Health Warnings Loud and Clear on Cigarettes in Argentina
Credit:Fried Dough/CC BY 2.0BUENOS AIRES, Jun 12 2012 (IPS) - This month, Argentina will join the growing list of Latin...
Papua New Guinea Casts Wide Net Against Malaria
Rotarians Against Malaria display one of the treated mosquito nets being used around Papua New Guinea. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPSPORT MORESBY,...
Young People Caretaking in an Aging Cuba
Youngsters swimming along the Havana malecón, the oceanside drive. Credit. Jorge Luis Baños/IPS HAVANA, Sep 19 2012 (IPS) - Mabel...
India Puts GM Food Crops Under Microscope
A court-appointed committee in India has called for a ten-year moratorium on field trials of GM crops. Credit: F Delventhal/CC-BY-2.0NEW...
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....