Why Tattoo Artists Advise Against Numbing Cream
Tattoos require significant penetration into the skin, which may cause discomfort. Numbing cream may help ease this and help make...
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HEALTH-ARGENTINA: No End to Chagas Disease
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 7 2009 (IPS) - After two years of the government health programme Argentina justa, Argentina sin Chagas...
WATER: Poor Sanitation Killing Liberia’s Young
Rebecca MurrayMONROVIA and BOPOLU, Liberia, Nov 23 2009 (IPS) - Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her...
HEALTH-INDIA: Infant Units Go A Long Way in Saving Babies
Manipadma JenaBHUBANESWAR, India, Aug 13 2010 (IPS) - Banita s heart sank when she first saw her prematurely born twin...
HEALTH: Poor States Should Start Campaign to Extend Patent Rights
Julio GodoyPARIS, May 30 2011 (IPS) - Pharmaceutical industries in emerging markets are shifting their focus away from poor to...
Cameroon ‘Safe Haven’ Town Strains Under CAR Refugee Influx
Child refugees from Central African Republic in Cameroon’s eastern border town of Garoua-Boula share a plate of rice in the...
Marginalised Groups Struggle to Access Healthcare in Conflict-Torn East Ukraine
Social worker in the flat of a drug addict in Donetsk doing outreach work. Drug addicts, like other marginalised groups,...
Inclusive Education to Break the Cycles of Poverty
Street Library in Mayotte, July 2016. Credit: François Phliponeau/ATD Fourth World - Centre Joseph Wresinski NEW YORK, Oct 15 2021...
Next Ebola Outbreak ‘Not a Matter of If, but When’
Uganda used public health measures like screening, testing of temperatures, and isolation of suspected cases to contain the Ebola outbreak....