News headlines for “Health Issues”, page 256
Why Reproductive Rights Must Be a Critical Part of Our Arsenal to Fight Pandemics
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 27 (IPS) - Sexual and reproductive health and pandemics might seem to be unrelated topics, but large and dense populations are drivers of the high velocity transmission of COVID-19, and there are lessons to be learned for the future.
COVID-19 Stimulus Measures Must Save Lives, Protect Livelihoods, and Safeguard Nature to Reduce the Risk of Future Pandemics
- Inter Press Service
Apr 27 (IPS) - There is a single species that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic - us. As with the climate and biodiversity crises, recent pandemics are a direct consequence of human activity – particularly our global financial and economic systems, based on a limited paradigm that prizes economic growth at any cost. We have a small window of opportunity, in overcoming the challenges of the current crisis, to avoid sowing the seeds of future ones.
Ensuring Russia’s Sex Workers’ Rights Essential for Wider Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Apr 27 (IPS) - Ensuring sex workers' rights was essential, not just for the workers themselves, but for any country's wider society, including public healthDespite seeing a shift in attitudes towards them in recent years, Russian sex workers say they continue to struggle with marginalisation and criminalisation which poses a danger to them and the wider public.
Coronavirus Shows the Urgency of Ensuring that Research gets into the Public Domain
- Inter Press Service
Apr 26 (IPS) - Following the outbreak and declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, there has been a flurry of scientific research and publications to address challenges posed by the virus. Publications have risen exponentially over the past few months as scientists work tirelessly to find out more about the pandemic, and the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing it.
Post-Pandemic Mental Health Epidemic
- Inter Press Service
Apr 26 (IPS) - The number of Nepalis suffering from mental health issues is increasing with the prolonged COVID-19 lockdown, and the lack of treatment and counselling means the country may be facing an epidemic of psychosocial disorders.
Why Covid-19 Choices Are Critical for Children
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 24 (IPS) - Children may escape the worst symptoms of Covid-19 and suffer lower mortality rates, but for millions, the pandemic will have devastating effects.
COVID-19: India's Harvests also Locked Down
- Inter Press Service
NEW DEHLI, Apr 24 (IPS) - As a nationwide lockdown has confined a record 1.3 billion Indians to their homes since Mar. 24, one of the hardest hit communities has been that of Indian farmers.
Heartbreaking images of Indian farmers standing amidst swathes of rotting vegetables, fruits and grain have been flooding newspapers and TV screens lately. Crashing prices and transport bottlenecks due to the 40-day coronavirus lockdown in India, on till May 3, have driven some to set their unsold produce ablaze.
Autonomous Resourcing: the Engine Room of Feminist Work Amid a Global Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Australia, Apr 23 (IPS) - Feminist responses to COVID-19 have been swift, insightful, and numerous.
There have been webinars (so.many.webinars), twitter threads, illustrations, press releases and policy recommendations, and online house parties. Analysis pieces cover everything from the gendered impacts of COVID-19 to how to work remotely to the role of neoliberal capitalism.
Collaboration Can Help Eradicate COVID-19
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 23 (IPS) - Since the founding of the United Nations in 1945, space for multilateral policy development and commitment has grown. Its growth in the global health field augurs well as we find ways to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Citizen Action is Central to the Global Response to COVID-19
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK and MANILA, Apr 22 (IPS) - The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented human and economic crisis. Governments are taking strong actions, enforcing quarantines to reduce contagion, testing populations, building emergency intensive care units. Governments have also launched large fiscal stimulus plans to protect jobs and the economy, as well as temporary social protection programs such as income/food support, subsidies to utilities and care services.
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