Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Nov 6 2006 (IPS) – Each story is more heart-rending than the last, and they all have a common theme: alcohol destroyed these women s lives, sometimes with the help of other drugs, and now they are trying to rebuild them.
Odilia says she drank because of everything, and because of nothing. She even abandoned her six-month-old son so that she could drink at her leisure. My daughter still resents my past, mourns Alicia, while María Consuelo can t forget the times she slept in the street.
They all admit to being alcoholics, and now they are grasping the happiness they feel at living sober for 24 hours a day. Yesterday is over, tomorrow hasn t arrived. Today is the most important day, Carmen says.
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Archna Devraj* – IPS/IFEJ
CHERTHALA, Kerala, Dec 4 2006 (IPS) – Lulled by social indices that compare with the developed world s and tourist brochures that gush over God s Own Country , the deaths of 125 people from an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease, chikungunya, has come as a reality check for people in this southern state.
Lulled by social indices that compare with the developed world s and tourist brochures that gush over God s Own Country , the deaths of 125 people from an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease, chikungunya, has come as a reality check for people in this southern state.
Authorities and experts, starting with federal health minister Anbumani Ramadoss, were quick to point out that the outbreak, which raged through September and October, was …
Sonny Inbaraj
KANCHANABURI, Thailand, Jan 21 2007 (IPS) – The upsurge in bird flu outbreaks in South-east Asia has raised a paradoxical question: does high community awareness of the disease, that at the start of the new year killed thousands of ducks and chickens in the region and five Indonesians, lead to behaviour change that could prevent the spread of the H5N1 virus globally?
Not necessarily, says new research into bird flu or avian influenza prevention in Cambodia, one of the virus s past hot spots.
A paper written by scientists from the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Cambodian and U.N. agencies published in the January edition of the Emerging Infectious Diseases edited by the U.S.-based Centres…
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Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 15 2007 (IPS) – Staff Sergeant Don Hanks had served 15 years in the U.S. Army before he spent a year running patrols in the heart of Iraq s Sunni triangle. He said he returned from the conflict a changed man.
Staff Sergeant Don Hanks had served 15 years in the U.S. Army before he spent a year running patrols in the heart of Iraq s Sunni triangle. He said he returned from the conflict a changed man.
I lost friends over there and some of those friends I d had for my whole frickin adult life, he told IPS. You re over there at their houses and barbequing with their kids and you get to know them and their families and then one day they re not there anymore because of something really bad.
It s just a really sad experience, he said…
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Mar 27 2007 (IPS) – With an eye to the future of rice farming in Thailand, a local grassroots organisation is bringing together youth in a north-eastern rice-growing province in a celebration of the diverse varieties of this staple grown in the traditional way.
The event in Kalasin, from Mar. 28 to Apr. 4, aims to expose the young to the local rice-growing culture, says Janphen Ruyan, programme manager of the Foundation of Reclaiming Rural Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Action. Rice is our life; it is not something we just consume.
This youth camp aims to make the sons and daughters of the country s farmers proud of what their communities have produced in the past and the need to do more, she explained in an interview. There is concern…
Moyiga Nduru
PRETORIA, Apr 26 2007 (IPS) – In Africa, 25 countries are expected to experience water scarcity or water stress in the next 20 to 30 years. This translates into 16 percent or 230 million of Africa s population facing water scarcity by 2025, and 32 percent or 460 million people living in water-stressed countries by that time.
This is according to a paper presented by Ahmed Nejjar of the World Health Organisation s (WHO) regional office for Africa at a conference looking at water management. The two-day conference, entitled Water Management Africa 2007, was attended by representatives from multilateral, nongovernmental and governmental agencies. It ended in the South African capital Pretoria on April 24.
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Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR, Jun 5 2007 (IPS) – Pakistan s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) extends 27,220 sq km along the Afghanistan border and has been the target of a series of debilitating U.S. missile attacks since 2005.
Believed to be hiding amongst its 3.5 million Pashtuns are several top al-Qaeda, flushed out of Afghanistan along with the country s former Taliban rulers, by the U.S., and its allies.
Aerial attacks have crippled FATA s once well-organised health delivery network. Government-run hospitals are exposed to U.S. air attacks from across the border in Afghanistan, and the retaliatory fire by Taliban and pro-Taliban groups.
The seriously ill are taken by road to overcrowded hospitals in the neighbouring North West Frontier Province (NWFP…