“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the...

• Responsible consumption
• SDG12
• conservation

By Christine Riney, AWC Hamburg

All-pervasive
Palm oil is found in almost everything we use or eat every day. It is in day-to-day items where you wouldn’t even think to look for it, but there it is anyway – cookies, pizza, shampoo, soap, margarine, biofuel, cooking oil, peanut butter, washing detergent, chocolate, ice cream and even lipstick. And the list...

• SDG13
• climate action
• energy

by Anne van Oorschot, AWC The Hague

Sustainable Innovation Forum 2020

COP26 has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we cannot postpone the climate emergency! Momentum has to be not only maintained, but intensified. That is the key message of the virtual meetings that took place at this interesing  Sustainable Innovation Forum on November 16–20. Many interesting speakers from...

World Diabetes Day is observed every year on November 14, in order to bring attention and awareness to the increasing health threat and burden posed by diabetes globally. Past campaigns have promoted such ideas as universal health coverage for diabetes management, education, and access for women globally. The theme for 2020 is The Nurse and Diabetes, which promotes...

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FGM, female genital mutilation, is regarded as one of the most horrendous human rights abuses imaginable! 

It is a harmful practice including the partial or total removal of the external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. The practice has no medical benefit and can cause catastrophic short and long-term...

by Heather Davis, AWC Antwerp

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create havoc across the world, a new medical condition, Long COVID, has been observed by health care providers and sufferers.     

What is a post-COVID or COVID-19 “long-hauler?”

Some people continue to have symptoms long after they were initially infected with COVID-19. This occurs in all age groups...