The South Asia region has about a quarter of the world’s population and is projected to grow to about 40 percent by 2050. It bears a high burden of poverty and undernutrition, writes the Wire in a report about trade, nutrition, and food security. About 42 percent of the world’s […]

Country: Malawi Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Since the first recorded case in February 2022, all 29 districts of Malawi are now affected. Cholera is putting more than 10 million people at risk, including more than five million children.

Asia’s cities are growing at such a fast pace that nearly 55 percent of the region’s enormous population is expected to reside in urban areas by 2030, and that will have equally enormous consequences for urban food security and nutrition, according to the main findings of a new report […]

Building incentives to foster more effective teaching and learning.

Photo: Pixabay/selenee51  We need plenty of agriculture to feed the 8 billion people around the planet, but the cultivation of crops can come at terrible costs to the environment, including continued biodiversity loss. Insects have especially been hard hit with pesticides and insecticides taking their toll on them. Worse still […]

BACKGROUND As we noted in prior health care alerts in 2020 (available here and here), the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) significantly overhauled the federal law that governs the confidentiality of substance use disorder (SUD) records at 42 U.S.C. § 290dd-2 (Part 2). Part 2 currently […]