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Capacity Building the Key to Fighting Leprosy
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 03 (IPS) - Strengthening the participation of persons affected by leprosy, or SPP, has proven to be an effective strategy in reaching out to often isolated sufferers in local communities throughout Asia. A significant challenge to civil society organisations, however, is finding enough management talent to maintain and expand the programmes.
Leprosy Detection With a Personal Touch
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 03 (IPS) - Jennifer Quimno could put anyone at ease. So when she travels across the Philippines as part of peer to peer programme that helps identify new leprosy cases, people generally allow her to examine them.
First Asian Leprosy Assembly Calls for Greater Social Inclusion for the Affected
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 03 (IPS) - Growing up in Kathmandu, Nepal, Amar Bahadur Timalsina wasn't allowed to attend school as a young boy because he was affected by leprosy. But now, decades later, after treatment and being able to re-integrate into his community, Timalsina is proud to say that he is the principal of a school of 400 students.
Q&A: Caught Up in the Opportunities of Climate Change and Less So With Adaptation
- Inter Press Service
BRIGDETOWN, Mar 03 (IPS) - Caribbean countries have been signalling their willingness to dedicate time and resources to implement and sustain effective multi-hazard early warning systems.
Doing Business with Nature
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 02 (IPS) - As the environment continues to degrade and natural resources deplete at unprecedented rates, spelling disastrous consequences for societies, a new tool aims to bring financial institutions into the fight to protect nature.
Leprosy Remains a Stubborn, Unseen Problem in the Philippines
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 02 (IPS) - The stubborn challenge of diagnosis and treatment of leprosy among difficult to reach populations in the Philippines should soon become easier with the rollout of a mobile app connecting field health workers with physicians and clinics.
A Global Imperative: Empowering Women is Critical for World’s Economy & People
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Mar 01 (IPS) - Christine Lagarde* is Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
March 8 marks International Women's Day, which provides a chance to reflect on the struggle for greater gender equality.
The roots of this annual event reach back more than a century, yet its focus on respect and opportunities for women remains strikingly relevant today—from sexual harassment and violence to unequal laws and unfairness in the workplace, where women are too often underemployed, underpaid, and underpromoted.
Education Key to Gender Equality in Asia & the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 01 (IPS) - Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
Equal rights have been demanded and promised for generations, but last year a shift occurred in the women's movement. Across Asia and the Pacific and around the world, women demonstrated to condemn a status quo which continues to deprive too many women and girls of respect and equal opportunity.
The Misconceptions of Contraception
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 01 (IPS) - In light of rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies, governments are exploring ways to tackle taboos around condoms.
In a new study, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) reviews the availability and accessibility of condoms, hoping to dismantle potentially harmful misconceptions.
Slavery is Not a Thing of the Past, It Still Exists Today Affecting Millions
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (IPS) - Shannon Scribner is Associate Director of Humanitarian Programs and Policy at Oxfam America
While natural hazards like hurricanes, exacerbated by climate change, are causing people to migrate, it's conflict, violence and persecution that have forced more than 68.5 million people from their homes today, exposing them to higher risks and increased vulnerability, especially women and children.
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