According to the World Cancer Report 2020, cancer is the first or second leading cause of early deaths in over 134 of the 183 countries and yet our world has never thought of aggressively pursing a cancer vaccine. This trend must change urgently and starting from 2022 we must aim to eradicate cancer from the…
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Organ donation is “when a person allows an organ of theirs to be removed, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive or after death with the assent of the next of the kin.” It is “the engraftment of human cells, tissues or organs from a donor to recipient with an aim of restoring…
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When I first started out in the development sector, everyone I met told me get developmental funds via Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as if that was something every company wanted to give away and did not know what to do. Also, people confidently told me to approach some big companies who often maintained inaccessibility. As…
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”-Martin Luther King INTRODUCTION & CONTEXT According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), maternal health is defined as “Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period.” The health of women during its crucial biological phases of life throughout the pregnancy stage,…
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Do you remember the day when you gathered people at 5 am on the cricket ground to play a cricket match? Do you remember the evening when you organized a birthday party and made everybody dance to your tune? The reason you could align people and complete some tasks was because of your leadership skills.…
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Most of the people I interact with have no idea what Public Health is or what career fields it offers when I tell them I have studied it. They ask me, “Is it medicine? Or social work? Or maybe psychology?” The public health course makes competent students to learn how to examine and improve health…
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