News headlines for “Health Issues”, page 3

  1. First Person: Supporting mental health in Madagascar, one consultation at a time

    - UN News

    Ongoing humanitarian crises in southern Madagascar have worsened the situation for people with mental health disorders, but the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) has been supporting patients by providing more psychiatric consultations.

  2. Tracking Global Development in Child Benefits Through New Monitoring and Information Platform

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Feb 15 (IPS) - Inclusive social protections for children would be a positive signifier of social development in a time where 1.4 billion children globally are denied them. A step towards realizing this has been taken through a new monitoring tool on current social protection and child poverty statistics.

  3. Women, Girls Equal Partners in HIV Responses, Says Activist

    - Inter Press Service

    BRATISLAVA, Feb 14 (IPS) - UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, recently made an impassioned call for governments to support women and girls from marginalized communities at the frontlines of the defence of human rights, to help ensure, among others, that global health is protected.

  4. Stories from the UN Archive: Boris Karloff, leprosy and Nigeria

    - UN News

    As the world celebrates World Radio Daymarked on 13 February, we dug into the UN archives for a vintage podcast classic from 1959, when famed Frankenstein actor Boris Karloff narrated an episode describing a visit to a leprosy clinic in Tiranka, Nigeria.

  5. Proven Vector Control Interventions Needed to Stem Malaria Infections in Africa

    - Inter Press Service

    KIGALI, Feb 08 (IPS) - Experts recommend that the current prevention of malaria in highly endemic countries in Africa should integrate "locally appropriate" control measures to cope with the highest burden of mosquito-borne disease on the continent.

  6. Is Anti-Woke a Grass-Root Movement?

    - Inter Press Service

    STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb 08 (IPS) - “Woke” was for a century, especially among black people in the US, an inspirational concept. However, almost overnight it turned into a pejorative. Like using the term “politically correct” as an insult, calling someone “woke” came to imply that the referred person’s views are excessively ridiculous, or even despicable. Being “anti-woke” has become an indication that you do not belong to an assumed group of “do-gooders”, who at the expense of right-minded “ordinary” citizens assert the demands of interest groups, which declare themselves to be discriminated against due to their ethnicity/race, gender, sexual preference, and/or physical or psychological disabilities.

  7. Embodying the Spirit of the Dragon

    - Inter Press Service

    BEIJING, Feb 08 (IPS) - The Year of the Dragon is upon us.

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for this Lunar New Year, “The dragon symbolizes energy, wisdom, protection and good luck. We need these qualities to rise to today’s global challenges.”

  8. Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting in Asia Remain a Neglected Problem

    - Inter Press Service

    KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, Feb 06 (IPS) - Significant advances have been made in Africa towards ending female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Asia, where FGM/C occurs in at least ten countriesbut governments across the region are failing to take effective action. Women’s rights organizations are calling for states to introduce much-needed laws to criminalize FGM, provide national data on the extent and nature of the practice, and adequately fund efforts to tackle this regionally neglected problem.

  9. Moimuna Nursing Institute Ushers Hope for Vulnerable Rural Girls in Bangladesh

    - Inter Press Service

    THAKURGAON, Bangladesh, Feb 06 (IPS) - After passing her secondary school certificate (SCC) in 2019, Sweety Akter went door-to-door to collect money to enroll in a college, but she wasn't successful.

  10. World News in Brief: Unprecedented cholera spike in Africa, Julian Assange extradition update, locusts compound Sudan crisis

    - UN News

    Cholera cases are surging globally, and there’s been an unprecedented spike in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

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