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…
BRATISLAVA, Nov 27 2009 (IPS) – Rights activists are hoping a landmark announcement by the Czech government regretting forced sterilisation of Roma women in the past will push politicians in neighbouring Slovakia to follow suit. The Czech government this week…
Kathryn Barry NEW YORK, Jan 6 2010 (IPS) – The documentary Living in Emergency is as graphic as it is gripping, following doctors working in humanitarian crises as they face death, disease and despair in Liberia and the Democratic Republic…
Claire Ngozo LILONGWE, Mar 15 2010 (IPS) – At the age of 66, village headman Kamwala of Dedza district in central Malawi is starting to feel the effects of ageing. He gets tired easily and needs frequent naps but says…
Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan, Apr 21 2010 (IPS) – Thirty-something Shazia could not contain her joy as she watched an artificial leg being strapped on her right leg, just below her knee. My husband carried me here, but I will…