Atmospheric waves and global seismoacoustic observations of the January 2022 Hunga eruption, Tonga - Matoza RS, Fee D, Assink JD, Iezzi AM, Green DN, Kim K, Toney L, Lecocq T, Krishnamoorthy S, Lalande JM, Nishida K, Gee KL, Haney MM, Ortiz HD, Brissaud Q, Martire L, Rolland L, Vergados P, Nippress A, Park J, Shani-Kadmiel S, Witsil A, Arrowsmith S, Caudron C, Watada S, Perttu AB, Taisne B, Mialle P, Le Pichon A, Vergoz J, Hupe P, Blom PS, Waxler R, De Angelis S, Snively JB, Ringler AT, Anthony RE, Jolly AD, Kilgour G, Averbuch G, Ripepe M, Ichihara M, Arciniega-Ceballos A, Astafyeva E, Ceranna L, Cevuard S, Che IY, De Negri R, Ebeling CW, Evers LG, Franco-Marin LE, Gabrielson TB, Hafner K, Harrison RG, Komjathy A, Lacanna G, Lyons J, Macpherson KA, Marchetti E, McKee KF, Mellors RJ, Mendo-P érez G, Mikesell TD, Munaibari E, Oyola-Merced M, Park I, Pilger C, Ramos C, Ruiz MC, Sabatini R, Schwaiger HF, Tailpied D, Talmadge C, Vidot J, Webster J, Wilson DC.
The 15 January 2022 climactic eruption of Hunga volcano, Tonga, produced an explosion in the atmosphere of a size that has not been documented in the modern geophysical record. The event generated a broad range of atmospheric waves observed globally by var...
Source: SafetyLit - May 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

Pakistan ’s Campaign to Contain Polio in Face of Vaccine Hesitancy
Authorities in North Waziristan district in Pakistan, vaccinate children against polio. With one case reported, intensified efforts to eradicate the disease are underway. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 12 2022 (IPS) Pakistan’s North Waziristan district authorities have launched an aggressive vaccination drive after a polio case surfaced after 15 polio-free months in the country. The disease was detected in a 15-month-old toddler about 15 kilometers away from the Afghanistan border. This area was considered a Taliban militant’s hub until 2014. The Taliban were against polio vacc...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ashfaq Yusufzai Tags: Asia-Pacific Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Religion TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Polio vaccine hesitancy Source Type: news

Projections for a Pandemic Future: in Whose Interest?
The World Health Assembly (22-28 May) is expected to discuss the pandemic treaty.Credit: World Health Organization (WHO)By Nicoletta DenticoROME, May 12 2022 (IPS) In what has been defined a historic consensus decision aimed at protecting the world from future infectious diseases crises, on 1st December 2021, the special session of the World Health Assembly agreed to kickstart a global process to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement or other international instrument to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, the decision marked �...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nicoletta Dentico Tags: COVID-19 Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Those Who Dare: Voices of Women in the MENA Region
This report states, “Women resort to clandestine abortions that have a rate higher than in the rest of the world and are responsible for around 9700 deaths each year. Only 47% of women in the MENA region have access to a contraceptive method, while this percentage is 57% worldwide.” “MENA region is a very conservative region where religion and culture are very restrictive concerning women’s access to reproductive health. They are very conservative and restrict sexual relationships of women who are not married, even for married women it is not easy to talk about it openly. “We realized the situation of women in ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sania Farooqui Tags: Education Featured Gender Gender Violence Headlines Health Human Rights LGBTQ Middle East & North Africa Multimedia Poverty & SDGs Sustainability TerraViva United Nations Video Women in Politics Women's Health IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Finance Drives World to Stagflation
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 2022 (IPS) The world is being pressed by financial interests to raise interest rates, ostensibly to check inflation. After the US Federal Reserve started raising interest rates, more central banks have been doing likewise. Considering inflation’s contemporary causes, such ‘follow the leader’ central bank mimicry cannot check it except by slowing economies. Worse, this has meant taking on huge new risks, seriously damaging world economic prospects in the medium and long-term. Anis ChowdhuryInflation bogey dangerous Much earlier, World Bank supp...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 10, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Global Headlines TerraViva United Nations Trade & Investment IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Give Edible Insects a Chance as an Alternative High-Quality Protein Source, say Scientists
A variety of insect-based delicacies. It is estimated that 2.5 billion people around the world eat insects as part of their regular diet. Encouraging the eating of insects could have health and climate change benefits. Credit: icipeBy Joyce ChimbiNairobi, May 6 2022 (IPS) Growing up in Samoya Village of Bungoma County in the Western part of Kenya, Elvis Wanjala has fond childhood memories of the rainy season, chasing and catching black-bellied winged termites in the rain. “The termites would also come inside the house, attracted by the light late in the evening. My mother would sun-dry the termites and pan-fry them. We w...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joyce Chimbi Tags: Africa Biodiversity Climate Action Climate Change Environment Featured Food and Agriculture Food Security and Nutrition Food Sustainability Headlines Health Natural Resources Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Burea Source Type: news

