Month: September 2024

In this column, Joy Lawn, Director of Global Evidence and Policy, Saving Newborn Lives, Save the Children, writes that most...

About 99 percent of patients with obstetric fistula cannot afford to pay their doctors. Credit: Jugran Bahuguna/IPSKARACHI, May 27 2013...

Banana vendors in Chennai, South India. Credit: McKay Savage/CC-BY-2.0NEW DELHI, Jun 14 2013 (IPS) - India’s environmental and food security...

Child brides in rural Senegal at work. Marriage before the age of 18 is a generally common practice in Senegal....

A fertility clinic in Cairo. Credit: Rachel Williamson/IPSCAIRO, Oct 3 2013 (IPS) - The young couple inspecting Dr Bassem Elhelw’s...

A water truck in Port Louis, Mauritius. Credit: Nasseem Ackbarally/IPSWASHINGTON, Dec 4 2013 (IPS) - As government representatives gather Tuesday...

Mimose Gérard, 57, washes clothes and collects plastic bottles from the trash in order to survive. She is still living...

Child refugees from Central African Republic in Cameroon’s eastern border town of Garoua-Boula share a plate of rice in the...

A poster to promote rotavirus vaccination. Credit: Monde Kingsley Nfor/IPS.YAOUNDÉ, May 7 2014 (IPS) - The growing number of child...

A Jepelacio resident carries a blue jerrycan with 20 litres of “Jepe water” along one of the dusty but clean...