Kindness is the best medicine when someone is grieving”, Ken Sazuze says one year after the launch of HWF’s Families Programme: It’s been one year since the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF), the charity started by and for healthcare workers, launched their Families Programme to support the families of healthcare workers who sadly lost their lives fighting […]
Coventry University academic launches Remote4All project to investigate the impact of remote e-working on people with neurodiversity and disabilities A Coventry University academic has launched a project to investigate how the shift to working from home impacts people with disabilities and neurodiversity. The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of people across the UK to work from […]
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‘Mistrust’ among main factors influencing Covid-19 vaccine uptake in ethnic minority groups: The main factors that influence Covid vaccine uptake among ethnic minority groups have been identified in a new study With uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine consistently lower among some ethnic minority groups than among the general population, the Collaboration for Change Project team sought to identify factors that influence […]
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“Welcome to the club”- What COVID-19 can teach us about childhood cancer: New Curtin-led research has found the widespread social and hygiene changes that have occurred because of COVID-19 mirrored the usual way of life for families of children with cancer. An Australian-wide study, published in Pediatric Psychology, and led by PhD student Jenny Davies from […]
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WHO advises against use of convalescent plasma: for covid-19: Current evidence shows no improvement in survival and other important measures. Convalescent plasma (a transfusion of blood plasma from someone who has recovered from covid-19) is not recommended for patients with covid-19, says a WHO Guideline Development Group of international experts in The BMJ. Despite its initial […]
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African kids among those to miss medical appointments due to COVID: Patients seeking treatment for HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, maternal and child health services missed vital appointments because of the pressures COVID-19 put on Africa’s health systems, new research has found. The research, published today in BMJ Global Health, found examples of up to half of South […]
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Younger people’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic was shaped by their savvy use of social media platforms, navigating mis- and dis-information, subjective content loops, big-tech algorithms and emerging “splinter platforms,” a new University of Melbourne report has found. Social Media & COVID-19 – a Global Study of Digital Crisis Interaction among Gen Z and Millennials […]
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This World AIDS Day: End Inequalities, End AIDS, End Pandemics: “As if HIV itself were not enough, COVID-19 has brought more fear and insecurities to the communities. I felt the same things with the COVID-19 pandemic that I did when I heard I had the HIV virus—fear, anxiety, stress, and limitations. In the community, they say COVID-19 will be the end of the […]
WHO Statement – Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened on […]
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Exposing inequities in life expectancy : a surge in people dying in their own homes is ‘deeply worrying,’ risking a chasm in life expectancy between rich and poor: Analysis of ONS data by LCP has highlighted ‘worrying’ high levels of people dying in their own homes from causes other than Covid in England and Wales. […]