Nusrat Jahan Ara is from Dadoora Village in Kashmir’s Pulwama district of India. She is a graduate of Computer Studies who had always wanted to run a business of her own. She was dissatisfied with her job and decided to quit.
An inexpensive and widely available drug could save the lives of one in three mothers who would otherwise bleed to death after childbirth, according to a major study published in The Lancet. The global trial of 20,000 women found that death due to bleeding was reduced by 31% if the treatment was given within three hours. The drug, called tranexamic acid (TXA), works by stopping blood clots from breaking down. The findings also show it reduced the need for urgent surgery to control bleeding (laparotomy) by more than a third (36%). Severe bleeding after childbirth (known as post-partum haemorrhage or PPH) is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide. More than 100,000 women globally die each year from the condition, but this clot-stabilising drug has the potential to reduce the number substantially. The WOMAN (World Maternal Antifibrinolytic) Trial recruited mothers from 193 hospitals in 21 countries, mainly in Africa…
Innovation across the African continent has taken a different turn as more young people are open to thinking out of the box, while applying creative ideas to already exist methods. Pastoralism in Africa is characterized by a high reliance on livestock as a source of economic, social and physical wellbeing. Pastoralists make crucial decisions on where and when to move herds throughout the year to find adequate grazing in areas that cover thousands of square kilometers using traditional methods including indigenous knowledge, word of mouth, and scouts. While valuable, each have inherent limitations and decreasing reliability as climate and ecologies have witnessed dramatic changes. Inaccurate, delayed, or limited information can be devastating, with irreparable losses that have immediate and long‐term consequences for their livelihoods, well‐being, and even survival. The Satellite Assisted Pastoralist Resource Management (SAPARM) program provides semi-nomadic pastoralists with digital maps of traditional grazing areas overlaid with current, satellite-derived…
Ajaita Shah became the black sheep of the family when she diverted her interest from corporate law to micro finance. Her parent had left India for New York in search of a better life for their children. But Shah chose to find joy in responding to the need of people in rural India. She loved travelling and she has had many experiences being in different places. One of those places is India her place of origin. Lost in her passion, she relocated to India and started working with some microfinance organization. While working in India, she discovered that the basic need of the people in most rural India revolved around access to electricity. In India, one-fourth of people suffer electricity access deficit. Shah’s purpose was to help reduce the increased use of kerosene lamps in rural areas of India by introducing solar lanterns, street lights, and home lighting kits. Driven…
Ms Kimie Iwata is Chairman at Japan Institute of Worker’s Evolution.
She graduated from the Faculty of Education at the University of Tokyo and joined the former Ministry of Labor in 1971, where she was engaged in support for working women and international labour issues.
A Colombian woman reportedly swallowed at least $US 7000 in a desperate act to hide the money during a fight with her husband, according to doctors in the South American nation who extracted the bills through surgery. The 30-year-old woman swallowed rolls of $100 bills. She told the local RCN television channel she had saved up the money for a holiday with her husband after selling several electrical household items. Doctors said they were able to surgically extract 57 $100 bills from the woman’s stomach and intestines. Director of Surgery at the University Hospital of Santander, Juan Paulo Serrano, said the majority of the bills were surgically extracted from the stomach, while additional rolls would be passed through the colon. The fact the rolls were not wrapped up or packaged suggest they were not swallowed for any form of illicit transport, Dr. Serrano said, but rather were ingested in an…
By: Rachel Lau Things are looking bleak for young women in Canada when it comes to sexual harassment and assault, a study by the Canadian Women’s Foundation has found. The survey revealed that despite an increasing awareness about harassment and domestic violence, 79 per cent of Canadians believe that Generation Z (those born from the late 1990s to the early 2000s) are “just as, or more likely” to experience sexual assault. Of the 1,004 randomly selected Canadians aged 18 and over, 89 per cent of women and 69 per cent of men believe most Generation Z women will experience some type of sexual assault. “They’re not feeling optimistic partially because of the way it’s still talked about,” said Anuradha Dugal, Director of violence prevention programs at the Canadian Women’s Foundation. “There’s still a lot of blame and stigmatization going on. People don’t think it’s…