Six Ways Rwanda Is Building Resilient and Sustainable Transport Systems
This study sheds light on benefits in terms of emissions reduction, impacts on energy consumption, and other cross cutting issues associated with the new technology namely job creation, poverty reduction and gender dimensions. ● E-mobility Showcase: In collaboration with Rwanda Environment Management Authority, Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Infrastructure, GGGI hosted an e-mobility showcase on current and emerging technologies in Rwanda and connected companies with potential investors in the region and internationally. ● Electric Buses: GGGI has been providing support to the Government of Rwanda to prepar...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 4, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Okechukwu Daniel Ogbonnaya and David Toovey Tags: Africa Climate Action Development & Aid Economy & Trade Environment Green Economy Headlines Health Sustainability TerraViva United Nations Trade & Investment IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Pacific Community-Led Health Missions Arrive with Critical Support to Tonga and Kiribati Grappling with COVID-19 Surges
Pacific Community health experts conduct laboratory training for COVID-19 testing with their healthcare colleagues in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. Credit: Pacific Community (SPC)By Catherine WilsonCANBERRA, Australia , May 3 2022 (IPS) Before the pandemic emerged in 2020, health services in many Pacific Island countries were under-resourced, under-funded and under-staffed. Now following recent outbreaks of COVID-19, advancing the capacity and development of health and medical services in vulnerable nations, such as Tonga and Kiribati, is increasingly urgent. In the central Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati, virus cases have skyrocke...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Catherine Wilson Tags: Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies PACIFIC COMMUNITY Pacific Community Climate Wire TerraViva United Nations #AsiaPacific #Covid19 IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bur Source Type: news

Omicron-led Surge Tests China ’s Zero Covid Policy
Credit: United NationsBy Riya Shah and Arjun KumarNEW DELHI, May 3 2022 (IPS) When the Covid- 19 pandemic first broke out in Wuhan in 2020, no one imagined that it would wreak havoc on such a large scale. With over 6.2 million lives lost, countless infected and new variants emerging, the pandemic is still raging all around the world. Governments all over the world have moved away from the lockdown method to one living with Covid. However, even after two years of the Wuhan outbreak, China has continued with its stringent Zero Covid policy. Initially, the strategy was successful in reducing transmission to near zero but as...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Riya Shah and Arjun Kumar Tags: Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Bringing Seeds of Hope to Farmers
By Paul Teng and Genevieve Donnellon-MaySINGAPORE, May 2 2022 (IPS) Amidst a backdrop of rising food insecurity worldwide and a global food supply chain crisis, many countries are attempting to increase the level of food self-production. One improved input for farming which is receiving renewed attention is improved seed. The two most populous countries in the world, China and India, have recently made ground-breaking moves to improve their competitive position by developing new seeds which will improve their food production and increase resilience to climate change. So far, in 2022, new regulations on using biotechnology ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Paul Teng and Genevieve Donnellon-May Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change Combating Desertification and Drought COVID-19 Economy & Trade Europe Food and Agriculture Food Security and Nutrition Food Sustainability Global Geopolitics Headlines TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Source Type: news

