The United Nations’ third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3) focuses on ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for everyone. This includes initiatives like reducing maternal and child mortality, improving disease prevention and providing universal health coverage. These ambitions are closely connected to the fight against global poverty and have prompted many low and middle-income countries […]
Ecuador is an environmentally diverse and historically rich country in northwestern South America. Ecuador hosts the magnificent Andes Mountains and the Indigenous cultures that call them home, the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Galapagos Islands, where English naturalist Charles Darwin shaped his theory of natural evolution and the dense rainforests of the Amazon. Yet, […]
One of the Philippines’ most common crises includes heart diseases like heart failure, hypertensive heart disease and ischemic heart disease. Cardiovascular disease causes one-third of deaths in the Philippines. An example of its impact is during a 6-month period from January to July in 2023, where doctors recorded more than 65,000 ischemic heart disease cases, […]
Conflict, the changing climate and displacement are major drivers of food insecurity in Burkina Faso, hindering progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger. Despite these challenges, humanitarian organizations and local communities are working to improve food security and strengthen long-term resilience. The following are seven key facts about hunger in Burkina […]
Period poverty is a growing issue in which those of menstruating age cannot gain access to the supplies needed, which in turn can be detrimental to health. In Canada, Indigenous women have a disproportionately higher difficulty in managing adequate period care. Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan found that nearly 73% of indigenous women living […]
In the Czech Republic, a number of charities operate to assist with development, emergency aid and combating extreme poverty around the globe. Based in a high-income country, these organizations work both internationally and in local impoverished communities. Here are five charities operating in the Czech Republic. 1. People in Need People in Need is one […]
In 2015, the United Nations set an ambitious goal: by 2030, the nations of the world would meet 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve peace and prosperity around the globe. These goals delineated strategies to defeat all of humankind’s major injustices, including changing weather patterns, hunger, poverty, education, and of course, health—especially the health […]
The United Nations’ fifth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 5) aims to achieve gender equality through the empowerment of women and girls. It involves addressing concerns such as gender-based violence, maternal health, economic opportunity and representation in government. In Haiti, the achievement of SDG 5 and other development goals has been hindered by decades of political […]
In Tonga, about 88% of the population depends mainly on agriculture and fisheries. As a country made of many islands, limited resources as a result of changing weather patterns have furthered poverty. The changing climate has led to coastal degradation and increasingly violent cyclones, which greatly affect the economic resources that the population of Tonga […]
Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, has recently announced a positive health reform aimed at granting universal health care coverage starting in January 2027. Describing this as a “historic step” towards free and equitable health services to all citizens of Mexico. Here is more information about the move toward universal health care in Mexico. The Current Situation […]
