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

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