Susan Anyangu-Amu
NAIROBI, Apr 1 2010 (IPS) – Pregnant mothers who are HIV-positive could soon find it challenging to access life-saving HIV drugs because Kenya was denied 270 million dollars in funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
An estimated 6 percent of pregnant women in Kenya are HIV-posit…
Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON, Sep 2 2010 (IPS) – A loan deal between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and flood-stricken Pakistan announced Thursday has drawn the ire of several NGOs that claim the deal represents an inadequate and cynical response to the disaster that is estimated to have affected the lives of millions.
The news of the loan follows more than a week of talks between Pakistani and IMF officials here, in which Pakistan hoped some of the terms of the 10.66 billion dollar loan granted in 2008 would be loosened in light of the floods which have left a dent in the Pakistani economy that is likely to last long after the floodwaters have receded.
Those loan terms set deficit and inflation targets Pakistan has said it will be unable to meet in a post-flood e…
“The law has many gaps, and satisfies no one,” says activist Martha Aguñín. Credit: Hacelosvaler.org
MONTEVIDEO, Oct 18 2012 (IPS) – The Uruguayan Congress passed a law Wednesday decriminalising abortion, making it one of the few countries in the region where abortion is allowed in cases other than rape, incest, malformation of the fetus or danger to the mother’s life. But activists who backed the bill are not pleased with modifications introduced in the final version.
“We see this law as minimal; it is not what we were hoping for,” Martha Aguñín, spokeswoman for Mujer y Salud en Uruguay (MYSU – Women and Health in Uruguay), told IPS.
“It has ma…