The Year of Inflation Exposes Dogma and Class Bias
sandy SYDNEY, Jan 17 2023 (IPS) - Inflation worries topped Ipsos’s in 2022 overtaking COVID concerns. The return of inflation caught major central banks, e.g., the US Federal Reserve (Fed), Bank…
Mercury Project Puts Great UNEP Treaty at Risk
The writer is President, World Alliance for Mercury-Free DentistryThe World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry delegates at Minamata COP-4, on 23 March, 2022, Bali, Indonesia. Credit: Kiara Worth, IISD/ENB (Earth Negotiation…
Deadly Smoke: Feeding Children Kills Cafeteria Staff
Soo Hyoun Lim (right) and friend campaign for safe working environments for cafeteria workers.Seoul, Sep 28 2022 (IPS) - During my summer break this year, I read about five school…
Destruction of Ukraine’s Healthcare Facilities Violates International Humanitarian Law – Report
On March 6, 2022, Izyum Central City Hospital (Kharkiv oblast) was attacked as a part of what appears to have been a large-scale carpet-bombing campaign. Reportedly, the hospital team had…
New Mosquito Species Could Derail Fight Against Malaria
Stagnant water in one of Nairobi’s residential areas. Credit: Wilson Odhiambo/IPSNAIROBI, May 8 2023 (IPS) - ‘Urban’ Kenya has been alerted because new mosquito species, Anopheles stephensi, threatens to derail…
Reimagining Ageing: Older Persons as Agents of Development
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 29 2022 (IPS) - Older persons are highly visible across Asia and the Pacific: they work in agricultural fields producing our food supplies, peddle their wares as…
Women, Girls Equal Partners in HIV Responses, Says Activist
Tendayi Westerhof was one of the first celebrities in Zimbabwe to disclose their HIV-positive status. BRATISLAVA, Feb 14 2024 (IPS) - UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, recently made an impassioned…
World Hepatitis Day: Celebrating Progress and Confronting Persistent Challenges
Hepatitis remains a deadly disease, causing over 800,000 deaths globally each year. Credit: Shutterstock. Jul 25 2024 (IPS) - July 28th is World Hepatitis Day, created to celebrate the life…
Improving Healthcare for All
KUALA LUMPUR and BERN, Jul 19 2023 (IPS) - In 2015, almost all heads of government in the world committed to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including universal…
High Prevalence of Undetected Hypertension Found in Bangladesh
The salinity of the water in coastal Bangladesh contributes to high blood pressure. Credit: Rafiqul Islam/IPSDHAKA, Nov 7 2023 (IPS) - Since her childhood, Parveen Begum, 52, has been adding…
Our Message at Davos: Water & Sanitation Are a Critical Line of Defence Against Climate Change
Tim Wainwright is Chief Executive of .Credit: WaterAid/ DRIK/ Habibul HaqueLONDON, Jan 31 2020 (IPS) - There was only one topic on everyone’s lips at Davos this year – c.…
In Light of the Global Pandemic, Focus Attention on the People
International Assembly of the Peoples and Tricontinental: Institute for Social ResearchKazimir Malevich, Children on the Grass, 1908 (Pushkin Museum State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow). Mar 23 2020 - SARS-CoV-2…
Green Counter-Revolution in Africa?
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 7 2020 (IPS) - In 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation jointly launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa…
Coronavirus Shows the Urgency of Ensuring that Research gets into the Public Domain
Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPSApr 26 2020 (IPS) - Following the outbreak and declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, there has been a flurry of scientific research and publications to…
Remembering Beethoven – a Genius with a Disability
BONN, Apr 29 2020 (IPS) - Do you recognize this man? You do, of course. It is the silhouette of Beethoven, the famous composer and pianist, well known all over…
Coronavirus Leads to Nosedive in Remittances in Latin America
Remittances now account for an important portion of GDP in Latin America and the Caribbean and support millions of families, so the drop in this source of income is shaking…
COVID 19 – Conspiracy or Apocalypse? – Part II
AMSTERDAM/ROME, Jun 8 2020 (IPS) - As the COVID-19 virus spread rapidly around the globe, so did various theories about what caused the pandemic. According to the standard scientific theory,…
Managing an Epidemic Within a Pandemic
Credit: United NationsJun 29 2020 (IPS) - While COVID-19 has made the headlines every day over the past two months, services for tuberculosis (TB), one of the oldest in the…
Enough Is Not Enough – Call for Urgent Change in Mexican Economic Policy
MEXICO CITY, Aug 14 2020 (IPS) - A group composed by women and men, called Nuevo Curso de Desarrollo (New Course for Development) based at the National University of Mexico…
Will COVID-19 Change the Global Balance of Power?
