Inter Press Service English News Wire back issues from April 2009:
POLITICS: ARAB-LATIN AMERICAN TIES HAILED
Apr 01, 2009; ... AJ Correspondents* Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 DOHA, Apr. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Latin American leaders and their Arab counterparts sat down for their second major summit, in another sign of the growing economic and political ties between the two strategic ...
NAMIBIA: UNEMPLOYMENT, RISING PRICES OUTWEIGH TAX CUTS FOR POOR
Apr 01, 2009; ... Servaas van den Bosch Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 WINDHOEK, Apr. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Namibia's minister of finance, Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, drew loud applause when she announced that $80 million in tax cuts for the poor will be partially offset by ...
MIDEAST: INVESTIGATION CLEARS ISRAELI MILITARY OF GAZA CRIMES
Apr 01, 2009; ... Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 JERUSALEM, Apr. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The Israeli army's Advocate General has summarily closed an internal investigation into allegations stemming from accounts by soldiers of abuses ...
FINANCE: AFRICAN LEADERS DEMAND REPRESENTATION AT G20 MEETING
Apr 01, 2009; ... Michael Chebud Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 ADDIS ABABA, Apr. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - A daunting task awaits Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi when the Group of 20 (G20) rich and emerging economies meet in London tomorrow.Zenawi's message is ...
FINANCE: GREATER IDB LENDING MAY COME TOO LATE FOR CURRENT CRISIS
Apr 01, 2009; ... Mario Osava Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 MEDELLIN, Colombia, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The financial, environmental and social crises roiling the world today place demands and expectations before the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) it may be unable ...
ECONOMY: GLOBAL POLL FINDS PUBLIC BACKS MAJOR REFORMS
Apr 01, 2009; ... Ali Gharib Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 WASHINGTON, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The international economic system needs a broad overhaul, said a strong majority of 70 percent of respondents to a global poll.Majorities in 20 of the 24 countries polled ...
G20: NO SURPRISES IN DRAFT DECLARATION OF G20 MEETING
Apr 01, 2009; ... Analysis by Sanjay Suri Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 LONDON, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - If the draft declaration of the G20 meeting in London is anything to go by, the most specific outcome of this summit is that there will be another one later in the ...
POLITICS-SOMALIA: REFUGEES SUFFERING IN KENYAN CAMPS
Apr 01, 2009; ... Joyce Mulama Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 NAIROBI, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - In early March, Amina Ayanna Yusuf strapped her two-year-old son to her back and set off for the Kenyan border with her small savings.Fleeing insurgent attacks on her home ...
SOUTH AFRICA: OBSTACLES TO 'SCALING UP' HIV TREATMENT REMAIN
Apr 01, 2009; ... Kristin Palitza Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 DURBAN, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The money to scale up HIV treatment is there, but implementation of programs to curb the pandemic is a problem, health experts said at the opening of the Fourth South African ...
US-CUBA: CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT SEEN FOR LIFTING CUBAN EMBARGO
Apr 01, 2009; ... Marina Litvinsky Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 WASHINGTON, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators and interest groups is backing a bill that would end the long economic embargo against Cuba, including travel restrictions to the ...
GHANA: CADBURY'S DEAL DESTINED TO SWEETEN MORE FARMERS' LIVES
Apr 01, 2009; ... Francis Kokutse Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 ACCRA, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The initiative linking British chocolate giant Cadbury's with a Ghanaian cooperative representing 40,000 cocoa farmers is set to grow further and enhance the livelihoods of more ...
Q&A: SANITATION MUST BE OWNED BY LOCAL COMMUNITIES
Apr 01, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 Nergui Manalsuren interviews JAE SO and PETER KOLSKY of the World BankUNITED NATIONS, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The world's developing nations, particularly in Asia and Africa, are struggling to cope with two of the ...
G20: JAPAN CARRIES AFRICAN CONCERNS TO LONDON
Apr 01, 2009; ... Ramesh Jaura Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 BERLIN, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Japan, the world's second largest economy, is calling for global initiatives to reactivate financial flows to Africa, including government grants, concessional loans and lines of ...
