Julio Godoy BERLIN, Jun 13 2008 (IPS) – Climate change induced by global warming is provoking health hardships in Europe, especially through new, prolonged allergies, authorities say. The most important new allergy affecting Europeans is being caused by ambrosia artemisiifolia, popularly known by several names, including common ragweed, annual ragweed, bitterweed, blackweed, or, more telling, […]
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Mexico in Debt to the Disabled
Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Sep 9 2010 (IPS) – Ángel Valencia was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico four years ago with a bipolar disorder. Today, after treatment, he is back in society and is an activist with the Washington-based organisation Disability Rights International. But Valencia s success story is an exception in this […]
ICRC Warns of Human Toll of Attacks on Medical Workers
Denis Foynes UNITED NATIONS, Aug 12 2011 (IPS) – A new report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) describes a pattern of attacks on medical staff that the group says is undermining the safe delivery of medical assistance and health care across the globe. The violence against health care faculties and medical […]
BRAZIL: Providing Alternatives for Small-Scale Tobacco Farmers
Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 23 2011 (IPS) – The fall in world tobacco consumption, especially in industrialised nations, is a sign of the urgent need for producer countries like Brazil, China, India and the United States to offer their farmers alternatives to growing tobacco. Graphic picture-based health warnings on cigarette packs can help […]
Africa’s Investment Drive Gathers Pace
Africa Investment Forum 2018 ROME, Oct 18 2019 (IPS) – Headwinds are blowing amid IMF warnings of a “synchronised slowdown” in global economic growth, yet Africa’s investment drive is still gathering pace, supported by intense international competition in development finance. Despite the global slowdown, 19 sub-Saharan countries are among nearly 40 emerging markets and developing […]
Women Leading Somalia’s Health System
NEW DELHI, India, May 17 2021 (IPS) – Somalia is one of the most complex regions of the world, with threats and political instability, extreme weather conditions, movement of internally displaced people (IDPs), decades of conflict, poverty-related deprivation, poor health and communicable diseases that are killing people. There is a constant risk of gender violence […]
Three Ways to End Gender-based Violence
Testing new approaches for preventing gender-based violence to galvanize more and new partners and resources. Credit: UN Women UNITED NATIONS, Nov 30 2022 (IPS) – How are the multiple shocks and crises the world is facing changing how we respond to gender-based violence? Almost three years after the COVID-19 pandemic triggered high levels of violence […]