Wang Yi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, addresses the virtual Security Council summit-level debate on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Global Governance post Covid-19”.…
Food as Prevention – Rising to Nutritional Challenges
Mothers and their children gather at a community nutrition centre in the little village of Rantolava, Madagascar, to learn more about a healthy diet. Credit: Alain Rakotondravony/IPSNAPLES, Italy, Nov 25…
Covid-19 And Migrant Workers: Planning the return and reintegration of forced returnees
Jul 9 2020 - During the pandemic, forced return of migrants has become a major issue of concern for intergovernmental bodies and the global civil society engaged in migration issues.…
How to Reap the Benefits of Food as Medicine
Sorghum is has nutritional and health benefits. Small scale farmer, Catherine Sibanda examines her sorghum crop in field, in Jambezi District, Zimbabwe, March 2015. Credit: Busani Bafana / IPSBULAWAYO, Dec…
Tuberculosis Kills As Many People Each Year As COVID-19. It’s Time We Found a Better Vaccine
A TB patient at the Srinagar-based Chest Diseases Hospital in the Indian state of Kashmir. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPSJan 15 2021 (IPS) - In July 1921, a French infant became the…
End Vaccine Apartheid Before Millions More Die
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 23 2021 (IPS) - have significant access to coronavirus vaccines before 2023. Unfortunately, a year’s delay will cause an estimated 2.5 million avoidable deaths in…
Put People Before Profits for Progress
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 18 2021 (IPS) - Millions of people are expected to die due to delayed and unaffordable access to COVID-19 tests, treatment, personal protective equipment and vaccines.…
Universal Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Are Critical for Truth, Trust and COVID Recovery in Asia and the Pacific
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 28 2021 (IPS) - With health systems at a breaking point, hospitals at capacity and desperate family members searching for oxygen for loved ones, the devastating second…
The CDC Turns Its Back on Migrants and Science
Credit: UNOHCR.PHILADELPHIA, US, Oct 7 2021 (IPS) - Last month, asylum-seeking families at the U.S.-Mexico border appeared to have won a victory, however temporary, in their last-ditch bid for safety…
Prioritising Profits Reversed Health Progress
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 2021 (IPS) - Instead of a health system striving to provide universal healthcare, a fragmented, profit-driven market ‘non-system’ has emerged. The 1980s’ neo-liberal counter-revolution…
Nepal Investing in Health Care but Equality of Access Lags
Medical staff pose in a new maternal care ward at the Melamchi Municipality Hospital, Nepal, in November 2021. Credit: Marty Logan/IPSKATHMANDU, Feb 4 2022 (IPS) - As the omicron wave…
Partnering with Persons with Disabilities Toward an Inclusive, Accessible and Sustainable Post-COVID-19 World
BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 3 2021 (IPS) - As the world observes the International Day of Persons with Disabilities today, we honour the leadership of persons with disabilities and their tireless…
We Must Carry on Paul Farmer’s Work on Social Determinants of Health
Sub Saharan Africa has a population of 1.14 billion, yet just 24% of the population has access to safe drinking water. Credit: Stella Paul/IPSABUJA, Mar 2 2022 (IPS) - Paul…
Addressing Gender-Related Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccinations to Ensure Vaccinations for All
Credit: United Nations KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 20 2022 (IPS) - As a global pandemic, COVID-19 and its continued impacts are unprecedented. Yet many of the challenges that emerged in…
New Medicines May Help End AIDS– but High Prices & Monopolies Could Keep the Poor Locked Out
The writers are Deputy Executive Directors of the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) A man is tested for HIV at a health centre in Odienné, Côte d’Ivoire. Credit:…
News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. Michel de MontaigneSTOCKHOLM, Jul 13 2022 (IPS) - During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about…
Ideology and Dogma Ensure Policy Disaster
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 2022 (IPS) - Central banks (CBs) around the world – led by the US Fed, European Central Bank and Bank of England – are…
Shaping Our Digital Future
BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 30 2022 (IPS) - Asia and the Pacific is the most digitally divided region of the world, and South-East Asia is the most divided subregion. The Covid-19…
More Austerity in 2023 Will Fuel Protests
Anti-Austerity protests in 2006-2020. Credit: NEW YORK, Jan 13 2023 (IPS) - This week world leaders meet in to discuss cooperation to address multiple crises, from COVID-19 and escalating inflation…
BRAC ‘Resets’ Program Aimed at Empowering Adolescent Girls in Africa
A girl reads a story book with lessons on life skills at an ELA club in Uganda. Credit: Uganda/BRAC UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 2023 (IPS) - BRAC’s Empowerment and Livelihood…
Ethiopian Government Must Prioritize Access To Quality Surgery in Post-War Reconstruction
The cumulative needs of injured patients from the war have created a medical crisis. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPSADDIS ABABA, Mar 30 2023 (IPS) - There are about globally who cannot access…
Education Must Be Put Front and Centre on the G7 Agenda
ECW Executive Director Yasmine Sherif Statement in advance of the G7 Hiroshima SummitNEW YORK, May 17 2023 - At this year’s in Japan, world leaders will have a chance to…
Wood Smoke Continues to Make Women Sick in El Salvador
Cecilia Menjivar, a tortilla maker in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, takes a break from cooking corn in a pot that is one meter high and 50 centimeters…
Pre-Colonial Delicacy Could Help Food Security and Climate Change
Togotia, a forgotten African leafy vegetable, has found its way back into markets as its high nutritional value could help address food security. CREDIT: Egerton UniversityNAIROBI, Aug 16 2023 (IPS)…
Behind Each Climate Disaster Awaits a Tuberculosis Crisis
Maria Beumont, MD, is Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for the TB Alliance Tuberculosis remains the leading infectious cause of death in the world, responsible for 1.6 million deaths…
This Doctor Helps Himalayan Women Ward off Cervical Cancer
Nordan Otzer during a cancer awareness event in a village in Ladakh, India. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPSLADAKH, INDIA, Nov 29 2023 (IPS) - While working as a doctor in the initial…
UN and Humanitarian Partners Seek USD 46 Billion for Humanitarian Assistance
CARE Somalia, a UN partner, could provide emergency services to drought-affected communities through humanitarian funding. Credit: OCHA-Yao ChenUNITED NATIONS, Dec 18 2023 (IPS) - Funding humanitarian programs will continue into…
Latin America and the Caribbean Hit with Record-Breaking Heat and Other Climate Effects in 2023
The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean report documents the Region’s struggles with the devastating impacts of climate change, and urges action to…
From Trauma to Triumph: Kenyan Women’s Courageous Battle Against Female Genital Mutilation
Naomy Kolian and Jane Kaliko share light moments after a tiring day of engaging the community at a public forum on the need to stop FGM. Credit: Robert Kibet/IPSNAIROBI, Jul…