Q&A: Masculinity Doesn't Mean Macho
Dalia Acosta interviews JULIO CÉSAR GONZÁLEZ PAGÉS HAVANA, Dec 3 2008 (IPS) – The rules for being a man that predominate in Latin America include never saying no…
HEALTH: Obama Lifts "Global Gag Rule"
Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jan 23 2009 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama Friday lifted an eight-year ban on U.S. funding for overseas family-planning groups and clinics that perform…
HEALTH-KENYA: Drug Shortages Threaten Public Health
Joyce Mulama NAIROBI, Mar 11 2009 (IPS) – When public health facilities are so often short of drugs that a community worker has to buy basic medicines like…
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Bringing HIV Testing Where It's Needed
Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN, Apr 7 2009 (IPS) – In the ten months since the Tutu Tester s mobile clinic began touring Cape Town neighbourhoods offering quick, confidential…
ARGENTINA: Tobacco Treaty Unratified, Six Years On
Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, May 11 2009 (IPS) – Six years after signing the global World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Argentina is the only Latin…
HEALTH: Tobacco Companies Have a Field Day in Indonesia
Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Jun 12 2009 (IPS) – When it comes to smoking, Indonesia remains the last paradise for a puff in Southeast Asia. Those addicted to cigarettes…
HEALTH-AFRICA: Neglected Diseases Under the Microscope
Joyce Mulama NAIROBI, Jul 6 2009 (IPS) – Neglected diseases, neglected people. Marcel Tanner uses the phrase to emphasise the attitude of drug developers towards tropical diseases that…
ASIA: Stigma, Cash Crunch Undercut Gains in Access to HIV Treatment
Johanna Son and Lynette Lee Corporal* BALI, Aug 10 2009 (IPS) – The failure to reach the neediest, often the most stigmatised, people and the global financial crisis,…
INDIA: HIV-Positive Women Get User Rights to Till Land
Nitin Jugran Bahuguna THIRUNELVELI, India, Sep 8 2009 (IPS) – Till four months back, 33-year-old Mugil hardly ventured out of her parent s home, preferring to stay indoors…
VIETNAM: Water, Water All Around—Plus All the Risks It Brings
Helen Clark HANOI, Nov 19 2009 (IPS) – As Vietnam s big cities are increasingly deluged by floods, the infrastructure cannot keep up. At the end of October…