Tag: awareness
How the Bandana Project Wants To Raise Awareness About Mental Health
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light other silent pandemics in our society. From economic inequities to mental health, the period of confinement shed light...
Disability Pride Month, Celebrating Difference
When my psychoanalyst told me some years ago that my borderline personality disorder was a disability, my first reaction was to be offended. In...
Sexual Assault Awareness Month: How Communities Can Prevent Abuse and Harassment
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) and according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), the leading nonprofit in providing information and...
Are Israeli Doctors Close to Finding a Cure for Breast Cancer?
Last month, researchers from an Israeli pharmaceutical company called Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies announced that in about a year, they would begin clinical trials with...
Think Before You Buy That Valentine’s Chocolate: Child Labor and Slavery...
Over half of the world’s cacao is harvested from the neighboring West African countries of Côte D’Ivoire and Ghana. A 2013 study led by...