Watch the eighth edition of PandemiCast – our second looking at sexual and reproductive health issues during COVID-19 – here. … [Read more...] about PandemiCast VIII: Sexual and reproductive health (II)
PandemiCast VII: The importance of healthcare communications
In our seventh episode, we look at healthcare communications. We discuss: examples of responsible health communications during COVID-19 and any particularly irresponsible ones; communications as a source of both unity and division during the pandemic; and what lessons the health communications sector can learn from COVID-19. Edited by Iknoor Kaur. … [Read more...] about PandemiCast VII: The importance of healthcare communications
PandemiCast VI: Sexual and reproductive health
Our sixth episode sees panellists look at the coronavirus pandemic and how it affects issues linked to sexual and reproductive health. … [Read more...] about PandemiCast VI: Sexual and reproductive health
PandemiCast V: An update on public policy
Since our first panel last spoke, the world has seen significant changes in how governments are responding to the coronavirus crisis. Our first panel reconvenes for the fifth PandemiCast, discussing how public policy has shifted, how effective it has been and what the outlook is going forward. … [Read more...] about PandemiCast V: An update on public policy
PandemiCast IV: How coronavirus affects other conditions
This is the fourth edition of PandemiCast, the weekly video podcast discussing subjects related to the coronavirus pandemic. The topic focuses on how COVID-19 has affected the treatment of other diseases. The other editions of PandemiCast can be accessed here. … [Read more...] about PandemiCast IV: How coronavirus affects other conditions
PandemiCast III: The search for a vaccine
When World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, he said “we have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus…and we have never before seen a pandemic that can be controlled, at the same time.” While the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted countries the world over – India … [Read more...] about PandemiCast III: The search for a vaccine
PandemiCast II: The effect on the media
The second weekly PandemiCast panel discussion, focusing on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the news cycle and the spread of misinformation online. Watch the first PandemiCast edition here. … [Read more...] about PandemiCast II: The effect on the media
PandemiCast I: Public policy in a pandemic
Our first discussion focuses on public policy, exploring three themes: what governments are doing, how they seem to think the health emergency will evolve and what public reaction has been. In addition, we provide a regular weekly analysis of media and social media trends, using global data from 300,000 news sources, thirty million blogs, and a … [Read more...] about PandemiCast I: Public policy in a pandemic
The global gag rule does not stop abortions. It does the opposite.
New research shows that a US Republican policy is increasing rates of abortion by forty percent in 26 African countries. It is a bitter irony that the policy is designed to starve NGOS which offer advice on abortion or help for policymakers in making evidence-based decisions about abortion services. “Decisions made in Washington DC have … [Read more...] about The global gag rule does not stop abortions. It does the opposite.
Anti-vaccination movement show the damage conspiracy theories can do
Conspiracy theories - real and imagined - exert a virtually unparalleled grip on the public imagination. Many simply sell improbable books or over-hyped Netflix series. Anti-vaccination conspiracy theories, however, pose a threat to children and vulnerable adults around the world. Speculation about nefarious plots veer from the plausible to the … [Read more...] about Anti-vaccination movement show the damage conspiracy theories can do
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