News headlines for “Health Issues”, page 112
55 countries face a health worker crunch linked to COVID-19: WHO
- UN News
No less than 55 countries are struggling with serious health worker shortages as they continue to seek better paid opportunities in wealthier nations that have stepped up efforts to recruit them amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
Solar Powered Freezer Improving Immunization Coverage in Hard-to-Reach Rural Villages
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Mar 13 (IPS) - Up until 2019, nurses in three health facilities located in the semi-arid south-eastern Kenya region of Makueni County struggled to bring critical health services closer to a hard-to-reach population scattered across three remote, far-flung villages.
Breaking Barriers: Why Free & Public Education Should be Every Womans Right
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Mar 10 (IPS) - This month, government and civil society organization representatives gathered in New York for the United Nations’ 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to discuss technology as a tool to facilitate access to education for women and girls.
Next Ebola Outbreak Not a Matter of If, but When
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA & MUBENDE, Mar 10 (IPS) - It is two months since the World Health Organization declared Uganda free of the most recent Sudan ebolavirus, which killed 55 people.
Breaking the Link between Polycrisis and Poverty
- Inter Press Service
BRIGHTON, UK, Mar 09 (IPS) - This year marks the halfway point— eight years in and eight years out— of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty and reduce inequalities.
A pinch (less) of salt can save lives, WHO says in new report
- UN News
Implementing sodium reduction policies could save an estimated seven million lives globally by 2030, WHO said in a new report launched on Thursday.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Women and Girls: Innovation and Higher Education
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Mar 08 (IPS) - In September 2020, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for women’s rights celebrated its 25th anniversary. It was, however, a bittersweet commemoration, mixing joy for the progress in gender equality achieved since 1995, and the stark realization about the multidimensional gaps awaiting tackling and the new divides brought by the social consequences of COVID-19.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Digital Inclusion is Vital for Strengthening Women’s Rights in Africa
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 08 (IPS) - The internet has a pivotal role to play in empowering women and girls across Africa, but preexisting forms of gender discrimination and marginalization are underpinning a widening digital gender divide.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - First Ever Women Council of Elders Making In-roads in North Eastern Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Mar 08 (IPS) - Low literacy levels, a high prevalence of outlawed Female Genital Mutilation, early marriages, forced marriages, low contraceptive usage, multiple births, as well as high maternal, infant and child deaths, define the life of a woman in Kenya’s vast North Eastern region.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - The Power of Technology — & the Increased Exclusion, Inequalities & Gender Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) - Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tremendous power of technology and innovation has become clear to the world. However, it has also increased exclusion, discrimination, and inequalities -- especially for women and girls.
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