Move along there: Gelada baboons By Dr Jackie Spiby We are still here in Addis Ababa. We have survived the rainy season and the sky is blue again. Many of you will have seen the news about the famine in the south east of Ethiopia where it borders Sudan and Kenya. Sitting in Addis, it [...]
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Highland things
Posted in Africa, Chronic Disease, Climate change, Disaster relief, Global Health, HIV, tagged Addis, baboons, Ethiopia, gelada, HIV, PLHIV, Simien on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Public health implications of the Haiti earthquake
Posted in Disaster relief, tagged Haiti, HIV, International aid, Malnutrition, public health on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After a 7.0 earthquake with 30 aftershocks, close to the surface and to the capital city, much of Port-au-Prince is now rubble. Although this just attains the category of major quake, in terms of destruction and casualties, it is one of the worst ever.
Expert argues prisoners have a right to better health
Posted in Health Inequalities, Health Protection, tagged Hepatitis C, HIV, Inequalities, Mental Health, Prison health, WHO on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Dr Alex Gatherer Consider some of the facts relating to prison health. The majority of prisoners, some 80% or so, have some form of mental ill health, and between 5-10% have serious mental illness, which requires specialist care in suitable facilities. Furthermore, in any community, the local prison at any one time will hold [...]
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