Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Sep 23 2011 (IPS) – With Pakistan s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province turning into the polio capital of the world , authorities are… Read More »PAKISTAN: Fighting a Taliban-Polio Alliance
Patricia Grogg interviews MARÍA GUADALUPE GUZMÁN, director of a team of Cuban researchers working on a vaccine against dengue * – Tierramérica HAVANA, Nov 15… Read More »Q&A: Cuba Advancing Towards a Dengue Vaccine
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MEXICO CITY, Feb 22 2012 (IPS) – Orange juice and beef form part of the diet of many people in Mexico and other countries of… Read More »MEXICO: Keeping Traces of Antibiotics Out of Food
SRINAGAR, India, Apr 1 2012 (IPS) – Naseema Akhtar, 38, worries that her daily treks to collect clean water from the mountain springs around her… Read More »Women Pay for Kashmir’s Water Woes
GOROKA, Papua New Guinea, May 8 2012 (IPS) – A new community justice programme being rolled out in Papua New Guinea s vast village court… Read More »Women and Children Look to Community Justice
Isabelle de Grave interviews MICHELLE BACHELET, Executive Director of UN Women UNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 2012 (IPS) – Unlocking women s energies and allowing them… Read More »Q&A: Women Must Be at the Forefront of Rio+20, and Beyond
WASHINGTON, Jul 28 2012 (IPS) – As the ended in Washington on Friday, organisers unveiled groundbreaking new research on the promise of early anti-retroviral (ARV)… Read More »AIDS Meet Ends with Talk of Cure, But Realities of Scourge Persist
Soybean harvest in the U.S. state of Michigan. Credit: Public domain WASHINGTON, Sep 20 2012 (IPS) – Researchers are warning that RoundUp, a popular herbicide… Read More »New Study Claims Popular Herbicide Causes Tumours in Rats
Close-up of cluster of female cannabis plant. Credit: Bokske/cc by 3.0 ATLANTA, Georgia, Nov 7 2012 (IPS) – In addition to the victories of the… Read More »Victories for Marijuana Legalisation, Same-Sex Marriage at U.S. Polls