A Rainbow flag is displayed in the window of the United States Mission to the United Nations during LGBT Pride Month. Credit: Phillip Kaeding / IPS.
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 2016 (IPS) – Though the High Level Meeting on Ending AIDS ended with the adoption of bold and life saving targets, many organisations have expressed their disappointment in its outcomes.
During the meeting, the international community adopted a new that lays down the groundwork to accelerate HIV prevention and treatment and end AIDS by 2030.
UN member states committed to achieving a 90-90-90 treatment target where 90 percent of people living with HIV know their status, 90 percent …
Jovia, who died on Apr. 29, 2016, suffered from both HIV/AIDS and cervical cancer, a deadly combination affecting thousands of women in Uganda. Credit: Amy Fallon/IPS
KAMPALA, Uganda, Jul 25 2016 (IPS) – Lying on a dirty bed in a crowded, squalid hostel in Kampala, emaciated Jovia, 29, managed a weak smile as a doctor delivered her a small green bottle containing a liquid.
“I’m so happy they’ve brought the morphine,” the mother told IPS, just about the only words she could get out during what wo…
Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer Programme is implemented by the Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health and has been operating since 2003. As of December 2014, it reached 150,000 households and there are concrete plans to scale it up nation-wide in the near future. Photo: FAO
ROME, Jan 14 2017 (IPS) – Not at all. Or at least not necessarily. The fact is that cash transfer programmes –regular money payments to poor households—are meant to reduce poverty, promote sustainable livelihoods and increase production in the developing world. One in four countries on Earth are applying them. But are they effective?
That depends. In some countries, lik…
People living in the Melia IDP camp, Lake Chad, receiving WFP food. Most of the displaced come from the Lake Chad islands, that have been abandoned because of insecurity. Photo: WFP/Marco Frattini
ROME, Apr 12 2017 (IPS) – Nearly 50 per cent of all emergency multilateral food assistance to Africa is due to natural disasters, with advancing droughts significantly threatening both livelihoods and economic growth, warns the African Union through its ground-breaking extreme weather insurance mechanism designed to help the contin…
Veena S. Kulkarni is Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Sociology, & Geography, Arkansas State University, U.S.; Vani S. Kulkarni is Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.; and Raghav Gaiha is (Hon.) Professorial Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, England
NEW DELHI, Jun 23 2017 (IPS) – Evidence shows that health systems must be recast to accommodate the needs of chronic disease prevention.
Disability is the umbrella term for impairments, activity limitations and pa…
Anis Chowdhury, a former professor of economics at the University of Western Sydney, held senior United Nations positions during 2008–2015 in New York and Bangkok.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a former economics professor, was United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, and received the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2007.
Young African migrants seek opportunities abroad as the World Bank projects that “the world’s extreme poor will be increasingly
concentrated in Africa”. Credit: Ilaria Vechi/IPS
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 19 2017 (IPS) – Not a single month has passed without dreadful d…
In this special series of reports, IPS journalists travel to the border region between Bangladesh and Myanmar to speak with Rohingya refugees, humanitarian workers and officials about the still-unfolding human rights and health crises facing this long-marginalized and persecuted community.
Rohingya women of Balukhali camp embarking on the trek to the toilets. Credit: Umer Aiman Khan/IPS
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Dec 7 2017 (IPS) – Afia* lines up her bucket every morning in the refugee camp for water delivery from humanitarian relief workers. On one particularly sweltering da…
David S. Evangelista is President and Managing Director of Special Olympics Europe Eurasia.
Her Excellency Margaret Kenyatta poses with Lions Clubs International President Dr. Naresh Aggarwal and a Unified Football team during the medal ceremony at Loresho Primary school in Nairobi, Kenya- 27 February 2018.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 19 2018 (IPS) – The parched earth made for a tough football pitch, but the youth of Loresho Primary school were determined. It was blue against yellow- two teams competing for the coveted prize of pride and victory.
In every way, this was the typical backdrop of a primary school. Pressed uniforms, dust rising from the run…
Mediterranean waters in Spain. Credit: Photo by David Aler on Unsplash
ROME, Jun 15 2018 (IPS) – Even if arrivals of migrants into Italy by sea have decreased between 2017 and 2018 so far, recent events in the Mediterranean rim have strongly drawn attention to the migration issue and a fierce debate is now underway among European countries.
On June 10, Italy’s new Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, barred the ship Aquarius, jointly operated by the NGOs‘SOS Mediterranée’ and ‘Doctors Beyond Borders’ (MSF), from docking at Italian ports. There were 629 migrants on the ship. Among them where 123 unaccompanied minors, 11 children and seven preg…
A mother and a child in Melghat district, an area in India with high rates of malnourishment. The government’s new POSHAN campaign aims to curb malnutrition by a significant margin by also using smartphones to collect relevant data. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS
MAYURBHANJ DISTRICT, India, Sep 26 2018 (IPS) – Kanaklata Raula from Kaptipada village in India’s Mayurbhanj District is on duty 24 7. The 52-year-old community health worker from Odisha state rides a bicycle for hours each day, visiting community members who need nutrition and reproductive healthcare.
Raula s main job is to ensure that the women and young children in her community are using the integrated free ba…