How a Culture of Violence is Damaging Our Country Today
A catastrophic act of violence in her family led Vicky Cox to examine the personal and cultural influences that might precipitate such an event, as well as the forces that may create change. — In...
View ArticleWhy Men who have Sex with Men have Problems with Health Care in Africa
View image | gettyimages.com How social stigma is preventing equal access to health care. — Providing prisoners, sex workers, adolescents and men who have sex with men with sexual and reproductive...
View ArticleHumanity in Review – 2015
2015 as a collective whole, was one of the most important years in the history of our species. — 2015 as a collective whole, was one of the most important years in the history of our species. This...
View ArticleScared of Zika? It’s Time to Take Climate Change Seriously
Embed from Getty Images Fighting climate change is critical to controlling the spread of the Zika virus. — News of the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil has prompted me to consider two environmental...
View ArticleHow You and Your Family Can Beat Flu Season
Embed from Getty Images — We all know what the flu feels like—the headache, malaise, fever, coughing, sneezing, and achiness. It can be miserable, and most of us want to prevent it if possible. The...
View ArticleHow Can You Help with the Global Malnutrition Pandemic?
Embed from Getty Images — There are two problems around the globe relating to nutrition, but they cover both sides of the same coin. On the one side, there’s acute malnutrition, which, according to...
View ArticleThe Single Best Sex Technique
If you are a person who cares about women, Cliteracy–a deep understanding of the complexities of female sexuality–is now the baseline standard of knowledge. This story begins (as many stories should,...
View ArticleEvery Forty Seconds
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View ArticleWhat NOT to Say to Someone Who’s Lost a Partner to Suicide
— Suicide provokes powerful and diverse feelings in people. As such, it makes for a compelling storyline in TV dramas, drawing the viewer into the emotionally turbulent world of the protagonist. The...
View ArticleOn the Universal Access to Antiretroviral Drugs: Insights from Brazil
— By Shyama V. Ramani and Eduardo Urias Photo: PWRDF, Creative Commons BY 2.0 Today on World AIDS Day, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé reminds us that one of the targets of the Sustainable...
View ArticleA Flap Over Breastfeeding Really Doesn’t Rile Social
> Source: 30dB.com – Breastfeeding According to The New York Times, Ecuador was set to introduce the resolution at a WHO conference in May, but the U.S. threatened to withdraw military aid and cut...
View ArticleBreastfeeding Has Been the Best Public Health Policy Throughout History
Joan Y. Meek, Florida State University Breastfeeding has long been the gold standard for infant nutrition. The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of...
View ArticleHow Perfection Almost Killed Me
World Suicide Prevention Day, 10 September 2018 and R U OK Day, 13 September 2018 — Dr Dain Heer had a seemingly perfect life when he decided to end it all. Years later, he is determined to save...
View ArticleThe Search for a New Masculinity
Sebastián Molano used a surprising incident on a Washington D.C. street corner to examine how to examine, transform and embrace gender roles. —- It is about 11.25 pm, the middle of a long weekend in...
View ArticleReligion and Sexual Shame
— By James A. Haught The World Health Organization once estimated that more than 100 million couples around the globe make love during a typical day. Sex is a powerful human force. It’s natural,...
View ArticleDo You Remember the Ancient History of HIV/AIDS?
— By Ian Lekus How do I teach the history of HIV/AIDS to today’s students? I find myself pondering this question, trying to figure out how to convey the dramatic story of a catastrophic, culturally...
View ArticleW.H.O. Declares Coronavirus ‘Pandemic’ as UK Sees Highest Daily Rise in Cases
This is now officially a pandemic, the World Health Organisation confirmed today – although they declared it was not too late for countries to act, saying they were ringing the alarm bell “loud and...
View ArticleWhat I Learned From the COVID-19 Response in Sweden
— By Mohammad-Reza Ghovanloo Earlier this year, I left my home in Vancouver to start working as a visiting researcher in Stockholm, Sweden. The world has changed significantly since that time. Being...
View ArticleImmune Intelligence in a Time of Coronavirus
The usual explanation for why some persons have been susceptible to COVID-19 is that their immune system was weakened, compromised by cancer, diabetes, hypertension, or another underlying condition....
View ArticlePopulism and Pandemics
— By Kumanan Wilson It wasn’t supposed to play out this way. The world had entered into a grand bargain in 2005 with the approval of the revised International Health Regulations (IHR). Countries had...
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