Johns Hopkins MPH student blog encourages people to back the HPV mandate for schools… I know personally that the teen girls I mentor are sexually active, posing themselves to the risk of contracting HPV. HPV causes painful genital sores and cervical cancer. It’s a shame that religious groups like Focus on the Family pose their ignorant views on limiting the access to crucial (simple, easy and cheap) health prevention tactics. Ohhhh life.
I love dynamic images that portray the stuff I care about most in the world- global health and women’s rights. I know I always steal everything for humanosphere for my tumblr - but hey, it’s my number one news source for poverty and global health. (infograph generated by UN agriculture)
WHOOOOPI Goldberg talks about why she cares about global health (video done through PATH - my favoritist non-profit in da world!!)
“Nothing has illustrated flaws in the American system so well as the recent financial crisis, in which a few big institutions shrugged off regulation, abused their freedoms, persuaded the government to bail them out (but not their victims), and then managed to forestall real reform and return to almost all the practices that got them in trouble in the first place. The result is a backlash seen in everything from Occupy Wall Street to nationalist protests against globalization.” -David Rothkopf writing in Foreign Policy magazine
Nicki Minaj and Ricki Martin team up to raise HIV/AIDS awareness for young people, all around the globe. I’m gonnna buy the “Nicki” MAC VIVA GLAM tomo.
Today is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Like other days of observation, it is a time to reflect, face sometimes hard-to-acknowledge realities, celebrate triumphs, and lament tragedies. This year’s theme is “Changing the Course of HIV/AIDS, One Black Life at a Time.”
A global health journey.
