The Agency Headquarters Hospital (AHH) in Bajaur Agency, shortly after a Taliban suicide bomb attack. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS
PESHAWAR, May 1 2013 (IPS) – Akbar Shah was sitting with his sick wife in the gynaecology ward of the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Bajaur Agency, a division of northern Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), when a bomb ripped through the facility, scattering patients, doctors and medical supplies.
“We immediately rushed my wife to Peshawar (capital of the neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province) because the doctors, paramedics and nurses were panicked and unable to look after patients,” Shah told IPS.
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Lucy Westcott interviews Ethiopian women’s rights advocate BOGALETCH GEBRE
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 2013 (IPS) – Bogaletch Gebre knows exactly what women in her Ethiopian community are going through. Along with her sisters, the women s rights activist was a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) when she was a child in a part of Ethiopia where the practise was carried out on every girl.
In 1997, Gebre and her sister, Fikrete, founded (KMG), which means women working and standing together . For her work with KMG, Gebre won this year s .
Bogaletch Gebre, a wome…
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Sep 9 2020 (IPS) – Once safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are available, tough choices will need to be made about who gets the first shots.
A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health – has proposed an .
They recommend first responders and health care workers take top priority. Older adults in congregate living situations would also be part of a firs…