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Will There Finally Be a Cure for Diseases that Affect the Poor?
Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry has declined drastically in the last ten years despite the high profitability of the so-called “research-based” industry, and the availability of better and...
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Q&A: How Innovative Funding Combats HIV/AIDS
On World AIDS Day, the fact that the number of children newly infected with HIV continues to decline is welcome news to UNITAID, the International Drug Purchase Facility hosted by the World Health...
View ArticleGlobal Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths
The United Nations has unveiled a major framework aimed at, for the first time, coordinating worldwide efforts to work simultaneously to end childhood pneumonia- and diarrhoea-related deaths by 2025....
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Older Women in Cuba Take Steps to Improve Quality of Life
Nearly 18 percent of the Cuban population is over 60, most of them women. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS Paediatrician Grisel Navarro says she is “a different kind of retiree,” because she still...
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Failed Drug Policies Building Global Hepatitis C ‘Time-Bomb’
As a hepatitis C pandemic rages among drug users and threatens the lives of millions around the world, a group of high-level leaders called today on governments to reform their drug policies and raise...
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Killer Smoke Blows Through Pacific Islands
Cigarettes are a popular buy from vendors selling imported goods here in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPSGovernments in the Western Pacific Islands, believed to be home to...
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Moscow Protest Highlights Litany of Abuses Suffered by Russia’s Drug Users
Nadezdha Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina (fourth and fifth from the right) with activists from the Andrei Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice in Moscow marking the United Nations...
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Defying the Ebola Odds in Sierra Leone
A medical centre at the Bandama checkpoint in Kenema to test people in transit for symptoms of Ebola. Credit: Mohamed Fofanah/IPSBy Mohamed FofanahKENEMA, Sierra Leone, Jul 12 2014 (IPS) Adikali Kamara...
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A Carrot Is a Carrot – or Is It?
Permaculture enthusiasts with their harvested produce. Credit: Graham BellBy Justin HyattBUDAPEST, Jul 28 2014 (IPS) Food security is often thought of as a question of diversifying supply and being...
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The Good – and the Bad – News on World Hunger
To meet the challenge of feeding the world’s 805 million hungry people, this year’s State of Food Insecurity report calls for the creation of an ‘enabling environment’. Credit: FAO/Giulio NapolitanoBy...
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The Double Burden of Malnutrition
These Haitian schoolchildren are being supported by a WFP school feeding programme designed to end malnutrition which, for many countries, can be a double burden where overweight and obesity exist side...
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OPINION: The Role of the Media and Visibility for Malnutrition Around the World
In this column, Mario Lubetkin, Director of Corporate Communications at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), writes that the Second International Conference on Nutrition received widespread...
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Marginalised Groups Struggle to Access Healthcare in Conflict-Torn East Ukraine
Social worker in the flat of a drug addict in Donetsk doing outreach work. Drug addicts, like other marginalised groups, including Roma, are victims of the collapse of the health system in East...
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Cancer Locks a Deadly Grip on Africa, Yet It’s Barely Noticed
Many specialist doctors and nurses in Africa are migrating to greener pastures, leaving cancer patients with few options. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPSBy Jeffrey MoyoHARARE, Feb 13 2015 (IPS)Hidden by the...
View ArticleShould We Celebrate 10 Years of the Global Tobacco Control Treaty?
Laurent Huber is Director of Framework Convention Alliance, a grouping of nearly 500 organisations worldwide dedicated to global tobacco control.By Laurent HuberGENEVA, Feb 18 2015 (IPS)February 27...
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Empower Rural Women for Their Dignity and Future
A woman planting a shea tree in Ghana to protect riverbanks, and for her economic empowerment. Much still remains to be done to overcome the difficulties women – particularly rural women – face in...
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Why Investors Should Think Twice before Investing in Coal in India – Part 2
Coal mining in India. Coal-fired plants contribute 60 percent of India’s energy capacity and are a large source of the air pollution that is taking a toll on people’s health and their livelihoods....
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Activists Protest Denial of Condoms to Africa’s High-Risk Groups
Distributing condoms in prisons and schools has set off a heated debate, rendering the fight against HIV/AIDS a challenge ahead of this year's U.N. deadline for nations to halt its spread. Credit:...
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Expo 2015 Host City Promotes Urban Food Policy Pact
As part of Milan’s drive to promote a sustainable urban food policy, schoolchildren are being encouraged to take home leftovers of non-perishable food, armed with doggy bags bearing the slogan “I DON’T...
View ArticleUnsafe Abortions Continue to Plague Kenya
By Robert KibetNAIROBI, May 2 2015 (IPS)She is just 14, but Janida avoids eye contact with others, preferring to look down at the ground and nodding her head if someone tries to engage her in...
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