Male Breast Cancer Accounts For 0.9% In Zimbabwean Men
HOSPICE and Palliative Care Association of Zimbabwe (HOSPAZ), an organization that deals with palliative care for cancer, TB, HIV and other communicable and non-communicable diseases have warned that men were not excluded from developing breast cancer and should always be on the lookout for signs and symptoms of the disease. By Patricia Mashiri The call
Read MorePeople living with HIV at higher risk of COVID-19 illness but have lower access to COVID-19 vaccines
AN increasing body of evidence indicates that people living with HIV who acquire SARS-CoV-2 infection are at heightened risk of requiring hospitalization and having poor clinical outcomes. Data from the United States of America show that people living with HIV who acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection were much more likely to require hospitalization and suffer severe illness
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3.3 Million Children At Risk Of Child Marriage Due To Post Pandemic Hunger Crisis – World Vision
A child that went to bed hungry in the past 4 weeks is 60% more likely to be married than their peers who did not experience hunger Number of children experiencing crisis level hunger increased by 12 million between 2019 to 2020, meaning an additional 3.3 million children could be married before the age of 18. Â
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More than 120,000 American Kids Lost a Parent or Other Caregiver During the COVID-19 Pandemic
THE number of U.S. children orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic may be larger than previously estimated, and the toll has been far greater among Black and Hispanic Americans, a new study suggests. More than half the children who lost a primary caregiver during the pandemic belonged to those two racial groups, which make up about
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