Homelessness is a big challenge in low-and middle-income countries and mental health conditions are highly prevalent in homeless populations. A significant number of homeless people have some so...
In this episode, Carine Weiss speaks with Achille Bapolisi, one of three psychiatrists in Bukavu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Achille talks about the need to provide more psycho-social...
Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. It is a mental health disorder that affects a person's ability to think, feel and behave clearly. The exa...
Malaria is a disease of poverty and injustice. It is both a cause and a consequence of poverty. Its impact is especially ferocious on the poorest: those least able to afford preventive measures ...
Mosquitoes infect millions of people with malaria - a disease that kills a child every two minutes. Most of these deaths occur in the poorest countries with the weakest health systems. Over the ...
World Malaria Day, marked each year on 25 April, is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control.
The S...
One in three women in India is likely to have been subjected to intimate partner violence of a physical, emotional, or sexual nature. Due to the deeply rooted gender norms and cultural values in...
“Do we ever wonder why talking about sex, sexuality, sexual desire and pleasure brings in such feeling of shame and embarrassment? After all there is nothing unnatural about it nor are we born w...
The world has changed for the better for the past decades but we are still failing young people at home, in schools and in the community with regards to comprehensive sexuality education. Their ...
Contradicting laws reinforce stigma and discrimination against LGBT people and hinders access to health care and HIV services out of fear of being identified as gay, discriminated against, perse...