Health inequalities facing women and girls, already stark before the onset of COVID-19, have widened glaringly during the pandemic. Lockdowns restricted access to sexual and reproductive health services, increased violence ...
May 10, 2022
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Over the last decade or so, there's been an uptick in the number of adults being diagnosed with autism and ADHD. Any number of factors might explain this rise, including greater public awareness of both conditions, broader ...
Apr 22, 2022
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By 2021, South Africa's unemployment rate was at 44%. Around 55.5% of South Africans were living in poverty. Figures show that in 2021, 10 million people, including 3 million children, lived in a household affected by hunger.
Apr 18, 2022
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Browse any medical dictionary, and before hitting appendectomy and anesthesia, you'll find abortion.
Apr 18, 2022
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A single vaccine shot against Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer, delivers comparable protection for girls and women under 21 as two doses, the WHO's immunisation experts said.
Apr 12, 2022
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Women who remained adherent to COVID-19 preventive measures in Uganda in mid-2020 were more likely to experience intimate partner violence (IPV) than women who were poorly adherent to the measures, according to a new study ...
Apr 6, 2022
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In the first HIV prevention study to incorporate the concept of informed choice into its design, nearly all of the adolescent girls and young women who took part in the study accepted one of the two prevention products that ...
Feb 15, 2022
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"We already know that immaturity is an explanation for young people's delinquency, but now we can show that immaturity also is an important factor in deciding whether young people become victims of violence or not," says ...
Jan 17, 2022
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(HealthDay)—The pandemic has intensified mental health struggles that were already widespread among American teens, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy warned Tuesday.
Dec 8, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have been awarded $2.6 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health to study how pandemic-related stressors influence sexual behavior and risk of sexually ...
Dec 2, 2021
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