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Opinion: Education as a Cornerstone for Women’s Empowerment
Girls who report that their domestic chores interfere with their schooling are three times more likely to drop out. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPSBy Dr. Kirsten StoebenauWASHINGTON, Mar 25 2015 (IPS)Earlier this month, the Barack Obama administration announced a new initiative designed to improve girls’ education around the world. Dubbed “Let Girls Learn,” the programme builds on current progress made, such as ensuring girls are enrolled in primary school at the same rates as boys, and is looking to expand opportunities for girls to complete their education.The Obama administration’s leadership on this issue is commend...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 25, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Dr. Kirsten Stoebenau Tags: Active Citizens Civil Society Development & Aid Education Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Labour Population Poverty & MDGs TerraViva United Nations Women & Economy W Source Type: news
Navigating uncertainty: Narrative Medicine in pregnancy options counseling education
The Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO), designates nondirective counseling of patients with unintended pregnancy, or “pregnancy options counseling” as a necessary competency in medical education [1]. The addition of this competency acknowledges that regardless of their chosen specialty, students will encounter patients grappling with decisions around unintended pregnancy. Such patients need clear counseling on their pregnancy options – to seek prenatal care, adoption or abortion – and students must learn to provide this information without judgment or coercion.
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - October 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Katherine Rivlin, Carolyn L. Westhoff Source Type: research
Teenage Pregnancy in Kenya: A Crisis of Health, Education and Opportunity
Education CS Amina Mohamed chats with form four candidates of Mama Ngina Secondary School a few minutes before KCSE exams. Credit: StandardBy Siddharth ChatterjeeNAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 19 2018 (IPS)That almost one in five Kenyan teenage girls is a mother represents not only a huge cost to the health sector, but also a betrayal of potential on a shocking scale. November 20, 2018 marks International Children’s Day. Perhaps a day we should use to reflect on a national crisis of underage pregnancies that confronts us.Recent media reports of the high number of girls failing to sit their final secondary school examinations (KSCE)...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Siddharth Chatterjee Tags: Africa Crime & Justice Development & Aid Education Featured Gender Gender Violence Headlines Health Human Rights Labour Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Source Type: news
ECW Interviews the Honourable Awut Deng Acuil, Minister of General Education and Instruction for South Sudan
By External SourceAug 6 2021 (IPS-Partners) Awut Deng Acuil is the first female Minister of Education for South Sudan, and only the second person to serve as Minister of Education for her country – which became independent country in 2011. Prior to this role, Minister Acuil was the first woman to serve as the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Recently, Minister Acuil made history as the first women to lead a South Sudan university when she was appointed head of council at the University of Bahr El-Ghazal.
Since 2005, Minister Acuil has served as Presidential Advisor on Gender and Hum...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: COVID-19 Education Education Cannot Wait. Future of Education is here Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Source Type: news
Comprehensive Sex Education: A Pending Task in Latin America
By Fabiana FrayssinetBUENOS AIRES, Sep 25 2014 (IPS)In most Latin American countries schools now provide sex education, but with a focus that is generally restricted to the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases – an approach that has not brought about significant modifications in the behaviour of adolescents, especially among the poor.The international community made the commitment to offer comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) during the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo.“Although some advances have been made in the inclusion of sexual and reproductive education in school cur...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 25, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Fabiana Frayssinet Tags: Active Citizens Civil Society Democracy Development & Aid Editors' Choice Education Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Latin America & the Caribbean Population Poverty & MDGs Projects Regional Categories Women's Source Type: news
Despite Conflict and COVID-19, Children Still Dream to Continue Their Education in Afghanistan
Children study in a Community Based Education class in Miirwais Meena, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Credit: Fazel/UNICEFBy Guy DinmoreLONDON, Nov 12 2020 (IPS) As if four decades of war were not enough, then came the pandemic.
For each of the past five years, Afghanistan has been identified by the United Nations as the world’s deadliest country for children and, despite progress made in peace talks between the government and the Taliban, child and youth casualties from the ongoing conflict continue to mount in 2020.
Education itself has come under fire, with hundreds of attacks on schools and teachers. A 2018 joint r...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 12, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Guy Dinmore Tags: Armed Conflicts Asia-Pacific Climate Change Education Education Cannot Wait. Future of Education is here Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Migration & Refugees TerraViva United Nations Education Cannot Source Type: news
COVID-19 Education Response: Education Cannot Wait and Partners Reach over 9 Million Vulnerable Children and Youth
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency education programmes supported by Education Cannot Wait are providing hope and protection to girls and boys in over 30 emergencies and protracted crises world-wide By PRESS RELEASENEW YORK, Mar 11 2021 (IPS-Partners) As the world marks the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 March 2021, initial progress reports on Education Cannot Wait’s (ECW) COVID-19 emergency responses to date show that the Fund and its partners have already reached over 9 million vulnerable girls and boys in the midst of the worst education crisis of our lifetime.
