Sandhya Srinivasan
MUMBAI, Feb 20 2008 (IPS) – The arrest of Doctor Kidney Amit Kumar for running a sizeable racket in live kidneys has highlighted the role that South Asia plays as the hub of an international trade in human organs.
Faqir Masih, a Pakistani who was cheated in a kidney deal, displaying his …
Sanjay Suri
ISTANBUL, May 16 2011 (IPS) – For Jany Chen from Shanghai, concern often-raised in Europe and North America about the Chinese invasion of Africa is a lot of wasteful talk that deserves to be flushed down the toilet. Efficiently.
Jany Chen, CEO of Shanghai Environmental Group, speaks with IPS. Credit: Sanjay Suri/IPS
Chen is chief executive officer of the Shanghai Yiyuan Environmental Group, a company that claims breakthrough technology in conservation of water. Chen dismisses sugge…
This is the last in a three-part series of about women and Option B+ in Africa
Chronic shortages of antiretroviral drugs endanger the lives of hundreds of thousands of HIV positive Mozambicans. Courtesy: Amos Zacarias
MAPUTO, Jun 19 2014 (IPS) – Chronic shortages of antiretrovirals across Mozambique are endangering the health and the lives of tens of thousands of HIV positive people on treatment.
Some 454,000 people are on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, or just under one-third of the 1.6 million Mozambicans living with HIV in 2013, according to government figures.
“Our patients complain they are not receiving the complete dosage of medicines,” says…
Clinton Ikechukwu Ezeigwe is Director of Operations at Christian Fellowship & Care Foundation
Child defecating in a canal in the slum of Gege in the city of Ibadan, Nigeria. Credit: Adebayo Alao, Sept. 2007/cc by 2.0
OWERRI, Nigeria, Mar 22 2015 (IPS) – In Nigeria, it’s all about the numbers. My nation recently became the largest economy in Africa by some distance, with a GDP of well over 500 billion dollars.
At the same time, 63.2 million people don t have access to safe water, and over 112 million people two thirds of th…
PHILADELPHIA, Apr 22 2022 (IPS) – The Karnataka court’s verdict to uphold the hijab ban has intensified the protest in the state. The row has been typically perceived by many as manufactured by the politicians pointing to the culture of politics in the state. While the jury is still out there on this, evidence on how state’s local culture constructs and deconstructs religious identity allows drawing conclusions with some definitiveness. The culture of state’s politics is one side of the coin. Considering its flip side – politics of culture, particularly of the religious cultural identity, is just as relevant.
Vani S. Kulkarni
Few years ago (between 2014-early 2020…
Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of The Nippon Foundation, has served as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination since 2001. He is part of Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative, which has organized the “Don’t forget leprosy” campaign.
Jan 28 2022 – Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative is collaborating with 32 organizations from 13 countries to promote the message “Don’t forget leprosy” in the run-up to World Leprosy Day on January 30. The international campaign includes awareness-raising events and outreach to governments and is being publicized via newspapers, television, radio, and social media.
Based in Tokyo, Japan, Sasakawa…