Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 2008 (IPS) - The United Nations commemorated World Population Day Friday in the shadow of a staggering array of grim statistics: an estimated 200 million…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dahr JamailBAGHDAD, Mar 6 2009 (IPS) - Prompt medical care is at last on offer in Iraq, for those who can find the dollars for it. Why would I want…
Stanley Kwenda interviews HENRY MADZORERA, minister of Health and Child WelfareHARARE, Apr 4 2009 (IPS) - The resuscitation of Zimbabwe s health care system has been identified as one of…
Patricia Grogg* - IPS/IFEJHAVANA, May 7 2009 (IPS) - Thousands of kilometres from Ukraine, where the worst nuclear accident in history occurred 23 years ago, the sun and fresh air…
Miriam MannakCAPE TOWN, Jun 9 2009 (IPS) - The 19th World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa, which kicks off tomorrow, is a space for the rich and powerful elites who…
Jim Lobe*WASHINGTON, Jul 2 2009 (IPS) - In the latest in a string of setbacks that could cost the U.S. oil giant Chevron billions of dollars in damages, President Barack…
Eli CliftonWASHINGTON, Aug 6 2009 (IPS) - The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) is taking new measures to warn Palestinian civilians about impending aerial attacks. This comes in response to questions…
Toluwa OlusegunFARASINME, Nigeria, Sep 2 2009 (IPS) - Women, their children strapped to their backs, defy the mid-morning sun and converge on the Primary Healthcare Centre, located on the outskirts…
Matthew BergerWASHINGTON, Oct 29 2009 (IPS) - As the effort to achieve universal health coverage within the U.S. crawls forward in Washington, a new report by a coalition of global…
Joshua KyalimpaKAMPALA, Oct 22 2009 (IPS) - More than half of Ugandan girls who enrol in grade one drop out before sitting for their primary school-leaving examinations. The fact that…
Dahr JamailMARFA, Texas, Dec 11 2009 (IPS) - With a military health care system over-stretched by two ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, more soldiers are deciding to go absent…
B. C. LeeBANGKOK, Jan 27 2010 (IPS) - When disaster strikes, acute stress disorders, especially among children, may follow. Yet the need for early psychosocial interventions is often overlooked, if…
Pavol StracanskyBRATISLAVA, Mar 2 2010 (IPS) - Health experts have called on European governments to use a pioneering tax on fast foods to be introduced in Romania as a model…
Manipadma JenaBHUBANESWAR, India, Apr 7 2010 (IPS) - It was her fourth unplanned pregnancy, but Sani Jani still made it a point to have a monthly checkup at the nearest…
Wambi Michael interviews JUMA MWAPACHU, secretary general of the East African Community (Part 1)KAMPALA, May 7 2010 (IPS) - The anti-counterfeit draft policy and law that the East African Community…
Bhuwan SharmaKATHMANDU, Jun 20 2010 (IPS) - To women who have lost their husbands to the killer AIDS disease, learning a skill to earn a living could be a matter…
Claudia CiobanuBUCHAREST, Jul 16 2010 (IPS) - Canadian company Gabriel Resources has managed to resurrect a cyanide-based gold exploitation project which had been declared illegal in courts, and is opposed…
Mufudzi MoyoHARARE, Aug 9 2010 (IPS) - The memories of Zimbabwe s 2008-2009 cholera outbreak are fresh in the minds of everyone except the people who have the safety of…
MANAMA, Sep 6 2010 (IPS) - Bahrain may be dependent on expatriate labour, but that has not stopped it from deporting migrant workers who are found to be HIV-positive. The…
Marwaan Macan-MarkarBANGKOK, Sep 29 2010 (IPS) - Dustbins in a university toilet rarely elicit a second look, but those at one of the oldest universities in Burma s Kachin State…
Ansel HerzPORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 22 2010 (IPS) - Some 1.3 million people have lived in makeshift camps throughout Port-au-Prince since the January earthquake devastated the city. Living conditions are appalling ,…
Marcela ValenteBUENOS AIRES, Nov 24 2010 (IPS) - My mother used to beat me. She would lock me away, and then she started chaining me to the table, says Elizabeth.…
Badylon K. BakimanKIKWIT, DR Congo, Jan 10 2011 (IPS) - When the ground is broken for the Kakobola dam, engineers just might be able to hear the jubilation in the…
Ángel PáezLIMA, Feb 24 2011 (IPS) - Peru s Glass of Milk Programme (PVL) is failing in its aim of providing nutritional supplements to all poor children in Peru. But…
