Nasseem Ackbarally PORT-LOUIS, Mar 2 2006 (IPS) – A few months ago, the average Mauritian might have looked blank if asked what chikungunya was. Now, they re probably all too familiar with the term. Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne disease that…
Gordon Brown, U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of Britain, writes that our failure to reach the marginalised is a result of universal development goals that do not explicitly target resources on the most vulnerable populations.…
A resident of Rabaable village in Somalia fetches water with the help of her daughters. The villages well was recently rehabilitated by UNICEF. Credit: UNICEF Somalia/Sebastian Rich ROME, Mar 3 2017 (IPS) – Women across the globe are facing new…
• Education and COVID-19: UN helps children continue their learning There have even been that the coronavirus is related to exposure to new technologies (such as 5G, which can be used to deliver money mobiles services). There are measures authorities…
NEW YORK, Dec 14 2020 (IPS) – The United Nations Secretary-General’s marked the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (25 November to 10 December 2020) at a time when COVID-19 exacerbated the conditions women operate under. The theme, ,…
Mask mandates are now over, but health practitioners and scientists say it’s time to use what we have learnt about COVID-19 to manage other epidemics. Credit: IMF Photo/James Oatway Johannesburg, Aug 18 2022 (IPS) – After two years of economic…
Miss World Brazil Letícia Frota and Pragnya Ayyagari, Miss Supranational India agreed that zero leprosy and campaigns to destigmatize the disease should not be sidelined because of COVID-19. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS Nairobi, Nov 8 2022 (IPS) – Deep-rooted discrimination against…
Medical equipment supplied by the World Food Programme (WFP) arrives in Beijing. Meanwhile, as COVID-19 infections surged in China, coronavirus experts gathered at the UN health agency in Geneva on January 3, to discuss next steps. Photo courtesy of Yingshi…