TB Preventive Treatment: the Need for Choice
The progress made in HIV prevention is nothing short of a global success story. It is time that TB caught up to HIV. Medicine is simply too advanced for us …
International Women’s Day, 2024Rural Tajik Woman’s Road to Empowering Women Living with HIV
This feature is part of a series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. Takhmina Haidarova, Tajik advocate for the rights of women living with HIV. BRATISLAVA, Mar 7 2024 …
Activists Challenge Pharma Company Gilead Over HIV Medication
Activists protest during the 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS2024) in Munich over a affordable pricing for a drug currently sold by pharmaceutical firm Gilead. Credit: Ed Holt/IPS MUNICH, Aug 2 …
UNFPA Highlights Need to Address Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women in Crisis Areas
The $683 million will be used for efforts towards women’s reproductive and sexual health rights across 57 countries, of which about $300 million will be directed towards UNFPA’s projects in …
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, …
COVID-19 – China Tells World Health Assembly They Did their Best
At the World Health Assembly, Chinese President Xi Jinping said they did their “best to stem cross-border transmission” of COVID-19 and help other nations. People wearing face masks at a …
Donald Trump, Working Class Hero?
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 2020 (IPS) – In his early February annual , US President Donald Trump typically hailed his own policies for increasing wages and jobs to …
What Indonesia’s Local Elections Mean for National Politics
Posters of rival tickets for mayor of Depok, a commuter city 40 minutes by train south of Jakarta where many of its 2.4 million residents work.Credit: Warief D. Basorie JAKARTA, …
Demographic Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic: An Overview
One year after the pandemic was officially declared, the enormous demographic impact of the coronavirus is becoming increasingly evident as more data are compiled and analyzed. Credit: United Nations. NEW …
Why Our Best Defence Against Future Pandemics is Data
Scientists in Thailand work to combat zoonotic diseases at their source. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates “intimate” linkages between the health of humans, animals and ecosystems, as zoonotic diseases spread between …