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Pilirani Semu-Banda
LILONGWE, Mar 20 2009 (IPS) – Water has become the very essence of economic development for a rural community of Ngolowindo, in Malawi s lake district of Salima, where households are reducing poverty thanks to irrigation.
Irrigation and cooperative farming have improved the livelihoods for the Ngolowindo Horticultural Cooperative Society Credit: Pi…
Amantha Perera
COLOMBO, Nov 4 2009 (IPS) – Sudarma Senevirathana s teenage daughter is at an age when she can already be given the rubella vaccine, administered free of charge by government health officials at schools.
But Senevirathana refuses to subject her twelve-year-old daughter to the injection. She can take it when she is nearer to getting married, says the mother from Kurunegala, about 100 kilometres east of the capital Colombo, I don t want to risk my daughter s life.
The rubella vaccine is given to girls between the ages of 12 and 13, the period medical experts say the body s immune system is at its strongest to fight any rubella infection. It is administered to prevent still births and other birth defects commonly associated with the rubella virus, which t…
Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN, Jan 6 2010 (IPS) – Did you have to pay for anything? is the obligatory question these days in the waiting room at the Mother and Child Hospital in Fernando de la Mora, on the outskirts of the Paraguayan capital, where people still have doubts that the public health services are free of charge, as the government had announced.
They took great care of me. I had my baby by cesarean and the operation was free, and so was the medicine, Gloria Ramírez, who gave birth on Christmas the day nearly all public health service fees were eliminated nationwide told IPS.
The measure was one of the campaign promises of centre-left President Fernando Lugo, a former bishop who took office in August 2008.
Before I was admitted to hospital, I had p…
Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 29 2012 (IPS) – In Latin America, Argentina spends the most on healthcare. It has a vast infrastructure, highly qualified health professionals and the necessary material resources. But other countries in the region are achieving better and faster health outcomes with fewer resources.
This is one of the main conclusions of the study Retos postergados y nuevos desafíos del sistema de salud argentino (Postponed and New Challenges to the Argentine Health System) by Federico Tobar, Sofía Olaviaga and Romina Solano of the independent Centre for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC).
The authors also point to inequities in access to health care in the provinces, and the need for health policies adapted …
KOSICE, Slovakia, Feb 23 2013 (IPS) – Local activists have begun protests in Slovakia after a government ministry appeared to give its backing to a controversial uranium mining project despite reassurances to people living near the proposed site that no mining would be allowed to take place.
Studies carried out by the Canadian firm European Uranium Resources have shown massive uranium ore deposits in the Kuriskova-Jahodna area, near Kosice, Slovakia’s second largest city.
But fierce local opposition to the plans for a mine had previously led to regional authorities saying they would not let any mining go ahead.
Now, though, it has emerged that just before Christmas, the Slovak Economy Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with European Uranium Resource…
Yemen’s preoccupation with the leafy stimulant qat is having dire consequences. Credit: Cam McGrath/IPS.
SANAA, Jan 31 2014 (IPS) – The Yemeni capital of Sanaa is reputed to be over 2,500 years old, making it one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. But it is living on borrowed time.
Economists warn that if poverty trends continue, by 2030 more than half of the Sanaa’s projected four million inhabitants will be unable to afford their basic food needs. But before that happens, the city will run out of water.
“Sanaa is using water much faster than nature can replace it,” says Noori Gamal, a hydrologist at the Ministry of Water and…
Air pollution in Cairo, Egypt. Credit: World Bank/Kim Eun Yeul ” Source:
ROME, Sep 29 2016 (IPS) – The warning is sharp and the facts, alarming: 92 per cent of the world’s population live in places where levels exceed recommended limits. And 6.5 million people die annually from air pollution.
And the warning comes from the leading United Nations agency dealing with health, which rolled out its most detailed profile of the scourge ever in a bid to slash the deadly toll.
“Fast action to tackle air pollution can’t come soon enough,” the Geneva-based UN World Health Organization () top environmental official Maria Neira on 27 September of th…