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Richel Dursin

JAKARTA, Feb 24 2007 (IPS) – Not content with the government s public awareness campaign against bird flu, a group of parents in Bekasi regency has taken the initiative in educating the poor and the marginalised about the deadly disease.
The government s campaign against bird flu does not reach the people at the grassroots level, said Rulie Bambang, head of the Jami iyyah Communication Forum, an association of parents of some 8,000 children studying in 10 prominent Al-Azhar Islamic schools in Bekasi, West Java province.

Earlier this month, the forum organised a talk show on avian influenza featuring Lula Kamal, a medical doctor and actress with the Indonesia National Committee for Avian Influenza Control and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (Komnas FBPI)…

Adrianne Appel

BOSTON, Apr 5 2007 (IPS) – The U.S. is said to offer gold-standard health care, but as the most expensive health system in the world, some here say that only people with a pot of gold can get that care.
Drug prices, health insurance, doctor visits and hospital stays are too expensive for many people to afford, while insurance and drug company profits continue to climb.

The nation is entering a health care crisis, many leaders and experts say. An estimated 46 million people do not have health insurance because they cannot afford it, and the U.S. has one of the poorest health profiles of the developed world.

Meanwhile, in 2005, pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson earned profits of 10 billion dollars and Pfizer had profits of eight billion dol…

Diego Cevallos

MEXICO CITY, May 11 2007 (IPS) – Patricia Pérez, an activist from Argentina who was diagnosed HIV-positive in 1986, has been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for her activism on behalf of women living with the AIDS virus. But her case is an exception to the rule.
Most Latin American women who contract HIV hide their status for fear of rejection, or experience veiled or open discrimination. And the number of HIV-positive women is rising sharply.

According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), three years ago there were seven or eight men with HIV/AIDS in Latin America for every woman with the virus. But today the ratio is three to one.

Pérez, the regional representative of the non-governmental International Community of Women L…

Joyce Mulama

KAMPALA, Jun 14 2007 (IPS) – The issue of women continuing to be at higher risk of HIV infection than men has received considerable attention at a gathering of women s affairs ministers from Commonwealth countries underway in Uganda s capital, Kampala.
Of the 53 Commonwealth member states, 38 are represented at the 8th Triennial Commonwealth Women s Affairs Ministers Meeting (8WAMM), being held under the theme Financing Gender Equality for Development and Democracy . The three-day event ends Thursday.

United Nations statistics indicate that women and girls in Commonwealth countries make up a third of all HIV infections. In addition, women between the ages of 15 and 24 in sub-Saharan Africa the region most prominently represented in the Commonwealth are tw…

Stephanie Nieuwoudt

CAPE TOWN, Jul 13 2007 (IPS) – The woes of the child bride in many ways illustrate the conditions underlying the failure of African countries to achieve many of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The recently released United Nations report entitled The Millennium Development Goals Report 2007 states that although there have been major gains in several areas and the goals remain achievable in most African nations, even the best governed countries on the continent have not been able to make sufficient progress in reducing extreme poverty in its many forms .

Many of the MDGs deal directly with children and women, such as targets to reduce child mortality, maternal mortality, increasing enrolment at primary education level and prom…

Ángel Páez

LIMA, Aug 16 2007 (IPS) – The fishing port of Pisco, 167 kilometres south of the Peruvian capital, was the town worst hit by the devastating earthquake which shook nearly the whole country for two minutes late Wednesday, reaching a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale. The death toll continues to climb.
Other cities damaged by the shock waves were Ica, Chincha, Paracas and Cañete, located along the Pacific coast. The epicentre was pinpointed under the sea, 60 kilometres west of Pisco and 33 kilometres deep, according to the National Geophysical Institute.

The most recent earthquake of similar magnitude in Peru was in October 1974, and reached 6.6 on the Richter scale.

The National Civil Defence Institute, which is directing rescue operations, repo…

David Cronin

BRUSSELS, Sep 13 2007 (IPS) – Old tyres might sound like the unlikely cause of a diplomatic row over potential implications for the level of protection poor countries can offer to the environment or public health.
Yet lawyers and civil servants representing the European Union and Brazil have spent a vast number of hours poring over the minutiae of a dossier on that precise subject.

In June, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) published the findings of a panel that had adjudicated a case between the two sides over Brazil s decision to restrict imports of retreaded tyres tyres which have been used and then reprocessed. According to the panel, Brazil was provisionally justified under WTO rules to curb those imports in order to protect human and animal life.

Fawzia Sheikh*

KANDAHAR, Oct 10 2007 (IPS) – Colourfully-clad Afghan villagers with dirty, barefoot children sit outside a makeshift coalition clinic in a tiny village in Kandahar province, impatiently awaiting their turn to see the medics.
Today, the common ailment medical staff report is children infected with worms, their distended stomachs and diarrhoea are tell-tale signs of a life lacking proper hygiene. Running water is scarce in this impoverished part of the country, which has seen the brunt of fighting in the six-year war.

By the end of the day, Capt. Maureen Sevilla of the South Carolina National Guard and her colleagues have dispensed several boxes of multivitamins to help alleviate the problem, often handing the supplements to children only slightly older …