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Health of women and girls in Africa | Australia's fires

Posted by: The Conversation Global

Date: Wednesday, 13 November 2019

 

Editor's note

A summit is under way in Nairobi that aims to get commitments to speed up progress on women’s health across the continent. The main areas that need attention include reducing maternal deaths, making sure women have access to family planning and protecting them from gender-based violence. There will be a strong drive to get governments to commit funds. But, as Alex Ezeh explains, raising money is just part of what’s needed. Commitment to take action is also a prerequisite to making serious advances.

From Sydney, Rachel Badlan helps us understand the verocity of the fires sweeping across Australia’s New South Wales.

Ina Skosana

Health + Medicine Editor

Top story

Women and girls in Gayo village, Ehtiopia collect water from a rain water pool which is purified with tablets before use. Shutterstock

Fresh drive to close gaps on health issues facing women and girls

Alex Ezeh, Drexel University

The aim is to reduce maternal deaths, address the unmet need for family planning and end gender-based violence by 2030.

A firestorm on Mirror Plateaun Yellowstone Park, 1988. Jim Peaco/US National Park Service

Firestorms and flaming tornadoes: how bushfires create their own ferocious weather systems

Rachel Badlan, UNSW

Large, intense bushfires can pump so much heat into the atmosphere they form their own thunderstorm system. And that can make the weather on the ground even more dangerously unpredictable.

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In failing to acknowledge that the capacity of rivers can change quickly, some flood models and defences may not be equipped to deal with the consequences when they do.

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A new report estimates that by 2050, 40 per cent of all infections will be resistant to antimicrobial treatment. This will directly cause 13,700 previously preventable deaths.

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Caitlin Notley, University of East Anglia

Governments around the world are banning e-cigarettes. This is very bad news for public health.

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Comment fabrique-t-on l’immigration irrégulière en France ?

Speranta Dumitru, Université Paris Descartes

La France est la championne européenne des obligations à quitter le territoire et les vingt mesures annoncées par le gouvernement n’y feront rien.

L’entrée de Disney dans la guerre du streaming fragilise l’hégémonie de Netflix

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Disney rejoint les GAFA et les anciens groupes audiovisuels qui mettent tout en œuvre pour séduire les abonnés de Netflix, l’ennemi public numéro 1 dans le monde du streaming.

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Los premios más importantes de la música latina han suprimido la categoría de "Mejor álbum de Flamenco" en este 2019 por no alcanzar el número mínimo de trabajos presentados.

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