Category: Health

HEALTH-LEBANON: Cancer On the Rise

Mona Alami BEIRUT, Jul 22 2008 (IPS) – Reports of a rising incidence of cancer now […]

DEVELOPMENT: Water Progresses, Sanitation Regresses

Thalif Deen STOCKHOLM, Aug 18 2008 (IPS) – The world s poorest nations are making halting […]

OIL SANDS-PART 2: "Where I Come From Is Ground Zero"

Chris Arsenault* FT. MCMURRAY, Oct 17 2008 (IPS) – The wheels of the Caterpillar 797B, the […]

CARIBBEAN: Despite Successes, Too Many Dying of AIDS

Peter Richards PORT OF SPAIN, Dec 9 2008 (IPS) – Every day, 55 people in the […]

AGRICULTURE-INDIA: Looking Beyond Wheat and Rice

Malini Shankar BANGALORE, Feb 11 2009 (IPS) – Food security experts say India must wean itself […]

BRAZIL: Child Rape Case Revives Debate on Abortion

Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 13 2009 (IPS) – The case of a nine-year-old girl […]

DEVELOPMENT: U.N. Triples Allotment for Population

Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Apr 8 2009 (IPS) – The 1994 landmark International Conference on Population […]

RIGHTS-IRAN: Day of Protests for Jailed AIDS Doctors

Shari Nijman UNITED NATIONS, May 13 2009 (IPS) – A handful of motivated doctors, HIV/AIDS and […]

HEALTH: Climate Change Brings New Diseases

Julio Godoy BERLIN, Jun 19 2009 (IPS) – As its name suggests, the West Nile virus, […]

Q&A: Teens Wrongly Excluded From Family Planning

Ben Case interviews NAFISSATOU DIOP of the Population Council UNITED NATIONS, Jul 9 2009 (IPS) – […]