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Why Covid-19 Choices Are Critical for Children

Children may escape the worst symptoms of Covid-19 and suffer lower mortality rates, but for millions, the pandemic will have devastating effects.

7 Great Exercises To Build A Healthy Spine & Relieve Sciatica

In our current age of excessive sitting and sedentary lifestyles, back pain is an incredibly common problem — one that I experience myself quite a bit when I don’t take the necessary steps to keep my body loose. About 10 years ago I was digging a pond in my backyard.

Lebanon’s refugee restrictions could harm everyone’s health

Expand Syrian refugees in a building under construction they have been using as a shelter in a city in southern Lebanon, on March 17, 2020, after Lebanon urged people to stay at home for two weeks to stem a novel coronavirus outbreak. © 2020 Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images Syrian

Wikileaks Highlights The Influence “Big Pharma” Has On The World Health Organization

Wikileaks recently reposted leaks from nearly a decade ago showing the strong influence that pharmaceutical companies have when it comes to dictating the policies of the World Health Organization.

Malaysia: Allow Rohingya Refugees Ashore

Expand A screenshot of an exhausted Rohingya refugee receiving aid from the Bangladeshi coast guard.

India’s Steps to Contain Covid-19 Have Failed to Curb Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

Men wait for a bus that will take them to a quarantine facility in the Nizamuddin area of New Delhi, India, March 31, 2020.

The Fastest Ways To Help Manage Fear & Anxiety During Challenging Times

Amidst these unprecedented times an increasing number of us are regularly dealing with fear and anxiety.Thankfully there are some simple tools to help potentially manage both of them.

Coronavirus Fact-Check #3: Covid19 is 20x DEADLIER than the flu

One of the buzz-stats doing the rounds says this novel virus is far more dangerous than influenza, does the science hold up?

COVID-19’s Devastating Impact on Children

Kids talk about the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on children.

Myanmar: 3 Charged for COVID-19 Street Art

Expand Screenshot of the mural painted by three artists charged with "insulting religion" in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar (undated). © 2020 Myitkyina News Journal (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s government should immediately drop all criminal charges against three street artists arrested for painting a mural that raises awareness about the coronavirus pandemic, Human

Blanket Visitor Ban under COVID-19 Will do More Harm Than Good

Expand © Flickr Every day for more than two years, Mae has brought breakfast and dinner to her husband, Dean, 75, (not their real names) in his aged care facility in their town in Northern Queensland. Dean has dementia and Mae sits with him for hours, encouraging him to eat each

Joint Civil Society Statement: European governments must ensure safe and timely access to abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic and public health crisis is presenting grave challenges for health care systems across Europe.

Europe: Abortion Curbs Endanger Women, Girls in Pandemic

Expand One of the gender-based impacts of COVID-19 is the creation of further barriers to abortion healthcare for girls and women. Concerns about access to legal abortion and reproductive health rights, are among the issues highlighted by Women's Day marches, such as the one pictured here in Warsaw, Poland on

Lebanon: Direct COVID-19 Assistance to Hardest Hit

A street vendor pushes his cart in Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, wearing a face mask to try to protect against the spread of COVID-19, in Beirut suburbs, Lebanon, March 30, 2020.