Next Ebola Outbreak ‘Not a Matter of If, but When’
Uganda used public health measures like screening, testing of temperatures, and isolation of suspected cases to contain the Ebola outbreak. While those measures were successful, scientists warn that another outbreak could occur. Credit: Wambi Michael/IPSBy Wambi MichaelKAMPALA & MUBENDE, Mar 10 2023 (IPS) It is two months since the World Health Organization declared Uganda free of the most recent Sudan ebolavirus, which killed 55 people. Uganda employed public health measures to end the outbreak. In the absence of vaccines and therapeutics, the threat of the next outbreak looms. Scientists are yet to find answers to quest...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Wambi Michael Tags: Africa Editors' Choice Environment Featured Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Uganda Source Type: news

Parliamentarians Tackle Youth Employment, SRHR in Post-COVID Asia and Pacific
Delegates at the Youth Empowerment: Education, Employment and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights forum held in Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia. Credit: APDABy Cecilia RussellJOHANNESBURG, Mar 8 2023 (IPS) With more than 600 million youth aged between 18 and 24 in the Asia and Pacific region, putting their issues front and center is crucial. Speakers at a recent forum, Youth Empowerment: Education, Employment and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, held in Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia, agreed that policy development and implementation should be youth-centered. Professor Keizo Takemi, MP (Japan) and Chair of...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Cecilia Russell Tags: Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Featured Headlines Innovation Labour Population TerraViva United Nations Youth Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) Cambodia Source Type: news

Forget ChatGPT: The Greatest Tech Breakthrough Would Be Getting Cell Phones to Rural Women
A cell phone gives rural women access to financial services, training, networks, and, importantly, information and knowledge. Credit: Prashanth Vishwanathan (CCAFS)By Nicoline de HaanNAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 6 2023 (IPS) While 100 million people worldwide are using the AI chatbot ChatGPT to get ahead on homework and try out for top jobs at Google, more than 370 million women in developing countries lack the services of a simple cell phone. The world may be witnessing a quantum leap in the digital revolution, but cell phones and mobile internet would give these women enough of a foothold to access unprecedented opportunities to...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nicoline de Haan Tags: Africa Climate Change Development & Aid Education Food and Agriculture Food Security and Nutrition Gender Global Headlines Health Inequality Innovation TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Interwoven Global Crises Can Best be Solved Together
Mangroves in Tai O, Hong Kong. Coastal wetland protection and restoration is an example of the kind of multifunctional solution that is needed to address multiple global crises together. Credit: Chunyip Wong / iStockBy Paula Harrison, Pamela McElwee and David OburaBONN, Mar 2 2023 (IPS) When global crises are interlinked, they overlap and compound each other. In such cases, the most effective solutions are those that work at the nexus of all these challenges. In September, almost every Government on Earth will gather at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York to take stock at the halfway mark of the Sustainable ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Paula Harrison - Pamela McElwee - David Obura Tags: Armed Conflicts Biodiversity Climate Change COVID-19 Economy & Trade Energy Environment Food and Agriculture Global Headlines Health Sustainability Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations Water & Sanitation IPB Source Type: news

Research Uncovers Cheaper Diagnostic Tools For Chronic Hepatitis B in Africa
This study adds guidance as to when such earlier diagnosis may be attained. “However, research is one thing, health systems strengthening another. Studies like this one add to the impetus and arm the policymakers to make the right decisions,” he says. But he urges communities to take charge of these findings instead of leaving action in the hands of “sometimes incapacitated policymakers’ hands.” “The question should be, what is the community saying about findings such as these? If we wait for policymakers to decide when they are going to invest in hepatitis B interventions, we will wait for the rest of our ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Charles Mpaka Tags: Africa Featured Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Malawi Source Type: news

Beyond Zero Discrimination: A New Social Contract for Health and Care Workers
The UN which commemorates On Zero Discrimination Day on 1 March, says: “We celebrate the right of everyone to live a full and productive life—and live it with dignity. Zero Discrimination Day highlights how people can become informed about and promote inclusion, compassion, peace and, above all, a movement for change. Zero Discrimination Day is helping to create a global movement of solidarity to end all forms of discrimination.By Roomi AzizISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb 24 2023 (IPS) While its origins may be rooted in the discrimination faced by people living with HIV, Zero Discrimination Day has evolved to celebrate commit...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Roomi Aziz Tags: Development & Aid Featured Gender Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Women's Health IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Gender Central to Parliamentarians ’ Programme of Action
Cooperative members in southern Lebanon make a rare, traditional bread called Mallet El Smid to be sold at the MENNA shop in Beirut. Women are central to meeting the SDGs, say parliamentarians. Credit: UN Women/Joe SaadeBy IPS CorrespondentJOHANNESBURG, Feb 23 2023 (IPS) The post-COVID-19 period has been a crucial one for members of parliament who have their work cut out to ensure that issues that arose during the pandemic are addressed, especially concerning the ICPD25 commitments and programmes of action for universal access to sexual and reproductive rights, gender-based violence and building peaceful, just and inclusiv...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: IPS Correspondent Tags: Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Development & Aid Gender Gender Identity Gender Violence Middle East & North Africa TerraViva United Nations Women & Economy Women's Health Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) IPS UN Bureau IPS Source Type: news

