Novel program shows strong promise in malaria prevention

A large scale malaria prevention program, consisting of intermittent distributions of anti-malaria medicines, appears to be drastically reducing the number of new cases of the disease among young children during peak transmission season, according to preliminary results from projects run by the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in two African [...]

Recession and suicide

Materialistic/hedonistic lifestyle and Suicide During the Great Depression, the press published dramatic stories of people committing suicide after they had lost their savings, homes, and/or jobs. The World Health Organization (WHO) currently reports that more than 800,000 people kill themselves each year, a rate that has been rising owing to the recent recession. Is there [...]

Maternal Mortality Declining

As I wrote in the recent post, The Joy and Burden of Motherhood, “The greatest joy of motherhood is seen as the sheer gift of bringing a life into this world and helping to shape them from the moment of birth and then to watch them grow into a happy, productive and successful member of [...]

Africa hit by weak global environmental policies, says 5th Global Environment Outlook report

In what looks like affirming allegations by Africa’s civil society, the fifth global environmental outlook (GEO-5) report released Wednesday by the UN Environment Programme shows that only four out of possible 90 goals and objectives to achieve global sustainable development are in progress. The report launched few days to the Rio+20 Summit points out that [...]

The Joy and Burden of Motherhood

The joy of motherhood has long since been praised over and over again. The greatest joy of motherhood is seen as the sheer gift of bringing a life into this world and helping to shape them from the moment of birth and then to watch them grow into a happy, productive and successful member of [...]

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