“I was married at 2pm and I lost my first child at 16 during pregnancy,” said Ranu Chakma. Child marriage is common in her village Teknaf Upazila on the southern coast of Bangladesh, even though it is illegal and a violation of human rights. These violations occur even at a time when many countries ban […]
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It said in a news message that more than 591,000 children under the age of 10 will receive the vaccine to protect them from the very infectious illness that begins this weekend for an expected period of five days. The campaign follows the recent detection of poliovirus in wastewater samples in the broken enclave, signaling
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In a media briefing on Tuesday, WHO HERFORY Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the consequences of financing suspensions, including disruptions in HIV treatment, backlash in polio expulsion and limited resources to respond to MPOX epidemics in Africa. “Suspension of funding to Pepfar, President’s emergency plan for AIDS plot, caused one Immediately stop to HIV treatment,
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About 400,000 children are diagnosed with cancer every year, and most of them live in low -income countries where medicine is either insurmountable or not available, results in an overwhelming death rate of 70 percent. In high -income countries, more than eight out of 10 children survive. “The platform is now set to close this
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Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, a 24-year-old woman from Djibouti, remembers the day a ten-year-old an unexpected visitor came to her house: “She had a syringe, a razor blade and bandages.” The woman was there to perform a brutal, unnecessary and – since 1995 in the Horn of Africa Country – illegal operation known as female genitalia,
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When talking from Gaza, representing Rik Peeperkorn described a scene of widespread destruction, overwhelmed medical facilities and growing need for mental health, as the population of the enclave gradually returns to what is left of their homes after almost 16 months of conflict. “Everyone in Gaza is affected … stress, anxiety, depression and loneliness. It’s
Female genitalia (FGM) refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of female external genitals or other damage to female genitalia for non-medical reasons, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “More than 230 million girls and women today are the survivors of this abominable practice,” said the UN Secretary General António Guterres in
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The disconnection allows the continuation or resumption of “life-saving humanitarian assistance” including HIV treatment. This means that 20 million people living with HIV and if medicine is funded by the United States can continue to receive treatment. “That’s 20 million out of the 30 million people living with HIV in the world,” said Christine Stegling,
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According to President Trump’s latest Directive from the White House on Tuesday on international cooperation, the United States will no longer participate in or financial support Human Rights Council in Geneva, which is set to meet on Friday to discuss the crisis of the Democratic Republic in the Congo . The executive order also requires
The analysis emphasizes the devastating effect of toxic air on young lives, with air pollution, which is now linked to almost one in four deaths of under five in the region. Exposure begins in the uterus, increases the risks of premature birth and low birth weight and continues throughout childhood, detract from lung development, reduces
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