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UNITED NATIONS, Jan 12 2006 (IPS) – The avian flu virus, which has spread from Asia to Turkey, may still have some nasty surprises in store , a senior official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned Thursday.
I do not believe an influenza pandemic will inevitably spring from the crisis the world is facing at the moment, explained Shigeru Omi, WHO s regional director for the Western Pacific region.

Yes, the situation is very serious and getting worse. But it is still within our power to change the course of this epidemic, he told a conference in Japan on Thursday.

About 1.5 billion dollars is expected to be mobilised for the worldwide battle against bird flu at an International Pledging Conference set for Jan. 17-18 in Beijing, U.N. Sys…

MUSOMA, Tanzania, Dec 12 2009 (IPS) – In the darkest corner of the room, under the clamour of twelve women’s voices, sits Ghati Chacha*, she can barely be heard. Her newborn suckles as she speaks softly about how she refused female circumcision.

Chacha was forced to marry an 80-year-old man after she refused to be circumcised. Credit: Jessie Boylan/IPS

I refused because (the previous) President Mkapa had banned circumcision in Tanzania, she…

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 4 2011 (IPS) – News that the government of South Africa was inspired by Brazil s health system in setting up its own universal coverage scheme might meet with scepticism in this South American country.

Pediatrics waiting room at the Albert Schweitzer hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Credit: Agência Brasil Marcello Casal Jr/EBr

Sociologist Walkiria Dutra de Oliveira was one of the many Brazilians who had a negati…

Rome , Oct 1 2015 (IPS) – The 2015 Right Livelihood Awards were announced today in Stockholm at the Swedish Foreign Office International Press Centre by Ole von Uexkull, Executive Director, and Dr Monika Griefahn, Chair of the Board of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation.

Ole von Uexkull said: “This year’s Right Livelihood Laureates stand up for our basic rights –be it the rights of indigenous peoples or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities, or the right of all citizens to live in a world free from the scourges of war and climate chaos.

With their tireless work, on the frontlines and in courts, the Laureates uphold the values that led t…

“Governments and NGOs from 21 nations, plus dentists, manufacturers, and UN Environment, gather in Bangkok”. Credit: Environment & Social Development Organization, Dhaka

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 25 2018 (IPS) – A global campaign to end a longstanding health and environmental hazard the use of mercury in dentistry—is steadily moving to a successful conclusion.

Providing an update, Charlie Brown, head of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, one of the key campaigners, told IPS that “nation by nation, the world is on the threshold of ending amalgam for children in 2018.”

“Europe takes that exciting step…

The usually busy UN Avenue in Nairobi, Kenya where traffic is bumper to bumper on the best of days, is almost empty as people stay at home to avoid spreading the coronavirus. Credit: UN Kenya/Newton Kanhema

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 14 2020 (IPS) – We live in a different world to the one we inhabited six short months ago.

With more than 4 million people infected and over 280,000 dead globally by mid May 2020, Covid-19 has ruthlessly exposed the vulnerability of a globalised world to pandemic disease. People are slowly coming to terms with the frightening and heartbreaking death toll, and we are still not out of the danger.

The Greek philosopher Herophilus said, “W…

My personal pandemic panic

Sep 2 2020 – Having reported on SARS, Ebola, Bird Flu (H5N1) outbreaks, as well as writing about efforts to combat HIV, I was horrified by what was going on in Wuhan, China last Jan mainly because of how fast this new SARS-CoV-2 virus spread. By early Feb it seemed likely there’d be a global pandemic and by the end of Feb I started to freak out as the pandemic took hold. I’ve never been to Wuhan or China nor seen anyone who had; and I hadn’t travelled any where recently. It was nearly impossible for me to have encountered the virus but that didn’t keep me from getting sick with fear and dread knowing that a goddamn microscopic parasite was…

Diabetes test, Mauritius. Credit: Nasseem Ackbarally/IPS

NAIROBI, Nov 12 2021 (IPS) – Although for different reasons, diabetes appears to be one of the few cases that put rich and poor societies at equal footing. In either case, diabetes is caused by wrong, dangerous to health nutritional habits.

In fact, people in industrialised countries tend to consume the so-called “junk food”, while in poor nations diabetes is caused by malnutrition and undernourishment.

And it is a seriously worrying health problem. In fact, globally, an estimated 422 million adults were living with diabetes as of …