The New York Times today reports on a story certain to raise a lot of controversy: A nonprofit clinic in Vancouver is fighting the spread of HIV by letting drug addicts get high on the premises. Called Insite, the organization, which has an exemption from Canada’s narcotics laws, draws heroin and cocaine addicts in by offering …
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Health, Safety & Wellbeing | Year of Youth
A Year of Youth Spotlight Series – Jolaade Taiwo of Nigera
September 1Please tell us a little bit about yourself My name is Jolaade Taiwo. I began my career as a pharmaci …
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Health, Safety & Wellbeing | Social Development
World Malaria Day 2024: Reflections and Call for Equitable Action
April 23by Archibong Bassey Like many children living in Nigeria – a malaria endemic country, I battled Mala …
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Bright Ideas | Health, Safety & Wellbeing | Social Development
Atul Singh – Saving Lives through his ‘Blood Journey’ across India
April 8by Sitaram Nayak Atul Singh’s story is one of unwavering commitment to the service of humanity, root …
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Capetown’s Positive Beadwork Project is an initiative by Kidzpositive to train HIV/AIDs infected mothers in South Africa to produce beadwork at home. Right now, more than 100 infected mothers are making beaded pins, wristbands, napkin rings, eyeglass holders, and Christmas ornaments. The website describes the effort: The Project is purely a job creation enterprise with up to …
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Yesterday was the 11th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and AIDS United is celebrating by rolling out technology based programs in predominantly black communities across the country in an effort to end the epidemic all together. Aids United announced: Thousands of individuals living with HIV/AIDS in low-income and/or rural areas will now receive local, high quality …
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The latest issue of Pacific Youth Voices is out now, click the link below to download your copy! Pacific Youth Voices October 2010
Zimbabwe has halved its HIV rates from 1997 to 2007 according to a study in British journal Plos. Reuters reported today on the findings: British researchers said Zimbabwe’s epidemic was one of the biggest in the world until the rate of people infected with HIV almost halved, from 29 percent of the population in 1997 to 16 percent …
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Every year half a million children under 5 die from Strepcoccus Pneumoniae, or pneumoccal disease. We’ve written about the life-saving pneumonia vaccine already, which is key because, in Kenya, the disease claims the lives of more children than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. More than 70 percent of the deaths caused by the disease are …
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Here’s a novel idea: what if people, normal healthy women and men in developing villages around the globe, jumped in to fill the gap of doctors and nurses? In today’s New York Times Opinionator column, Tina Rosenberg looks at one village in India that trains villagers to do the jobs of doctors and nurses. It’s …
Despite its often anti-protection opinions, the Vatican will be hosting an AIDS conference, which will hopefully clarify their recent confusing flip-flopping on condoms. PBS Newshour headlines the incredible news: Last fall, Pope Benedict XVI grabbed headlines when he saidduring an interview that the use of condoms might be a sign of moral responsibility for someone …
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Ram Rati is a 40-year-old female mechanic in India. If you think that sounds impressive, it is, but that’s not the half of it. Rati was married off at 11 years old and escaped at 13. She spent the next 15 years grinding wheat for a living. An admirable story of perseverance all too common …
Locals in the southern Australian city of Adelaide are concerned by health department plans to close a specialist unit for the treatment of eating disorders, reports 29-year-old Aaron Fornarino. A hospital ward that treats patients with eating disorders in Adelaide, South Australia, has been identified by local state government officials for possible closure, provoking protests …
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