HIV Prevention: New Injection Could Boost the Fight, But Some Hurdles Remain
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 30, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Global Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs #HIV/Aids Source Type: news
Open Veins of Africa Bleeding Heavily
By Ndongo Samba Sylla and Jomo Kwame SundaramDAKAR and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 2022 (IPS) The ongoing plunder of Africa’s natural resources drained by capital flight is holding it back yet again. More African nations face protracted recessions amid mounting debt distress, rubbing salt into deep wounds from the past.
With much less foreign exchange, tax revenue, and policy space to face external shocks, many African governments believe they have little choice but to spend less, or borrow more in foreign currencies.
Ndongo Samba SyllaMost Africans are struggling to cope with food and energy crises, inflation, higher interest...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ndongo Samba Sylla and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Africa Climate Change Crime & Justice Development & Aid Economy & Trade Energy Environment Financial Crisis Food and Agriculture Headlines Health Inequality Labour Natural Resources TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Progress on Tuberculosis Can Be Achieved in Africa
In Africa only 60% of the estimated TB cases have been diagnosed. All the other infections are hidden by poverty—and so the disease continues to spread. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS. By Morounfolu OlugbosiJOHANNESBURG, Nov 8 2022 (IPS) The news in many parts of the world is that tuberculosis (TB) is reclaiming the title of the world’s most deadly infection, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to kill an estimated 1,450 people daily around the world. But this is not news to African countries, which are home to one third of the people globally who die from TB, even though they have less than one fifth of the world’s po...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Morounfolu Olugbosi Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations tuberculosis Source Type: news
Anti-Microbial Resistance Strategies Need Urgent Attention to Prevent Unnecessary Deaths in Africa
Africa’s laboratories need to step up testing to aid in fighting Anti-Microbial Resistance. This photo is a 3D computer-generated image of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, the pathogen responsible for causing the disease tuberculosis (TB). Credit: CDC/UnsplashBy Francis KokutseACCRA, Nov 3 2022 (IPS) African countries must find a way of fighting Anti-Microbial Resistance in the healthcare system to avoid unnecessary deaths.
A few months ago, the President of the Ghana Public Health Association, Amofah George, narrated how he saw a patient die after failing to respond to all the available antibiotics used for managing...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Francis Kokutse Tags: Africa Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news
Cutting-edge lab work cracks a medical mystery
A deep dive into Kenneth Hobby's DNA yielded a correct diagnosis and relief from disabling pain. Kenneth Hobby assumed his fever, fatigue, and aching pains in May 2018 were from another bout of malaria. He was on one of his frequent visits to Zambia in southern Africa, where the mosquito-borne parasite is common. But anti-malaria drugs didn't help, and soon Kenneth had such disabling pain that he could barely walk. It wasn't malaria. After two… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - November 3, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Britain Slashes Foreign Aid: ‘You Couldn’t Pick a Worse Time’
The nation is often the second-largest donor to groups working in poor countries to prevent and treat infectious diseases, and to provide reproductive health services to women. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: Great Britain Budgets and Budgeting Foreign Aid Humanitarian Aid Trachoma Malaria Tuberculosis Third World and Developing Countries Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Zambia Source Type: news
Britain Scales Back Foreign Aid, Threatening Progress in Global Health
The nation is often the second-largest donor to groups working in poor countries to prevent and treat infectious diseases, and to provide reproductive health services to women. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: Great Britain Budgets and Budgeting Foreign Aid Humanitarian Aid Trachoma Malaria Tuberculosis Third World and Developing Countries Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Zambia Source Type: news
Reform Needed As Big Business, Not Vulnerable Communities Benefit from Post-Pandemic Support
Informal sector only received 4 percent of post pandemic funds even though the sector accounts for more than 2 billion workers, many of whom are women. Credit: IITABy Ed HoltBRATISLAVA, Oct 12 2022 (IPS) Governments and international financial institutions must adopt new ways of providing post-pandemic support, say campaigners after a report found that in many poorer countries, big business benefitted most from Covid-19 recovery funds. At the same time, vulnerable communities have been “left behind.”
They say the level and distribution of support of these funds has been poor, with the most vulnerable in society, such a...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ed Holt Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequality Labour TerraViva United Nations Women & Economy IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news
United We Stand to Achieve Sustainable Development
Credit: United Nations Office for South-South CooperationBy Deepali Khanna and Siddharth ChatterjeeBANGKOK / BEIJING, Sep 12 2022 (IPS) The world today faces a future that is in peril. Our challenges have become more complex and interconnected, as we see the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, an uneven economic recovery, a climate emergency, growing inequalities, and an increase in conflicts globally. This year also marks a grim milestone, with over 100 million people forcibly displaced.
These events accompany increasing division in the community of nations which threatens to push the achievement of the Sustainable Develop...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Deepali Khanna and Siddharth Chatterjee Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Energy Environment Global Headlines Health Inequality Migration & Refugees Poverty & SDGs South-South Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Na Source Type: news
1980s ’ Redux? New context, Old Threats
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 6 2022 (IPS) As rich countries raise interest rates in double-edged efforts to address inflation, developing countries are struggling to cope with slowdowns, inflation, higher interest rates and other costs, plus growing debt distress.
Rich countries’ interest rate hikes have triggered capital outflows, currency depreciations and higher debt servicing costs. Developing country woes have been worsened by commodity price volatility, trade disruptions and less foreign exchange earnings.
Anis ChowdhuryRising debt risks
Almost 60% of the poorest countries...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Energy Financial Crisis Global Headlines TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among male truck drivers from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo: a cross-sectional study - Michalopoulos LM, Jiwatram-Negr ón T, Meinhart M, Ncube N, Simona SJ.
The purpose of this study is to examine potentially traumatic events (PTEs) and adverse mental health outcomes among long distance truck drivers in Zambia. This is the first study to quantitatively investigate PTE exposure and mental health outcomes among ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 18, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
The role of comprehensive sexuality education on child sexual abuse and teenage pregnancy among secondary school learners - Chibuye S, Kumatongo B.
The introduction of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in the Zambian school curriculum has raised debate among stakeholders. Despite the Ministry of Education using Comprehensive Sexuality Education as a way of reducing various challenges faced by le... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Association between sexual violence and unintended pregnancy among married women in Zambia - Kasonde ME, Bwalya BB, Nyirenda ET, Mapoma CC, Sikaluzwe M, Chimpinde K, Songolo GI.
BACKGROUND: One of the outcomes of sexual violence is unintended pregnancy. In Zambia, 15% of married women age 15-49 years had experienced sexual violence from their husband or partner. The prevalence of unintended pregnancies among women age 15-49 year... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
A US dentist is accused of killing his wife on safari in Zambia. He says she accidentally discharged the gun
#dentist (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: Call to Action - Strengthening Public Health Emergency Operations Centres in Africa
[Africa CDC] On the sidelines of 41st Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union and the 4th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting (MYCM) of the AU and the Regional Economic Communities (RECS), in Lusaka, Zambia, 16th July 2022. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 18, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
