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Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts

Friday, 12 October 2012

Brazilian government uses indigenous language for the first time in anti-AIDS campaign


Brazil is using an indigenous language for the first in a campaign aimed at curbing violence against women and the spread of HIV.
The program includes folders warning that “violence or fear of violence increase women’s vulnerability to HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases” because women who fear violence can be forced to have unprotected sex.
Full article in Washington Post

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

NHS may be breaking law on GPs English language skills

Some NHS trusts are breaking the law by failing to check whether foreign GPs can speak English well, according to the review which was set up after a patient was killed by a German locum on his first UK job.

The Guardian