HEALTH: Keeping Hope Against AIDS Alive in the Labs
laura Emilio GodoyMEXICO CITY, Aug 7 2008 (IPS) - We need to get away from this home-run mentality to research. Science is incremental, said Alan Bernstein, executive director of the Global…
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HEALTH: WHO Warns Against ‘Bird Flu Fatigue’
Stella GonzalesMANILA, Oct 7 2008 (IPS) - So where is the pandemic? This is a question most often asked of health experts years after they warned about a pandemic influenza…
Q&A: Escalating Violence Against Women in Swaziland
Mantoe Phakathi interviews HLOBISILE DLAMINI-SHONGWE, gender activistMBABANE, Swaziland, Nov 27 2008 (IPS) - Still wearing a campaign t-shirt with the slogan FED UP: with violence against women , Dlamini-Shongwe, the…
MIDEAST: Alarm Spreads Over Use of Lethal New Weapons
Erin CunninghamGAZA CITY, Jan 21 2009 (IPS) - Eighteen-year-old Mona Al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahiya had…