Gender Lens Crucial to Leaving No One Behind (Part 1)
Getting back on track post-COVID-19 is crucial says Regional Director of UNFPA ASRO, Dr Luay Shabaneh. The UNFPA runs several programmes for women and girls, here girls listen to a youth educator network Y-PEER presentation on the harms of female genital mutilation at their school in Garowe, Puntland. Credit: UNFPA Somalia/Tobin JonesBy IPS CorrespondentJohannesburg , Feb 27 2022 (IPS) Parliamentarians’ leadership in a post-COVID-19 recovery is crucial to achieving the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) agenda. The involvement of lawmakers in ensuring a more equal, just, and sustainable soc...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: IPS Correspondent Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Health Humanitarian Emergencies Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) IPS UN Bureau Parliamentarians working to meet SDG's UNF Source Type: news

Cyclone Ana Floods Choke Malawi ’s Water and Sanitation Goals
Residents survey the damage after Cyclone Ana triggered winds and floods in Malawi. There has been a call following the latest flooding for climate-resilient approaches to WASH because damaged infrastructure, especially water infrastructure, has serious health consequences. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPSBy Charles MpakaBlantyre, Malawi, Feb 22 2022 (IPS) On the night of January 24, 2022, as Cyclone Ana-triggered rains incessantly rattled on the rusty roof of her house, amid intervals of gusty winds, a thud woke up Josephine Kumwanje from her sleep. Her heart leapt as she thought thieves had broken into the house. She summoned ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Charles Mpaka Tags: Africa Aid Climate Change Development & Aid Featured Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Water & Sanitation #CycloneAna IPS UN Bureau Malawi UNICEF WASH Source Type: news

Financialization at Heart of Economic Malaise
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 2022 (IPS) COVID-19 has exposed major long-term economic vulnerabilities. This malaise – including declining productivity growth – can be traced to the greater influence of finance in the real economy. The deep-seated causes of the current resurgence of inflation, inequalities and contractionary tendencies have not been addressed. Meanwhile, reform proposals after the 2008-2009 global financial crisis (GFC) have been largely forgotten. Anis ChowdhuryDeclining productivity Productivity growth has been declining in major economies since the early ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Climate Change COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Global Headlines Health Inequity Labour TerraViva United Nations Trade & Investment IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

When do drivers interact with in-vehicle well-being interventions? An exploratory analysis of a longitudinal study on public roads - Koch K, Mishra V, Liu S, Berger T, Fleisch E, Kotz D, Wortmann F.
Recent developments of novel in-vehicle interventions show the potential to transform the otherwise routine and mundane task of commuting into opportunities to improve the drivers' health and well-being. Prior research has explored the effectiveness of var...
Source: SafetyLit - February 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

WASH Interventions Key to Reaching Africa ’s Child Health Milestones
Experts say proper hygiene, especially during the first 1,000 days of a child’s life is critical. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPSBy Joyce ChimbiNairobi, Kenya, Feb 15 2022 (IPS) For two days in a row back in 2018, four-year-old Calvin Otieno suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting, and his mother responded by giving him a salt solution. Pearl Otieno tells IPS that diarrhoea among children in Kibera, the largest urban informal settlement, is commonplace. A mixture of salt and warm water is often the go-to remedy. “He did not seem to get worse, but he was not getting better either. He lay on the floor too weak to play,” she say...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 15, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joyce Chimbi Tags: Africa Development & Aid Featured Headlines Health Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) WASH Source Type: news

Dream. Dare. Do.
By Yasmine SherifNEW YORK, Feb 14 2022 (IPS) Conflict, forced displacement, climate change and COVID-19 are disrupting the education of millions of crisis-affected children and adolescents around the world. Yasmine Sherif is the Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nation’s global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. When she and ECW partners from around the world operationalized the Fund in 2017, an estimated 75 million conflict-affected children were out of school. Today, that number has risen to 128 million – more than the total population of Japan. Just a few short years lat...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yasmine Sherif Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change COVID-19 Education Education Cannot Wait. Future of Education is here Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Migration & Refugees Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Educa Source Type: news

ONE OCEAN SUMMIT – An Opportunity For Blue Transformation
By Manuel BarangeROME, Feb 14 2022 (IPS) The ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet. There is no question it is critical for our health and well-being. It provides half the earth’s oxygen supply and every organism in existence depends on it to survive. Manuel BarangeThe ocean is also vital for our nutrition and food security, cultural heritage and economic sustenance. Hundreds of millions of people rely directly or indirectly on the ocean for their lives and livelihoods. It’s not just about jobs or feeding our families. The ebb and flow of the tides is embedded in the history and traditions of thousands of co...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Manuel Barange Tags: Climate Change Economy & Trade Environment Food Security and Nutrition Global Health Labour Poverty & SDGs Sustainability TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Responding to New Threats to Poverty Eradication in Asia
A household participating in BRAC’s Graduation approach in Rangpur, Bangladesh. Credit: BRAC (2021)By Imran Matin and Stephanie LevyDHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 14 2022 (IPS) With consistent, robust economic growth, countries across Asia have made monumental strides in eradicating extreme poverty over the past 30 years. In Bangladesh, for example, the population living in extreme poverty dropped from 43% in 1991 to 10.5% in 2019. Similarly in Cambodia, poverty incidence fell from 53% in 2004 to below 10% by 2016. In these countries, economic growth has enabled governments to develop new social protection programs, expand exis...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Imran Matin and Stephanie Levy Tags: Asia-Pacific Climate Change COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Food Security and Nutrition Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