PAKISTAN: ANOTHER TERROR ATTACK FOR TV CAMERAS
Apr 01, 2009; ... Analysis by Beena Sarwar Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 KARACHI, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The brazen armed attack on a police academy near Lahore on Monday underlines the danger that the Pakistani state faces from militancy linked to the 'war on terror', ...
MUSIC-ITALY: NURTURING OPERA
Apr 01, 2009; ... Ral Pierri Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 AMEGLIO, Italy, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Fabrizio tells a young woman, Eriko, that it is very cold outside, while logs crackle in the fireplace and the sun sets behind the mountains, adorned with last night's ...
POLITICS-THAILAND: BACK TO STREET PROTESTS
Apr 01, 2009; ... Marwaan Macan-Markar Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-01-2009 BANGKOK, Mar. 31, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Any hope of political peace returning to Thailand has been shattered by a week of street protests, exposing an emotional fault line that runs through this South-east ...
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: SEA TURTLES HACKED TO DEATH BY TRAWLERS
Apr 02, 2009; ... Malini Shankar/ IFEJ * Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-02-2009 PURI, India, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The stench emanating from the carcasses of thousands of butchered Olive Ridley turtles overpowers seaside visitors in this pilgrimage town in Orissa on India's east ...
CLIMATE CHANGE: GOING BEYOND THE CARBON MARKET
Apr 02, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-02-2009 Daro Montero interviews economist JOHN NASH /Tierramrica *MONTEVIDEO, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Economist John Nash defends the role of the World Bank and underscores the need to expand the so-called "clean development ...
DR-CONGO: ELECTRONICS FIRMS URGED TO AVOID "BLOOD MINERALS"
Apr 02, 2009; ... Marina Litvinsky Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-02-2009 WASHINGTON, Apr. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The world's mass consumption of cell phones, laptops and other electronics fuels widespread sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to a new ...
Q&A: "IF I WERE CHAIRMAN OF THE U.S. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCECOUNCIL"
Apr 02, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-02-2009 Jim Lobe interviews ret. U.S. Amb. CHARLES "CHAS" FREEMANWASHINGTON, Apr. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Ret. Amb. Charles "Chas" Freeman, appointed two months ago to chair the National Intelligence Council (NIC), withdrew his name ...
POLITICS: AL-MALIKI DRAWS U.S. TROOPS INTO CRACKDOWN ON SUNNIS
Apr 02, 2009; ... Gareth Porter* Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-02-2009 WASHINGTON, Apr. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - When U.S. troops joined Iraqi forces in putting down an uprising by Sunni "Sons of Iraq" militiamen last weekend, it was a preview of the kind of combat the U.S. military is ...
POPULATION: GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS THREATENS FAMILY PLANNING
Apr 02, 2009; ... Thalif Deen Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-02-2009 UNITED NATIONS, Apr. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The spreading global financial crisis is threatening to undermine another one of the U.N.'s major development and health goals: family planning.United Nations officials ...
HEALTH: ARV DRUGS MAY PREVENT AS WELL AS TREAT HIV
Apr 02, 2009; ... Kristin Palitza Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-02-2009 DURBAN, Apr. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Researchers are now investigating if antiretroviral (ARV) drugs can play a role in not just treating HIV, but in preventing infection. Mitchell Warren, executive director of the ...
MEXICO: ZAPOTECA WOMAN LEADS OTHERS TO SEEK HIGHER OFFICE
Apr 02, 2009; ... Diego Cevallos Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-02-2009 MEXICO CITY, Apr. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Two years ago, Eufrosina Cruz was kept from running for mayor of her home village by the traditions and customs of her indigenous community in southern Mexico, just because ...
NICARAGUA: UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION STILL FAR OFF
Apr 02, 2009; ... Jos Adn Silva Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-02-2009 MANAGUA, Apr. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Poverty is forcing mothers in Nicaragua to pull their daughters out of school."My oldest child is already in fifth grade; now we're waiting for the situation to improve so ...
POLITICS: U.S., RUSSIA AFFIRM IDEAL OF "NUCLEAR-FREE" WORLD
Apr 03, 2009; ... Ali Gharib Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 WASHINGTON, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - On the eve of the G20 summit in London, the leaders of the U.S. and Russia prepared to take the first concrete steps towards a "reset" of relations between the two countries. ...
