Public Health
الجائحة، مرآةٌ لهشاشة أوضاعنا
يتلا خوّششرلاو تاعّدصتلا نع راتّسلا ةيحصلا ةمزلأا تحازأ دقل نكس فورظو ،سنجلا لىع مئاق فنع نم ،انتاعمتجم ّقشت ،ملاعلا اذه يريغت اندرأ ام اذإو .ةيحصلا ةمظنلأا فعضو ،ةيرزم.نلآا ىتح اهتهجاوم نم نّكمتن مل يتلا تايّدحتلا عفرن نأ انيلعف
الشعوب الأصلية أمام محنة الأزمة
ةيلصلأا ةيلحلما تاعمتجلما ضعب ةردق ةيلماعلا ةيحصلا ةمزلأا تزربأ ام ردقب هذه ناكس ىدل ةشاشهلا نطاوم لىع ،صوصخلاب ،تفشك ،دومصلا لىع ءوسو ،رقف نم هنوناعي ام ءاّرج ةيدعلما ضارملأل نوضرعتي نيذلا تاعمتجلما .ةيحصلا ةياعرلا لئاسو نم ةدافتسا ةّلقو ،ةيذغت
ضيفنا: يوفال نوح هراري: “كل أزمة هي أيضاً فرصة”
من أجل عقد اجتماعي جديد في أمريكا اللاتينية
يبيراكلاو ةينيتلالا اكيرمأ ةقطنم ناكس لىع ةيحصلا ةمزلأل ةيعامتجلاا تايعادتلا تناك عاطقلا يمانت وأ ،ةسارّدلا نع عاطقنلاا وأ ،يدرفلا لخّدلا عجارت ثيح نم ءاوس ،ةميخو مدعو ةيعامتجلاا تاتوافتلا عاسّتا يدافت لجأ نمو .ةلاطبلل ّداحلا عافترلاا وأ ،يمسّرلا يرغ .ًلادع رثكأو ًانماضت رثكأ يعامتجا ماظن ةماقإ لىإ انايثتاب انيراك وعدت ،ةاواسلما
البحث العلمي: “هذا الوباء سيكون صاعقا”
نم فلاتئلاا ءاشنإب نيردابلما نم ةدحاو يه ،تفاغروو ـ بوترس لياتان ،ليربأ في ،هأشنأ فلاتئا وهو ،19 ـ ديفوك نأشب ةيريسرلا ثوحبلا لجأ رارقلا باحصأو ،ةحنالما تاهجلاو ،ءابطلأاو ،ةيملعلا تاسسؤلما نم ددع نادلبلا في يبطلا ثحبلاب ضوهنلا لجأ نم ،ًادلب 30 لياوح نم ،سيايسلا بسانتت ةيصوصخ ثوحب ءارجإ لىإ ةثحابلا هذه وعدتو .لخّدلا ةيندتلما.فيعّضلا لخدلا تاذ نادلبلا عاضوأ عم
“Women are the unsung heroes of this crisis”
The health crisis, and the subsequent widespread lockdowns worldwide, have led to a surge in violence against women. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, warns that women’s rights could be diminished as a result of the pandemic.
Documenting my culture in its truest form
Women’s writing: Illuminating the darkness
The world after the pandemic will be different from the one that we’ve always known. It will be more benevolent towards the unknown, and more respectful towards living species, predicts one of China’s best-known contemporary poets.
Ideas: The microbes and viruses that made history
Epidemics and pandemics are not new phenomena. Leprosy, plague, cholera and smallpox have all left their deadly mark on human history. They have also led humans to question themselves, and often result in positive change.
Zoom: Lockdown travel diaries
Isolation, loss of income, crushing domestic burdens – women photographers have been hit hard by the lockdown imposed to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. Faced with this unprecedented situation, more than 400 women photographers have come together in a unique collaborative project, The Journal – which started spontaneously in mid-March 2020, following a call on Facebook by the Women Photograph community.
