Melody Jacob

April is International Cesarean Awareness Month is organized by ICAN - The International Cesarean Awareness Network. ICAN is a non-profit organisation.

ICAN is a non-profit organization with a mission is to improve maternal-child health by reducing preventable cesareans through education, supporting cesarean recovery, and advocating for vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC). 

Helping them to identify an appropriate provider and birth facility based on their health status and birth intentions.

Facilitating confidence in their ability to navigate informed consent and refusal/declination conversations with care providers.

Encouraging adding a birth doula on their team, to offer support, information, and assistance with coping and comfort measures. (Awareness days info).

IBS Awareness Month: April 1 - April 30.

The month of Apr is recognized as IBS awareness month that was declared by the IFFGD organization and is listed on the US National Health Observances calendar.

 What you need to know about Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disorder that affects the large intestine, it is very common and strikes anywhere between 10 – 15% of the general population. the precise reason for Irritable intestine syndrome is unknown however there is ongoing research. 

IBS is a condition that has an effect on the digestive system. This disease typically causes abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea and constipation. It can occur for weeks to months inflicting discomfort. 

On behave of Melody Jacob Blog, we wish you a happy new year. Welcome to 2021. Happy new year to you. God bless you and keep you strong in this stress-free new year.

The essence of World AIDS Day is to help raise awareness in the world to the spread fight HIV. 

World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease. You can help spread the news. Share it on social media, educate people, and keep to the rules. 

Every year, on 1 December, the world commemorates World AIDS Day. People around the world unite to show support for people living with and affected by HIV and to remember those who lost their lives to AIDS.

In 2020, the world’s attention has been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic on health and how pandemics affect lives and livelihoods. COVID-19 is showing once again how health is interlinked with other critical issues, such as reducing inequality, human rights, gender equality, social protection, and economic growth. With this in mind, this year the theme of World AIDS Day is “Global solidarity, shared responsibility”.

COVID-19 has demonstrated that, during a pandemic, no one is safe until everyone is safe. Leaving people behind is not an option if we are to succeed. Eliminating stigma and discrimination, putting people at the center, and grounding our responses in human rights and gender-responsive approaches are key to ending the colliding pandemics of HIV and COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the entrenched inequalities existing in our societies. This health crisis, like many others, is hitting the poorest and the most vulnerable the hardest.

We have seen how the COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated the challenges faced by people living with HIV, women and girls, and key populations, including in accessing life-saving health care, and how the crisis has widened the social and economic inequalities that increase the vulnerability of marginalized groups to HIV.

However, this crisis has also been a wake-up call, an opportunity to do things differently—better, and together. In many respects, the defeat of AIDS as a public health threat depends on how the world responds to COVID-19.

The leadership and engagement of communities, instrumental in the success of the AIDS response, has also been key in responding to COVID-19. We have seen countless examples of how community activism and solidarity have, once again, been paramount in providing people affected by HIV with information, services, social protection, and hope. However, such solidarity cannot be the sole responsibility of communities. Governments, donors, faith leaders, civil society, and each and every one of us need to contribute to making the world a healthier place.

Global solidarity and shared responsibility require us to view global health responses, including the AIDS response, in a new way. It requires the world to come together to ensure that:

Health is fully financed. Governments must come together and find new ways to ensure that health care is fully funded. No one country can do it alone. Domestic and international funding for health must be increased.

Honestly, I love my dad so much that words can not explain how much love I have for him. My Dad loves me beyond words and I want to use today to wish him happy fathers day.

The beginning of this year was very challenging for me when my Dad fell ill, my world was almost crushing down, my heart was always sad and my soul wanted my Dad to be fine.  I prayed and God answered. I am glad that my Dad is doing really fine, so grateful to God almighty who kept my Dad.

There is nothing, no one at all that can ever replace or add up to all what my Dad has done for me, means to me. He protected and guided me to be the bold, strong ambitious woman that I have grown to be. I am going to name one of my Children after my Dad because the heart of my Dad is pure. I can not wait to do more for my Dad and put more smiles on his beautiful face.

 Celebrating my King! Happy Fathers Day to my ever-loving Father/Dad.