SOUTH AFRICA: How Better ARV Prices Were Won
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 21 2011 (IPS) - South Africa’s recently-awarded tender for antiretroviral drugs halved drug costs for the world’s largest...
Health
Eat Chinese, But Eat Safe
Mitch MoxleyBEIJING, Mar 7 2011 (IPS) - Despite a greater government effort to monitor food safety in the wake of...
TAIWAN: Opposition Urges Nuclear Phase-out By 2025
TAIPEI, Mar 27 2011 (IPS) - Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairwoman and former Vice Premier Tsai Ing-wen have announced...
Scientists Claim Hard-Fought Ground Against Malaria
Kanya D'AlmeidaWASHINGTON, Apr 25 2011 (IPS) - By the time the reader gets to the end of this paragraph, an...
Putting Road Safety on the Development Agenda
Stephen LeahyLEIPZIG, Germany, May 31 2011 (IPS) - The leading killer of children over the age of five is not...
South Sudan’s Most Vulnerable
JUBA, Sep 29 2011 - At first sight, the village of Rokwe on the outskirts of Juba looks like any...
Q&A: Water Will Be Lifeblood of Smart Urban Expansion
U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews ANDERS BERNTELL, executive director of the Stockholm International Water InstituteUNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 2011...
Give Women the Seeds and They Can Feed the World
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 2011 (IPS) - If women farmers were given more tools and resources, the number of hungry...
SOUTH AFRICA: No Political Will to Support Generic Medication
Kristin PalitzaCAPE TOWN , Nov 16 2011 (IPS) - South African health experts are calling on governments to use legally...
CAMEROON: Stepping Naturally Away from Plastic
YAOUNDÉ, Jan 6 2012 (IPS) - Maya Stella, a restaurant manager in the capital of Cameroon, no longer uses plastic...