$1.4 billion needed for sexual and reproductive health services in crisis-hit countries © UNFPA/Ralph Tedy Erol UNFPA has issued an urgent financial call to provide more than 45 million people with gender-based violence prevention programs and critical reproductive health services by 2025. This is at a time when 11 million expectant mothers are in dire
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by Caleb Tiam–Lee Claiming millions of lives every year, breast cancer remains the most prevalent cancer in the Philippines. Mainly affecting women, data from the Department of Health and Philippine Statistics Authority show that 3 in every 100 will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the country, the highest in over 190 countries surveyed. Kara
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Global economy a mixed bag, horizon uncertain: UNCTAD © UNICEF/Karin Schermbrucker | An informal settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. World economic growth is predicted to slow from 3% to 2.4% through 2023, with little indication of a recovery in 2024, according to a UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report. These numbers
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India’s healthcare system houses a three-tiered structure. This includes Sub-centres, Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and Community Health Centres (CHCs) at the primary level, District hospitals at the secondary level and Hospitals at the tertiary level.
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Aging is an inevitable trend in China and will be so for quite a long time. The ratio of labor supply, pressure on elderly care, pension system and healthcare will create lots of challenges. The Chinese government also pointed out that we should see the opportunity of “silver hair economy”, with an increasing market demand of senior citizen’s service and products.
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Gargi Mishra is a 21-year old Teach for India fellow teaching in a low-income private school in Shivaji Nagar, Govandi, Mumbai.
The goal towards a gender-equal society may still be at the far end of the bridge, especially that not only girls and women, or the LGBTQIA+ community experience gender discrimination, violence, abuse, among others.
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Abhinandan Dhakal, a masters student of Environmental Economics from the University of York, wanted to make a social and environmental impact. He moved back to his hometown, nestled in the Himalayas, to pursue agricultural entrepreneurship.
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With the continued battle against COVID-19 in the Philippines, so is the continued rise in the volume of health care or medical wastes in the country. On the onset of the pandemic in 2020, the Asian Development Bank had already projected few cities which will deal with excessive amount of medical wastes, including the country’s capital, Manila, with a projection of 280 metric tons per day.
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Schools typically provide safe spaces for girls. When they are in school, they are less likely to be forced into marriage. During this pandemic, however, schools are not there to protect girls.
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