Within days of the decl...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: PRESS RELEASE Tags: Education Health Humanitarian Emergencies Source Type: news
Age Appropriate Sexuality Education for Youth Key to National Progress
A community health volunteer informs community members about various methods of family planning. Photo Credit: UNFPA KenyaBy Dr. Josephine Kibaru-Mbae and Siddharth ChatterjeeNAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 11 2018 (IPS)Fifty years ago at the International Conference on Human Rights, family planning was affirmed to be a human right. It is therefore apt that the theme for this year’s World Population Day is a loud reminder of this fundamental right. It is a right that communities especially in Africa have for long held from its youth, with parents shying off from the subject and policymakers largely equivocal. The result is that the ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 11, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Josephine Kibaru and Siddharth Chatterjee Tags: Africa Conferences Crime & Justice Development & Aid Education Featured Gender Gender Violence Headlines Health Human Rights Labour Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Source Type: news
Crusade Against Sex Education Undermines Progress Made in Latin America
The post Crusade Against Sex Education Undermines Progress Made in Latin America appeared first on Inter Press Service.
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 30, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Fabiana Frayssinet Tags: Development & Aid Editors' Choice Gender Gender Violence Health Latin America & the Caribbean Population Poverty & SDGs Regional Categories Women's Health Sex Education Sexual and Reproductive Rights Teen Pregnancy United Nations Source Type: news
Teen Volunteers Make a Difference at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Red Cross VolunTeens at WRNMMC
As the leaves turn and school is in full swing, we’d like to take the time to reflect on the contributions of our youth volunteers. We were lucky enough to have more than 40 high school students who volunteered with the Red Cross at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The VolunTeens spent 6 weeks of their summer vacation sharing their time and talents with more than 20 departments throughout the hospital.
So what exactly did these VolunTeens do during their time here? I think it’s best to let these amazing students speak for themselves…
I volunteered at the 3D Med...
Source: Red Cross Chat - October 4, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gaby Skovira Tags: SAF Uncategorized Volunteers Red Cross Youth Walter Reed National National Military Medical Center youth volunteer Source Type: news
The transition from abortion to miscarriage to describe early pregnancy loss in British medical journals: a prescribed or natural lexical change?
In British medical research, the transition from abortion to miscarriage, to describe early pregnancy loss, occurred in the late twentieth century. A 1985 letter to The Lancet by a group of eminent obstetricians was long considered unilaterally to have prompted this shift. More recently, however, this conclusion was challenged, and it was suggested instead that the transition constituted natural language change, as medical professionals responded to their changing social and professional milieu. This paper, however, uses a pioneering statistical modelling technique to demonstrate decisively that the 1985 Lancet letter was ...
Source: Medical Humanities - November 23, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Malory, B. Tags: Original research Source Type: research
'Miscarriage or abortion?' Understanding the medical language of pregnancy loss in Britain; a historical perspective
Clinical language applied to early pregnancy loss changed in late twentieth century Britain when doctors consciously began using the term ‘miscarriage’ instead of ‘abortion’ to refer to this subject. Medical professionals at the time and since have claimed this change as an intuitive empathic response to women's experiences. However, a reading of medical journals and textbooks from the era reveals how the change in clinical language reflected legal, technological, professional and social developments. The shift in language is better understood in the context of these historical developments, rather ...
Source: Medical Humanities - November 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Moscrop, A. Tags: Open access Original article Source Type: research
Pregnancy as protest in interwar British women's writing: an antecedent alternative to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
This article explores three earlier works—Charlotte Haldane's Man's World (1926), Vera Brittain's Halcyon, or the Future of Monogamy (1929), and Naomi Mitchison's Comments on Birth Control (1930)—in which pregnancy, instead of figuring as illness or debility, becomes a form of resistance to the status quo. These works engage with biomedicine, however, rather than abjuring it. Through a reading of these works, this article argues that the intersection of medical humanities and science fiction (SF) can enrich both: medical humanities can push SF to go beyond the canon, and SF can challenge any characterisation of...
Source: Medical Humanities - November 23, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Bigman, F. Tags: Science Fiction and Medical Humanities Source Type: research
IPS Webinar: Gender Equality Crucial in ‘ Building Back Better ’ Post-COVID-19
By Miriam GathigahNAIROBI, Jul 15 2020 (IPS) While men are more likely to die from COVID-19, women are facing the full blow of the socio-economic fallout from the ongoing pandemic as well as seeing a reversal in equality gains made over the last two decades, says an all-women panel of international thought leaders, who met virtually during a discussion convened by IPS.
“The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Girls” took place on Tuesday, Jul. 14, with the aim to bring to the fore the dangers of neglecting gender dimensions in COVID-19 response and recovery plans.
The panel included gender and development expe...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Miriam Gathigah Tags: Aid Development & Aid Editors' Choice Education Featured Food & Agriculture Food Security and Nutrition Food Sustainability Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Multimedia Poverty & SDGs R Source Type: news
“The Time is Now” to Invest in Youth, Girls
Natalia Kanem, Acting Executive Director the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Credit: UN Photo/Mark GartenBy Tharanga YakupitiyageUNITED NATIONS, Jul 28 2017 (IPS)The demographic dividend: though not a new concept, it is one of the major buzzwords at the UN this year. But what does it really mean? There are 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 around the world, the most in the history of humankind.In Africa alone, approximately 60 percent of its population is currently under 25 years old and this figure is only expected to rise.With this change in demographics comes more working-age individuals and...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 28, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tharanga Yakupitiyage Tags: Africa Aid Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Featured Gender Global Global Governance Headlines Health Human Rights IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Labour Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Trade & Investment Source Type: news
