ROME, Jun 1 2022 (IPS) – Developing countries – in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America and in the Middle East are facing a combination of crises that are unprecedented in recent times. Over the last three years they have had to face the COVID-19 crisis, the food crisis, the energy crisis, the climate change […]
Category: Wellness
Inequitable Global Health Responses Underscore Need for More Self-Sufficiency in Developing Countries
A medical officer preparing to give a COVID-19 vaccine in Somalia in May 2021. Credit: Mokhtar Mohamed/AMISOM UNITED NATIONS, Sep 8 2022 (IPS) – With the outbreak of Monkeypox in non-endemic countries leading to a scramble for vaccines, global health advocates are again calling for equity to be prioritized in the international response. Equity was […]
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 […]
US Policies Slowing World Economy
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 2 2023 (IPS) – Few policymakers ever claim credit for causing stagnation and recessions. Yet, they do so all the time, justifying their actions by some supposedly higher purpose. Now, that higher purpose is checking inflation as if it is the worst option for people today. Many supposed economists make up […]
Parliamentarians Tackle Youth Employment, SRHR in Post-COVID Asia and Pacific
Delegates at the Youth Empowerment: Education, Employment and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights forum held in Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia. Credit: APDA JOHANNESBURG, Mar 8 2023 (IPS) – With more than 600 million youth aged between 18 and 24 in the Asia and Pacific region, putting their issues front and center is crucial. […]
Rising to the Challenge: The UN Road Safety Fund in a Polycrises World
Nneka Henry is Head of UN Road Safety Fund An aerial photograph of a busy roundabout in Lusaka Zambia. Credit: UNRSF. GENEVA, Apr 27 2023 (IPS) – Crises may be a centuries-old phenomenon, but so too is human resilience. The high number of road deaths and life-changing injuries in the global south is a crisis […]
Close Inequalities to End AIDS & Prepare for Future Pandemics
Thembeni Mkingofa, a woman living with HIV, visits the PMTCT section of the Makhume District Hospital, Zimbabwe. She has three children – 14, 10 and 2 who are all HIV negative. This is her fourth pregnancy. Her husband is also on HIV treatment. Here she is pictured with her two-year-old daughter, Hilda Chakiryizira. 5 November […]
Health, Nutrition & Heroes in Rural Afghanistan
Credit: UNICEF/UNI403619/Karimi KABUL, Afghanistan, Jul 26 2023 (IPS) – The needs of Afghanistan’s children and families are immense. So are the efforts of those supporting them: teams of community workers made up of family members, teachers in community-based schools, vaccinators, and health workers working around the clock to bring life-saving services in the face of […]
Regaining Momentum for a Leprosy Free World
WHO Goodwill Ambassador Sasakawa with some of the representatives from persons affected by leprosy organizations that participated in the Bergen International Conference on Hansen’s Disease (June 21–22, 2023). TOKYO, Japan, Aug 28 2023 – This year marks the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the leprosy bacillus by Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen in Bergen, Norway. […]
Deforestation, Encroachment Threaten West Africa’s One Health Plans
Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary – a conservation center dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and protecting Sierra Leone’s national chimpanzee. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS FREETOWN, Nov 3 2023 (IPS) – Thirty-three years ago, Bala Amerasekaran – a Sri Lankan by birth – visited Freetown, Sierra Leone. Since then, the West African nation has been his home, where Amerasekaran has […]