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Brazil: ‘Hands That Cure, Words That Heal'

Bolivia: Protests Sweep Across the Country

Democratic Republic of Congo: Clandestine Abortions on the Rise in Goma

Illegal abortion is a common practice in several provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, particularly in Goma, Nord-Kivu. Congolese law prohibits abortion in all parts of the country. The situation in Goma is becoming increasingly worrisome.

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Video: Mothers Around the World Share Their Different Experiences 26 April 2012
Tunisia: Neglect of Those Wounded in the Revolution 20 April 2012
Video Highlights: Syrian Activism, Children's Issues and Dolphin Deaths 18 April 2012
Nigeria: Nigerian Bloggers and Tweeps #SavedOke 18 April 2012
India: Gearing Up for Better E-Waste Management 11 April 2012

Latest stories about Health

15 May 2012

Costa Rica: The Circus that Saves Children's Lives

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

To the south of Costa Rica lies the town of Perez Zeledon, home to the Fantazztico Circus that is giving children and youth in the region a chance to stay out of drugs and trouble while opening doors to international travel.

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12 May 2012

South Korea: Continuing Mad Cow Controversy Over US Beef Imports

Written by Lee Yoo Eun · East Asia, North America

Since last week, South Korea has seen continuing protests against importing beef from the United States after mad cow disease broke out in California. Korean government dispatched its inspection team to the US to quell the public anger incited by the government's unkept promise to halt the beef import immediately when the disease was detected. However, the inspection team's lack of control over the investigation process and the biased member selection process further deepened South Korean's distrust of the government.

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Argentina: Lawmakers Approve Gender Identity Law

Written by Laura Schneider · Translated by L. Finch · Latin America

Argentina approved a gender identity law, which allows changes of sex and name without going to court. Once word spread of the law's passage, users across the social networking spectrum echoed the reactions of the citizenry.

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11 May 2012

Argentina Approves Death with Dignity Law

Written by Laura Schneider · Translated by Chellsy Alis Manning · Latin America

After a long debate in the Argentine Senate, the Death with Dignity project was converted into law with wide-ranging support. On Twitter the hashtag #Muertedigna (death with dignity) became a local trending topic after news broke out about the new law. There have been many different opinions.

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Cuba: Remembering the Dissidents

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

This week, members of the Cuban diaspora have been blogging about two main things: the one-year anniversary of the death of dissident Juan Wilfredo Soto, and the re-arrest of human rights activist Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia.

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9 May 2012

Trinidad & Tobago: Three Score and Ten

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

Two Trinidadian bloggers - one living on island and the other a member of the diaspora - have come to the difficult realisation that their parents are growing old. In this post, they discuss the issue of ageism while sharing their mixed emotions and fears…

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Video: Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards Voting Open

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa, North America

Young underprivileged youth learning multi-media tools are showcasing their work through The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards. Entries include documentaries, music videos, poetry, audio, graphic design, narrative, animation and photography.

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27 April 2012

Malaysia: Rare Earth Processing Plant Creates Backlash

Written by Jerrenn Lam · East Asia

An Australian mining company has established a processing plant in Kuantan, Malaysia. But many Malaysians are incensed that this plant was constructed without consulting the residents. Netizens debate whether the government should stop the operations of the rare earth processing plant

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25 April 2012

Cuba: Resorting to Hunger Strike

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

Cuban netizens, primarily from the diaspora, are once again blogging about instances of police abuse in the country and how the island's justice system routinely makes hunger-strikers out of prisoners of conscience.

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24 April 2012

Zambia: Former VP's Death Highlights State of Local Hospitals

Written by Gershom Ndhlovu · Sub-Saharan Africa

Immediate past Vice President of the former ruling MMD government George Kunda died on 16 April 2012 at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in the capital, Lusaka. Despite mourning his death, netizens seized the opportunity to criticize the current status of health care in Zambia and highlight the need for reform.

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Updates about Health

15 May 2012

Mozambique

Knight International Journalism Fellow Mercedes Sayagues published a video (with versions in English and Portuguese) which takes viewers on a sad tour of maternity clinics in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. The province has the highest maternal mortality rate in Mozambique.

• Janet Gunter

13 May 2012

Egypt

Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Wellcome Library and King’s College London Digital Humanities Department have recently launched the Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership (WAMCP). The manuscripts collection comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine. All content is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0).

• محمد عادل

9 May 2012

St. Vincent & the Grenadines

And Still I Rise is saddened by “news of three suicides by hanging have stunned the nation.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

8 May 2012

China

South Korean authorities had confiscated tons of dried flesh of dead infants that was being capsuled and smuggled out of China. Whilst almost every blog and media responded to this horrendous news with pure disgust and accusation against Chinese high abortion rate, one PR and communications agency defined this case 'a sad story of misinformation and miscommunication'.

• Lee Yoo Eun

4 May 2012

Indonesia

Against All Odds is a Tumblr blog of Andri Tambunan who has been documenting the HIV/AIDS epidemic among indigenous Papuans in Indonesia.

• Mong Palatino

29 April 2012

Cote d'Ivoire

Suy Kahofi writes [fr] on Africa Vox about free medical care in Cote d'Ivoire : “The completely free care has, certainly, relieved the people, but it has been marred by problems : shortages in the supply of drugs, lack of nursing staff… The health professionals themselves do not seem to be convinced that care should be completely free, because it results in abuses…”

• Abdoulaye Bah

27 April 2012

Haiti

“In early 2011, a dozen people died after drinking ‘clairin' – a traditional Haitian alcohol drink – made with methanol in the Fond Baptiste region, north of the capital. Another 20 or so were blinded or paralyzed”: Haiti Grassroots Watch learns that “judicial, health and commerce authorities have not investigated who was responsible for the tragedy” and that “the production and sale of clairin – and ‘fake clairin' – continues with no regulation”, saying: “The tragedy could occur again at any moment, on an even larger scale.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

26 April 2012

Bulgaria

The blog “Работнически глас” (”Worker's voice”) tells [bg] about a trial scheduled for May 26: a former female employee is suing a company for a discriminatory clause in the work contract, which stated that any female employee who gets pregnant after being hired will have to pay a fine (700 lv, around 350 euros: nearly double the average salary in Bulgaria). In her lawsuit, the employee argues that this clause constitutes a discrimination based on sex. It is still unclear how such a contract could have been approved by the official labor administration.

• Rayna St.

25 April 2012

China

Upon the unveiling of the toxic medicine capsules scandal, a large quantity of empty medicine capsules was dumped into an open sewer ditch in Zhengzhou city, Henan province. (more from ChinaSMACK)

• Oiwan Lam

24 April 2012

Botswana

Edmund Smith-Asante observes that Botswana is the only African country most likely to approach the MDG7 (achieving universal access to water by 2015): “Botswana currently experiences 89 under-five sanitation-related deaths yearly, the lowest on the African continent, saves 14 under-five lives annually with its current rate of investment in the sector, and is projected to save two lives each year if it is able to meet its MDG target of 69%.”

• Abdoulaye Bah

Comments on "Health"

Bolivia: Protests Sweep Across the Country

Its not that medical workers should work 8 hours a day, they all already do work much more than that....

And the story continues. Yesterday, Norwegian swimming champion Alexander Dale Oen died in the US of a cardiac arrest. He...

The plant has already been proven to be harmless and well within international scientific standards by scientists who actually know...
When you protest with wrong facts you devalue the protest movement. Lynas is safe.
There is no safe dose of radioation. Aside from the radioactive waste, rare earth processing produce a huge amount...