KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 19 2009 (IPS) – Dr Saleem Azam cannot get MN and FM off his mind. These two died recently in two of Karachi s government-run hospitals, unable to get timely medical treatment and denied the compassionate attention that they desperately needed.
Injecting drug users in Pakistan comprise a huge number of individuals with HIV/AIDS. Credit: Fahim Siddiqi/IPS
MN and FM, who were both under Azam s care, were injecting drug user…
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PRETORIA, Sep 23 2009 (IPS) – Shortages in supply of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are caused by lack of political will and bad supply management, not by the global economic crisis, health experts say.
Blaming drug shortages on the financial crisis is just an excuse, declared Dr Hugo Tempelman, chief executive officer of community health development organisation Ndlovu Care Group, noting that finance to deal with HIV/AIDS is definitely lacking, but it s because of lack of political will in Africa.
While African governments manage to set aside budgets for projects that are high on their priority list and create international prestige such as the construction of several, costly, high-profile stadiums for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in…
In this column, Mario Lubetkin, Director of Corporate Communications at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), writes that the U.N. organisation’s annual report on the state of food insecurity released on Sep. 16 attracted great media attention but lacked analytical coverage. Publication of statistics on hunger, he says, should not be seen as a single event but can only be understood as part a process of change with multiple, public and private stakeholders.
ROME, Oct 3 2014 (IPS) – It is common belief that good news is less interesting for the general public than bad news; this is why media coverage tends to focus on catastrophic events and disasters, both natural and man-made.
Fortunately, there are some exceptions: a report launched by the Food and Agricul…
A Rohingya woman crosses the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh near the village of Anzuman Para in Palong Khali. Credit: UNHCR/Roger Arnold
NEW YORK, May 11 2020 (IPS) – As the COVID-19 mayhem carries on in most countries, the role of mothers, daughters, and female caregivers have been affected the most. Besides looking after the household and home schooling children, they are also working on the front lines, actively or passively caring for their respective communities.
Globally, women make up of workers in the health and social welfare sectors. Nearly women work in agriculture and women do as much unpaid care-work at home as men. Two such women share…
A mother and her child from West Point, a low-income neighbourhood of Monrovia, Liberia (file photo). It is estimated that 20,000 girls under the age of 18 give birth everyday in developing countries — amounting to 7.3 million births a year. Research shows…