Total eclipse: The terminator moves faster than you think

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Between the new and full moon the terminator - the line demarcating what is lit from what is dark changes all the time. This is imperceptible with the naked eye.	A telescope at low magnification reveals the moon in all its glory. At a higher power with manual control you have to keep moving to keep up, as the moon other-worldly slides out of view.
What of the terminator between poverty and wealth; ultrapoverty and ultrawealthy?	It is plain to see and so - easy to deny; but their instruments are hopeless, they watch indoors, fixed on their screens.

Total Solar Eclipse – August 12, 2026

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(solar) 

Previously: 'terminator' 

Southern Sudan Medical Journal: Vol 15 No 3

Dear reader,

The August issue is online here. See details below.
 
SSMJ is now included in the EBSCO scientific research collection. Our articles are also listed in  African Journals Online (AJOL) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as well as on our website.
 
Questions:
Could you contribute to SSMJ by:

• Sending items for future issues: e.g., research, case studies, news, photos, and/or letters?
• Helping to edit or peer review articles?
• Suggesting topics relevant to health professionals in South Sudan?
• Sharing SSMJ with colleagues and sending us their feedback?

Write to us at southsudanmedicaljournal@gmail.com
 
Thanks to everyone who supports SSMJ - authors, editors, and especially our peer reviewers.

In this issue

EDITORIAL

• Eye care in South Sudan Kenneth Lado Lino Sube

 
RESEARCH ARTICLES

• Prevalence of glaucoma among patients attending Buluk Eye Centre, Juba, South Sudan: a one-year study Kenneth Lado Sube et al
• Social demographic determinants of male participation in antenatal care in Nyamagana District, Tanzania Sarah M. Chamos, Alen Kinyina, and Harrieth Mtae
• Prevalence of HIV among pregnant mothers receiving antenatal care at Kator Primary Health Care Centre, Juba, South Sudan Kon Paul Alier et al
• A survey of tonsillectomy care patterns in Tanzania Daudi Ntunaguzi et al
• Musculoskeletal disorders among patients during a one-day outreach at Juba Military Hospital Mapuor M.M. Areu et al

 
MAIN ARTICLE

• How to use experience to improve teaching practice Rich Bregazzi

 
CASE REPORT

• Lower back musculoskeletal hydatid cyst: a rare presentation in a South Sudanese patient Lodu Swokiri N Kuju et al

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• “How-to” Teaching Videos–inspired by work in South Sudan Deborah Van Dyke
• Role of the community pharmacy in the control of pandemics in South Sudan Oliver Batista Ugoro
• Profile of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Al-Sabbah Children’s Hospital, Juba, South Sudan Amanda Billy Berto Madison

OBITUARY: Dr Frederick Khamis Tawad
BACK COVER: WHO: Recovering from Monkeypox at home
 

The SSMJ team
Email: southsudanmedicaljournal@gmail.com
Website: http://www.southsudanmedicaljournal.com
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Memo: Understanding the difference between 'self-care' and 'SELF-CARE'

As we learn in infancy, run into physical structures and it hurts. The presence of structure in this case clearly has impact - not just literally - but globally.

While for me, the model is a constant, I'm constantly surprised by the 'work' that its structure, the two axes - can do from the initial - blank - template (empty set):

 

UK does deal with Nepal to bring in nurses to plug holes in staffing - despite Nepal being on a global red list for recruitment because of its own nurse shortages https://t.co/jSPTQmodLr

— Shaun Lintern (@ShaunLintern) August 23, 2022

 

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self-care 'understanding'	self-care (emphasis [again] on task-oriented care?)
SELF-CARE Social Care	SELF-CARE Code of Practice for International Recruitment 'Red List' NHS Workforce Planning, Recruitment and Retention, Pay, Terms and Conditions Local, National, Global 'jobs' market 'Memorandum of understanding ...' 'Selflessness' [here?]

WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel: Fourth round of reporting:
https://www.who.int/news/item/02-06-2022-who-global-code-of-practice-on-the-international-recruitment-of-health-personnel--fourth-round-of-reporting

Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England
Updated 22 August 2022:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/code-of-practice-for-the-international-recruitment-of-health-and-social-care-personnel/code-of-practice-for-the-international-recruitment-of-health-and-social-care-personnel-in-england

Memorandum of understanding between the UK and Nepal on the recruitment of healthcare workers:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/memorandum-of-understanding-between-the-uk-and-nepal-on-the-recruitment-of-healthcare-workers

Ten-fold increase in nurse recruitment from "red list" countries, RCN:
https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/Press-Releases/ten-fold-increase-in-nurse-recruitment-from-red-list-countries

c/o HSJ @ShaunLintern

Online resources - Operational Research (OR) for Developing Countries

- responsibility, creativity, optimization (by IFORS)

The aim of the IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies) Developing Countries Online Resources page is to offer the OR worker all publicly-available materials on the topic of OR for Development. It also aims to provide a venue for people who are working in the area to share their completed or in-process work, learn from others, and stimulate comments and discussions on the work. Regarding IFORS Developing Countries OR resources website, its regular updates - and your possible submission of "free" (not copyright protected) material, you might occasionally visit

http://ifors.org/developing_countries/index.php?title=Main_Page

With this open resources page we aim to make research and application results better accessible to the many friends in the Developing Countries (DCs). We would be glad about interest.

Contributions from art and science, communication and education sectors are warmly welcome by our community which has very little access to emerging documents on arts and sciences, research, design and development. Particularly, the disciplines and areas MRI and Physics could serve the DCs very well.

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS; http://ifors.org/) is an almost 60-year old organization which is currently composed of 51 national societies. Regional Groups of IFORS are: ALIO (The Latin American Ibero Association on Operations Research), APORS (The Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies), EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies), NORAM (The Association of North American Operations Research Societies). IFORS conferences are taking place every three years. On successfully celebrated IFORS 2021, Seoul, South Korea, August 22-27, 2021, please refer to http://www.ifors2020.kr/.

Thank you very much for your attention.

With kind regards,
best wishes,
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

PS: Feedback is welcome via    

gerhard.weber AT put.poznan.pl

My source: AI-SGES list

c/o WHO: Opportunity for recent graduates for LDCs

Appealing to the librarian network to share this great WHO opportunity for recent graduates for LDCs

Dear Colleagues,

This may seem like an odd request but I am counting on you as the global health community who sometimes are the world’s best knowledge connectors. As many of you work with recent graduates who come from varied backgrounds, I would like to make you aware of the WHO’s young professionals (YPs) programme for young professionals (YPs) from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/publication/ldc_list.pdf which aims to engage them in WHO’s work and build their capacity in key public health areas of particular relevance for their countries.

The vacancies of the first cohort are currently open for application until 6 December 2021. The vacancies can be found here:

https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobsearch.ftl (please type “YPP” in the key word search to take you directly to the vacancies)

If you know someone who is 35 years old or younger and comes from a Least Developed Country, please ask them to check out WHO’s Young Professionals Programme! During your career, you may have come across some exceptional students from LDC locations who you feel worthy of an opportunity to make a big impact in the global health arena. If you know of anyone, please share this opportunity with them.

I have done this in the past and my colleagues in WHO HR saw star candidates results from the public health networking that got this message out to ideal candidates and they would like to see that success again. For some of you I know this will be a golden opportunity.

If you have any concerns about this posting, please let me know. For potential candidates, please direct them to visit the WHO website above.

Many Many Thanks to you all.

Tomas ALLEN
Professional email allent AT who.int
WHO Library
https://www.who.int/library

WHO COVID Database
https://search.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/

HIFA profile: Tomas Allen is a librarian for the World Health Organization. 

Professional interests: Public Health. tomas.allen.who AT gmail.com

My source: HIFA