Old-Age Poverty

Real Time Reflections from Sheltered Radicals in the Time of the Most Dangerous Criminal in Human History May 3 + Street: Comrades, this article never ends but it’s worth a read: “34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America.” It is a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s total…

The European Commission has recommended keeping the EU's external borders closed to non-EU citizens in an effort to prevent a second wave of the novel coronavirus. Follow DW for the latest. - The global death toll from COVID-19 has risen to over 272,000, while more than 3.8 million people are known to have…

My street is a quiet one, tucked away in the nether regions of Islington, a few minutes from Regent’s Canal. Its stillness normally comes at a price since at any given time there are repairs underway—a window frame, a roof, a facade—and the moment one job is done another springs…

L-R: Alhaji Rabiu Gwarzo, Board Member, FMN, Alhaji Sani Umar, Director, Northern Nigerian Flour Mills,  Abdulfatai Isa, Area Sales Manager, FMN, Prof. Abubakar, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Fatai sobande, Production Manager, FMN, His Excellency Dr Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, Governor of Kano State at the presentation of 5,000 COVID-19 test kits…

Yves here. I wish I had written this must-read post. Richard Murphy lays out the case for whose interests need to be sacrificed for the economy to have any hope of surviving under the conditions being imposed on businesses to keep workers and customers safe. Unfortunately, his well-reasoned recommendation, that…

After WWI, the distinguished British economist Edwin Cannan was asked, somewhat reproachfully, what he did during the terrible war years. He replied: “I protested.” The present article is a similar protest against the current lockdown policies put into place in most countries of the Western world to confront the current coronavirus pandemic. Here…

If Japan needed another indication of just how serious the COVID-19 epidemic is and may yet become, it got a wakeup call when its most beloved funnyman, Ken Shimura, died at age 70 at the end of March. Shimura, who had first battled pneumonia in 2016, was hospitalized nine days…

By Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Cases of the coronavirus are set to peak in South America as winter approaches, bringing with it not just cold weather but more pollution that could multiply death rates, according to air quality experts and medics. In Chile, with people confined to their homes…

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Cases of the coronavirus are set to peak in South America as winter approaches, bringing with it not just cold weather but more pollution that could multiply death rates, according to air quality experts and medics. FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Chilean capital Santiago, following…

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Fisaha Tesfay,  Anna Ziersch,  Lillian Mwanri,  Sara Javanparast x Published: April 27, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231859 Abstract Introduction Addressing malnutrition is one of the key components of HIV care among people living with HIV. Since 2010, a nutritional program has been implemented to address malnutrition…