Close to 9,000 persons living in Guyana with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are virally suppressed because of the aggressive medications and interventions taken by that the Ministry of Health. Being virally suppressed means that their viral levels are so low that they cannot transmit the disease to others. On Friday, Minister of Health, Dr […]
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The cumulative effects of Israel’s war on Gaza could mean the true death toll in the Gaza strip could eventually reach more than 186,000 people, according to a study recently published in the top medical journal Lancet. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, more than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its military […]
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Four volunteers who spent more than a year living in a 1,700-square-foot space created by NASA to simulate the environment on Mars have come back to earth–no doubt delighted to be able to breathe fresh air. The members of the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog mission — or CHAPEA — walked through the door […]
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A new issue could be coming into play in this years US presidential election– unaffordable food. Unlike many countries, supermarkets are nearly always the cheapest place to buy food in the US, and while Americans have often looked to fast food restaurants for a cheap meal, take-out restaurant prices have accelerated ever faster than the cost […]
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President Joe Biden spent Saturday at his home in Delaware, after his Friday night interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC television, but many observers still felt that his appearance was not quite enough to quiet concerns over his mental fitness to run again for the world’s top elected office. In the interview Biden’s face appeared […]
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Shark-bite attacks in Texas and Florida left at least four people injured, including one person seriously hurt, as the hot Fourth of July weather lured holiday crowds to the beaches to cool off. Two people were injured in a shark attack off the coast of southern Texas on Thursday, local officials said. At South Padre […]
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About half the population of Haiti, around 5 million people are struggling to feed themselves due to the conflict, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an international benchmark used to assess hunger. The reason for this is that gang control of substantial areas of the country has virtually brought normal commerce and […]
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This week, Hurricane Beryl made landfall in the Caribbean region, bringing winds of 140 to 160 mph, and becoming the first hurricane on record to reach category 5 so early in the Atlantic hurricane season. In Jamaica, and the Eastern Caribbean, entire communities have been flooded, houses destroyed, livelihoods wiped out, and the full scale […]
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There are now 52 new British Citizens following a citizenship naturalization ceremony in the British Virgin Islands. The new citizens were processed during a ceremony held at Government House on June 20 and heard congratulatory remarks from His Excellency the Governor, Daniel Pruce, and Registrar General, Mrs. Tashi O’Flaherty-Maduro. Governor Pruce said, “Today you have […]
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Ecuador’s National Police say they have freed 49 people who had been kidnapped by a criminal gang in the upland southern part of the country and held underground in a mine. Two of the suspected kidnappers were arrested during the joint raid by the Ecuadorean security forces in a mining area in Azuay province. The […]
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