Cléo Fatoorehchi UNITED NATIONS, Mar 2 2011 (IPS) – When disaster strikes, the initial humanitarian response tends to focus on basic commodities like food and… Read More »Pregnancies Don’t Wait for Emergencies to End

Marwaan Macan-Markar PHNOM PENH, Mar 24 2011 (IPS) – Cambodia s rise out of poverty continues to depend on the nimble fingers of young women… Read More »Women in Garment Factories Help Cambodia Out of Poverty

Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Apr 25 2011 (IPS) – Poverty, lack of access to education and taboos about sexuality have hampered campaigns for the prevention… Read More »GUATEMALA: Theatre as HIV Prevention Tool in Native Communities

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, May 30 2011 (IPS) – For Janu, walking the streets to beg for alms is the only option for survival. After all, she… Read More »INDIA: Unwed Tribal Mothers Seek Aid

Emmanuel Chaco KINSHASA, Sep 27 2011 (IPS) – Every quarter, more than a hundred women with fistulas including many younger than 20 years old are… Read More »DR CONGO: Hard to Save All Women Suffering from Fistula

Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Jul 14 2011 (IPS) – Army soldier Zaheer Abbas and his squad were hunting down militants in the outskirts of Darra Adamkhel,… Read More »PAKISTAN: Soldiers Pay a Price in War on Terrorism

Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE, Aug 16 2011 (IPS) – Despite the 2.4 billion emalangeni (342 million dollar) loan from the South African government to its cash-strapped… Read More »SWAZILAND: Disagreement on How South African Loan Should be Spent

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

Athar Parvaiz Danilo Valladares SRINAGAR, Dec 30 2011 (IPS) – Weaning Afghanistan s poppy farmers away from growing the raw material for the bulk of… Read More »AFGHANISTAN: Killing Heroin With Saffron