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Bad Health Care: The Pandemics of Poverty
Written by Rayna Stamboliyska
The content package of this post relates to the “Death Threat,” and addresses non-communicable diseases. The one I want to speak about is poverty. Because all the other NCDs you can think of — like obesity, cancer, etc. — are just a consequence of pandemic poverty. Pandemic poverty is an […]
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Rayna Stamboliyska
PhD, research fellow at Paris Descartes University // CEO at RS Strategy // Geek & DIYbio hacker // working to achieve gender equality in science & tech // former research assistent for Unesco // human rights activist // Editor for Global Voices Bulgarian & Bioinfo-fr.net // Author for Al-Jazeera English, Nature Middle East & Jadaliyya // Science blogger for Nature's SciLogs.com and Australian Science // board member of the French chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation // human being
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Bulgaria: Recovering Drug Addicts Targeted by Police Bullying
Written by Rayna Stamboliyska
Non-communicable diseases is a puzzling term for many. Personally. I am bothered because it does not include a wide range of socially-relevant disorders. The pandemics of poverty as well as stigma and extra-legal investigation of people in a poor health condition are a chronic scourge along with obesity and cancer. […]
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Loverboy, Heroin, Happiness: 18 October 2012 – EU-Anti-Trafficking Day
Written by Rayna Stamboliyska
When I was a kid, I could play this game for hours: staying in front of the mirror, moving my left hand to see whether the person on the wall would move her right hand… And I was incessantly expecting she’d move her left hand, just like myself. I had […]
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In defense of conflict
Written by Rayna Stamboliyska
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Egypt: In Knowledge We Trust
Written by Rayna Stamboliyska
Loads of bits and gallons of ink have been spilled over the Arab Spring, the advent of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Arab Winter, etc. Yet not much attention has been paid to education although it all boils down to education, as the general idea goes. Of course, you […]
