Opinion by Siddharth Chatterjee, Deepali Khanna (bangkok / beijing) Monday, September 12, 2022 Inter Press Service BANGKOK / BEIJING, Sep 12 (IPS) – The world today faces a future that is in peril. Our challenges have become more complex and interconnected, as we see the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, an…
Opinion by Lily Meyersohn (new york) Friday, September 09, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Sep 09 (IPS) – This week––nearly ten months after the emergence of the Omicron variant––the United States is rolling out Covid-19 booster vaccines that specifically target newer, now-dominant strains of the virus. The Centers for Disease…
A medical officer preparing to give a COVID-19 vaccine in Somalia in May 2021. Credit: Mokhtar Mohamed/AMISOM by Juliet Morrison (united nations) Thursday, September 08, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Sep 08 (IPS) – With the outbreak of Monkeypox in non-endemic countries leading to a scramble for vaccines, global health…
The cancer age gap is closing — to the detriment of younger generations. A new study has shown that young, ordinarily healthy adults are being diagnosed with cancer at worrying rates. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital saw that more and more people under the age of 50 are being diagnosed…
Opinion by Melissa Leach (brighton, uk) Tuesday, September 06, 2022 Inter Press Service BRIGHTON, UK, Sep 06 (IPS) – The UK’s new Prime Minister (and former Foreign Secretary), Liz Truss, enters Downing Street with a full and urgent in-tray, dominated by the highest inflation rate for 40 years and concerns across…
Sizable differences in the levels of children dying persist especially between more developed and less developed regions. Credit: Franz Chávez/IPS Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Monday, September 05, 2022 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Sep 05 (IPS) – The chances of a child dying before reaching age five years have…
Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana (bangkok, thailand) Monday, September 05, 2022 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 05 (IPS) – Most of the 2.1 billion strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, health care and social protection but there is an array polices and tools…
Helen Grant Opinion by Yasmine Sherif, Helen Grant (new york) Friday, September 02, 2022 Inter Press Service Helen Grant Despite the progress made in recent decades, gender inequality between girls and boys, in all their diversity, is deepening. According to a recent United Nations report, the interlinked crises: of armed conflicts,…
The World Health Organization calls air pollution the “single biggest environmental threat to human health” and estimates that 99 percent of the world’s population live in locations that are above WHO thresholds designed to protect human health. . Credit: Malav Goswami/IPS Opinion by Felix Horne Friday, September 02, 2022 Inter…
With the rise in COVID-19 cases fueled by new variants, the number of long COVID cases will keep increasing. Credit: Unsplash/Ivan Diaz Opinion by Ifeanyi Nsofor (abuja) Thursday, September 01, 2022 Inter Press Service ABUJA, Sep 01 (IPS) – More than two-years in, the COVID-19 pandemic rages on with rising cases…
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