The theme for 2011 World AIDS Day is “Getting to Zero”. A theme that is appropriate as it urges everyone to join in the fight against HIV and AIDS to ensure that we get to ZERO — Zero new infections; Zero discrimination; Zero AIDS related deaths. Since the discovery of this deadly virus (30 years …
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Economy & Trade | Environmental Degradation | Health, Safety & Wellbeing
COP30: Uncovering Tobacco’s Hidden Environmental Cost
June 22by Dassia Regalado, CYCN Communications & PR Assistant Lead Each year on May 31, World No Tobacc …
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Health, Safety & Wellbeing
Creating and maintaining discourse essential in the cancer fight
November 19by Joyce Wachau Chege Photo credits: Evelyne Mumo October, which is globally recognized as Breast Ca …
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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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Read moreMany people around the world shy away from accessing HIV testing and treatment because they fear that if their status is known, they will be ostracized. Keresa Arnold, 25, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Kingston, Jamaica, recently helped produce two documentaries that dispel myths about HIV and Aids. In a 2008 article in the Washington Times, …
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Many people around the world shy away from accessing HIV testing and treatment because they fear that if their status is known, they will be ostracized. Keresa Arnold, 25, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Kingston, Jamaica, recently helped produce two documentaries that dispel myths about HIV and Aids. In a 2008 article in the Washington Times, …
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A disturbing trend among some women in the Caribbean to bleach their skin a lighter shade has Jo-Annah Richards, 26, from the island of Montserrat, wondering about the roots of the problem. Turning slowly I faced the individual that uttered my name. I searched my mind trying to put a name to the face while …
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A disturbing trend among some women in the Caribbean to bleach their skin a lighter shade has Jo-Annah Richards, 26, from the island of Montserrat, wondering about the roots of the problem. Turning slowly I faced the individual that uttered my name. I searched my mind trying to put a name to the face while …
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The causes of emotional child abuse often seem to be invisible, yet the effects can be irreversible, reports Samantha Khan, 19, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Trinidad & Tobago. Silent. Savage. Scarring. Emotional child abuse. A menacing monster hiding in plain sight, undetected, shadowed by the more glaring ills of society, threatening to erode the minds of …
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The causes of emotional child abuse often seem to be invisible, yet the effects can be irreversible, reports Samantha Khan, 19, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Trinidad & Tobago. Silent. Savage. Scarring. Emotional child abuse. A menacing monster hiding in plain sight, undetected, shadowed by the more glaring ills of society, threatening to erode the minds of …
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A bill waiting to be passed in the Jamaican Parliament would introduce a ban on smoking in public places and prohibit the sale of tobacco to minors. Alexis Goffe, 26, offers his take on the justification for the strict legislation. On February 16, I attended the Jamaica Cancer Society’s Anti-Tobacco Forum, which was attended by …
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A bill waiting to be passed in the Jamaican Parliament would introduce a ban on smoking in public places and prohibit the sale of tobacco to minors. Alexis Goffe, 26, offers his take on the justification for the strict legislation. On February 16, I attended the Jamaica Cancer Society’s Anti-Tobacco Forum, which was attended by …
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Domestic violence is no trivial matter to be swept under the carpet, writes Jo-Annah Richards, 26, a law graduate and Commonwealth Correspondent from the Caribbean island of Montserrat now living in Britain. As she lay bloodied and lifeless everyone stared frozen in shock. How could this have happened? Not on this island! Why the shock when …
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