HEALTH-PAKISTAN: Drug Addicts Routinely Denied Anti-HIV Medicines
Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Aug 18 2007 (IPS) – #39 #39I ve been running temperature for the past 25 days and lost about five kg in the last one month just …
HEALTH: U.S. Urged to Pay Fair Share of Global Fund
Mirela Xanthaki UNITED NATIONS, Jan 29 2009 (IPS) – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria is facing a critical funding gap of five billion dollars an …
MIDEAST: Alternative Remedies Fall Short in Gaza
Eva Bartlett GAZA CITY, Jul 18 2011 (IPS) – When I came back to Gaza in 2006, before the siege started, people came to me for acupuncture, says Dr. Hisham …
Q&A: Severe Birth Defects Soar in Post-War Iraq
Julia Kallas interviews MOZHGAN SAVABIEASFAHANI, an Environmental Toxicologist at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health UNITED NATIONS, Oct 26 2012 (IPS) – A new study confirms what many …
For Parents of Sick Children, It’s Move or Break the Law
Caden Clark has Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a catastrophic form of epilepsy that causes him to have seizures from 10 to 20 times a day. Courtesy of the Clark Family. SPOKANE, Washington, …
Human Rights Must Be at the Heart of the COVID-19 Recovery
Credit: Defenders Coalition NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 9 2020 (IPS) – On 10 December every year, we celebrate Human Rights Day, marking the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration …
What is lost in the smoke of COVID-19
Devyn Holliday, Research Officer, Economic, Youth & Sustainable Development Directorate This blog is part of the seminar series on ‘’. Jun 10 2020 – When countries shuttered their shops, …
The Last Mile to Malaria Elimination: Confronting Gender Inequalities & Power Dynamics
Young girls chat while sitting under a mosquito net in Bienythiang, South Sudan. Credit: UNICEF/Mark Naftalin World Malaria Day, April 25, is an occasion to highlight the need for …