Stephen LeahyUXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 17 2011 (IPS) - A global nuclear disaster potentially worse than Chernobyl may be under way in Japan as hundreds of tonnes of highly radioactive spent…
Emilio GodoyMEXICO CITY, Apr 18 2011 (IPS) - Mexico needs to take urgent steps to tighten oversight of the storage, handling and disposal of radioactive materials that can threaten the…
Isolda AgazziGENEVA, May 19 2011 (IPS) - The World Health Assembly could adopt landmark resolutions asking governments to improve water and sanitation to eradicate cholera and guinea worm, the latter…
Amantha PereraCOLOMBO, Jun 16 2011 (IPS) - With the monsoon season upon it, Sri Lanka s war against the deadly dengue- carrying mosquito faces its toughest test yet, but early…
Portia CroweNEW YORK, Jul 1 2011 (IPS) - Just 100 days after a deadly earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, concerns are being raised…
Pavol StracanskyBUDAPEST, Aug 7 2011 (IPS) - The introduction of some of Europe s most far-reaching taxes on unhealthy foods has sparked renewed debate about the effect of such levies…
Christian PapeschUNITED NATIONS, Sep 12 2011 (IPS) - Cell phones and computer applications can help save the lives of thousands of mothers and children worldwide. Tembli, a patient at Nolungile…
Stephen LeahyUXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 1 2011 (IPS) - Mountains of hazardous waste grow by about 40 million tons every year. This waste, mostly from Europe and North America, is burned…
Amantha PereraVAVUNIYA, Dec 18 2011 (IPS) - There are times when Thiyagarajah Santhirakumaran, 35, wishes that he had died in Sri Lanka s civil war. There is peace now, but…
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 13 2012 (IPS) - Mental health professionals in Argentina have accumulated such a wealth of experience in treating victims of state terrorism that they are now sharing…
Matthew CardinaleATLANTA, Georgia, Mar 16 2012 (IPS) - With increasing concerns about the economy and environmental sustainability on the minds of many U.S. citizens, leaders in the grassroots movement to…
NEW DELHI, Apr 27 2012 (IPS) - Ignoring widespread concern over the safety, efficacy and cost of pentavalent vaccines, India’s central health ministry has, this month, approved inclusion of the…
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 1 2012 (IPS) - A new approach to mental health care is slowly making headway in Argentina, against heavy resistance. Based on short-term hospitalisation, fewer psychiatric hospitals,…
Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) Caribbean Regional Support Team, Dr. Ernest Massiah. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPSBASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Jul 19 2012 (IPS) - Thirty…
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 2012 (IPS) - World Water Week recently concluded in Stockholm with a special emphasis on the linkages between water and food security. Lakshmi Puri. Credit: UN…
The destroyed Tabu neighbourhood at Gadarfai in southern Libya. Credit: Rebecca Murray/IPS.KUFRA, southern Libya, Oct 20 2012 (IPS) - Safia’s six-year-old body is riddled with scars from the rocket that…
A small-scale gold miner shows off his earnings for the day. Credit: chuck624/cc by 2.0GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Nov 26 2012 (IPS) - As regional delegates meet to discuss a legally binding…
A Santiago demonstration calling for decent minimum wages is violently repressed in July 2012. Credit: Fernando Fiedler /IPSSANTIAGO, Jan 18 2013 (IPS) - Chile s positive economic performance in 2012…
Smog over Los Angeles, California. Credit: Steven.Buss/cc by 2.0WASHINGTON, Mar 29 2013 (IPS) - Environmentalists and public health advocates are lauding a key, long-awaited proposal put forward by President Barack…
Many of the workers who survived the factory collapse in Bangladesh have lost their limbs. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPSDHAKA, May 20 2013 (IPS) - “It was dark and hot with choking…
Jane Meriwas (l) addresses women from the Samburu community, in Kipsing Plains in Kenya’s Rift Valley region, about harmful cultural practices. Courtesy: Jane MeriwasNAIROBI , Jun 11 2013 (IPS) -…
A major diversion project threatens to choke Mongolia's Orkhon River, the longest in the country. Credit: Michelle Tolson/IPSSELENGE PROVINCE, Mongolia, Jul 19 2013 (IPS) - Tsetseghkorol, a Mongolian herder, stares…
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