Hunger is the most terrible thing and its consequences are not always obvious.

In Malawi it's causing thousands of people living with HIV to abandon the drugs that keep them alive.

The meds are near impossible to tolerate on an empty stomach... 1/2

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Adverse events linked to #COVID19 vaccination are extremely rare, and the upside of protection from
severe COVID-19 — and its repercussions — vastly outweighs such rare incidents. Here’s useful safety info: who.int/news-room/ques….

The #16Days of activism against gender-based violence campaign kicked off with an orange bang United Nations Geneva today!

#PushForward and say 🟠'NO'🟠 to violence against women and girls!

#OrangeGeneva #OrangeTheWorld UN Women EU at the UN - Geneva #MultilateralismMatters

#SylviaPlath ’s poem POPPIES IN JULY turned 60 today!

Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/CfeaI-vL8gB/…

Safe #abortion is health care. It saves lives. Restricting it drives women and girls towards unsafe abortions, resulting in complications, even death. The evidence is irrefutable. bit.ly/3CNU7Ne #RoeVsWade

Safe abortion care is essential to protect the health of women & girls everywhere.
Removing access to #abortion care will put more women & girls at risk of illegal abortions and the consequent safety issues that would bring bit.ly/3kA2Z1P

'Not one doctor, not one nurse left. They did not only stay but were saving lives while the shelling was there..' Hans Kluge World Health Organization (WHO) tells BBC News (World) about his visit to #Chernihiv and Kyiv.. #Ukraine RussianWar . #Ukraine

On #WorldHealthDay , Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus lays out a bold new World Health Organization (WHO) initiative that highlights the need to promote peace and health in order to protect the planet and its people for a #HealthierTomorrow aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/…

I just subscribed to A letter from Pádraig Ó Tuama padraigotuama.substack.com/?utm_medium=we…

Over the past few days, false information about us has been circulating online.

This could put our Red Cross staff, volunteers, and the people we seek to help at risk.

So we’re addressing this head on. These are the facts 👇

“In today’s poem, I love the tenderness felt for the tree, and I love the question of whether or not that tree feels a tenderness too,” Ada says in our latest episode.

Today’s poem is “Bury Me in the Woods of My Childhood” by @erin_rodoni bit.ly/3pVKasg

'A Moment Ago' by Minerva Sarma & Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee wp.me/p7dbSF-9yx via @rattlemag

So, World Health Organization (WHO) just sent out a note explaining why they skipped Nu and Xi in naming the variant #Omicron :
'because Nu is too easily confounded with “new” and Xi was not used because it is a common surname'

Dr Maria Van Kerkhove gives an update on #COVID19 virus variant B.1.1.529, during the #AskWHO session on 25 November 2021 ⬇️

Please save the date: on 17 November we'll livestream an event focusing on eliminating #cervicalcancer . In affluent countries, we take preventative screening for granted, and we have access to #HPV vaccines. This isn't true the world over, but it must be!

The Thicket has arrived and it is 100% Spotty Dog Approved. A million thanks Pitt Poetry Series.

LIVE: #WHOAcademy Groundbreaking Ceremony with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and President Emmanuel Macron twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

A WHO expert explains why she believes the rush for Covid-19 boosters is premature statnews.com/2021/08/09/who… via STAT

Thrilled to have a poem in Lily issue #6. Thank you to publisher + editor par excellence Eileen Cleary. instagram.com/p/CSKvJ7dIopg/…