News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 19
‘International Demand for Coltan Is Linked to Violence in the DRC’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS speaks with Claude Iguma, a mining governance expert with a PhD in Social Sciences, who is based in Bukavu, South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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.”
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.
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.
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.
The Race Towards Clean Energy: A World Still Gripped by Coal
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, July 11 (IPS) - Global investments in energy exceeded USD 3 trillion in 2024, with at least USD 2 trillion being invested in clean energy technology and infrastructure. Infrastructure. Despite that progress, fossil fuel consumption continues to rise with little sign of slowing.
HIV/AIDS Funding Crisis Risks Reversing Decades of Global Progress
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, July 10 (IPS) - UNAIDS called the funding crisis a ticking time bomb, saying the impact of the US cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) could result in 4 million unnecessary AIDS-related deaths by 2029.
Seychelles’ Path to Macroeconomic Stability and Resilience
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, July 10 (IPS) - Seychelles—a nation of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean—today enjoys a comparatively high degree of economic stability. Inflation is below 2 percent, real GDP has largely recovered from the pandemic, public debt is on course to reach the government’s target of less than 50 percent of GDP before 2030, and per capita income is the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Kenya’s Shirika Plan: A New Dawn for Refugee Rights and Integration
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, July 7 (IPS) - When Jean Baremba arrived in Kenya in 2018, he looked forward to rebuilding a life shattered by war in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
How Global Fund is Saving Lives from Malaria, TB, & HIV across Africa
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, July 7 (IPS) - In Gabú, Guinea-Bissau, a grandmother named N’beta hesitated. Her six-month-old grandson, Seco, was healthy, so why give him medicine? But community health workers Jamilia and Amadu gently explained that the medicine wasn’t for illness, but for protection. It was part of a seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign designed to protect children during the worst malaria transmission months — the rainy season.
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