A mother with her little, visibly ill daughter enters the Emergency Room. The girl is two years old and has been ill for six days with high fever, headaches, backpain and myalgia. When the mother started to think the girl was getting better, the child began to lose weight, accompanied by nausea and vomiting with the strange addition of a very sensitive skin. Physical examination reveals a maculopapular rash on extremities, face and trunk, scattered petechiae on the legs, bleedings of the gingiva, a rapid, weak pulse, hypotension and cyanosis. Abdominal palpation and percussion show hepatomegaly. The girl is lethargic and in a state of shock.
In this article Ilona Dekkers reflects on the current situation of Rwanda, in the aftermath of an internationally recognized devastating genocide. Her main focus is on child welfare. In 2007 she was part of the European youth delegation, which accompanied the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, during an educational visit to Rwanda.
UDMs are people, often refugees, who do not have (or did not apply for) a residency permit for the country to which they have fled. These people cannot return to their homelands for several reasons: it is simply too dangerous, they do not have passports or they are too ill to travel. Often the serious problems the refugees would encounter upon return to their own countries are not recognized by the host country. Heavily traumatized refugees might also fail to tell a consistent story, and this can lead to denial of a permit. In each case the reason for escape is important enough for the individual to risk remaining illegally in the host country.
In June 2007, Thekla Bosschaart went to Mundri, a small village in Southern Sudan. Together with eight other Dutch students and a supervisor she started the health education project Mpower! Your body, your responsibility. They trained 62 young Sudanese people to give workshops about Hygiene & Sanitation, Nutrition or Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH). Thekla focused on the latter.
This article considers Hindu bioethics as they relate to biotechnology, suicide, euthanasia, and organ transplantation and donation. To understand bioethical dilemmas from a Hindu standpoint, you must be familiar with the law of karma and beliefs about reincarnation.1-3 The theme of Hindu bioethics is that death is not opposite to life; rather, it is opposite to birth. Hindus consider life to be a journey between birth and death.
I'm in humid, sticky, somewhat smelly and very sweaty Malawi. People have finished their stocks from last year. The new crops, mainly maize, are growing but they are not ready for consumption yet, meaning food seems within reach but it isn’t. This is a truly tantalising time for the Malawian people. Welcome to the Malawian hunger-season.
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