How to Overcome the Myths and Taboos That Stop Girls From Getting HPV Vaccinated
As of 2018, March 4 has been named the International HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Awareness Day. HPV is a sexually transmitted ...
Tag: vaccination
Vaccinating Wild Animals: Key Conservation Tool or Step Too Far?
In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, the Golden Lion Tamarin Association have been vaccinating the primates against yellow fever. The disease has ...
Looking Beyond COVID: New Vaccines Needed to Prevent Other Outbreaks
While the world and much of the medical and scientific community focus on dealing with COVID using effective vaccines and ...
The IMF Has No Glass Ceiling
The IMF, the International Monetary Fund (the Fund) was created at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 and came into ...
The COVID Legacy: A Future Bipolar World?
Almost all countries pursue some combination of containment and vaccination in dealing with COVID. That said, when one looks at ...
Sanitation, Sanitation Workers and Covid
Throughout history, good sanitation has been a matter of life and death. Cholera and other pandemics relied on sanitary measures ...
The Rise of Omicron: How Serious Is It?
Updated Jan.6, 2022, with the latest data of Covid caseload in Europe. As 2022 takes off and people are still ...
COVID-19 Delta Variant: Panic in Germany, Eastern Europe Badly Hit, Lockdown Looming
Europe, for now, is the only region in the world, according to WHO, where both contagion rates and deaths are ...
Mosquitos and Malaria the Greatest Serial Killers
Virtually every day this month, global attention was almost entirely focused on Afghanistan and COVID-19. But last Thursday, August 20th, ...
World Health Day: Gender Equality Still Absent From Health Sector Policies
As countries globally are rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, concerns of inequity in vaccine access are high: In particular, gender equality ...
Europe’s COVID Vaccine Mess: Whose Fault?
Once again, the New York Times highlights the vaccine mess in Europe: The continent is way behind Israel, the U.K. ...
Why Populism is Dangerous: Public Health at Risk
Populism is dangerous and puts public health and the economy at risk. But it is hard to resist. Populist politicians ...