BRAC ‘Resets’ Program Aimed at Empowering Adolescent Girls in Africa
A girl reads a story book with lessons on life skills at an ELA club in Uganda. Credit: Uganda/BRAC By Naureen HossainUNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 2023 (IPS) BRAC’s Empowerment and Livelihood Program (ELA) has benefitted tens of thousands of girls, and its recently released report shows an organization willing to adapt to the circumstances to continue to ensure adolescent girls and young women receive meaningful sexual and reproductive health rights support. The report titled Adolescent Empowerment at a scale: Successes and challenges of an evidence-based approach to young women’s programming in Africa was launched on Februa...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Naureen Hossain Tags: Africa Development & Aid Editors' Choice Education Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Population TerraViva United Nations BRAC IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news

Pakistan ’s Free Healthcare Insurance Benefits Women, Poor
Universal Health Care priorities in Pakistan have been boosted by free healthcare insurance for the poor. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, Feb 22 2023 (IPS) A free health insurance initiative started in Pakistan has benefited poor patients, especially women who have outnumbered men in using the cashless health services under the Sehat Card Plus programme. “The initiative is in line with the ICPD25 Programme of Action, under which 4.5 million people have received free services, with 62 percent of them women. In the last three years, we have been able to cut down maternal mortality rate from 186 d...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ashfaq Yusufzai Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Featured Gender Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Population TerraViva United Nations Women's Health IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Pakistan Source Type: news

Role of Regional Economic Cooperation in Inclusive Digital Transformation in Asia
Farmer using tablet to contact customer/ iStockBy Hsiao Chink Tang and Anne CortezBEIJING, The People’s Republic of China, Feb 21 2023 (IPS) Digitalization is a key driver of competitiveness and development. As the world takes the path to unprecedented digital advancement, Asia continues to be a powerhouse of digital transformations in a wide range of areas from microchip manufacturing to electric vehicles, from digital currency to e-commerce. Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated digital transformations, but not all countries have benefitted equally. For example, rural farmers in the People’s Republic of Ch...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Hsiao Chink Tang and Anne Cortez Tags: Aid Asia-Pacific Climate Action COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Energy Environment Food and Agriculture Global Green Economy Headlines TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

World ’s Deadliest Earthquake Leaves over 33,000 Dead
“A child in North Syria passing by the ruins, after the earthquake hit his town.” - Credit: Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)By Sania FarooquiNEW DELHI, India, Feb 13 2023 (IPS) Almost over 33,000 people have been killed and thousands injured by the 7.8 earthquake which struck south-eastern Turkey and Syria in the early hours on Monday, February 6th. The first images that came out were of collapsed buildings, rubble strewn across streets, people trapped under rubbles, screaming for help. What followed was the unusually strong aftershock – including one quake which was almost as large as the first. Rawan Kahwaji wa...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sania Farooqui Tags: Aid Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Middle East & North Africa Migration & Refugees TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news

The Opioid Addiction Crisis & U.S. National Security
Methadone Maintenance Therapy is offered in Thailand to reduce harm for people dependent on injected opioids, like heroin. Credit: World Bank/Trinn Suwannapha   Opioids are a class of drugs that includes the illegal drug heroin as well as power pain relievers available by prescription, such as oxycodone (Oxycontin), hydrocodone (Vicodin), codeine, morphine, fentanyl, methadone, and many others.By Geetika Chandwani and Purnaka L. de SilvaNEW YORK, Feb 10 2023 (IPS) The opioid addiction crisis in the United States is an acute public health emergency and a profound threat to national security – which is caused by the...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Geetika Chandwani and Purnaka de Silva Tags: Crime & Justice Development & Aid Economy & Trade Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

How Covid-19 Proved an Opportunity for Youth in Small-Town India
Young people from small towns are now able to work close to home thanks to co-working spaces that opened up during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Rina Mukherji/IPSBy Rina MukherjiPUNE, INDIA, Feb 8 2023 (IPS) While a 2017 study by the Confederation of Indian Industry Jones Lang LaSalle India and WeWork noted the potential in India’s co-working segment, it took COVID-19 for people to transition to co-working spaces close to home. The study, Future of Work – The Co-working Revolution, which saw the potential market size of the co-working segment standing at 12-16 million, anticipated 400 million USD in investments by 201...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rina Mukherji Tags: Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Featured Headlines TerraViva United Nations Trade & Investment India IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news

US Policies Slowing World Economy
By Jomo Kwame SundaramKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 2 2023 (IPS) Few policymakers ever claim credit for causing stagnation and recessions. Yet, they do so all the time, justifying their actions by some supposedly higher purpose. Now, that higher purpose is checking inflation as if it is the worst option for people today. Many supposed economists make up tall tales that inflation causes economic contraction which ordinary mortals do not know or understand. Jomo Kwame SundaramInflating inflation’s significance Since early 2022, like many others in the world, Americans have been preoccupied with inflation. But official US da...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Energy Financial Crisis Global Headlines Labour North America TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Senior UN Leaders Show Their Support to Afghan Women and Girls, Urge Taliban to Reverse Their Bans
Women receive food rations at a food distribution site in Herat, Afghanistan. Credit: UNICEF/Sayed BidelBy Naureen HossainUNITED NATIONS, Jan 31 2023 (IPS) Recent visits to Afghanistan by senior-led UN delegations underscore the urgency to protect the rights of women and girls, including their access to humanitarian aid and their right to work. The first delegation was led by Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, who called for the Taliban to reverse its decisions that have limited women’s and girls’ rights. The delegation, led on behalf of the Secretary-General, also included senior leaders from the UN; Executive D...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Naureen Hossain Tags: Education Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Middle East & North Africa TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news

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