Global News by Tag: health
BUEA, CAMEROON – Lorantine Keukam, 34, is a mother of six children in Buea, the capital of the Southwest region. She serves as the chief of the Unit of Reproductive Health at the Ministry of Public Health’s regional delegation. Although some are still getting used to a rise in male midwives in Cameroon, she says enthusiastically that they are a force to reckon with.
Reporting Rape: Part Seven in a Global Series
KIBERA, KENYA – Laughter is in the air in Bombolulu, one of more than 10 villages in Kibera, the most populous slum in East Africa. Celebrating the new year, children scream as they chase each other, their clothes dirty from the numerous falls in the dust.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Away from the central bus park in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, and the hustle and bustle of the Balaju area, life has stopped some two kilometers away in Goldhunga, another village in the district.
Inside a one-story house there, Purna Patuwar lies in bed. His eyes are moist as he holds a photograph of his wife close to his chest. They were married in April 2011, but she died before the year ended.
BEFANG, CAMEROON – Befang, a small village in the Menchum division of the Northwest region of Cameroon, is still feeling the pangs of the ongoing cholera outbreaks that began here in 2010.
Beatrice Ngea, 25, recounts her experience in this village during the outbreak there this year.
“During the outbreak, I saw many people die,” she says. “At first, we thought it was just running stomach [watery stools]. Before medical intervention, many people had already died.”
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Ambika Bhandari, 26, is beautiful. She says her ex-husband, Krishna Bhandari, fell for her slender figure, gorgeous hair and pretty face. But he left her in 2007 after a car accident injured her spinal cord and paralyzed her legs.
BARAMULLA, KASHMIR, INDIA – Shamshada Bano, a young woman from Sopore, a town in Kashmir’s Baramulla district, says the day starts early for women here as they set out to fetch water for their families. Because of the scarcity of water in her village, Tujjar, she says it’s never an easy task.
“We set out to collect water at 6 in the morning,” she says. “Sometimes we move out while still rubbing our eyes and without even washing our face.”
Epilepsy in Africa: Part 2 in a Series
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – Charles Banda, 13, enjoys playing and helping out with household chores like his siblings. But unlike his siblings, Charles has epilepsy.
Wearing a light blue T-shirt, Charles sits on a plastic chair surrounded by his siblings and friends as they sell dried fish and vegetables outside their home in John Laing, a compound south of Lusaka, the capital. Charles is too shy to say a word.