Weekly Highlights June 7-14

by Alanna Shaikh · 2009-06-14 10:43:00 UTC
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(photo credit: Steve Jackson)

This week, global health guide Alanna Shaikh explored two important and interesting topics in reproductive rights. First, she explained how Emergency Contraception is Not Abortion, because while it prevents pregnancy, it cannot end one. Second, she explained the (almost) good sterilization method of Quinacrine in her post, Global Health Controversies: Quinacrine.

Guest blogger Michael Keizer has written several posts on health and human rights. This week, Michael responds to economist Bill Easterly's provocative claim that poverty is not a human rights violation in his post, The Easterly Criteria for Human Rights. Michael argues that "[Easterley's] qualifications are problematic, because they depend on absolutes - and human rights rarely deal with such absolutes."

For Career Wednesday, Alanna gives some common sense warnings of Five Things Not to Do in a Job Interview. Also, as part of her series, "Interviews with a Global Health Professional", Alanna interviews Early Childhood Development Specialist, Anna Smeby. Read on to find out about her work with the youngest among us.

You may remember Alanna's article last week about the recent Cochrane review on Circumcision and HIV. If you were intrigued, confused or even offended by this issue, check out Alanna's update, Clarification on Circumcision Studies and guest blogger Steve Jacksons view on how Circumcision Is a Red Herring.

In other HIV news, Australian scientists have developed a CD4 Rapid Test, A cool new technology to monitor HIV. CD4 T-cells are a type of white blood cells attacked and invaded by HIV, so their concentration in the blood is a good indicator of how the immune system is doing, as well as when to start anti-retroviral treatment.

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