Are Jair Messias Bolsonaro and Donald John Trump a Menace to the Planet?
Credit: Amazonian Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental InformationBy Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Aug 13 2019 (IPS) We live in different worlds. The ones of friends, family and work colleagues. Worlds which are overshadowed by other, much bigger ones. Global spheres of international finance, politics, climate change, etc., contexts that might threaten our smaller circle of relationships; our family, our income, our general wellbeing, in short – our entire existence. However, even at those levels there exist small circles of acquaintances and associates able to make decisions that affect the entire humankind. Let ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 13, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Climate Change Crime & Justice Development & Aid Education Environment Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Labour Natural Resources TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Liberia: MSF Expands Mental Health Treatment to West Pointers
[New Dawn] The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is expanding a free treatment program for people with mental health disorders in Liberia with activities beginning this month in the densely populated township of West Point in Monrovia.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 26, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Global Aids Fight Running out of Steam, U.N. says
BANGLADESH: Dose of Vigilance Helps Manage HIV, AIDS DHAKA, Nov 3, 2010 (IPS) - It is one of the poorest countries in the world, has a low literacy rate, and is next door to at least two countries that have a considerable portion of their respective populations with HIV and AIDS. Yet even having a large migrant population has not made Bangladesh a hot spot for HIV and AIDS. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53443By James ReinlUNITED NATIONS, Jul 24 2019 (IPS) The global fight against Aids is floundering amid cash shortfalls and spikes in new HIV infections among marginalised groups in developing regions, Gunilla Carlsson,...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: James Reinl Tags: Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Source Type: news

Liberia: Providing Psychiatric Care Close to Home
[MSF] The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is expanding a free treatment program for people with mental health disorders in Liberia with activities beginning this month in the densely populated township of West Point in Monrovia.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 24, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: North-East Crisis - MSF Raises the Alarm Over Growing Mental Illness
[This Day] Maiduguri -M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) otherwise called 'Doctors Without Borders' has raised the alarm over growing mental ailment in some parts of the troubled North-east region.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 23, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Congo-Kinshasa: Urgent Humanitarian Response Needed As Multiple Crises Hit Ituri
[MSF] New York/Kisangani -Hundreds of thousands of people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance as multiple crises hit Ituri province in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Thursday. A recent upsurge in violence has forced thousands of people to flee their homes--at a time when the region is already fighting an Ebola epidemic, massive measles outbreak, and the annual seasonal malaria pea
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 28, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

How Misinformation Is Making It Almost Impossible to Contain the Ebola Outbreak in DRC
If Florida Kayindo hadn’t contracted Ebola herself, she wouldn’t believe that it existed. The 36-year-old grins with bemusement thinking about all the rumors she’s heard. “In the beginning people thought Ebola wasn’t a real illness, it was brought in by white people,” she explains. “White people are evil, that’s what people in the community believe,” Kayindo tells TIME. “Before Ebola white people were around, but now they’re thinking white people came with Ebola.” Kayindo was declared Ebola free in November 2018 and since then she has been working in ...
Source: TIME: Health - June 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sally Hayden Tags: Uncategorized DRC ebola onetime Source Type: news

Erratum for the Research Article "Opposing reactions in coenzyme A metabolism sensitize Mycobacterium tuberculosis to enzyme inhibition" by E. Ballinger, J. Mosior, T. Hartman, K. Burns-Huang, B. Gold, R. Morris, L. Goullieux, I. Blanc, J. Vaubourgeix, S. Lagrange, L. Fraisse, S. Sans, C. Couturier, E. Bacque, K. Rhee, S. M. Scarry, J. Aube, G. Yang, O. Ouerfelli, D. Schnappinger, T. R. Ioerger, C. A. Engelhart, J. A. McConnell, K. McAulay, A. Fay, C. Roubert, J. Sacchettini, C. Nathan
Source: ScienceNOW - June 19, 2019 Category: Science Tags: Errata Source Type: news

Congo-Kinshasa: Massive Mobilisation Urgently Needed to Curb Fast-Spreading Measles Outbreak
[MSF] Kinshasa -M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for a massive mobilisation of national and international organisations to help combat a measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after the Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of the disease. Resources are urgently needed to vaccinate more children and treat patients affected by the disease.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 12, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Rivaroxaban Cuts Stroke Risk in HF Sans AF: Post Hoc COMMANDER-HF Rivaroxaban Cuts Stroke Risk in HF Sans AF: Post Hoc COMMANDER-HF
Oral anticoagulation may have struck the right balance between stroke benefit and bleeding risk in systolic heart failure. Also, a stroke risk prediction tool may be more versatile than expected.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - May 31, 2019 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news

Efficacy of a new parent and school-supported intervention after moderate and severe childhood traumatic brain injury - Palacio-Navarro A, Lopez-Sala A, Colome R, Turon M, Callejon-Poo L, Sanz-Palau M, Sans A, P óo P, Boix C.
INTRODUCTION: Traumatic brain injury is a common cause of acquired disability during childhood. Early interventions focusing on parenting practices may prove effective at reducing negative child outcomes. AIM: To determine the efficacy of a new cou...
Source: SafetyLit - May 30, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Congo-Kinshasa: Ebola Patients Are Human Beings Not Biosecurity Threats
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] In February, I worked as a nurse with Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Katwa, North Kivu - a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the epicenter of the current Ebola outbreak - until attacks on two of our treatment centers forced us to evacuate.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 29, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: Children Are Still Dying From Measles in Borno State
[MSF] In the 70-bed Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) measles unit inside Maiduguri's State Specialist Hospital, Doctor Muhammad Abdullahi checks on five-year-old patient Mustapha Osman. The boy arrived for treatment at the hospital in Nigeria's Borno state just over three days ago, and should be ready for discharge in a few days. "He's one of the lucky ones to be discharged so quickly from the hospital," says Dr. Abdullahi. "Most children we see are admitted for days, if not w
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 27, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: I Have Not Seen Such High Numbers of Measles Cases
[MSF] Five-year-old Mustapha Osman is receiving fluids intravenously in the M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) measles unit inside State Specialist hospital in Maiduguri, in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State. He arrived for treatment just over three days ago, and should be ready for discharge in a few days.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 27, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Impunity Remains: Attacks on Health Care in 23 Countries in Conflict
 Washington – There were at least 973 attacks on health workers, health facilities, health transports and patients in 23 countries in conflict in 2018, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition reported today. At least 167 health workers died and at least 710 were injured. This marks an increase in the number of documented attacks compared to 2017, when the Coalition reported 701 such instances. The Coalition’s sixth annual report documents attacks on vaccination workers, paramedics, nurses, doctors, midwives, community volunteers, drivers and guards, in violation of international norms and interrupting global e...
Source: Doctors of the World News - May 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Martina Villa Tags: Uncategorised Source Type: news

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