Zoltán Dujisin
BUDAPEST, Sep 28 2006 (IPS) – A coalition of health experts have staged a protest parallel to the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety, expressing concern over a recent policy turn by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that calls for fighting malaria by spraying the controversial DDT chemical.
The conference, taking place in Budapest in Hungary, brings together representatives from government bodies, industry groups, scientific associations and non-governmental organisations in an attempt to reach consensus over issues of global chemical safety..
The fifth session of this five-day conference, ending Sep. 29, will focus on Chemical Safety for Sustainable Development.
Participants at the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS) co…
Moyiga Nduru
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 9 2006 (IPS) – The 2006 Human Development Report, #39Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis #39, focuses on the ongoing problems that surround provision of potable water and sanitation. The document is being launched Thursday in Cape Town, South Africa, by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Global figures presented by the report #39s authors are depressing: currently, more than a billion people are denied the right to clean water, while 2.6 billion do not have adequate sanitation.
Each year 1.8 million children die from diarrhoea that could be prevented with access to clean water and a toilet; 443 million school days are lost to water-related illnesses; and almost 50 percent of all people in developing…
Mohammed A. Salih
ARBIL, Dec 6 2006 (IPS) – The call from his mother changed Dr. Harb Zakko s life. Someone has been calling me to open the door, saying he has something for you, his mother said.
Soon after, apparently the same person called him at his clinic, asking personal questions. The doctor got the message. He returned home and asked his family to pack. Two days later they drove out of their ethnically mixed Karrada neighbourhood in Baghdad and headed for Arbil in Kurdistan to the north.
The calls had sounded like the beginning of an abduction threat. They came only ten days after a colleague s son was abducted. The family paid 10,000 dollars ransom, but got back only the body of their son.
Such stories are common in Karrada neighbourhood, home to many …
Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, Jan 22 2007 (IPS) – Enforced quarantines may be needed in South Africa and elsewhere to bring a deadly, contagious and drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis under control, health experts say.
An outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in South Africa s KwaZulu-Natal province gained the attention of the World Health Organisation last year. Hundreds have been infected and the fatality rate is extremely high.
The problem is a lot bigger than we know, said Jerome Amir Singh, an HIV/AIDS expert at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban.
The high rates of normal TB and HIV infection in KZN ( KwaZulu-Natal) has created a very explosive disease cocktail, Singh told IPS from…
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Mario de Queiroz
LISBON, Feb 16 2007 (IPS) – Nearly five years after the advent of peace in Angola, following four decades of war which cost a million lives, the new killers in this Southern African country are cholera, malaria and AIDS.
Last week alone there were 111 deaths, to be added to the 3,017 fatalities among the 76,823 cholera cases detected since the outbreak of the disease on Feb. 13, 2006, according to figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO) delegation in Luanda, published in Lisbon this week by the Portuguese press.
There was a rise in the number of cases after mid-October, the start of the rainy season. Luanda was particularly affected by flooding, which accelerated the spread of cholera, an acute intestinal infection caused by bacteria producin…
Shailendra Singh
SUVA, Mar 28 2007 (IPS) – Pacific Island Countries (PIC) have made no real effort to deal with a public health crisis arising from overweight populations because it is silent and the effects are not immediate say experts.
Commenting on a World Health Organisation (WHO) report, released late February, that identified lifestyle diseases as the number one killer in the region, associate professor in economics at the University of South Pacific, Mahendra Reddy, said the findings were alarming but not surprising.
Reddy told IPS that the problems have been mounting because of delays in dealing with them and that many governments in the region are now finding that they lack the capacity to cope.
As is the case in most developing countries, Pacific I…
Sarah McGregor
CAPE TOWN, Apr 28 2007 (IPS) – For six weeks, Andre van Zijl has been pumping petrol around the clock at a gas station in the picturesque seaside town Knysna on South Africa s south coast. Why? To raise awareness about HIV/AIDS.
The 57-year-old AIDS campaigner aims to log 1,000 working hours this week in his latest publicity stunt to highlight the devastating scale of the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 70 percent of people living with HIV in the world.
It takes doing something this unusual to draw attention to a problem that many people are tired of hearing. It has nothing to do with me or what I can accomplish as an individual. It is about doing it in a noticeable way so people think twice, he told IPS.
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