A new adaptive region of interest extraction method for two-lane detection - Chen Y, Wong PK, Yang ZX.
As a key environment perception technology of autonomous driving or driver assistance systems, lane detection is to ensure vehicles to drive safely in corresponding lane. However, existing lane detection algorithms for two-lane detection focus on using var...
Source: SafetyLit - February 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

The Global South Moves Towards Vaccine Sovereignty
A woman is vaccinated against COVID-19 in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. February 2022. Credit: UNICEF/Jospin BenekireBy Svenja Blanke, Felix Kolbitz and Oliver DicksonBUENOS AIRES/ DHAKA/JOHANNESBURG, Feb 11 2022 (IPS) In 2021, Global South countries came out on the short end of vaccine supply deals. In 2022, they are building capacity to produce vaccines themselves. Latin America’s vaccination rate is among the highest in the world. Chile leads the way with 86 per cent of the population completely vaccinated, followed by Uruguay, Argentina, and Ecuador. Some countries even achieve rates of over 90 per cent fo...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Svenja Blanke - Felix Kolbitz - Oliver Dickson Tags: COVID-19 Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Storybook Apps Turn African Students Into Writers
The African Storybook Project has developed writing and publishing apps that are promoting literacy. Credit: SaideBy Busani BafanaBULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 10 2022 (IPS) Suwaiba Hassan published an engrossing story. She used digital apps that are giving literacy a boost. The student from Katsina State in Nigeria, Hassan, won a National Reading Competition for a story she created using the African Storybook reader app and the African Storybook maker app. Saide, an education NGO, developed the apps through its African Storybook (ASb) project. The apps are easy-to-use storybook development tools allowing children to write and p...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 10, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Busani Bafana Tags: Africa Arts COVID-19 Development & Aid Education Featured Headlines TerraViva United Nations #reading indigenous languages inequity IPS UN Bureau literacy Source Type: news

Storybook Apps Turn African Learners Into Writers
The African Storybook Project has developed writing and publishing apps that are promoting literacy. Credit: SaideBy Busani BafanaBULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 10 2022 (IPS) Suwaiba Hassan published an engrossing story. She used digital apps that are giving literacy a boost. The student from Katsina State in Nigeria, Hassan, won a National Reading Competition for a story she created using the African Storybook reader app and the African Storybook maker app. Saide, an education NGO, developed the apps through its African Storybook (ASb) project. The apps are easy-to-use storybook development tools allowing children to write and p...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 10, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Busani Bafana Tags: Africa Arts COVID-19 Development & Aid Education Featured Headlines TerraViva United Nations #reading indigenous languages inequity IPS UN Bureau literacy Source Type: news

An International Treaty on Pandemic Prevention?
By Simone GalimbertiKATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 10 2022 (IPS) The global consensus about an international treaty on pandemic prevention is certainly a milestone towards the creation of a global health security framework. A new treaty is likely to bind the member states to higher standards of compliance, especially if a global accountability mechanism is also enforced. Consider the disregard towards the International Health Regulations (2005), IHRs, the only tool available to control what in jargon is referred as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Despite numerous review exercises, some of which taken m...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 10, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Simone Galimberti Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Featured Global Global Governance Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Three Key Questions for Understanding Shifts in Global Poverty
Ending poverty and hunger once and for all – is it possible? Credit: United NationsBy Andy Sumner and Eduardo Ortiz-JuarezLONDON, Feb 9 2022 (IPS) In 2010 and the following years, there was attention to the fact that much of global poverty had shifted to middle-income countries (for example here, here, and here). The world’s poor hadn’t moved of course, but the countries that are home to large numbers of poor people had got better off on average and poverty hadn’t fallen as much as one might expect with economic growth in those countries moving from low-income to middle-income. There were also some big questions ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 9, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Andy Sumner and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Power of Connection & Collaborations to Fight Modern-day Slavery
This report states more than 70% of the 4.8 million sex exploitation victims are in the Asia and Pacific region. 1.5 million victims are living in developed countries, with an estimated 13,000 enslaved in the UK. Romy Hawatt became a founding member of GSN a network organization which was founded in 2014 by Raza Jafar, The RT Rev Lord Bishop Alastair Redfern and S. E. Mons. Marcelo Sanchez got together with a vision for a world free of slavery, child labor and human trafficking. This was initiated after the signing of a Joint Declaration Against Modern Slavery by Pope Francis, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, E...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sania Farooqui Tags: COVID-19 Crime & Justice Economy & Trade Featured Gender Violence Global Headlines Human Rights Human Trafficking Humanitarian Emergencies Migration & Refugees Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

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