UN Aims at People-Centered Governance in a Post-Pandemic World
A rescued boat woman and her two children eat some welcome food at a centre in Kuala Cangkoi, Indonesia. The UN urges 'people-centred' approach to migrants and refugees in Southeast Asia. Credit: UNHCRBy Simone GalimbertiKATHMANDU, Nepal, Apr 29 2022 (IPS) The recently disseminated Zero Draft Ministerial Declaration of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)– the main UN event to track the member states’ progress to achieve the Agenda 2030 slated to be held in the first half of July– is a disappointment. For all its comprehensiveness, the document neglected to mention one of the most...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Simone Galimberti Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Featured Food and Agriculture Global Global Governance Headlines Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

World Press Freedom Faces a Perfect Storm
The UN will be commemorating World Press Freedom Day on May 3. The following article is part of a series of IPS features and opinion pieces focused on media freedom globally.By Farhana Haque RahmanTORONTO, Canada, Apr 29 2022 (IPS) Empowered by a global pandemic and the drum beats of war, the strongest despots are growing more despotic, and criminal cartels even more brazen in their violence. Extremists of various hues are also stepping out of the shadows. Just when the world most needs press freedom to thrive, the liberties that societies only really treasure when they are emasculated are coming under more pressure from d...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Farhana Haque Rahman Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Crime & Justice Featured Global Headlines Human Rights Press Freedom TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau World Press Freedom Day 2022 Source Type: news

With Violence on the Rise, Asian Americans Establish Support Groups for Help
Asian Americans affected by anti-Asian sentiment and hate crimes have provided support to each other. Left to right from top: Dr Boyung Lee, Dr Russell Jeung, Cynthia Choi, Myleen Hollero, and Dr Bryant Lin. Credit: Myleen HolleroBy Seimi ChuCalifornia, Apr 28 2022 (IPS) Dr Boyung Lee, a widow and the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Iliff School of Theology, would use a short break in her working day to walk around her neighborhood. The fresh air helped her deal with her grief and work-related stress. In May 2020, however, this small but significant daily ritual ended abruptly. Lee was...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 28, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Seimi Chu Tags: COVID-19 Featured Gender Headlines Human Rights North America TerraViva United Nations #Activism #AsianAmerican #HumanRights IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Racism Source Type: news

Afghan Moms Receive a Fresh Start in the United States
Credit: UNHCRBy Lori Silberman BraunerTEANECK, New Jersey, Apr 26 2022 (IPS) It was a long, harrowing road for Freshta and Shabaneh, two mothers (their names are pseudonyms) who fled Kabul, Afghanistan, late last summer before eventually settling in the southern New Jersey township of Hamilton. Shabaneh, 30, the mother of three boys who was then between four and five months pregnant, recalls her flight out of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on a U.S. army plane under less-than-optimal conditions. Whatever seats had been in place had been removed from the plane to accommodate all the passengers, and she had n...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 26, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lori Silberman Brauner Tags: Aid Armed Conflicts Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Education Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Labour TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Transgender Ukrainian Refugees Impacted as War with Russia Continues
Transgender refugees from Ukraine have met various challenges including access to hormone medicine since fleeing the war torn country. Credit: Ed Holt/IPSBy Ed HoltBRATISLAVA, Apr 25 2022 (IPS) Soon after Russia invaded her country, Anastasiia Yeva Domani found herself forced to abandon the regime of vital medicines she was taking. The transgender activist could no longer get hold of the hormone medicines she needed to regularly take in Ukraine as supply chains were disrupted and the vast majority of pharmacies were closed. “I, like many others, had to pause hormone treatment for a while. We had no choice,” she told IP...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 25, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ed Holt Tags: Armed Conflicts Europe Featured Health Humanitarian Emergencies Migration & Refugees TerraViva United Nations #ArmedConflict IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report LGBT Russia Ukraine Source Type: news

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