get Pregnant Women Vaccinated?
(MedPage Today) -- I'll never forget the day I witnessed my first stillborn birth.
In the 1970s, before starting medical school, I spent 6 weeks at a rural sickbay in Haiti. Despite its meager resources and daily heartbreaks, I quickly gained... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - November 2, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
UN human rights official is alarmed by sprawling gang violence in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The United Nations expert on human rights in Haiti said Tuesday that he is alarmed by the rapid spread of gang violence and the bleak future awaiting children in the embattled country. William O’Neill spoke at the end of a weeklong visit to Haiti, his second one this…#haiti #unitednations #murders #portau #oneill #haitians #garrylochar #haitian #arielhenry #jovenelmoïse (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Choke Migration to US, El Salvador Hits Africans, Indians With $1,130 Fee
In what's seen as an attempt to throttle the stream of migrants who proceed to the US border, the government of El Salvador has started hitting passengers arriving from Africa and India with a steep $1,000 tax. If that is…#elsalvador #africans #indians #africa #salvadoran #nayibbukele #briannichols #elsalvadors #haiti #briananichols (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Carhartt and Friends Write the Brand ’s Next 135 Years of History
Bertony Faustin wears Carhartt work gear to harvest grapes in his Oregon vineyard, but will also wear it out to a more formal event just to get people to ask about it. Born in Brooklyn and raised in a family of Haitian immigrants, Faustin wrapped up school in Florida and North Carolina in 1999…#bertonyfaustin #oregon #brooklyn #haitian #faustin #florida #northcarolina (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Massachusetts governor warns state is running out of room to house migrants
Healey also reiterated her pleas to press the federal government for more aid, including a larger group shelter setting that would ease some of the burden on the shelter system, more equitable distribution of federal dollars among states and expedited work permits for migrants — particularly…#healey #haitians #homelandsecurity #massachusetts #ronmariano #democrats #ushouse #dhs #lscottrice (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