Indigenous children their human rights, mortality, and the millennium development goals
The first effective attempt to promote children’s rights was the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, drafted by Eglantyne Jebb in 1923 and adopted by the League of Nations in 1924. On 20 November 1959, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a much expanded version as its own Declaration of the Rights of the Child, with ten principles in place of the original five. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was the first legally binding international instrument to incorporate the full range of human rights, describing child-specific needs and rights.3 These human rights included civil cultural, economic, political, and social rights, as well as aspects of humanitarian law.3 The UNCRC was signed in 1989, and entered into force in 1990. As of May 2010, it had 193 parties which had ratified, accepted, or acceded with stated reservations or interpretations, including every member of the United Nations except Somalia and the United States, which have only signed.
HIV/AIDS: Will we win and when?
It is very apt that the evolution of the HIV/MDS epidemic should be considered in the context of global health. One of the critical aspects of global health as a field of study and practice is that it seeks not only the general improvement of health in the world, but more importantly seeks to reduce the inequalities between peoples—inequalities that in essence represent inequities. There will be no substantial improvement in global health unless there is concomitant international health in the sense of nations and their component actors working together. Success in addressing the problem of HIV is, and indeed will be, a marvellous test case of the ability of nations to work cooperatively, and the characteristics of the infection bring out clearly the inequities that exist within and between countries, which must be eliminated.
Primary health care: Now more than ever
In 1978, the Declaration of Alma-Ata at the International Conference on Primary Health Care launched primary health care as a route to better health for all. The ambition was bold. The Declaration of Alma-Ata responded to a world characterized by vast and largely avoidable differences in the health status of populations, and mapped out a strategy for reducing these gaps through fundamental changes in the way health systems were organized and care delivered. As the Declaration of Alma-Ata argued, enlightened policy that made fair access to health care an explicit objective could raise the level of health within populations, enabling people to lead socially and economically productive lives, and thus driving overall development.
Individual global responsibility
My primary impulse to write an article on HIV/AIDS came from my fundamental desire to contribute and to collaborate. I realize that my behaviour is founded upon a deeply-rooted sense of duty, a strong commitment, and a profound necessity. Psychologists refer to attitude as the disposition of a person confronting the world (the psychological view), which, once transported to a social setting, becomes values (the sociological view).
Asleep at the wheel
The world has been living with the HIV/AIDS epidemic for some thirty years, and prevention methods have been scientifically proven and disseminated to the public for nearly as long. Yet, there are, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) High Level Commission on HIV Prevention, at least 7,000 new HIV infections every day—an alarming number that indicates HIV/AIDS awareness is at an unacceptable level of neglect by governments, civil society, and the private sector. There was a strong worldwide effort towards HIV prevention when the disease began spreading rapidly throughout the developing world in the early 1990s but, more recently, a disproportionate amount of funding has been directed towards treatment, rather than prevention. Obviously, prevention is the most effective method in slowing down the spread of this terrible disease, but decisionmakers still view HIV prevention as a health problem, not a societal one.
The 4th decade of aids what is needed to reshape the response
The international community has reached the first part of Millennium Development Goal 6: halting and reversing the spread of HIV. At least fifty-six countries have either stabilized or reduced new HIV infections by more than 25 per cent in the past ten years, and this is especially evident in sub-Saharan Africa, the region most affected by the epidemic. New HIV infections among children have dropped by 25 per cent, a significant step towards achieving the virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission by 2015. In addition, today more than five million people are on antiretroviral treatment, which has reduced AIDS-related deaths by more than 20 per cent in the past five years. However, with more than 33 million people living with HIV today, 2.6 million new HIV infections, and nearly 2 million deaths in 2009, the gains made in the AIDS response are fragile.
In the beginning
In the beginning, the AIDS epidemic struck like a thief in the night—suddenly, terrifyingly, and deadly. At first, there were a few cases of a rare malignancy Kaposi’s sarcoma; then came the appearance of Pneumocystis pneumonia-, and finally a plethora of opportunistic infections including systemic candidiasis, cryptococcal meningitis, and Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare—all rare diseases associated with this new mysterious, unknown, and unnamed spectre.
Changements climatiques et paludisme un lien complexe
Les changements climatiques désignent une variation statistiquement significative de l’état moyen du climat ou de sa variabilité qui persiste pendant de longues périodes (généralement pendant des décennies ou plus) pouvant être dus à des processus internes naturels, à des forçages externes ou à des changements anthropiques persistants de la composition de l’atmosphère ou de l’affectation des terres.