AUSTRALIA: CONCERNS RISE OVER LEAK AT URANIUM MINE
Apr 03, 2009; ... Stephen de Tarczynski Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 MELBOURNE, Australia, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The revelation that a substantial amount of contaminated water is leaking each day from a tailings dam at a uranium mine, located in a World Heritage Site, ...
ENERGY: OIL PRODUCERS LOOK FOR WAYS OUT OF CRISIS
Apr 03, 2009; ... Alecia D. McKenzie Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 PARIS, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - With the price of crude oil down more than 50 percent from a year ago, and with U.S. President Barack Obama championing alternative forms of energy, oil producers are ...
MIDEAST: BIG POWERS ARE 'TARGETING PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE'
Apr 03, 2009; ... Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 CAIRO, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Nine NATO member states agreed last month to utilise naval, intelligence and diplomatic resources to combat the alleged flow of arms into the Gaza Strip ....
MIDEAST: ALL UNCLEAR OVER ISRAELI POLICY
Apr 03, 2009; ... Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 JERUSALEM, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - How genuine is Israel's new leadership about peace when the Prime Minister says that he will go a long way towards striving for a settlement ...
ECONOMY: DESPITE ITS CLOUT, CHINA FEELS VULNERABLE TO SHOCKS
Apr 03, 2009; ... Antoaneta Bezlova Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 BEIJING, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Despite an impressive show of its increased economic and political stature at the just-finished G20 summit in London, China remains plagued by doubts about the sustainability ...
CLIMATE CHANGE: FARMING COULD BE FRIEND OR FOE
Apr 03, 2009; ... Stephen Leahy Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 UXBRIDGE, Canada, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Don't forget about agriculture in the upcoming global negotiations to combat climate change, experts warn. Not only is farming most at risk in an increasingly variable ...
CHILE: THERAPEUTIC ABORTION - HOT ELECTION ISSUE
Apr 03, 2009; ... Daniela Estrada Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 SANTIAGO, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The debate on the decriminalisation of therapeutic abortion has been revived ahead of the December presidential elections in Chile, one of the few countries in the world where ...
ECONOMY: INSURANCE TO PROVIDE COVER AGAINST GLOBAL CRISIS
Apr 03, 2009; ... Stephanie Nieuwoudt Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 CAPE TOWN, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The global economic crisis makes it even more imperative that investors ascertain the economic and legal conditions in foreign countries.''When one has dealings ...
SOUTH AFRICA: NURSES SHOULD BE BACKBONE OF ARV TREATMENT
Apr 03, 2009; ... Kristin Palitza Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 DURBAN, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Effectively scaling up South Africans' access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment will require decentralisation of health services from hospitals to clinics and allowing nurses to ...
HEALTH-ARGENTINA: DENGUE HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER IS HERE
Apr 03, 2009; ... Marcela Valente Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 BUENOS AIRES, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - While the authorities squabble over what or whom to blame, Argentina is suffering its worst epidemic of dengue fever since 1998 in terms of the number of people and the ...
ZAMBIA: DIMINISHING RETURNS ON AGRICULTURE SUBSIDY
Apr 03, 2009; ... Kelvin Kachingwe Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 LUSAKA, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Responding to years of complaints over the management of the Fertiliser Support Programme (FSP), the Zambian government has now proposed that the private sector takes over its ...
POLITICS: IN REVERSAL, U.S. TO ENGAGE WITH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Apr 03, 2009; ... Haider Rizvi Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 UNITED NATIONS, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The Barack Obama administration's decision this week to seek a seat on the world's top human rights body has affirmed the hopes of many activist groups that the United ...
US-ISRAEL: VISA FOR TOP NETANYAHU AIDE IN QUESTION
Apr 03, 2009; ... Stephen Green* Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 WASHINGTON, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The first official test of wills between the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and the new Likud-led government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could ...
MEXICO: MILITARY JUSTICE SYSTEM UNDER FIRE
Apr 03, 2009; ... Diego Cevallos Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 MEXICO CITY, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The Mexican government, legislators and human rights organisations are calling for a review of the outdated military justice system, accused of letting human rights ...
