News headlines for “Health Issues”, page 222
What Role Can South-South Cooperation Play in Post COVID-19 Recovery?
- Inter Press Service
BEIJING, Mar 02 (IPS) - Five years ago, at the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the United Nations, world leaders adopted the ambitious Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. The Agenda was to be accomplished through the achievement of 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030: eradicating poverty, ending hunger, addressing climate change – just to name a few.
Demographic Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic: An Overview
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 02 (IPS) - The demographic impact of the coronavirus one year after being declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020 has been enormous. The picture that emerges is one of significant consequences on the levels and trends of the key components of demographic change: mortality, fertility and migration.
Neoliberal Finance Undermines Poor Countries Recovery
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 02 (IPS) - After being undermined by decades of financial liberalisation, developing countries now are not only victims of vaccine imperialism, but also cannot count on much financial support as their COVID-19 recessions drag on due to global vaccine apartheid.
End Inequality and Achieve Sustainable Development for All
- Inter Press Service
BEIJING, Mar 01 (IPS) - Back in the 1990s, the discovery of antiretrovirals offered a ray of hope to save people’s lives from the HIV epidemic. Over this decade, people living with HIV benefited from the scientific advances and began to have longer, healthier and more productive lives. However, almost all the beneficiaries were from rich countries in the global north. As a result, about nine million people died by the year 2000 due to the inequality in accessing these life-saving medicines.
A Technology-based Parasol of Protection for Victims of Domestic Abuse
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 01 (IPS) - During the COVID19 lockdown, there has been an approximate 25% increase in domestic abuse, dubbed by the United Nations as the ‘pandemic within a pandemic’. While the home is perceived as a secure place, for domestic abuse victims battling the pandemic is equally and increasingly unsafe. A parasol of protection is needed to rehabilitate victims of abuse starting from detection, reaching out, providing help and support.
How Marginalised Women in India Bore an Extra Burden of COVID-19 Shadow Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Mar 01 (IPS) - Women living in rural India and those belonging to marginalised communities faced an enormous burden during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns, including domestic violence, loss of financial assistance and income, says Rehana Adeeb, a grassroots Muslim woman leader and activist.
To Lead is to Serve — A Pacific Woman’s Perspective
- Inter Press Service
SUVA, Fiji, Mar 01 (IPS) - An often quoted indigenous reference in the Samoan language is, O le ala i le pule o le tautua, literally translated,
the pathway to leadership is through service
because to be able to lead is to be willing to serve.Ending Inequality is Everyones Business
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Feb 25 (IPS) - The UNAIDS 2020 Global AIDS Update gave us a clear indication why the world did not meet the Fast-Track targets by 2020.
Inequality, perpetuated by structural oppression such as gender inequality; economic disparity; including human rights abuses and violations.
For most of us living in sub-Saharan Africa, we don’t need a report to tell us this. Our lives are a litany of inequality we know deep in our guts.
Drug Use is a Health Issue - We Need to Decriminalize
- Inter Press Service
APIA, Samoa, Feb 25 (IPS) - Vulnerable people need support, not stricter laws.
Earlier this month, and in December 2020 the Government of Samoa conducted operations that resulted in the confiscation of a total of 1,400 grams of methamphetamine at the border, smuggled from the US.
The law enforcement officials (from the Ministry of Customs and Revenue and the Ministry of Police and Prisons) that intercepted these drugs deserve congratulations for their professionalism and skill. Meth is destructive and harmful - and it is good to see this potential threat removed from the community.
Mexico to Ban Glyphosate, GM Corn Presidential Decree Comes Despite Intense Pressure from Industry, U.S. Authorities
- Inter Press Service
CAMBRIDGE MA, Feb 24 (IPS) - Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador quietly rocked the agribusiness world with his New Year’s Eve decree to phase out use of the herbicide glyphosate and the cultivation of genetically modified corn. His administration sent an even stronger aftershock two weeks later, clarifying that the government would also phase out GM corn imports in three years and the ban would include not just corn for human consumption but yellow corn destined primarily for livestock. Under NAFTA, the United States has seen a 400% increase in corn exports to Mexico, the vast majority genetically modified yellow dent corn.
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