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AIDS Meet Ends with Talk of Cure, But Realities of Scourge Persist
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 28 (IPS) - As the International AIDS Conference ended in Washington on Friday, organisers unveiled groundbreaking new research on the promise of early anti-retroviral (ARV) drug therapy.
Hezbollah Losing its Grip
- Inter Press Service
DAHIEH, Jul 27 (IPS) - Since its inception, Hezbollah’s clout within its community has been solid. However, in recent weeks, the Party of God has been facing increasing difficulties controlling its support base and stymieing discontent. These developments have led analysts to question whether or not Hezbollah is losing its grip on its followers.
Paraguay Opens Doors to Unregulated Foreign Investment
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCION, Jul 27 (IPS) - In his first month as president of Paraguay, Federico Franco has thrown open the doors of his country to foreign investments that have raised questions about environmental safety.
Govts Boost Nukes While Cutting Aid, Social Services
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 (IPS) - As U.N.-led talks on disarmament resume in Geneva Monday, calls are growing for nuclear-armed nations to cut spending on their stockpiles and instead divert resources to development.
Military Service Leaves Culture of War Behind in Guatemala
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Jul 27 (IPS) - “I feel proud to be a part of this change. Malnutrition cannot be wiped out in just two or three years, but this is the beginning and I want to be a part of it,” says Isabela Tzoc, a civic service volunteer involved in a youth programme aimed at fighting extreme poverty in Guatemala.
Punish Those Carrying Out FGM, Say Côte d'Ivoire Campaigners
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Jul 27 (IPS) - Nine women in the northern Côte d'Ivoire town of Katiola have been convicted for carrying out female genital mutilation – the first time that a 1998 law banning FGM has been applied.
Africa Must Earn Its Climate Change Adaptation Finance
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jul 27 (IPS) - With the United Nations Climate Change Conference less than four months away, African countries need to present convincing arguments and successful adaptation projects to attract competitive funding for adjusting to changes in global weather patterns, climate finance experts say.
Banksters Hijack Microfinance
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jul 27 (IPS) - For several decades, microcredit presented itself as a magical and benign financial tool for the poorest people in the world, who were otherwise completely excluded from conventional commercial banking services, to secure easy access to loans in order to set up their own businesses and live a dignified life.
Papua New Guinea Casts Wide Net Against Malaria
- Inter Press Service
PORT MORESBY, Jul 26 (IPS) - In Papua New Guinea, a Pacific Island nation located south of the equator, 90 percent of the population is at risk of malaria and 1.9 million cases are reported every year. But, according to a recent medical study, a programme to distribute long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets to every district in the country has dramatically reduced malaria infections.
Climate Change and Poverty, a Deadly Cocktail for Dominicans
- Inter Press Service
SANTO DOMINGO, Jul 26 (IPS) - "Nobody mourns the poor, you know." That is the grim conclusion of a resident of La Ciénaga, one of the many poverty-stricken settlements clustered along the banks of the Ozama River in the Dominican capital, and which are at the mercy of the weather.
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