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  1. Sweet Hope to End Bitter Pills for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

    - Inter Press Service

    BULAWAYO, July 15 (IPS) - Every day, Yondela Kolweni has to hold down her son, who screams and fights when it is time for his daily life-saving TB tablets—a painful reminder of her battle with the world’s top infectious killer disease. “It is a fight I win feeling awful about what I have to do,” says Kolweni (30), a Cape Town resident and a TB survivor. “The tablets are bitter, and he spits them out most of the time, and that reminds me of the time I had to take the same pills.”

  2. WHO, UNICEF Find the World Is Off Track To Meet Childhood Immunization Goals

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, July 15 (IPS) - The latest data highlights that the world is off track to meet the targets set by the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) to achieve 90 percent global immunization coverage for essential childhood vaccines and halve the number of unvaccinated children by 2030.

  3. Trump Tech Big Bro: Monopoly Is Best

    - Inter Press Service

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, July 15 (IPS) - Trump’s billionaire cronies want more monopoly profits, not competition. With more policies crafted for them, wealth concentration is set to become greater than ever.

  4. Financing for Whom? Trials & Tribulations from the Fourth Financing for Development in Seville

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, July 15 (IPS) - The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) took place in Seville, Spain from 30th June to 3rd July amidst intensifying attacks on multilateralism, unprecedented cuts to global aid and development financing, and regression of decades of progress in the fight against poverty.

  5. A Crisis of Contagion and Collapse: Why Cholera Continues To Be a Problem in the DRC

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, July 14 (IPS) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is grappling with one of its worst cholera outbreaks in recent history, exposing deep systemic cracks in public health, water infrastructure, and humanitarian response, leaving its youngest citizens in peril.

  6. Can the Cali Fund Deliver on Its Billion-Dollar Biodiversity Pledge?

    - Inter Press Service

    HYDERABAD, India, July 14 (IPS) - When the Cali Fund was unveiled in February on the sidelines of COP16.2 in Rome, the announcement sent ripples through the global conservation community. For the first time ever, companies that profit from digital sequence information (DSI)—the digitized genetic material of plants, animals, and microorganisms—will be expected to pay into a multilateral fund to protect the very biodiversity they benefit from.

  7. The Risks Artificial Intelligence Pose for the Global South

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, July 14 (IPS) - Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly developing and leaving its mark across the globe. Yet the implementation of AI risks widening the gap between the Global North and South.

  8. NATO’s Trillion-dollar Gamble: The Dangers of Defence Without Accountability

    - Inter Press Service

    BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, July 14 (IPS) - Donald Trump’s bullying tactics ahead of NATO’s annual summit, held in The Hague in June, worked spectacularly. By threatening to redefine NATO’s article 5 – the collective defence provision that has anchored western security since 1949 – Trump won commitments from NATO allies to almost triple their defence spending to five per cent of GDP by 2035. European defence budgets will balloon from around US$500 billion to over US$1 trillion annually, essentially matching US spending levels.

  9. Will the FfD4 Sevilla Commitment Ever be Followed up?

    - Inter Press Service

    KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 14 (IPS) - The extensive plan of action adopted at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), held recently in Sevilla, Spain (30 June – 3 July), triggers the question: Where will the money come from?

  10. Conflict, Climate Change Push Migrants in Yemen to Return to Their Home Countries

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, July 13 (IPS) - Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, driven by conflict, economic collapse and climate shocks, leaves migrants desperate to return to their home countries.

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