Aprille Muscara and Daniela Estrada*
NEW YORK/SANTIAGO, Oct 22 2010 (IPS) – When Francisca arrived at the historic Curicó Hospital a staple in the Chilean central valley for nearly one and a half centuries for the birth of her first child, she didn t know it would be her only one.
I was in the recovery room at the hospital of Curicó when [the nurse] entered and, after asking me how I was feeling, told me that I was sterilised and that I would not be able to have any more children, she recalls in a joint report by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and the Chilean NGO Vivo Positivo released Thursday.
It was 2002. Francisca (not her real name) was 20 years old and she and her husband foresaw a future in which their visit to the maternity ward wou…
Dr. Katrin Glatzel is Policy & Research Officer at Agriculture for Impact, which acts as the convenor for the Montpellier Panel.
Peter Mcharo’s two children digging their father’s maize field in Kibaigwa village, Morogoro Region, some 350km from Dar es Salaam. Mcharo has benefitted greatly from conservation agriculture techniques. Credit: Orton Kiishweko/IPS
KIGALI, Rwanda, Jun 14 2016 (IPS) – After over a year of extreme weather…
The African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation will be hosted by Rwanda. It is part of the African Development Bank’s commitment to spend at least USD 3 billion over the next ten years to …