Resting in Bairro Alto, without fear of being arrested. Credit: Mario Queiroz/IPS LISBON, Aug 1 2012 (IPS) – Portugal was traditionally one of the European countries with the lowest levels of drug use, until the 1980s and 1990s, when problematic…
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…
A mother waits for her baby to be vaccinated at the Bugurundi Clinic in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Credit: Kristin Palitza/IPS DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 22 2012 (IPS) – A nurse working in a remote clinic in Mueda, a small…
Doctors have taken to the streets to raise awareness of the decrepit state of Egypt’s underfunded health system. Credit: Cam McGrath CAIRO, Dec 9 2012 (IPS) – Hospitalised for impaired kidney function, Eman El-Behery needed three medicines to bring her…
Residents of Saint Marc, in the Artibonite region of Haiti, wear masks to protect themselves against cholera. Credit: UN Photo/Sophia Paris UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 2013 (IPS) – The United Nations has come under heavy political fire for its decision…
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.…
Medical services are increasingly difficult to provide in Syria. Above, a field hospital. Credit: FreedomHouse/CC by 2.0 DAMASCUS, Jun 5 2013 (IPS) – It was nine in the morning when the shell landed in front of nine-year-old Hella al-Abtah s…
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…
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 9 2013 (IPS) – When the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) participates in a regional review conference in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo next week, it will take stock of the successes and failures of a wide range…
The MUOS antennas in the cork forest in Niscemi. Credit: Courtesy of Fabio D’Alessandro LUCCA, Italy, Oct 15 2013 (IPS) – Niscemi, with its 30,000 local residents and its white houses, is a typical southern Sicilian town. But it stands…