Month: September 2024

Novice monks beg for alms near the Sule Pagoda in downtown Yangon. The barbed wire barricades behind them were once…

Many specialist doctors and nurses in Africa are migrating to greener pastures, leaving cancer patients with few options. Credit: Jeffrey…

Jomo Kwame Sundaram is the Coordinator for Economic and Social Development at the Food and Agriculture Organization and received the…

Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré is Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership. Dr. Fatoumata Nafo Traoré UNITED NATIONS, Apr…

A doctor attends a 10-month-old baby in a public health centre in Bolivia, in one of the regular check-ups that…

PEMBA, Southern Zambia, Oct 31 2015 (IPS) – It is slightly after 10 o’clock in the morning and 48-year-old Felix…

Jomo Kwame Sundaram was the Coordinator for Economic and Social Development at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United…

AraceliMárquez prepares dishes based on Mexico’s rich, nutritional traditional cuisine, at a fair in the southeast of Mexico City. Credit:…

Barry Mirkin is a former chief of the Population Policy Section of the United Nations Population Division. A basket of…

A nurse demonstrates how to use a condom at Christa Medical Clinic in Jinja, Uganda. Credit: Lyndal Rowlands/IPS. Jinja, UGANDA,…