GHFN Launches Pioneering Video Newsgathering Operations Worldwide
Atlanta, GA (Vocus/PRWEB) January 06, 2011
After much more than a year of preparing and trial productions in Africa and Asia, Global Wellness Frontline News (GHFN) is now assigning video newsgathering crews worldwide to cover significant global well being stories in partnership with selected broadcasters and Web platforms.
As a nonprofit project with a mission to create video news stories on global health problems that are largely under-reported by mainstream media, GHFN will focus its coverage on illnesses that primarily impact impoverished populations in creating nations – malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases such as river blindness and trachoma – and on maternal mortality and food security.
Funded by nonpartisan donors and operating independently, GHFN will follow strict journalistic standards and produce high-good quality video news material for broadcast globally by tv networks and wide distribution on the Internet.
GHFN’s executive editor, Gary Strieker, stated the project’s crews and producers are exceptionally qualified for their assignments. “All of our newsgathering teams have years of knowledge in broadcast television,” he stated. “And most importantly, they have first-hand experience in tracking down health stories in challenging scenarios in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We’re undoubtedly going to set some new standards in global well being reporting.”
A recent analysis of information indicates that vitamin A deficiency is the leading trigger of childhood blindness. It was estimated that 70% of the 500,000 kids who become blind annually do so simply because of xerophthalmia. This corresponds to a prevalence of roughly 1 million in view of the high mortality amongst affected children.
Hemianopsia can result when a hemorrhagic, thrombotic, or embolic stroke affects component of the optic pathway Linked signs and symptoms vary according to the location and size of the stroke, but might incorporate a decreased LOC intellectual deficits, such as memory loss and poor judgment personality modifications emotional lability a headache and seizures The patient could also create contralateral hemiplegia, dysarthria, dysphagia, ataxia, a unilateral sensory loss, apraxia, agnosia, aphasia, blurred vision, decreased visual acuity, and diplopia.
The link between poverty and treatable visual impairment is most obvious when conducting regional comparisons of cause. Most adult visual impairment in North America and Western Europe is related to age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. While both of these conditions are subject to treatment, neither can be cured. One more frequent trigger is retinopathy of prematurity.
In creating countries, wherein folks have shorter life expectancies, cataracts and water-borne parasites�"both of which can be treated effectively�"are most frequently the culprits (see River blindness, for example). Of the estimated 40 million blind people situated around the world, 70�"80% can have some or all of their sight restored via treatment.
One more disease is known as Trachoma. Trachoma is caused by a virus that affects the cornea and the conjunctiva or lining of the eyelid. The white component of the eye is referred to as the sclera, and the colored part is the iris. The conjunctiva covers the sclera. Trachoma is contagious. It is spread by flies and get in touch with with towels and other articles that have been used by men and women who have the illness. Physicians can cure the illness in the early stages by utilizing medicines.
There are diverse causes of change blindness. According to scientists, change blindness can happen as a result of disturbance or disruption in visual continuity. This disruption can be either due to eye saccade, an eyelid flicker, an eye blink, a shift of the picture or even a film cut in case of a motion picture. In order to differentiate changes in the vision, it is essential that there is effective coordination between the eye and the brain where one image is compared with yet another image that already exists in the memory.
Diseases: These are the leading trigger of blindness. There are a variety of diseases that lead to blindness. Well-known among these glaucoma, trachoma, cataracts, uveitis and diabetic retinopathy. While in some circumstances blindness occurs as a result of a parasitic infection in the eye, in other people it occurs as a result of malnutrition. Blindness due to vitamin A deficiency is common in most of the creating and under-developed countries.
Glaucoma typically affects older people. This occurs when fluids in the eye create up and trigger too considerably pressure in the eye, damaging important nerves, etc.. To know what a person feels like with glaucoma, believe of how your eyes really feel after coming out of a swimming pool with a lot of chlorine in it. (This does not trigger glaucoma, but makes the eyes feel as a individual does with glaucoma)This disease can be prevented and eye doctors almost always check for glaucoma when a patient has an eye exam. If the person who has glaucoma doesn't take the suitable medicine for the condition, they can lose their eyesight.
Australia is the only developed country however to eradicate trachoma, a curable eye illness that causes blindness. Professor Taylor is determined to wipe out trachoma and assist bridge the health gap between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians.
PL-3631 Image by Community Eye Wellness Journal pictures Trachoma. Flies could carry the organisms that can trigger this most typical of all eye infections. Photo: Hans Limburg
