Putting the Littlest Disaster Victims on the Caribbean’s Climate Agenda
Students of Buccament Government Primary School in St. Vincent receive gifts from sixth graders at the Green Bay Primary School…
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Mission Midwife: The Case for Trained Birth Attendants in Senegal
Only 65 percent of Senegalese women give birth in the presence of a skilled attendant. Credit: Travis Lupick/IPS DAKAR, Sep…
Will Myanmar’s ‘Triple Transition’ Help Eradicate Crushing Poverty?
Novice monks beg for alms near the Sule Pagoda in downtown Yangon. The barbed wire barricades behind them were once…
Cancer Locks a Deadly Grip on Africa, Yet It’s Barely Noticed
Many specialist doctors and nurses in Africa are migrating to greener pastures, leaving cancer patients with few options. Credit: Jeffrey…
Opinion: The World Sees Progress Against Undernutrition, but it’s Uneven
Jomo Kwame Sundaram is the Coordinator for Economic and Social Development at the Food and Agriculture Organization and received the…
Opinion: Realising Unfinished Business of MDGs : A Call for Greater Action and Investment for Malaria
Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré is Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership. Dr. Fatoumata Nafo Traoré UNITED NATIONS, Apr…
Inequality Blocks Further Reduction in Child Mortality in Latin America
A doctor attends a 10-month-old baby in a public health centre in Bolivia, in one of the regular check-ups that…
How Climate Change Threatens Zambia’s Already Fragile Nutrition Record
PEMBA, Southern Zambia, Oct 31 2015 (IPS) – It is slightly after 10 o’clock in the morning and 48-year-old Felix…
Build Healthy, Sustainable Food Systems to Fight Malnutrition
Jomo Kwame Sundaram was the Coordinator for Economic and Social Development at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United…
Traditional Mexican Recipes Fight the Good Fight
AraceliMárquez prepares dishes based on Mexico’s rich, nutritional traditional cuisine, at a fair in the southeast of Mexico City. Credit:…