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,…
Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Feb 18 2009 (IPS) – The food crisis that spilled over from last year could take a turn for the worse in the next decade if there are no explicit answers to a rash of growing…
Nastassja Hoffet UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 2009 (IPS) – As more than 20,000 people meet in Istanbul for a major week-long conference on future management of the world s water supplies, women s groups are working to ensure that policy…
Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Apr 15 2009 (IPS) – Glyphosate, the herbicide used on soybeans in Argentina, causes malformations in amphibian embryos, say scientists here who revealed the findings of a study that has not yet been published. The observed…
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…
Neena Bhandari SYDNEY, Australia, Jul 6 2010 (IPS) – Devina Celeste, 50, waits in a queue of about 40 people at the neighbourhood centre in the Australian inner-city suburb of Newtown for the only hot meal she will get on…
Toye Olori LAGOS, Jul 18 2009 (IPS) – Dressed in a simple buba (Nigerian wear) and black trousers on this particular morning, Lawal Olukole receives patients in a six by six foot consulting room made of plywood. Olukoye (centre) at…
Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Aug 14 2009 (IPS) – Tired of calling for the decriminalisation of abortion the leading cause of maternal death in Argentina a network of women s rights activists launched a telephone hotline to inform women on…
Jessie Boylan COBUE, Mozambique, Sep 17 2009 (IPS) – In the Niassa province of northwest Mozambique, one doctor has been working with local communities to overcome the delays responsible for three-quarters of maternal deaths each year. A healthy baby at…
Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 3 2009 (IPS) – Until the Taliban were forced to flee by the military, the militant group s deadly opposition to vaccination had been severely hampering efforts to make Pakistan a polio-free country in the…