Water & Sanitation, a Better Future for Girls & our Planet
At a hand pump in Village Mata Devi, Rajasthan, India. Credit: UNICEF/PanjwanBy Aminata TouréDAKAR, Senegal, Mar 24 2022 (IPS) At the World Water Forum this week (March 21-26), the international community will raise awareness of the 2 billion people worldwide who lack access to clean water and sanitation. Among them are millions of women and girls, who walk hundreds of miles each year to find water for their families and are blocked from education and economic empowerment also due to poor sanitation services. For years, we’ve talked about the costs to women and girls if we don’t solve water, sanitation and hygiene is...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 24, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aminata Toure Tags: Aid Climate Change Development & Aid Environment Featured Global Headlines Health Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Water & Sanitation IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Water Scarcity in Africa to Reach Dangerously High Levels by 2025 – Experts
Access to clean, affordable and safe drinking water is far from universal across Africa. Credit: Joyce ChimbiBy Joyce ChimbiNairobi, Kenya, Mar 23 2022 (IPS) Joan Waweru was among villagers on their regular trek to the river to fetch water when they discovered a neighbour’s dead body, believed to have committed suicide by drowning in river Kamiti. She was thirteen years old and recalls how even after the traumatizing incident, the village, and many others along river Kamiti, which runs along coffee plantations in Kiambu County of Kenya’s Central region, continued to rely on the river as their primary source of ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 23, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joyce Chimbi Tags: Africa Development & Aid Featured Headlines Health Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report water World Water Day Source Type: news

Water & Sanitation Crisis Escalates as Yemenis Mark World Water Day
A water point near a water tank providing clean water to school children in Demnat Khadeer district of Taiz governorate. Credit: Fayad Al-Derwish/Oxfam – 2022By Fayad Al-DerwishIBB Governorate, Yemen, Mar 22 2022 (IPS) As Yemen enters its 8th year of an escalating conflict, 21.7 million of my fellow Yemenis are forced to rely on humanitarian assistance to survive. The conflict has left a trail of devastation in its wake – the country is in economic freefall, and families face intensified violence, hunger, and disease. As we also mark another World Water Day on March 22, within Women’s History Month, it is a time to ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Fayad Al-Derwish Tags: Aid Climate Action Development & Aid Environment Global Headlines Health Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Water & Sanitation IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Pandemic Pushes SDGs Further out of Reach of Asia and the Pacific
By Armida Salsiah AlisjahbanaBANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 17 2022 (IPS) 2022 marks the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while an end to the pandemic is in sight, it is far from over and the consequences will be felt for decades to come. At the same time, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is becoming increasingly distant. The region must use the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a roadmap to a fairer recovery. Armida Salsiah AlisjahbanaThis year’s edition of the Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report published by ESCAP reveals three alarming trends. First, the region is losing ground in its 2030 a...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 17, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana Tags: Asia-Pacific Climate Action Climate Change COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Gender Green Economy Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Migration & Refugees Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IP Source Type: news

Africa Needs to Move Quickly on COVID Vaccines to Build Long-term Resilience
Africa can expect new spikes in COVID-19 every six months, a report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. The continent with its low vaccination rates could continue to be vulnerable. Credit: USAID/South AfricaBy Samira SadequeNew York, Mar 11 2022 (IPS) Countries on the African continent have a pattern of a six-month break before a new COVID-19 spike happens, researchers at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change have said in a newly released report. Marvin Akuagwuagwu, a data analyst in the Africa COVID-19 Policy unit at the Institute, told IPS that it’s the countries with the lowest vaccination rate that ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Samira Sadeque Tags: Africa columns COVID-19 Development & Aid Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations COVID-19 vaccines IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news

International Women ’s Day, 2022Celebrating the Transformative Impact of Women as Non-Formal Educators
A Play Leader in a BRAC Play Lab. Credit: Shananuzzaman AngkanBy Erum MariamDHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 7 2022 (IPS) Women around the world play crucial roles in education as formal educators, school staff members, and parents of students. But women are also transforming education as non-formal educators in ways that can be scaled to improve education broadly. As we celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8), it’s important that this transformative role is recognized. I’ve seen it first-hand in my work with the BRAC Institute of Educational Development (BRAC IED) in Bangladesh, where we conduct research, develop curri...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 7, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Erum Mariam Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Education Gender Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Women's Health BRAC 2022 International Women's Day 2022 IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

International Women ’s Day, 2022War, Want, Weather and Wellbeing: Where Are We Now?
Dr Lesley Ann Foster is Executive Director Masimanyane Women’s Rights International, South Africa   The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. By Lesley Ann FosterEAST LONDON, South Africa, Mar 7 2022 (IPS)   WAR The world is currently facing a devastating war with dire prospects for our global security. Men are waging this war while women seek peace and security for their families, communities and our global society. Women are give birth and nurture while some men actively seek death and destruction. This is one of the fundamental differences between the sexe...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 7, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lesley Ann Foster Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change Crime & Justice Economy & Trade Education Environment Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights Inequality Labour Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women & Economy Wo Source Type: news

