Tunisia: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Tunisia ' s response to the COVID pandemic has been spotty, though vaccination rates have improved and mortality rates have dropped. When the political instability is factored in, Tunisia ' s emergence from the pandemic may not be quick. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 22, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Emily Hoch; Mahshid Abir Source Type: blogs
An Immunity Passport After COVID-19 And How Digital Health Can Support It
If you’re reading this from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, then you’re likely not the only one. Even at The Medical Futurist, we are working from home to bring you the latest digital health news in a timely manner. One of the latest trends of interest to governments is the immunity passport, or some certified methods to ensure someone has antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in order to move around.
We have already discussed scenarios about how and when the pandemic will end, but we’ve also analyzed the ways that life will drastically change. One of the major changes we could experience is the introduction of an immu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 30, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Security & Privacy testing data privacy coronavirus covid covid19 immunity passport Source Type: blogs
Life after COVID-19: What Will Change?
The news is ripe with information surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. We saw the number of confirmed cases is plummeting in countries like South Korea. In a surprise move, Apple and Google teamed up to help track the virus. Some countries are even thinking of lifting their lockdowns altogether. Yes, that’s the good news we’re all looking forward to: when this will be finally behind us.
Let’s have no doubt about it, this will come to an end, like we discussed in a recent article. We will have a vaccine and new, approved treatments based on millions of patients’ data. We will have new public health protocols to...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Telemedicine & Smartphones ptsd healthcare systems data privacy tracking coronavirus covid19 immunity passport vaccine research Source Type: blogs
How Autocracies Could Misuse Digital Health Innovations
How long do you think it will take for authoritarian governments, dictatorships or tyrannies until they realize the vast potential in digital health technologies and until they learn how to harness their powers? Twenty years? Ten years? We have to warn you, the era of 24/7 surveillance and intrusion into the innermost secrets of human life is even closer than that. Watch out! Dystopic worst case scenario-alert!
Digital technologies are double-edged swords: they promised social change…
On 17 December 2010, a Tunisian vegetable vendor set up his cart on the street in Sidi Bouzid to sell goods that he obtained the day befor...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine Security & Privacy AR artificial intelligence big data biotechnology black mirror dystopia genes genetics genomics Health health sensors Healthcare insurance MR Personalized medicine scifi Source Type: blogs
Investigating the “STEM gender-equality paradox” – in fairer societies, fewer women enter science
The percentage of women with STEM degrees is lower in more gender-equal countries, as measured by the WEF Gender Gap Index. Image from Stoet & Geary, 2018.
By Alex Fradera
The representation of women in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and maths) is increasing, albeit more slowly than many observers would like. But a focus on this issue has begun throwing up head-scratching anomalies, such as Finland, which has one of the larger gender gaps in STEM occupations, despite being one of the more gender equal societies, and boasting a higher science literacy rate in its girls than boys. Now a study in Psycholo...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Educational Gender Occupational Source Type: blogs
Travel Ban Is Based on Executive Whim, Not Objective Criteria
ConclusionFor countries on the list, and for any country wishing to remain off the list, it is vitally important that they understand which factors led to their inclusion or exclusion. If the United States is acting in good faith —seeking to change behavior as opposed to looking for an excuse to ban people—its criteria should be clearly explained and understood. The Iran nuclear deal, for example, hasvery precise requirements for Iran to avoid sanctions, down to the exact percentage of purity for its enriched uranium. This is very far from the case here.No consistent combination of factors or mitigating factors trigger...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Tunisia Is an Arab Spring Success Story
Tunisia has not unraveled into civil war like Syria or Libya. It has not undergone a counter-revolution that returned it to the autocracy of its pre-revolution days, like Egypt has. Tunisia is fragile, but its success is vital to the long-term stability and societal health of the Middle East. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - April 20, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Tunisia's Role in Fight Against Terrorism Discussed at RAND Conference
The fight against terrorism in Tunisia is a shared priority and responsibility with the U.S. and Europe but will also depend greatly on solving the security issues in neighboring Libya, according to participants at a March 23 conference at RAND. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 29, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Tunisia's Paradoxical Political Union: Ennahda and Nidaa Tounes
In Tunisia, healthy disagreement between political parties has fostered some real change since the 2011 uprisings and throughout the course of the transition, but the persistent power-sharing dynamics in play aren't advancing democracy. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 5, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
After Attacks in France, Tunisia, and Kuwait, West Must Do More to Fight Surge of Terrorist Attacks
The terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, and Kuwait are just the latest warnings that ISIS is turning its campaign into a global enterprise. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 29, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Tunisia in the Crosshairs
The open-ended nature of the Islamic State group's threat against Tunisair suggests that it intends to target Tunisia for the long haul. The United States should counter the threats with steadfast and sustained cooperation and assistance. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 22, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Tunisia Could Be a Model for What Works in the Mideast
Tunisia has a shot at showing that a different model in the region can succeed, a model of inclusion, tolerance and economic prosperity. It has a lot of work ahead of it, but the vision is there. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 24, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Two Lessons from the Tunisian Election
Dalibor Rohac
The victory of the secular party Call of Tunisia (Nidaa Tounes) in the parliamentary election on Sunday carries two lessons for observers of transitions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The first one is broadly optimistic, but the second one should be a cause for concern, heralding economic, social, and political troubles ahead.
1. The Arab Spring was not a one-way street to religious fundamentalism.
In spite of the unexpected and often violent turns that political events have taken in countries such as Syria or Libya, the revolutions across the MENA countries were not just thinly disguised attemp...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 27, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Dalibor Rohac Source Type: blogs
Fragility of Tunisia’s Transition
Dalibor Rohac
The upcoming parliamentary election in Tunisia comes at a critical time. For a while, Tunisia was seen as a poster child for a successful transition away from authoritarianism. In Egypt, a widespread disappointment with an Islamic government resulted in a military coup last year. In contrast, when Tunisia could not get through a political impasse, the Islamic Ennahda party negotiated a handover to a caretaker government earlier this year, which has led the country to an early election.
Regardless of whether Ennahda can repeat its electoral success from three years ago or whether secular forces take over, the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 24, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Dalibor Rohac Source Type: blogs
Revealed Government Documents Show Vaccine Injured Children in Small African Village Used Like Lab Rats
Conclusion
The parents’ requests are simple and the same as any other parent left in this impossible situation. They feel deserted and betrayed by the Chadian government, who have left their children to die, while at the same time announcing the vaccination program to be a success. All the parents are very angry and are pleading with the world to help. They state they need lawyers, doctors, medication and above all, support.
This whole debacle has been a coverup from the very beginning. One of the children’s relatives has told me that there has never been a case of meningitis in this part of Africa. So, why vaccina...
Source: vactruth.com - May 19, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Adverse Reaction MenAfriVac Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) PATH United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) World Health Organization (WHO) Source Type: blogs