RIGHTS: ENGAGING MEN IN GENDER EQUALITY EFFORTS
Apr 03, 2009; ... Fabiana Frayssinet Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-03-2009 RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - How many men work in day care centres, looking after children? How much paternity leave are men entitled to? How many government programmes to combat domestic ...
NORTH KOREA: MAJOR POWERS SEE MISSILE LAUNCH AS PROVOKING
Apr 06, 2009; ... Antoaneta Bezlova Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 BEIJING, Apr. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- The timing of North Korea's rocket launch on Sunday was as provocative as the launch itself. It occurred on the day President Barack Obama called for an end to nuclear ...
MIDEAST: GAZA FARMERS NEVER FELT SAFE, NOW THEY LOST CROPS
Apr 06, 2009; ... Eva Bartlett* Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip, Apr. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- For farmers along the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, being shot by Israeli soldiers was a concern before December's violence, and it still is. Now they have ...
GREECE: BAD LIVING CONDITIONS DECAY FOR REFUGEE SLUM DWELLERS
Apr 06, 2009; ... Apostolis Fotiadis Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 ATHENS, Greece, Apr. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Refugees in a slum near a port city in Greece are enduring dangerously poor hygiene conditions and increasing hostility from nearby residents.For more than a ...
ANALYSIS-EUROPE: SOME QUESTION EQUATING COMMUNISM, NAZISM
Apr 06, 2009; ... Analysis by Zoltn Dujisin Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 BUDAPEST, Apr. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- A declaration that equates communism to Nazism and condemns communist ideology as "directly responsible for crimes against humanity" has been debated in ...
ROMANIA: CRISIS PUSHES GOVERNMENT INTO DUBIOUS BORROWING
Apr 06, 2009; ... Claudia Ciobanu Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 BUCHAREST, Romania, Apr. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- The Romanian government is borrowing close to $26.8 billion from international financial institutions in order to stem the effects of the global financial ...
SRI LANKA: ESCALATED CONFLICT HARMING CHILDREN, CIVILIANS
Apr 06, 2009; ... IPS Correspondents Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Apr. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- The escalation since December of the conflict in Sri Lanka's north between government forces and the Tamil Tigers is taking a heavy toll on children and ...
MALAYSIA: NEW PRIME MINISTER EXTENDS HAND TO CYNICAL POPULACE
Apr 06, 2009; ... Baradan Kuppusamy Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr. 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Malaysia's controversial Najib Razak, who became the country's sixth prime minister on Apr. 3, has launched a charm offensive to win over people disillusioned ...
Q&A-ZIMBABWE: GOVERNMENT PROMISES TO REBUILD HEALTH SYSTEM
Apr 06, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 Stanley Kwenda interviews Henry MadzoreraHARARE, Apr. 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- The resuscitation of Zimbabwe's health care system has been identified as one of the major challenges facing the country by its new unity ...
MOLDOVA: ELECTIONS OFFER SMALL, VIABLE CHANCE OF CHANGE
Apr 06, 2009; ... Claudia Ciobanu Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 BUCHAREST, Romania, Apr. 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Moldavians are heading for general elections this Sunday. After a campaign marred with illegalities, the incumbent Communist Party is confident of winning most ...
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: AIDS ACTIVISTS ASK ABOUT FUNDS FOR BATTLE
Apr 06, 2009; ... Terna Gyuse Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 DURBAN, South Africa, Apr. 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- The Fourth South African AIDS conference ended in Durban on Friday with optimism over progress in research and policy on AIDS prevention.However, there were ...
TURKEY: RULING PARTY'S VICTORY SEEN AS FALLING SHORT
Apr 06, 2009; ... Hilmi Toros Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 ISTANBUL, Turkey, Apr. 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Turkey's ruling party won the local elections last week, but the reduced majority comes as an indicator its popularity may be in decline.The local elections were ...
