HEALTH-TOGO: Increased Drug Use Shadows Growing Trafficking
Noel Kokou Tadégnon LOME, Jul 18 2008 (IPS) – As the Togolese capital becomes a regional hub for drug trafficking, many drug addicts in Lomé are seeking assistance to kick …
HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: Cholera Now a National Emergency
All across Harare, people tell of how healthy-looking people are dying within hours of consuming the dirty water that many residents have resorted to in the absence of clean drinking …
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV
Marshall Patsanza JOHANNESBURG, Mar 8 2010 (IPS) – A world where all children are born free of HIV infection is possible in only five years if donors continue to fund …
KENYA: Strategy to Counter Counterfeit Medicine
Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI, Jul 11 2011 (IPS) – In Kenya buying medicine from any unregistered pharmacy outlet means that you are running a higher risk of buying either substandard or …
Curbing Tobacco Use – One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there will be between 1.5 and 1.9 billion smokers worldwide in 2025. Credit: Marius Mellebye/CC-BY-2.0 ABU DHABI, Apr 2 2015 (IPS) – The …
The Privilege of Making a Choice
NEW YORK, May 8 2023 (IPS) – A civilian student named Saber was caught in the crossfire in Khartoum. He had two choices: either flee and lose everything; or die. …