Canada’s new strategy won’t solve food insecurity or the health issues it creates - The Conversation

A new review of research from across sub-Saharan Africa found that inadequate access to food is linked to depression, suicide attempts, HIV vulnerabilities, and poorer sexual and reproductive health outcomes among adolescent mothers. The findings, published in the journal PLOS ONE, suggest that food insecurity is not only a nutrition issue but also a critical health and equity challenge, highlighting the importance of placing adolescent girls becoming mothers at the center of policies and programs designed to improve food security, health, and social equity across sub-Saharan Africa.

Among cancer patients, the high financial cost of cancer care is a prevalent problem. This financial burden is also associated with potentially harmful behavioral strategies that patients might use to cope with costs, such as delaying or forgoing treatment and skipping medications. Collectively, researchers refer to this impact as financial toxicity.