Tag: WHO

• Bad Samaritans?

  I suspect this is an incredibly naïve, not to mention unpopular, opinion, but I suppose in these times of plague, I should be grateful we have borders -fences that keep them out, walls that keep us safe. But I’m not. I’ve always mistrusted borders: I’ve always been suspicious of boundaries that artificialize the denizens of…

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  March 25, 2020

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  borders, boundaries, Charles Crawford, Corona virus, countries, Covid 19, Kahlil Gibran, migrants, Nationalism, nations, pandemic, Peace of Westphalia, refugees, sovereignty, Sykes-Pico agreement, territorial integrity, Thirty Years War, walls, WHO, Xenophobia

• What is the Merit of Originality?

  ‘I am not young enough to know everything,’ as Oscar Wilde once said, and maybe the rest of us aren’t either. It is often an unquestioned assumption that New trumps Old, that innovation usually leads to improvement, and that by standing on the shoulders of giants, the view is necessarily better. Clearer. But there is…

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  May 16, 2018

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  Aurum Institute Johannesburg South Africa, Erica Lessem, Gavin Churchyard, GeneXpert, global health care, health care, metaphor, Myth, myth of Baucis and Philemon, national empathy, Nature Journal, New vs Old, Oscar Wilde, South Africa, TB, technology, the Treatment Action Group, Tuberculosis, WHO, Wisdom, World Health Organization

• When Thou Liest Howling

  There are some things we just don’t want to acknowledge aren’t there? Some things that we would rather not hear, not so much because we don’t think they’re important, but because they embarrass us… Or maybe offend us. Sexually transmitted diseases are prime examples. For some reason, many of us find them difficult to talk…

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  November 29, 2017

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  antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, BBC news, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Dr. Mark Lawton, Dr. Teodora Wi, generational biases, gonorrhea, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Men B jab, meningitis, National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Neisseria meningitidis, oral sex, premarital sex, Professor Richard Stabler, sexual education, sexually transmitted diseases, Shakespeare, unintended consequences, University of Auckland, VD, WHO, World Health Organization

• Violence Against Women

  According to a recent meta-analysis by the World Health Organization, one in three women worldwide are subject to intimate partner violence (IPV) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6140/1527.short . And it’s not just a third world problem either, as we Canadians with our often parochial outlook would no doubt like to believe. True, some countries seem to be over-represented: ‘East…

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  June 5, 2014

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  Aboriginal women, British Medical Journal, intimate partner violence, IPV, meta-analysis, screening for domestic violence, Violence, violence against women, WHO, women, World Health Organization