Julio Godoy* – Tierramérica
PARIS, Apr 20 2006 (IPS) – For fear that cats could contribute to a more rapid expansion of the bird flu virus, H5N1, several European governments have taken precautionary measures related to these and other domesticated animals. Many citizens are even turning their pet cats over to animal shelters.
The trend to get rid of cats is especially strong in Germany and Austria, where at least six cats and a few rodents, like martens, were found to be infected with a strain of avian flu as a result of close contact with infected birds. The disease has been found in birds in some 30 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
To date, it hasn t been proved that cats can transmit the virus to humans, but researchers at the Erasmus Univer…
Gustavo Capdevila
GENEVA, May 25 2006 (IPS) – The alarming state of health in Bolivia is related to the dominant healthcare model, which ignores the society s traditional cultures, said Health Minister Nila Heredia, who is attending the World Health Assembly in this Swiss city.
Heredia participated in a debate organised by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn Child Health, an international initiative backed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to substantially reducing maternal and infant mortality rates by 2015.
Although there have been significant improvements in maternal and child health in the last few years, the most recent figures, from the 2001 census, put Bolivia in next to last place in Latin …
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Jun 27 2006 (IPS) – With the decision by mega-investor Warren Buffett to contribute some 31 billion dollars of his personal fortune, the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, already a major player on the global health scene, is set to become even more powerful.
Buffett s contribution, which will be doled out in annual increments beginning with 1.5 billion dollars this year, will bring the foundation s total endowment to some 60 billion dollars, nearly five times the size of the next largest U.S. charity, the Ford Foundation.
That total is greater than the 2004 gross domestic product (GDP) of all but 53 countries, according to the World Bank, or the total official development assistance (ODA) provided by the European Union and its member states to poor c…
Alka Arya
CHANDIGARH, Punjab and Haryana, Aug 10 2006 (IPS) – For campaigners against the practice of selectively aborting unborn girls that has already affected the gender balance in northern India nurse Pooja Rani is something of a heroine.
On Tuesday, Rani led police to a well that she alleged, was used by her employers, Dr. Pritam Singh and his wife Amarjit Kaur, to dispose of scores of unborn girls aborted at their hospital in the Patran town of Punjab s state s Patiala district.
A police raid on the hospital, supported by Patiala district s civil surgeon, Dr. H.S. Mohi, resulted in the recovery of the remains of several female foetuses and other evidence sufficient for the arrest of Singh and his wife.
Rani, who has been working at the hospital for over …
Dalia Acosta
HAVANA, Sep 12 2006 (IPS) – The start of the week-long 14th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) forced the Cuban government to suspend its spraying with military planes, but it has not cut short the intense offensive against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries the potentially deadly dengue virus.
Although the government has kept mum on the spread of dengue fever in this Caribbean island nation, sources close to the Public Health Ministry told IPS that several thousand cases have been reported in Havana alone, where special hospital wards have been created to care for the sick.
The authorities say everything is under control, while emphasising the need to keep up the health and awareness-raising campaign. Let s prevent the proliferation of the m…
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 2006 (IPS) – A 113-page landmark U.N. study on gender violence says women continue to be victims of sexual harassment, human trafficking and blatant discrimination worldwide.
Violence against women persists in every country in the world as a pervasive violation of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality, says the first-ever in-depth report on gender violence released Monday by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Such violence is unacceptable whether perpetrated by the state and its agents or by family members or strangers, in the public or private sphere, in peacetime or in times of conflict.
The study, which is critical of U.N. member states that have failed to adopt laws criminalising violence again…
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 2006 (IPS) – When mortars and rockets fall silent in the world s battle zones, the killings do not necessarily end with ceasefires and peace talks.
The reason? Myriads of unexploded ordnance including deadly cluster bombs, booby traps and anti-personnel landmines left behind by warring parties.
According to the United Nations, up to one million pieces of unexploded ordnance are leftovers from the war in southern Lebanon last August. And, so far, more than 58,000 cluster bomblets have been cleared and destroyed.
The death toll from cluster munitions more than three months after the conflict is 22, six of them children, while 134 injuries have been reported from all types of unexploded ordnance.
Wars do not always end …