ANALYSIS-EUROPE: NATIONS WORK TO GET IT RIGHT ON AFGHANISTAN
Apr 06, 2009; ... Analysis by Cillian Donnelly Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 BRUSSELS, Belgium, Apr. 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- As NATO prepares to celebrate its 60th year, Europe's somewhat fractured Afghanistan policy, which will feature large in discussions at ...
VENEZUELA: 10 POLICE CONVICTED OF KILLINGS AHEAD OF 2002 COUP
Apr 06, 2009; ... Humberto Mrquez Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 CARACAS, Venezuela, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- A Venezuelan court sentenced six police force members Friday to the maximum sentence in Venezuela, 30 years, for killing demonstrators before the Apr. 11, 2002, ...
CHILE: TEACHERS, STUDENTS FIGHT LAW EASING ENTRY INTO TEACHING
Apr 06, 2009; ... Daniela Estrada Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 SANTIAGO, Chile, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Teachers and students marched in protest against a new education law the Chilean parliament passed nearly three years after the "penguin revolution," named for the ...
ANALYSIS-G-20: ACTIVISTS WONDER WHO HAS WHAT MONEY FOR AID
Apr 06, 2009; ... Analysis by Sanjay Suri Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 LONDON, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- It seemed like a lot of money at the time. The leaders of the group of eight richest countries, the G-8, met in Gleneagles in Scotland and announced $50 billion in new ...
POLITICS: CLEARED OF TERRORIST TIES, CANADIAN STRANDED IN SUDAN
Apr 06, 2009; ... Paul Weinberg Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 TORONTO, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik has been marooned for a year at his country's embassy in Khartoum.The murky post-9/11 sharing of information between ...
CARIBBEAN: REGION WARY ON ALTERING TRADE PACT WITH CANADA
Apr 06, 2009; ... Peter Richards Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Caribbean leaders are being warned that they should not rush into a new accord with Ottawa to replace the 1985 one-way duty-free Caribbean-Canada (CARIBCAN) ...
RIGHTS: U.S. JUDGE OPENS DOOR TO APPEALS BY PRISONERS AT BAGRAM
Apr 06, 2009; ... William Fisher Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 NEW YORK, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- A federal judge has ruled that non-Afghan citizens rendered by the United States to Bagram prison in Afghanistan have a constitutional right to challenge their detention in ...
AFRICA: ARBITRATION METHOD DEMANDED TO END SCOURGE OF DEBT
Apr 06, 2009; ... Stanley Kwenda Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 HARARE, Zimbabwe, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- International debt campaigners are calling for the establishment of a debt arbitration mechanism to respond to the difficulties that many countries of the South are ...
ANALYSIS-MIDEAST: ISRAELI FAR-RIGHT PRESENTS PROBLEM FOR OBAMA
Apr 06, 2009; ... Analysis by Helena Cobban* Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-06-2009 WASHINGTON, Apr. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was sworn in Tuesday -- just one day later his foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, set off a firestorm by ...
HEALTH-UGANDA: BURDEN OF CARE FALLS ON FEWER SHOULDERS
Apr 07, 2009; ... Wambi Michael Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-07-2009 KAMPALA, Uganda, Apr. 7, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- A critical shortage of health care workers in Uganda is affecting the delivery of health services.The situation is affecting patients and staff members.There ...
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: ILLNESS FIGURES IN MIGRATION PATTERNS
Apr 07, 2009; ... Siyabonga Kalipa and Brenda Nkuna Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-07-2009 CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Apr. 7, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- While migration inside South Africa is generally considered to be into the urban areas, researchers are watching a phenomenon that has sick ...
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: PROGRAM PUTS HIV TESTING ON WHEELS
Apr 07, 2009; ... Miriam Mannak Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-07-2009 CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Apr. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- In the 10 months since the Tutu Tester's mobile clinic began touring Cape Town offering quick, confidential tests for diseases including HIV/AIDS, more than ...
TRADE: EUROPE NUDGES SILENT AFRICAN NATIONS ABOUT NEW PACT
Apr 07, 2009; ... Servaas van den Bosch Inter Press Service English News Wire 04-07-2009 WINDHOEK, Namibia, Apr. 7, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Southern African countries remain mum on the interim economic partnership agreement (EPA), despite a letter from European Commission Trade ...