IN NUMBERS: Active cases below 200,000 for over two weeks Some 12,899 fresh coronavirus cases were recorded in India on Thursday, taking the cumulative caseload to 10,790,183. Fatalities rose by 107, taking the total death toll to 154,703, a report in the Scroll said. Total recoveries stood at 10,480,455. The active caseload stayed below the 200,000-mark for the 16th day in a row at 155,025. India has vaccinated over 4,400,000 health workers against Covid-19. A total of 199,216,019 samples have been tested for coronavirus up to Wednesday.
Longer delays between doses of Oxford vaccine provides even better protection: Latest efficacy data Updated efficacy results for the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine shows that delaying the second dose beyond four weeks provides even better protection against Covid-19, according to a report in The Hindu. The data shows that vaccine efficacy was 54.9% when the second dose was administered less than six weeks after the first dose. When the interval wa
Share
A new community and school-based intervention have shown that risk communication and community engagement can help to improve community member’s access to contraceptive services, limit the spread of Tuberculosis, promote awareness on HIV/AIDS testing and counselling services, correct misconceptions on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) including raising the critical consciousness of people on COVID-19 risk mitigation within households in Oyo State, Nigeria.
Community outreach programs help to create an enabling environment to correct the negative sociocultural factors that drive the risks for GBV FGM/C, HIV/AIDs, SRH, and TB by reaching the vulnerable women and girls with vital sexual and reproductive health information including COVID-19 mitigation strategies.
“It is a moment of great joy for me going home after many years of living on the streets of Accra, yet anxious about the reception from my family,” says Mohammed Gamado, aged 19 years.
Gamado, a native of Wa in the Upper West Region of Ghana and a former street child, will for the first time in many years celebrate the 2020 Christmas and the ensuing New Year with his family after spending many years living on the streets of Accra.
Sharing part of his life story with the Ghana News Agency in Accra, Gamado, said he migrated to live with his father who works in a local bank in Accra, but had to leave the home at age of 13, because he could not bear the maltreatment by his step mother, and the fact that his farther refused to do anything about his predicament after several reports to him.
December 11, 2020
Unwanted pregnancies have risen amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic on the back of restricted access to contraceptive services, women’s rights activists revealed in a discussion on Thursday (Dec 11). The National Population and Family Planning Board [BKKBN] predicted that unwanted pregnancies would rise by 15 per cent amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Dati Fatimah, consultant of the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice (AIPJ2), said in an event held by the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) on Thursday.
The event was held to mark the end of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, as well as Human Rights Day.