International Women ’s Day, 2022To be Just, the Energy Transition Must Include & Empower Women
A nurse on a maternity ward in a rural hospital powered by solar energy through the UNDP-led Solar for Heath initiative in Zimbabwe. Credit: Karin Schermbrucker for Slingshot/UNDPBy Lucia CortinaPANAMA CITY, Mar 7 2022 (IPS) Access to clean energy improves women’s lives in a myriad of ways. It supports access to education and quality healthcare, opens new economic opportunities, and reduces unpaid domestic labour and gender-based violence. Yet too often, the sector as a whole – from industry to policymaking – still fails to include women as energy users, decision-makers and agents of change of the energy transition. ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 7, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lucia Cortina Tags: Development & Aid Featured Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health International Women Source Type: news

International Women ’s Day, 2022Gender Blind Spots in the Water Sector
Credit: UN Women/Narendra ShresthaBy Lina Taing and Grace OluwasanyaHAMILTON, Ontario, Mar 7 2022 (IPS) UN Women estimates 150 million women and girls are emerging from poverty by 2030, thanks largely to comprehensive education, labor, and social protection strategies and reforms implemented by governments around the world. Celebration of this anticipated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) progress is tempered, however, by the realization that a majority — roughly two-thirds — of the 435 million women and girls experiencing extreme poverty will likely be left behind. The impact of gender inequality has severe costs a...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 7, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lina Taing and Grace Oluwasanya Tags: Development & Aid Featured Gender Global Headlines Health Human Rights IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health International Women's Day 2022 IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

International Women ’s Day, 2022Sexual Violence Laws are Failing Adolescents
By Jacqui HuntLONDON, Mar 3 2022 (IPS) At Equality Now, we have been on a years-long journey to track and analyze sexual violence laws and their implementation around the world. This work was born after working with survivors of sexual violence for over two decades and observing that women and girls reported similar barriers to justice regardless of where they were from. While local, national, and regional context impact a victim’s experience, it is also clear that many of the challenges they face are universal. From Eurasia to the Caribbean, to South Asia and North Africa, we discovered laws which were supposedly mean...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jacqui Hunt Tags: Development & Aid Featured Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health International Women's Day 2022 I Source Type: news

International Women ’s Day, 2022Women Demanding Justice & Peace in the Streets of Myanmar
Activists in Myanmar taking part in the 'Sarong Revolution'. Credit: Khin Su KyiBy May Sabe PhyuNEW YORK, Mar 2 2022 (IPS) This will be the second International Women’s Day since the brutal coup erupted in Myanmar – and women remain fiercely in the lead in demanding justice and peace in the streets and behind closed doors. Last February, the coup threw Myanmar into further chaos and violence. The military used excessive force, indiscriminate killings, arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances, limits on civic space, nightly raids, and more. With this complete upheaval, combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, we are in th...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: May Sabe Phyu Tags: Development & Aid Featured Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health International Women Source Type: news

International Women ’s Day, 2022Collective Solutions to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Climate Action
Adolescent girls attend a support group discussion on women’s health. Sexual and reproductive health rights, are human rights, the independent UN expert on the right to health reminded Member States in the General Assembly, saying that it was essential to restore services in the field, that have been eroded during the COVID-19 pandemic. October 2021. Credit: UNICEF/Tapash PaulBy Ayomide Oluseye and Gabriela FernandoKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 2 2022 (IPS) The devastating effects of climate change continue to disproportionately affect women and girls in the poorest regions, who have contributed the least to global warming...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ayomide Oluseye and Gabriela Fernando Tags: Development & Aid Featured Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health International Women Source Type: news

Protecting Workers & Enabling a Green Recovery from COVID-19
Gig economy has boosted employment of Indian women in the formal sector. Credit: UNDP IndiaBy Haoliang XuUNITED NATIONS, Mar 1 2022 (IPS) 2022 is a decisive year for all of us as recovery prospects remain highly uncertain. Global human development has witnessed a decline for the first time since the measurement began in 1990. As UNDP’s new Special Report on Human Security also reveals, 6 in 7 people worldwide are plagued by feelings of insecurity. The pandemic has placed employer and worker organizations under increased pressure. It is posing new challenges with respect to safeguarding workplace safety and health, incl...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Haoliang Xu Tags: COVID-19 Economy & Trade Featured Gender Global Headlines Human Rights Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations Women & Economy IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Fall risk-increasing drugs and gait performance in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review - Osman A, Kamkar N, Speechley M, Ali S, Montero-Odasso M.
PURPOSE: Medication use, and gait impairment are two major risk factors for falls in older adults. There are several mechanisms linking fall risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs) and increased fall risk. One pathway involves gait performance as an intermediate var...
Source: SafetyLit - March 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Gender Lens Crucial to Leaving No One Behind (Part 2)
Creative ways are needed to meet the ICDP 25 goals. Here girls and young women are learning to code in North Darfur as a way to increase future job prospects and economic empowerment. Credit: UNFPA SudanBy IPS CorrespondentJohannesburg , Feb 28 2022 (IPS) A crucial two-day meeting of Parliamentarians from the Asian, Arab and African regions will put human-rights-based legislative frameworks under the spotlight as the regions work to implement the ICPD Programme of Action. In the first part of this series, IPS spoke exclusively to the Regional Director of UNFPA ASRO, Dr Luay Shabaneh. He outlined the many responses the UNF...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 28, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: IPS Correspondent Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Education Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations APDA Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) ICPD25 IP Source Type: news

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