U.S.: Youth on Frontlines of Green Justice Struggles
Bankole Thompson DETROIT, Jun 24 2010 (IPS) – The committed determination of young people in the environmental justice movement is emerging as a highlight of the 2010 U.S….
HEALTH: East African Laws Confuse Fake and Generic Drugs – WHO
Isolda Agazzi GENEVA, Jul 19 2010 (IPS) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) agrees that the anti-counterfeit legislation that has been adopted or that is under consideration in…
SOUTH AFRICA: “Children are Dying Needlessly”
CAPE TOWN, Aug 11 2010 (IPS) – By the time Thandi Khumalo* brought her seven-month-old daughter to the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, help came too…
HEALTH: H1N1 Pandemic Is Over, But Vigilance Needed – WHO
Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Sep 7 2010 (IPS) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging countries in Asia to remain vigilant about the spread of the H1N1 influenza…
Retraining Rwanda’s Traditional Birth Attendants
Aimable Twahirwa KIGALI, Sep 30 2010 (IPS) – Two years spent training traditional birth attendants in remote rural areas has allowed Rwanda to reduce the country s maternal…
U.S.: Planting Oases in a Land of Burgers and Fries
Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON, Oct 27 2010 (IPS) – Though close to a billion people remain undernourished worldwide, one in three U.S. children are overweight a problem that…
Slowly Winning Fight Against FGM in Northern Senegal
PODOR, Senegal, Nov 29 2010 (IPS) – The harm done by female genital mutilation is still enormous in Podor, a city in the north of Senegal, say officials…
Appalling Conditions in Mexico’s Mental Health Institutions
Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Jan 14 2011 (IPS) – Brígido rocks slowly back and forth while José Guadalupe, a Catholic priest, says mass at the Atlampa Centre for…
PAKISTAN: Injecting Disease With Medicine
Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Feb 28 2011 (IPS) – Once every two weeks, 45-year-old Perween Riaz enters a place with a sign outside that says Ghazi Medical Centre where…
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Managing Mental Illness on a Few Pesos a Month
Elizabeth Roebling SANTO DOMINGO, Mar 22 2011 (IPS) – Cristina, 41, was able to support the last two of her five children despite the fact that she could…