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MOSCOW, Jul 24 2006 (IPS) – Leading civil society groups are seeing new hope in the fight against AIDS following decisions taken at the G8 summit earlier this month.
Two non-governmental organisations involved in the fight against the disease in Russia and central Asia, the AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) and the Trans-Atlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA), commended Russia and other G8 members (the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan) for their initiative to address AIDS and other infectious diseases.
The time has come for the G8 leaders to support civil society together with multilateral agencies, AFEW executive director Joost van der Meer told IPS in an emailed comment.
The leaders must take initiatives to…
Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 20 2007 (IPS) – The indigenous protesters who camped out this week in the very heart of the Brazilian capital have victories to celebrate, like the installation by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of a national commission on indigenous policy.
Lula received a committee of indigenous leaders Thursday in the seat of government, in a meeting that was not scheduled until late Wednesday. The president said he hopes in his second term, which runs from this year to 2010, to put into effect the programmes in favour of indigenous people that he was unable to implement in his first term, which began in 2003.
The new national commission on indigenous policy, under the Justice Ministry, is made up of 20 representatives of indigenous groups and …
David Cronin
BRUSSELS, Aug 29 2007 (IPS) – The European Union s only directly elected body is demanding increased aid for basic health and education in poor countries before it approves next year s budget for the 27-nation bloc.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have recently begun scrutinising the EU s draft budget for 2008, which is set to exceed 129 billion euros (176 billion dollars).
Initial discussions within the assembly indicate that it could refuse to give its blessing to some of the proposed expenditure on development aid in a vote slated for December.
Ralf Walter, a German Socialist MEP, said that he was dissatisfied with the level of financing going to health and education in poor countries.
Under the EU s new Development Cooperatio…
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BUENOS AIRES, Dec 29 2008 (IPS) – AIDS prevention campaigns tend to target the young, who make up a large percentage of those infected with the disease. But experts in Latin America say that people in older age ranges with an increasingly active sex life are being neglected, and are at risk because of lack of information.
Sexuality in older people is discounted, so no research is being done on the risk of sexually transmitted diseases spreading among the elderly, Liliana Gastrón, an expert on gender and ageing and head of the doctoral programme in social and human sciences at the University of Luján in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, told IPS.
The 2008 report on the global AIDS epidemic by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS …
Peter Boaz
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 2010 (IPS) – With the number of hungry people growing to more than a billion last year, the world is nowhere near reaching the objectives outlined in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) released Monday.
The first MDG to halve the proportion of hungry people between 1990 and 2015 is an unlikely hope, says the 2010 GHI report.
Though the percentage of undernourished people fell from 20 percent in 1990-92 to 16 percent in 2004-06, recent global events have reversed that progress. The widespread economic recession and lingering effects of the 2007-08 global food crisis saw the number of undernourished people surpass one billion in 2009.
The GHI, a multidimensional measure of globa…
A traffic jam in Jaciara, Brazil, caused by repairs to the BR-364 road. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS
MONTEVIDEO, Oct 2 2014 (IPS) – “We could be the last Latin American and Caribbean generation living together with hunger.”
The assertion, by Raúl Benítez, a regional officer for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), shows one side of the coin: only 4.6 percent of the region’s population is undernourished, .
By 2030, however, most of the countries in the region will face a serious risk situation due to climate change.