Alert Summer 2017 | Vol. 18 No. 2
Quarterly NewsletterAlert Summer 2017 | Vol. 18 No. 2July 17, 2017Tuberculosis (TB) killed 1.8 million people last year, overtaking HIV/AIDS as the world's deadliest infectious disease. Another nine million people suffer from TB. MSF is among the largest non-governmental providers of TB care in the world. We supported more than 20,000 patients on treatment in 2016 —including more than 2,000 patients fighting DR-TB. We run 24 projects to treat the disease, in places from Swaziland to Tajikistan. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - July 17, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Editorial Intern Source Type: news
Six Top Experts Resigned From Donald Trump's HIV/AIDS Advisory Panel
Scott Schoettes, Counsel and HIV Project Director at the pioneering LGBTQ legal group Lambda Legal, resigned late last week from the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), along with five other council members, in protest of Donald Trump’s polices ― or lack of polices ― to combat the HIV epidemic.
On Friday, Schoettes lambasted Trump as callous, a president who “simply does not care,” laying out the reasons for the resignations in a piece on Newsweek.com:
As advocates for people living with HIV, we have dedicated our lives to combating this disease and no longer...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 18, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Swaziland: Senate Snubs LGBTI Health Report
[Swazi Media] Senators in Swaziland threw out a motion to make a report on access to health facilities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and/or intersexual (LGBTI) people because it was 'discrimination' in favour of them. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 15, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Emotional abuse of girls in Swaziland: prevalence, perpetrators, risk and protective factors and health outcomes - Meinck F, Fry D, Ginindza C, Wazny K, Elizalde A, Spreckelsen TF, Maternowska MC, Dunne MP.
BACKGROUND: Research on emotional child abuse in sub-Saharan Africa is scarce. Few studies thus far have examined prevalence, risk and protective factors for emotional child abuse or the associations between emotional abuse and girls' health. METHO... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 15, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Swaziland: No Food So Schoolkids Sent Home
[Swazi Media] For the second term running children in Swaziland are being sent home from school because there is no food to feed them. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 2, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Swaziland: Swazi Drug Shortage Crisis Deepens
[Swazi Media] Parliamentarians in Swaziland have given the government seven days to sort out the drugs shortage crisis crippling public health facilities in the kingdom. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 23, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Swaziland: Swazi Circumcision Drive Failing
[Swazi Media] As the discredited campaign to circumcise men in Swaziland to prevent HIV infection continues to fail, two government ministries are now targeting schoolboys. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 21, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Traditional leaders stand up to protect youth from HIV, unintended pregnancy
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EnglishSHISELWENI, Swaziland –“We have high youth unemployment and high teenage pregnancy,” Mr. Obed, a traditional leader in Shiselweni, Swaziland, told UNFPA.Yet many conservative, rural communities have resisted publicly discussing topics that would improve the health and rights of young people – includingadolescent pregnancy,gender-based violence and sexually transmitted infections likeHIV. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - April 3, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: zerzan Source Type: news
TB Patient Uses Sign Language in Swaziland
VideoTB Patient Uses Sign Language in SwazilandMarch 21, 2017Winile is a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patient with Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Swaziland, and one of the many who have lost their hearing due to the toxicity of available MDR-TB drugs. Through an MSF program in Swaziland, she has learned sign language so she can continue to communicate. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - March 21, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Melissa Pracht Source Type: news
What drives the demand for rhino horns? | Nicky Reeves
Should we accept that Vietnamese medicinal demand for rhino horns is traditional, and inevitable? Those who stockpile horns think soReports in February that theSouth African government was considering lifting the 2009 domestic moratorium on trade in rhino horns brought into focus something that is not necessarily obvious to those outside of that country: there currently exist in South Africa numerous large stockpiles of rhino horns, nearly all legal, all potentially extremely valuable.Related:Legal rhino horn and ivory trade should benefit Africa, says Swaziland governmentContinue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 3, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Nicky Reeves Tags: Conservation Science Environment Endangered species Animals Wildlife Source Type: news
Global Health Is an Investment We Can ’t Afford to Pass Up
February 27, 2017As a career physician, I ' ve seen modern medicine rescue people from the brink of death. But major gaps remain.This column originallyappeared in STAT on February 22, 2017.Thanks to the help of a skilled health worker, a newborn finally takes its first breath in Uganda. A man living with HIV in Swaziland successfully suppresses the virus in his bloodstream. A car crash victim in Malawi receives the critical care he needs.More than at any time in history, good health for all is a real possibility. The technology, scientific advancement, and remarkable understanding of disease now available to the medical a...
Source: IntraHealth International - February 27, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: mnathe Source Type: news
Swaziland: New Hope for Drug-Resistant TB Patients
Field newsSwaziland: New Hope for Drug-Resistant TB PatientsFebruary 23, 2017"You see, I am healed," says Tholakele as she walks around her ward demonstrating her recovery. "Even my legs don't give me problems anymore. Now I can walk perfectly. I walk around the hospital; go out for fresh air and come back when I’m ready."Tholakele, 39, has drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and started treatment in May 2016 at the Moneni National TB Hospital, supported by Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in central Swaziland. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - February 23, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Elias Primoff Source Type: news
Swaziland: 250,000 Swazi Still Need Food Aid
[Swazi Media] At the same time that King Mswati III told his subjects that Swaziland had been saved from the drought because people believed in God, the World Food Program reported 250,000 Swazi people would need assistance with food until at least March 2017. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 8, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
