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Trota, the wise woman of medicine
Imagine you are living in southern Italy around the year 1115 AD, walking in a beautiful garden with an interesting woman who is talking and cutting plants as you go along. The Mediterranean sun pours over your head filling you…
We will be forced to become globally conscious if we do not want to become extinct as a species.
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty organised an international discussion on the state of the world’s access to health technologies to address the pandemic. The following is a statement by Marianella Kloka (member of pressenza’s greek editorial team). Hello…
Important Mapuche meeting on health and medicine based on ancestral knowledge
Wvnen Xawvn, tayiñ Bawehtuwvn”, “Wvnen Xawvn, tayiñ Bawehtuwvn”. At a crucial moment for the health of humanity where the response of the pharmaceutical market was to place life and health as a commodity in the hands of multinationals, the Mapuche…
How are women doing afterwards two years of pandemic?
Before the end of March, REHUNO Health proposes a review of the current situation of women in the (almost) post-pandemic world. By Flavia Estevan We will begin this article by stating that, in general, women are poorer, suffering more violence,…
Under China’s Chairmanship BRICS Launches Vaccine R&D Center
The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), an association of five emerging economies, made one huge step forward, perhaps driven by the Covid-19 pandemic that spread across the world, to launch finally the BRICS Vaccine R&D Center on…
Philippine NGOs Push for Children’s Protection from Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in School Supplies
24 March 2022. As thousands of schools brace for limited face-to-face classes amid declining COVID-19 cases in the Philippines, two non-profit groups raised the alarm over the sale of erasers containing endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), particularly phthalates. The EcoWaste Coalition and…
World Water Day
World Water Day is celebrated on March 22nd. This date was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1992. It aims to raise awareness about the overall global water crisis and the need to implement urgent solutions to solve…
New HIV injection arrives in Brazil and South Africa
The international initiative Unitaid announced on Friday 18 that it will fund the introduction in Brazil and South Africa of an innovative, “highly effective and long-lasting” injectable HIV preventive treatment. The new long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) treatment “could have a…
Health risks from open pit mining
The legacy of mining in San Antonio Oeste: Current health risks, due to contamination effects of open-pit mining. We interviewed Patricia Llonch, member of the Multisectoral Commission for the lead problem in San Antonio Oeste, located in the coastal town…
Consequences of chemical weapons still felt by victims 34 years after the attack on Halabja, Northern Iraq
The 16th of March 2022 marks the 34th anniversary of the despicable attack on Halabja by the forces of Saddam Hussain on the Kurdish population of Northern Iraq. The population was targeted with what experts later concluded to be “a…
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