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DURBAN, May 28 2006 (IPS) – Researchers say they are bracing for a sharp rise in the cost of public health services in South Africa within the next few years, due to HIV/AIDS. And, they warn that the country s health department might not be able to cope with its ever-growing responsibilities if government fails to increase the department s budget substantially.
Large numbers of HIV-positive South Africans are expected to develop AIDS-related diseases, as the country s high prevalence rates start manifesting themselves in illness and death, predicts the Health Economics HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in the coastal city of Durban.

HIV patients might soon account for 60 percent to 70 percent of hospital expenditu…

Daniela Estrada

SANTIAGO, Oct 11 2006 (IPS) – More than 30 environmental and consumer organisations in six countries that produce farmed salmon, including Chile, have launched a global week of action to raise awareness on abusive practices by the salmon industry.
The Oct. 9-14 Farmed Salmon Exposed campaign accuses the industry of polluting waters, decimating fish species used to feed the salmon, and in Chile providing unhealthy working conditions and low wages to workers.

The campaign, coordinated by civil society organisations in the world s main salmon-producing and consumer countries, will include daily actions in Belgium, Canada, Chile, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States, to inform the public about the environmental, social and health problems assoc…

Irfan Shahzad

KARACHI, Nov 2 2007 (IPS) – Access to safe water may be touted as a human right, but inadequate supplies, crumbling water systems and the galloping needs of growing populations are forcing experts, government utilities and funding agencies to ponder over devising sustainable water service networks in Asia s teeming cities.
At least 40 percent of poor people living in urban areas across the Asia-Pacific have no connection to piped water. Despite the region s record rates of economic growth over decades, the biggest challenges for them include the basic need of how to provide their people with sufficient quantities of safe drinking water.

This concern will be among the main areas of focus of a report, called Asian Water and Development Outlook , that the M…