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Are You Ready to Travel Again? Part 2/3 Travel Readiness Blog

In this second of a three-blog series on travel readiness, we are going to look at the importance of travel vaccination.  

 

Vaccinations can be classed as follows:

Routine (*)

DtaP (Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis);

Polio;

HiB (Haemophilus influenza type b);

MMR (Measles, mumps, rubella);

Hepatitis A and B;

Seasonal Influenza;

Pneumococcal

BCG;

Varicella;

Rotavirus. 

 

Required

  • for crossing international...
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Are you ready to travel again? Part 1/3 Travel Readiness Blog

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta

(This is part 1 in a three-blog series on travel readiness. Part two will focus on the importance of travel vaccination and part three on first aid kits and the management of medicaton, including chronic medication.)

 

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Traveling is slowly opening up and we...

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Did I Really Grow into This Woman? Part 4 and final

By Asma Darwish, Head of Advocacy at Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), AAWE member and Head of Communications at FAWCO Refugee Network

 

Leaving Forever

Bahrain, my home, became so small to me, I was almost suffocating there. I heard once that no one leaves their home until their home becomes the mouth of a shark. One only leaves...

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Notes from the Field: A Pandemic-Related Update

Notes curated by the Education Team

 
Saudia Arabia/Bali: Parents of a 12 Year Old Girl
Virtual school – 1 year later
We can’t believe that it has been one year and two months since we started the online school. It has been a complex rollercoaster of emotions. There have been many tears and frustrations and, worse, the feeling of...
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Book Review: Where the Crawdads Sing

by the Education Team

How much do you trade to defeat loneliness? – p. 163

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens was a book that inspired passionate conversation when the Education Team decided to take an hour one Sunday to meet and discuss this interesting selection. Centered on the main character Kya, a virtual orphan who raised herself in the...

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The Warrior Immune System

By Linda Harvan, FAUSA

Immune system dummyOur immune system is a complex network of tissues, cells and organs working to prevent and limit illness and infections. The two main parts of the immune system work together – the innate immune system, with which you are born, and the adaptive immune system, which you develop. 

The innate immune system is the body’s first...

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The Girl with the Louding Voice: The Global Issues Book Discussion Series Summer Read

The Education Team is pleased to announce The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré as the sixth annual Summer Global Book Read, as part of the Global Issues Book Discussion Series. From the book jacket (Penguin Random House):

The remarkable, inspiring story of a teenage girl [Adunni] growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education...

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