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Do you remember when the NHS was about people, not profits? Help us campaign for the #nhsbill2015

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Interested in Ebola and outbreak control? The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is offering a free online course titled 'Ebola in Context: Understanding transmission, response and control'. The registration deadline is January 19th. Don't miss out!

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Powerful words from UNICEF today, applicable to disability of all shapes and sizes.

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An estimated 1 billion people live with disabilities, mental and physical. Yet, even today on the International Day of Disabled people, the social and health inequalities they face are forgotten or ignored. A new article in the BMJ reveals that people with disabilities in the UK are set to lose £28bn in support from 2010 to 2018 as their rights continue to be eroded and undermined.

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Kofi Annan once descrived HIV/AIDS as having a female face. What are the structural drivers of HIV in women? How are gender roles involved? What is being done to tackle them? 

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Let's make sure that our commitment to fight HIV extends beyond World AIDS Day.

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We should be adapting health systems to the lives of the people, instead of adapting people’s lives to the system.

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Adolescents are being left behind. Globally, AIDS-related deaths fell by almost 40 per cent between 2005 and 2013 for all age groups except adolescents (aged 10–19 years), where our best estimates indicate that AIDS-related deaths are increasing. Gaps in available empirical data make it difficult to explain this with confidence, but there is concern that a lack of access to testing and treatment could explain, in part, why AIDS-related deaths among adolescents are not decreasing along the same trajectory as all other age groups. Prevention efforts need to be intensified and targeted.

More focused implementation of interventions that work for adolescents most at-risk and vulnerable to HIV is needed, including for adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa, and adolescent key populations globally. Stigma and ignorance about HIV, along with policy and legal barriers (such as age of consent or punitive laws), make accessing treatment and prevention services difficult or impossible for many adolescents. This is a particular issue for key affected populations, including adolescent males who have sex with other males, transgender women, adolescents who inject drugs and adolescents who are sexually exploited. Stepping up the response for the unidentified and unsupported.

(From UNICEF / Children and AIDS)

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Only 1/3 of the world has access to essential medicines.

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What do children around the world think about climate change? UNICEF asked, they answered.

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Our cities are changing both on the level of infrastructure and communities. Now is the time to start anticipating how this new and changing environment will impinge on our general health and how to best deliver the health services we need.  

We are hosting a national conference on this theme in the UK in mid-november. If you would like to attend, see the following link for details on the event itself and how to grab your early bird tickets at a reduced price!

http://medsin.org/news-and-events/national-conferences/national-conference-2014/booking

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Today, world leaders are gathering to discuss the ‪#‎Ebola‬ crisis but talk is sometimes cheap. We cannot afford to wait for action to be taken on our behalf. Our national committee is determined to help put an end to this now. Can you help us?

If you have the means, consider contributing to the wonderful KickEbolaOut campaign. If you don't, then consider helping us spread the message of awareness. Take a photo of yourself with ‪#‎KickEbolaOut‬ and add a link to their fundraising campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kick-ebola-out-by-medical-students

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Our friends, Haja and Asad, from the KickEbolaOut campaign sharing information about the signs and symptoms of Ebola in Sierra Leone.

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Access to SexEd and contraceptives has a number of positive knock on effects for both women and their community. Today is ‪#‎WorldContraceptionDay‬. Let's not forget that, for many women, power over their sexual and reproductive rights is not a part of their current reality. 

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On behalf of its representative membership of future health professionals, Medsin UK condemns the latest cycle of Israeli aggression towards Gaza. We call for authorities to act out an immediate end to the recurrent and worsening humanitarian crisis.

Please read and share our full statement.