Uganda's anti-gay law and healthcare
Ugandan Anti-gay law & HIV; Flavanols and memory loss; Mental health impact of US abortion restrictions; Antibiotic discovered using AI
As Uganda approves some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation in the world, we hear from Dr Chloe Orkin, Professor of infection and inequities at Queen Mary University in London about the impact the new laws are already having on HIV health services.
Strict abortion laws in some US states are causing women to travel hundreds of miles to terminate their pregnancies across state lines. In the latest in our series on the health impacts of the US Supreme Court ruling on abortion, Claudia Hammond discusses the mental health consequences that these abortion restrictions can have. She speaks to Nancy Davis from Louisiana who had to travel over 1,300 miles to New York for a medically advised abortion after being told her unborn baby would not live to term. We also hear from Dr. Katherine Wisner, Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Northwestern University in Chicago, who has researched the mental health ramifications of abortion restrictions.
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ health and science correspondent James Gallagher discusses the reaction to a new UK study which claims that including certain foods and drinks can prevent age related memory loss. And how researchers in Canada and the USA have discovered a new superbug killing antibiotic using AI.
Image Credit: Jadwiga Figula
Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producers: Clare Salisbury and Jonathan Blackwell
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The mental health impact of abortion restrictions
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- Wed 31 May 2023 19:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa & Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Afghan Radio
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