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Hakim Hayat Spreading at least as quickly as the COVID-19 virus, an ‘infodemic’ has infected large swaths of media and information exchange across ASEAN. Massive amounts of information, including rumours, misinformation and dis-information, have reached millions of people who are hoping to understand how to stay safe until the pandemic has been controlled. High levels of uncertainty are driving people to look for any information about the virus and what to do about it. Fake news has ranged ...

Overcoming the ‘infodemic’ in Asean Lydia Ruddy SPREADING at least as quickly as the Covid-19 virus, an “infodemic” has infected large swaths of media and information exchange across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). Massive amounts of information, including rumors, mis-information and dis-information have reached millions of people who are hoping to understand how to stay safe until the pandemic has been controlled. High levels of uncertainty are drivi...

Updated: March 08, 2021 00:01 IST The issue of care burden on women is not a family or an individual issue, but a public policy one, says Anita Bhatia. Share Article AAA In this file photo the United Nations logo is seen at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.   | Photo Credit: AFP The issue of care burden on women is not a family or an individual issue, but a public policy one, says Anita Bhatia. The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected women’s income, health and security, and...

The policy paradigm that he lays out there is as applicable and relevant to lesser developed economies today as when he wrote this monograph in the mid-1940s The coronavirus and the government responses with shutdowns and lockdowns, along with restrictions on international travel and disruptions of the global supply chains that crisscross countries and continents, have made a fuller and more rapid recovery difficult in the Western industrialized countries, but even more so in many places in wha...

Both the mental health effects and damage done to the education of young people by repeated lockdowns across the world have been points of concern for a number of governments, but the two have not often been combined in public discourse. However, Dr. Tali Shenfield, Clinical Director of Toronto’s Advanced Psychology Services Center, believes that the threat to the mental health of young people could be one of the most serious and lasting effects of the pandemic period. Though young people fac...

Negative Effects of Ivory Trade and Habitat Destruction on African Elephants The teams findings reflect the toll of the ivory trade and habitat destruction. https://t.co/RcCb90bKV1— Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) December 18, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: West African elephant tusks were analyzed to determine what specific herds the elephants came from. At the time of the harvest of the tusks, reclaimed from the ship wreck from 500 years ago, there was evidence of 17 herds where now th...