How to Take Better Care of Your Skin: A Guide for Skincare Enthusiasts

Achieving healthy, glowing skin isn t just about appearances it s a reflection of your overall well-being. Whether you re starting a skincare journey or refining your routine, understanding the fundamentals and adopting effective practices can transform your complexion. This guide is designed to empower you with practical tips and insights to take better care of your skin, enhancing both its health and radiance. Dive into these strategies and discover how simple steps can make a significant difference in your skincare regimen.

Track Sales

Tracking sales is crucial for any business to understand its performance and make informed decisions. By monitoring sales data regularly, you can identify trends, assess the effectiveness of marketing efforts, and adjust str…

Health and Wellness Tips for Blind Women

Discover essential health and wellness tips for blind women, including accessible fitness routines, nutrition advice, and mental health support. Learn how adaptive tools and assistive technologies can improve well-being and promote a balanced, healthy lifestyle.

Introduction

Health and wellness are important for everyone, including blind women. Staying healthy helps the body stay strong, and taking care of mental health is just as important. Blind women, like anyone else, need tips and support to live a healthy and happy life.

when it comes to finding wellness resources. Sometimes, exercise programs, healthy recipes, and mental health tools are not designed to be accessible for those with vision loss. This makes it harder for them to stay fit and tak…

HEALTH-VIETNAM: Winter Vigilance Against Bird Flu

Sonny Inbaraj

HANOI, Dec 4 2006 (IPS) – For poultry farmer Tuan Thom, the onset of winter calls for extra vigilance against bird flu. And he is not letting his guard down though avian influenza has claimed no human victim in Vietnam during the past 12 months, nor have there been any poultry outbreaks.
In his poultry farm at Ha Nam district s Hung Cong commune 80 kilometres south of the capital where he rears 1,500 ducks and 1,000 chickens, Tuan is constantly on the lookout for migratory birds that might mingle with his domestic flock.

Winter is the time when migratory birds from Russia, China and Mongolia fly through Vietnam on their way to the warmer south. These birds carry the bird flu virus, Tuan told IPS.

Gesticulating menacingly, the farmer said: I have…

ECONOMY: Chronic Disease Saps U.S.

Abid Aslam

WASHINGTON, Oct 3 2007 (IPS) – Life high off the hog is costing the U.S. economy more than 1 trillion dollars a year in lost productivity and medical treatment costs, according to a private foundation that says the toll can be avoided.
The rate of childhood obesity in the United States has tripled in the last 15 years. Credit: Robert Lawton

The rate of childhood obesity in the United States has tripled in the last 15 years. Credit: Robert Lawton

Seven chronic diseases cancer, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, heart disease, pulmonary conditions,…

BOTSWANA: HIV-positive Mothers Not Convinced to Exclusively Breastfeed

Alma Balopi

GABORONE, Sep 1 2010 (IPS) – An HIV-positive woman must never be encouraged to breastfeed because regardless of what the doctors or researchers say it is too dangerous for the baby, says Koziba Kelatlhe an HIV-positive mother who was advised by health workers not to breastfeed her child.
It has been over a year since the Harvard-Botswana Mma Bana Study (meaning Mother baby in Setswana) found that HIV-positive mothers who take combinations of antiretrovirals (ARVs) can safely breastfeed. The groundbreaking study, conducted in Botswana, was the first randomised study in Africa to compare highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimens used during pregnancy or breastfeeding. It produced the lowest rate of mother to child transmission in comparison with other st…

UGANDA: The Value of Immunisation Programmes

Joshua Kyalimpa and Terna Gyuse

KAMPALA, Jun 14 2011 (IPS) – GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunisation, secured pledges of 4.3 billion dollars from donors in London on Jun. 13 with the aim of securing funding to ensure life-saving vaccinations for every child on the planet.
The Malaria Vaccine
“The World Health Organzation has indicated that, if results confirm safety and efficacy, a policy recommendation is possible as early as 2015, paving the way for countries to implement,” says Dr Christian Loucq, director of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative.
The RTS,S vaccine, the most advanced candidate vaccine against human malaria) was developed over the past decade at a cost of around 300 million dollars by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, with an…

Empowering Women Improves Communities, Ensures Success for Generations

Credit: IFAD

ROME, Dec 4 2017 (IPS) – At an event held on October 29 at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Gender Awards 2017, five countries were honored for impressive achievements in gender equality and women’s empowerment despite harsh conditions and numerous daunting situational and societal obstacles. The five countries are Bangladesh, Mozambique, Colombia, Morocco, and Mauritania. The IFAD supported projects in these countries have ambitious goals for a more egalitarian future. To date these projects have successfully provided women with decision-making opportunities, skill training, and increased autonomy through the development of the…

Am I Abused or Am I a Failure to Adjust? – A Migrant’s Story

NEW YORK, Jan 24 2020 (IPS) – Every year hundreds of immigrants leave their homes and trail to a land of dream and hope where they aspire to find peace, happiness and sometimes a little bit of safety compared to what they leave behind.

Migrations can be for asylum-seeking, for work, study, visa lottery, investing, etc. Another widely popular way to migrate is by marriage and by family-based immigration. People from developing countries strive to get their children married to someone who is from developed countries such as Australia, Canada, The United Kingdom, The United States and so on, in hope of someday making their way into these countries by forming fa…