LATIN AMERICA: Short Lives and Unmarked Graves
Diego Cevallos MEXICO CITY, Nov 16 2006 (IPS) – The 16 or 17-year-old boy, evidently born into a poor family, was buried Thursday by staff members of Casa Alianza, a …
HEALTH-INDIA: Bird Flu Virus Outpaces Culling in West Bengal
Sujoy Dhar KOLKATA, Jan 23 2008 (IPS) – When nine out West Bengal state s 19 districts were declared on Wednesday to be in the grip of a bird flu …
POLITICS-US: New Drug Czar Praised by Reform Groups
Marina Litvinsky and Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, Mar 12 2009 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama s pick for his new drug czar signals a radical shift from the policies of …
AFRICA: Stronger Will Needed from Governments to Save Poorest Children
Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI, Sep 8 2010 (IPS) – Herding goats is tough with the thirst, sun, loneliness and hunger each day. And it can last forever. You herd as a …
Epidemic of Premature Births in Rich and Poor Nations Alike
WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS, May 3 2012 (IPS) – Fifteen million babies, or more than one in 10 infants, are born prematurely each year. Over one million die soon after birth, or …
Public Health and Epidemics
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 30 2020 (IPS) – For some time Wuhan in China and Lombardy in Italy were epicentres of the COVID-19 virus, something that has changed when the …