scholarly journals Global Health, Tuberculosis and Local Health Campaigns: Reinforcing and Reshaping Health and Gender Inequalities in Lihir, Papua New Guinea

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-156
Author(s):  
Susan R. Hemer
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals A Serological Survey of Selected Papua New Guinea Blood Donors for Hepatitis B and Related Co-Infections

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Francisca Varpit ◽  
Bruce Gummow
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis B Virus ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Perinatal Transmission ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Hbsag Prevalence ◽  
Immunization Program ◽  
Positive Hbsag ◽  
B Virus

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a serious problem and earlier studies in Papua New Guinea have reported a high prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection. These studies were undertaken using insensitive tests and before an expanded immunization program. The current HBV status is therefore uncertain. A retrospective study to investigate the HBV status was carried out using blood donor data at Nonga General Hospital, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, from January 2003 to December 2018. Additional data for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, syphilis and hepatitis C virus were also collected. Data were analysed using NCSS statistical software. The mean hepatitis B antigen (HBsAg) sero-prevalence was 21% for the period of study and showed a downward trend over the period of the study, which may reflect the effect of the extended immunization program. HBsAg prevalence in male donors (23%) was significantly higher than females (16%). Donors living in Pomio district had a significantly lower proportion of sero-positive HBsAg donors (7%) than Gazelle (22%), Kokopo (22%) and Rabaul (20%), which was attributed to this district’s geographical isolation. Ethnically, Pomios donors (8%) had significantly lower HBsAg prevalence than the Taulils, (29%), Bainings (21%) and Tolais (21%). Fifteen to nineteen year olds (23%) were the predominant age group affected, and vertical or perinatal transmission was probably the primary transmission route. Our findings call for greater awareness on the part of public policy makers and should be considered when planning future public health campaigns.

What Are the Potential Impacts of a Global Health Crisis on Economic Inequalities in Some Countries?

2022 ◽  
pp. 144-161
Author(s):  
Ahmet Eren Yıldırım
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Economic Inequalities

This study investigates the relationship between the COVID-19 crisis and economic inequalities in some developed and developing countries. Many institutions, like OECD, ILO, and UNDP, have released several reports deal with the relationship between COVID-19 and different kinds of inequalities. These reports generally emphasize the same problem. This study includes some indicators about the situation of education and gender inequalities in OECD countries. These indicators purely reveal that COVID-19 has negative effects on both education and gender inequalities in most of developed and developing countries. The main contribution of the study is to point out the importance of recovery policies the cover the inequality problems.

What women want: Fashion, morality and gendered subjectivities in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Public ◽  
Young Professional ◽  
Colonial Histories ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Papua New Guinean

This article brings Papua New Guinean women’s perspectives on fashion, gender and morality into conversation with questions of colonial histories and global consumerism. The article shows that adherence to social norms is policed by women in the public sphere and that one person’s choices are enmeshed in ideas of responsibility and obligation to others. Increasingly, younger generations of women believe it is an individual woman’s right to wear what she wants in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Yet young women confront their peers in much the same way older women do. What women wear in PNG is embroiled in ideas of collective morality; plays out at intersections of class, age, race and gender; and demonstrates tensions between ideas of autonomy and collectivity. On whose terms do contemporary Papua New Guinean women get to decide how to dress: their own, or in accordance with community norms and standards? What are the contemporary and historical contexts of whiteness and colonial power that have influenced these norms and standards? This article brings together the experiences and perspective of a young professional Papua New Guinean woman, and her relatives, in dialogue with a young English–Iranian woman anthropologist.

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