Q&A: How Innovative Funding Combats HIV/AIDS
Julia Kallas interviews PHILIPPE DOUSTE-BLAZY, U.N. under-secretary-general in charge of innovative financing and chair of the UNITAID executive board UNITED...
Waves of Resistance Never End at Nuclear Plant
Crackdown on women protesters against the Kudankulam nuclear plant in India. Credit: K. S. Harikrishnan/IPS.KUDANKULAM, India, Feb 3 2013 (IPS)...
Why Focus on Babies?
In this column, Joy Lawn, Director of Global Evidence and Policy, Saving Newborn Lives, Save the Children, writes that most...
Pakistani Doctors Earn “Only Gratitude” for Treating Fistula
About 99 percent of patients with obstetric fistula cannot afford to pay their doctors. Credit: Jugran Bahuguna/IPSKARACHI, May 27 2013...
India Goes Bananas Over GM Crops
Banana vendors in Chennai, South India. Credit: McKay Savage/CC-BY-2.0NEW DELHI, Jun 14 2013 (IPS) - India’s environmental and food security...
Groups Call for U.S. to Fight Harder Against Child Marriages
Child brides in rural Senegal at work. Marriage before the age of 18 is a generally common practice in Senegal....
Egyptian Revolution Brings an IVF Rush
A fertility clinic in Cairo. Credit: Rachel Williamson/IPSCAIRO, Oct 3 2013 (IPS) - The young couple inspecting Dr Bassem Elhelw’s...
WTO Urged Not to Treat Water Like Widgets
A water truck in Port Louis, Mauritius. Credit: Nasseem Ackbarally/IPSWASHINGTON, Dec 4 2013 (IPS) - As government representatives gather Tuesday...
Four Years After Haiti’s Earthquake, Still Waiting for a Roof
Mimose Gérard, 57, washes clothes and collects plastic bottles from the trash in order to survive. She is still living...
Cameroon ‘Safe Haven’ Town Strains Under CAR Refugee Influx
Child refugees from Central African Republic in Cameroon’s eastern border town of Garoua-Boula share a plate of rice in the...