Archive | February, 2012
Ensuring health is on the agenda at Rio+20

Ensuring health is on the agenda at Rio+20

As the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development approaches, Action for Global Health wants to highlight the critical importance of health in this debate and support the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) position and the Brazilian proposal[1] to include health in the  Rio+20 outcome document. Health bridges the two fields of environmental protection and human rights [...]

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Post-conference Blues

Post-conference Blues

I am suffering from what I hope is a rare condition. It is post-conference blues and it is strange that I should be suffering from this condition given that I have not been to that many international conferences. Symptoms of this condition alternate between euphoria (thinking of what could be) and depression (seeing what really is). Let me tell you more.

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