UGANDA: Lifting Silence on Menstruation to Keep Girls in School
sally Joshua KyalimpaKAMPALA, Oct 22 2009 (IPS) - More than half of Ugandan girls who enrol in grade one drop out before sitting for their primary school-leaving examinations. The fact that…
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US: Soldiers Forced to Go AWOL for PTSD Care
Dahr JamailMARFA, Texas, Dec 11 2009 (IPS) - With a military health care system over-stretched by two ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, more soldiers are deciding to go absent…
ASIA: ‘Post-Disaster Psychosocial Support a Must for Children’
B. C. LeeBANGKOK, Jan 27 2010 (IPS) - When disaster strikes, acute stress disorders, especially among children, may follow. Yet the need for early psychosocial interventions is often overlooked, if…