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New Internships for Harvard Students Starting January 2015

2015 FXB Field Education Internships in Rwanda and Colombia The FXB Center is offering new internship opportunities to Harvard students starting in January 2015. Selected applicants will work in the field of community development in either Rwanda or Colombia. Summer internships are also available. More detailed information on the Rwanda internship and how to apply can be found here. Click here for further information on applying for an internship in…

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Debating Rape-Related Abortion in Peru

Camila Gianella

Abortion in Cases of Rape: Toward A Sincere Debate By Camila Gianella October 28, 2014. According to the last Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted in Peru, 2.8 percent of women aged 15 to 49 who were in a relationship reported having been raped by their partners in the last 12 months. When projected to encompass the general population, this indicates that around 128,307 Peruvian women in that age range…

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Blog: Alicia Yamin on Why Ebola is a Human Rights Crisis

Health worker in an Ebola screening unit in Kenema government hospital

The catastrophic Ebola crisis unfolding in West Africa offers many lessons, not least for global anti-poverty efforts. These will culminate in a set of targets, to be agreed by the United Nations in 2015, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). First of all, the crisis should lead to a re-think of the triumphalism that has marked some of the global health debate in recent years, with some projecting a…

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Article: FXB Policy Director Alicia Ely Yamin in a Specal Series of The Lancet

Alicia Ely Yamin

Along with Rifat Atun, professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and Julio Frenk, HSPH dean, FXB policy director Alicia Ely Yamin has contributed to a Special Series issue of The Lancet released October 16, 2014. The theme of the issue is universal health care in Latin America. Human Rights-based Approaches to Health in Latin America, co-authored with Ariel Frisancho of ForoSalud, in Peru,…

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