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Overview AFFIRM is a hub for research and capacity development to improve the delivery of cost effective interventions for mental disorders in sub-Saharan Africa. There is growing international consensus that a task shifting approach is required in LMICs in which low-cost interventions are delivered by general health workers, supervised by mental health specialists, through routine health care delivery systems. At the same time, mental health research capacity and infrastructure in Africa are extremely limited, with little dedicated funding, a scarcity of trained mental health research person...

Malala Yousafzai Says Girls' Education Is Key to Fighting Climate Change "When we educate girls ... they can become farmers, conservationists, solar technicians." By Lin Taylor LONDON, March 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Keeping girls in school and taking young climate leaders seriously are keys to tackling climate change, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said on Friday. Speaking to a virtual panel, Malala, 23, said educating girls and young women, particularly in developing countries, would give them a chance to pursue green jobs and be part of solving the climate crisis in th...

Point & counterpoint | Healing America: Karen Dolan - Beneath division lie common goals Karen Dolan FacebookTwitterEmail Biden has promised to bring a divided electorate together. Is this even possible? Social divisions may take a generation to heal. But with enough political will, the answer on policy questions should be a resounding yes. Despite our divisions, progressive responses to bread and butter issues enjoy broad, bipartisan support. Majority support exists for everything from cash relief payments during the COVID-19 crisis to increasing the minimum wage and expanding health care. Th...

NGOs More Vital Than Ever In Helping With Venezuela's Worsening Humanitarian Crisis Simón Bolívar Foundation panels cite COVID-19 as accelerating the country's deteriorating health, food and economic security, and underscore gap in humanitarian funding News provided by Share this article Share this article HOUSTON, Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- NGOs and other private philanthropic groups are increasingly critical in helping address the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, according to three diverse panels of leading experts recently convened in Houston via webinar by the Simón ...

Welcome back. the global citizen festival gets under way in just five days. we now have news that a slew of celebrity and leaders are going to be there. so leonardo dicaprio, bono, malala yousafzai, usher, common, bill and melinda gates, connie britton, laverne cox will be there. they have been added to this star-studded concert focusing on a world without extreme poverty. that is the goal of the global poverty project. leaders around the world are setting priorities to reach that end and address climate change as well. this year, the poverty project's platform, the global citizen festival, wi...