Ahmed Ali* BAQUBA, Jul 25 2007 (IPS) – Diyala General Hospital in the provincial capital Baquba has been hit by severe lack of supplies amid ongoing attacks by militants. Located 50km northeast of Baghdad, the city of Baquba has become…
Sam Cassanos NEW YORK, Jul 28 2008 (IPS) – Two New York City Congressional representatives are calling for Newtown Creek, one of the country s most polluted waterways, to be tested for the high levels of toxic chemicals that would…
Kristin Palitza interviews Gertrude Matsebe and Louiza Duncker, Sustainable Human Settlement group, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) PRETORIA, Dec 15 2008 (IPS) – Sanitation is a key element of health, and hygiene a basic need for survival. Yet,…
Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN, May 18 2009 (IPS) – International donors and African governments are likely to cut health budgets due to the global financial crisis. Health experts fear that increasing unemployment and poverty will lead to less food security…
Dengue patients at Cambodia’s National Paediatric hospital. Credit: Erika Pineros/IPS RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 25 2012 (IPS) – Scientists in Brazil announced the start of experiments with an “innocuous, self-sustainable” method to fight transmission of the dengue virus by the…
Women farmers are taking the lead in managing leasehold forestry programmes in rural Nepal. Credit: Naresh Newar/IPS JHIRUBAS, Nepal, Jun 19 2013 (IPS) – Nearly 300 km from Nepal’s teeming capital, Kathmandu, in a small village dug into the steep…
An elderly displaced man carries a sack of rations on his shoulder in northern Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS PESHAWAR, Mar 10 2015 (IPS) – A doctor shakes his head in despair as he examines a 10-year-old child at the Jalozai…