Deadly Gas Enters the Arab Spring
Cam McGrathCAIRO, Dec 17 2011 (IPS) - Activists across the Middle East are reporting a mysterious toxin, possibly a banned...
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GHANA: Need to Recognise Mental Illness as a Health Concern
Jonathan Migneault and Jamila Akweley OkertchiriACCRA, Feb 13 2012 (IPS) - The incessant buzzing of mosquitoes was the first sign...
Helping Child Cancer Patients Reintegrate in Cuban Society
Ivet GonzálezHAVANA, Mar 16 2012 (IPS) - The days of doctors, needles and uncertainty seem far-off to Elián Acosta, a...
Malaria Adds to Myanmar’s Woes
BANGKOK, Apr 27 2012 (IPS) - Political reforms unfolding in Myanmar (or Burma) are giving health workers a chance to...
RIO+20: Canada, Last Holdout, Drops Opposition to Water as Human Right
Some 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation and hygiene-related causes. Credit: Eva Bartlett/IPSUNITED NATIONS, Jun 1 2012...
Family Planning Essential for Development
Girls’ and women’s access to contraceptives is both a right and a transformational health and development priority. Credit: Patrick Burnett/IPSPARIS,...
Fresh Research on HIV Urges New Approach to Gay Men
WASHINGTON, Sep 7 2012 (IPS) - Unlike the flattening or even declining rates of HIV infection among nearly all other...
Argentina – Fighting the Worst Child Obesity Rate in the Region
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 19 2012 (IPS) - Pediatricians and nutritionists stress that there is no single factor explaining why Argentina...
East European War on Drugs Fails
WARSAW, Nov 26 2012 (IPS) - When the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which advocates an end to what it...
Official Failure Kills Hundreds of Children
A mass measles vaccination campaign is finally being carried out in eight districts of Sindh in Pakistan. Credit: Adil Siddiqi/IPS.KARACHI,...