Ethical Issues Associated with Vector Borne Diseases: Report of a WHO Scoping Meeting

This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) addresses the accident of drowning, specifically focused on providing strategies for its prevention. The report points out that over 90% of drownings occur in low and middle-income countries and mostly affect children. It brings to light many of the causes of the drowning that are often overlooked as well as approaches to prevent such tragic incidents. The prevention methods proposed include installing physical barriers, educating key stakeholders…

This case explores the role of social media in bringing a sexual assault incident to national attention and to trial. Two popular high school athletes sexually assaulted a teenage girl at a party. Despite evidence of their guilt based on their own boasts and eye witnesses, the community refused to hold the boys accountable for their actions because of their status as star athletes on the local football team. Steubenville, Ohio: A Community’s Reckoning of…

These factsheet slides from Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) provide a global snapshot of the state of the world’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. The slides present a high-level summary of the most current global estimates on the prevalence, transmission, and mortality of HIV/AIDS. The slides provide HIV/AIDS statistics for children and adults, by global region, and for specific age groups and vulnerable populations over time. The slides may be downloaded in PowerPoint format.